For 250 years, America's story has been written behind the counters of family-owned stores, on ranches and farms passed down through generations, and on Main Street where hardworking Americans take risks, open their doors and build something from the ground up.I know this because I’ve lived it.Before serving in Congress, I spent decades helping grow my family's business in Texas.
I learned what it feels like to lie awake wondering how you're going to make payroll, and what it feels like the morning you finally can.It was grit, family, faith and a lot of long days.As America gets ready to celebrate its 250th birthday, I'll be thinking about the entrepreneurial spirit that has driven our country since its founding.
Our Founding Fathers were entrepreneurs in their own right — visionaries and risk-takers who charted a new course for a nation built on freedom and opportunity.SECRETS OF REVOLUTIONARY WAR BATTLEFIELDS EMERGE 250 YEARS AFTER AMERICA'S FOUNDINGI'll also be thinking about those who have always done the quiet work of building this country — the shopkeepers, tradesmen and family businesses.Those business owners who bet on themselves and, in doing so, helped build the most prosperous nation the world has ever known.A wide-angle view of the Cultural District on Main Street in downtown Rock Hill, S.C., on April 10, 2022.
(J.Michael Jones/Getty Images)Two hundred and fifty years later, they're still at it.
And this Independence Day, I’m proud to say that the backbone of our economy is roaring back.I hear it when I talk to people back home in Weatherford, Texas.This past May, our economy added 172,000 jobs — more than twice what the so-called experts predicted, and unemployment held steady at 4.3%.
That made for the best three-month hiring run we've seen in over two years.It didn’t happen by luck; it happened because of less government, allowing small businesses to do what they do best — create jobs!THE RED STATES RACING AHEAD IN AMERICA’S POWE...