This is how the Democrats in Congress are trying to argue in favor of Obama's tax increases on small business owners. Senator Kent Conrad, a Democrat from North Dakota, took the floor of the Senate and made the following presentation to counter the Republican argument that Obama's tax increases are going to hurt small business owners.

From the New York Times:

To prove the Democrats' point - that only minute portion of actual small business owners would face a tax increase under the budget plan - Mr. Conrad displayed a poster on the Senate floor featuring a large photograph of former Vice President Dick Cheney. Mr. Cheney, who has been vocally critical of the Obama administration, would qualify as a small business owner under the Republicans' definition, Mr. Conrad said, even though only about $180,000 of Mr. Cheney's more than $3 million in income in 2007 came from small business interests.

Then, Mr. Conrad let loose a final dagger. "I would say, that's a tortured definition," he said of the Republicans' qualifications for small business owners, a naked reference to the Bush administration's interrogation policies for terrorism suspects.

Wonderful. You see what Kent Conrad did here, don't you? He presented to the American people the idea that Dick Cheney is representative of America's small businesses and is thus unworthy of consideration when it comes to worrying about tax increases.

The looters are in control ... and you job isn't safe. Unless, that is, you work for government.