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Re: Home Depot Co-Founder: Obama Is Choking Recovery 

By: monkeytrots in CONSTITUTION | Recommend this post (1)
Fri, 22 Jul 11 10:08 AM | 51 view(s)
Boardmark this board | Constitutional Corner 		Msg. 13981 of 21975
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Due - Over-reaction ?

Hardly - Because that 'meme' - that the US is RESPONSIBLE (meaning totally responsible) for the violence of the muslims is what the left has been preaching for a long time.

It is also the mainstay of MASSIVE disinformation pogroms carried out by the likes of the 'muslim brotherhood'.

Now - if you REALLY want to pursue that meme - in light of the above - go right ahead - but without me.

Nope, not an over-reaction at all.

Similarly - the 'meme' of disinformation about jihaad that is CONTINUOUSLY propagandized on the airwaves, in print, in person by the lying bastards in the world is that 'you are uneducated. jihaad does not mean violence - it simply means struggle. There are those that abuse the term jihaad to mean holy war .... blah, blah, blah ....'

IT IS BULLSHIT - and untrue. There are NUMEROUS scholars that get it absolutely correct ... that the koran, kuran, quran, the unholy treatise of the evil muhammed, preaches VIOLENT jihaad - and teaches it throughout that un-holy book. Those that attempt to pass off 'jihaad' as simply 'struggle' - are either willfully ignorant or deliberately lying.

No excuse for the PERCEPTIONS that RP fosters - Being able to get one's point across without being PERceived as a ranting lunatic (eg. anti-American, anti-Israel - whether he is or not matters not a whit - it is how he is PERceived) is the sine qua non of politics.

Like I have said before - I do agree with a lot of what he has to say - but, damnit he blows it too often in HUGE ways by opening his mouth with the wrong words at the wrong times - as he did in that debate.

That debate alone makes him unelectable in this country. It is insurmountable - no matter how much explaining, teaching, spin, position papers, or standing on his head that he or his supporters do.

Agree or disagree - OPINIONS are what matters in politics - not actual facts. That may not seem 'right' and 'correct' - but the 'fact' of the matter is that MANY times, what are touted as 'facts' are HEAVILY disputed - even by people of good conscience, and quality education; making many 'political facts' nothing more than merely strongly held opinions.

You THINK you have a hard time convincing ME - a fairly well educated conservative, and knowledgeable about his positions - to vote for Ron Paul ?

You haven't seen nuttin' yet. The general public will reject him by landslide majorities.

I will predict that you will see little 'real' opposition to Ron Paul from the DEMOCRATS during the 'primaries' - in fact, they will stay fairly quiet about him. When that happens, understand what it means. I believe the democrats would LOVE to see RP as the main opposition candidate to their freakin' usurper. Not so with Sarah Palin - she scares them shitless.




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Home Depot Co-Founder: Obama Is Choking Recovery
By: Beldin in CONSTITUTION
Thu, 21 Jul 11 7:44 PM 		Msg. 13971 of 21975

Home Depot Co-Founder: Obama Is Choking Recovery
By John Merline
Investor's Business Daily
07/20/2011 06:35 PM ET

http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/578920/201107201835/Marcus-Home-Truths-On-Jobs.aspx?src=HPLNews

Bernie Marcus co-founded Home Depot (HD) in 1978 and brought it public in 1981 as the U.S. was suffering from the worst recession and unemployment in 40 years. The company thrived, creating hundreds of thousands of jobs and redefining home improvement retailing.

But Marcus says Home Depot "would never have succeeded" if it launched today due to onerous regulation. He recently helped launch the Job Creators Alliance, a Dallas-based nonprofit of CEOs and entrepreneurs dedicated to preserving the free enterprise system. IBD recently spoke to him about jobs and the economy.

IBD: What's the single biggest impediment to job growth today?

Bernie Marcus: Red over rules. View Enlarged Image

Marcus: The U.S. government. Having built a small business into a big one, I can tell you that today the impediments that the government imposes are impossible to deal with. Home Depot would never have succeeded if we'd tried to start it today. Every day you see rules and regulations from a group of Washington bureaucrats who know nothing about running a business. And I mean every day. It's become stifling.

If you're a small businessman, the only way to deal with it is to work harder, put in more hours, and let people go. When you consider that something like 70% of the American people work for small businesses, you are talking about a big economic impact.

IBD: President Obama has promised to streamline and eliminate regulations. What's your take?

Marcus: His speeches are wonderful. His output is absolutely, incredibly bad. As he speaks about cutting out regulations, they are now producing thousands of pages of new ones. With just ObamaCare by itself, you have a 2,000 page bill that's probably going end up being 150,000 pages of regulations.

IBD: Washington has been consumed with debt talks. Is this the right focus now?

Marcus: They are all tied together. If we don't lower spending and if we don't deal with paying down the debt, we are going to have to raise taxes. Even brain-dead economists understand that when you raise taxes, you cost jobs.

IBD: If you could sit down with Obama and talk to him about job creation, what would you say?

Marcus: I'm not sure Obama would understand anything that I'd say, because he's never really worked a day outside the political or legal area. He doesn't know how to make a payroll, he doesn't understand the problems businesses face. I would try to explain that the plight of the businessman is very reactive to Washington. As Washington piles on regulations and mandates, the impact is tremendous. I don't think he's a bad guy. I just think he has no knowledge of this. [This is the one place where you and I disagree, Mr. Marcus ... Obama is very much an intentionally bad actor against the Constitution and the American people. I do not believe you should give him a pass, even for politeness' sake. B.]

IBD: Why don't more businesses speak out?

Marcus: They are frightened to death — frightened that they will have the IRS or SEC on them. In my 50 years in business, I have never seen executives of major companies who were more intimidated by an administration.

IBD: What's your message to the business community?

Marcus: It's time to stand up and fight. These people in Washington are out there making your life difficult, and many of you won't survive. Why aren't you doing something about it? The free enterprise system made this country what it is today, and we've got to keep it alive. We are on the edge of the abyss.

At the Job Creators Alliance, we're trying to recruit people who are willing to step up and say: " I've had it. There's no one representing me. I want to be out there and fight."

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