[quote]ZEB wrote:
[quote]smh23 wrote:
[quote]ZEB wrote:
[quote]Mufasa wrote:
The idea that you would hire, fire and decrease people’s pay based on whether or not the President was re-elected is disturbing and disconcerting, especially if there are many business owners with the same mindset.
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You left out an important part of the equation Mufasa. The President of the United States has threatened to raise taxes on small business people. He has also told me, “you didn’t build that someone else did it for you…” He’s passed a health insurance law that will cost me a great deal of money as well. And the regulations that have been passed since he’s been in office that harm small business are numerous. In short while I am in the highest income bracket and pay every penny each year the President told me, “you are not paying your fair share.”
Well…my response is simple.
I have donated the maximum amount allowed by law to the Romney campaign. And I will further donate what I can directly to the Ohio state republican party and donate into other state party’s where the election is close. I’ve also volunteered to drive people to the polls and I’ve (politely) asked my employees, friends and family to do the same. And I’m happy to say they are all on board. Obviously, politics is a team effort. But should Obama lose a close election I’d like to think that it was one of my dollars that helped defeat him!
And trust me I am not alone.
But I ask you, what would you do if the President of the United States had looked directly at you and said, “I don’t like you Mufasa and I’m going to get you…” How would you feel? Well, now you know how I and the many small business people across the United States feel.
So when you comment on how I state that I am going to reduce wages, raise prices and not expand should Obama be reelected make sure that you have the complete picture.[/quote]
Zeb: I don’t and wil probably never own a small business, so I defer to you on this topic and respect the success you’ve had. And you know a hell of a lot more than me about the regulations on small business, etc.
One thing: the President said you didn’t build the bridges and internet infrastructure on which you business relies. That you did it, but you didn’t do it alone. It is a point so banal and obvious that it approaches platitudinousness, and it would have remained so if not for some very opportunistic manufactured outrage.
Your posts are usually about 80 percent dead on and 20 percent talk-radio talking points. The latter always undermine the former.[/quote]
He said “if you’ve got a business you didn’t build that, someone else made that happen.”
I’d say if he was referring to roads, bridges and other such infrastructure he could have worded it far better. But moreover there was a sentiment expressed in his words. One that I, and many of my colleagues across the country didn’t appreciate.
He then proceeded to prove that he is anti small business by increasing regulation, raising taxes and threatening to raise them even higher by saying that I am not paying my fair share already. And passing a small business crippling health insurance plan.
So as my Grandmother used to say “the proof is in the pudding.”
Did he mean what he said? I don’t much care if he meant it or not his actions have spoken louder than his words ever could.
By the way I am 100% spot on with my posts. It’s just that you don’t like it when I add an occasional talking point which happens to be true 
But all kidding aside this is not just the game of politics with me this time around. We have a President who either hates or does not understand small business. And that is a very bad thing for me and the entire country as we can see in his dismal economic numbers.[/quote]
@ZEB
95% of what you said I agree with you but to be fair regarding the “you did not build that video” from just watching he was referring to the infrastructure building that all levels of government do to mitigate the infrastructure deficit in America. Declining infrastructure hurts transportation of goods and services to the market. The public investments in physical infrastructure yield greater returns than anything else. You clipped his speech and do what all media outlets do which is to take sentences out of context. All media has hurt politicians this way and it is a shame. The president was referring to what Elizabeth Warren has said which discussed the relationship between individual wealth and investments in roads, infrastructure, law enforcement agencies, police and fire, and investments in public education. Warren’s point was the investing in police helps to prevent those who wish to do physical harm on you by ransacking your business from getting the chance to.
The one thing that makes it hard to vote Republican though is that they almost took the government to the fiscal cliff with the debt ceiling which would have made the government default and not be able to pay the hardworking law enforcement agencies that secure the borders in which free market capitalism can exist.
