Chicago Turns on Obama

[Edward R. Cozzi]

...and of course we'll believe Obama...he hasn't lied about anything else.

 

[redhotsommer]

You didn't answer my question:

WHO is gonna pay for this??????????????

And as an "end-game" scenario...my last point was EXTREMELY valid. Look at the repo's right now...it's happening to people that haven't been totally irresponsible.

 

[BBB725]

How do you feel about the President's weekly address today that oulined new help for small businesses?

Help is on the way for America's small businesses, President Obama told listeners this morning in his weekly address, in the form of "more access to credit, more incentives to hire, and more opportunities to grow and sell products all over the world."

I'm a small business and know alot of other small business owners , so what I'm about to say isn't politics or theory, it real life.

1) We don't need access to credit, especially with government string attached

2) we don't hire to help the economy OK? We hire because business is picking up and our current labor force isn't enough.

3) More opportunities to grow and sell all over the world? How is the government going to do that? Force companies to buy goods?

Good political talk but it's useless,, you want some facts?

The current administration has tripled the number of OSHA inspectors and removed a program that they would inspect your shop without fines as long as you corrected every thing found not to code. I guess it not about safety any more it all about the fines.

How about Cap and Trade that will sent jobs screaming off shore cause we can't compete, abolish it period.

Lift import taxes and replace it with an OSHA and EPA compliance agreement. If the over seas companies work to the same rules I do I can compete with anyone world wide.

Lower my taxes , yep more money I can put back into the company.

Let me ask this Jay if I make 10 times the amount you make I should pay 10 times the amount of taxes, would anything less or more be fair?

The best thing the government can do for the small businesses I know is nothing, investigate Baseball any thing, just don't try to help me.

 

[Ratickle]

Great post Brooks.

Lift import taxes and replace it with an OSHA and EPA compliance agreement. If the over seas companies work to the same rules I do I can compete with anyone world wide.

I'd also add country adjusted minimum wage requirement, adjusted to the COL in each country at poverty level as compared to ours. And SSI adjustment to import tax rates adjusted similiarly.

ANything the government requires our businesses to do in this country by law, should be required of anyone importing into this country. Fair is fair.....

The best thing the government can do for the small businesses I know is nothing, investigate Baseball any thing, just don't try to help me.

Exactly.....

 

[MarylandMark]

irrelevant. if things get 'that bad' we will all have a big change of lifestyle.

Not all of us. I live within my budget so actually life gets better for me when things are 'that bad'. There weren't $9.99 meals at Outback 5 years ago. The broker the rest of the country is, the more buying power I have.

 

[Tommy Gun]

Not all of us. I live within my budget so actually life gets better for me when things are 'that bad'. There weren't $9.99 meals at Outback 5 years ago. The broker the rest of the country is, the more buying power I have.

Until you become unemployed.

 

[Tommy Gun]

Paul, I appreciate the dissertation.



How do you feel about the President's weekly address today that oulined new help for small businesses?

Help is on the way for America's small businesses, President Obama told listeners this morning in his weekly address, in the form of "more access to credit, more incentives to hire, and more opportunities to grow and sell products all over the world." In a set of remarks sure to warm the heart of Main Street businesses anywhere, the President held up the entrepreneurial American spirit as the soul of the nation; more specifically, he discussed his specific proposals for encouraging small business growth in the current challenging economic climate:

$30 billion will move from TARP funds targeting Wall Street to a Small Business Lending Fund for community banks;

Fee waivers, increased guarantees and expanded SBA-backed loans for small business;

Tax credits for new job creation and wage raises;
Identify innovative businesses and offer targeted financing;
Help small businesses with refinancing of mortgages.

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I have a small business in its 21st year; a tax credit of new job creation is USELESS. I'd hire some one if business picked up and revenue increased enough to justify it...not because I'd save $5,000...one of the dumbest ideas I've heard yet.

I have a credit line that gets used for tax management...I don't want to borrow for fear the economy gets worse and I can't repay so I manage my business based on revenue and balance my budget...something the Gov't should try for themselves. Making funds available thru the SBA will have some postive effect.

"Identify innovative businesses...what more redistribution of wealth...why can't all be treated equally?

 

[MarylandMark]

Until you become unemployed.

Yea, I guess you have a point there. I'm employable, not that I want to test my theory but I've always felt a good worker is going to be able to get a good job at any time. If someone is good at what they do, job opportunities are endless. (outsourcing is not an option in my field which was why I chose to do what I do).

If you knew your top competitor wasn't treating their top person well, wouldn't you be trying to lure them to work for you- in any economy? I always think the answer to that is a resounding yes.

My employer cut 8K jobs last quarter and cutting another 13K this quarter- and I'm making more money because of it. I feel for those that have lost their jobs and just pointing out that some times cutbacks are good for those that are left.

 

[redhotsommer]

BBB...great points there! We don't need lines of credit either, and adding to our workforce is something we do WHEN AND IF WE HAVE THE WORK.

Jay? Hello? Please supply us with some liberal ideology that shows us we are incorrect...

I don't like it when these discussions get personal...but whenever I have to explain to someone outside the world of Serious Offshore or OSO just what happens as far as political stances are concerned...Jayboat is always the name that pops in my head as an illustration. While I respect your love of the boats and the lifestyle and your artistic ways with a camera...I have an even deeper respect of the way you routinely step into the "lion's den" with your particular viewpoint.

 

[Ratickle]

I have an even deeper respect of the way you routinely step into the "lion's den" with your particular viewpoint.

True dat........:sifone:

 

[BBB725]

BBB...great points there! We don't need lines of credit either, and adding to our workforce is something we do WHEN AND IF WE HAVE THE WORK.

Jay? Hello? Please supply us with some liberal ideology that shows us we are incorrect...

I don't like it when these discussions get personal...but whenever I have to explain to someone outside the world of Serious Offshore or OSO just what happens as far as political stances are concerned...Jayboat is always the name that pops in my head as an illustration. While I respect your love of the boats and the lifestyle and your artistic ways with a camera...I have an even deeper respect of the way you routinely step into the "lion's den" with your particular viewpoint.

Just don't get personal, treat it like your favorite color is blue and his is red and you both are discussing it but can walk away friend when your done.:cheers2:

 

[fund razor]

irrelevant. if things get 'that bad' we will all have a big change of lifestyle.

That's the way liberals think. They actually think that there are "great equalizers" in life; rather than a great responsibility to create one's own change. The trouble is, that they forget that there are meat eaters out there who will not settle for a "big" change of lifestyle. They will take their money and assets and create the lifestyle where they choose. Perhaps there will be no middle class... that I'll grant... but there ain't no way that you and oh... Tommymonza's in-laws are going to stand together in a soup line. What will change is the government's ability to redistribute the fruit of the productive to the unproductive. Cause the productive will leave the game, by any means necessary.