Posted by We Regret To Inform U on Fri, Jan 16, 2015, at 3:03 PM:
Another wonderful blessing brought by hope and change. With small business being the backbone of the country we are looking at a decade to get back to normalcy.
Of course the liberals will say those people don't know how to run their business. They will say look at the market or Walmart's parking lot is full.
It all boils down to government keeps piling regulations on the back of businesses instead of the people because it's easier. I feel sorry for the people that started business with projections from 2005. They had no idea this mess was coming.
You seem to be overlooking Mr. Obama's current push for paid sick leave, etc. I hardly doubt it is industry that is pushing for that particular regulation.
There are scores of other bits of regulatory legislation that are not written by industry, but rather by special interests: environmentalists, unions, social welfare organizations, etc. These saddle businesses with costs and time lost to compliance requirements.
Even that proposed by industry or business interests are generally imposed by big conglomerations, sometimes with the intent to burden their competitors with costs designed to keep them from infringing on the conglomeration's market share. These costs saddle small businesses disproportionately.
Let's face it, your local pizzeria is not spending millions lobbying for regulation on the pizza industry. If anyone is, it is the major pizzeria chains. The same of most other markets. Crony Capitalism, which is not Capitalism at all, is designed to use the power of government to protect the interests of big business, not the interests of the people.
-- Posted by Shapley Hunter on Fri, Jan 16, 2015, at 4:44 PM
The paid maternity leave idea is one I cant wrap my hands around. So if I hire women I may have to pay them (at 40 hours minimum wage)$352.46, for 6 weeks $2126, plus hire a replacement. And it can happen almost yearly until they quit.
That is a lot to absorb. Heck we are already the tax collector and pay half of the SS. Now the guys that have 50 employees really have a problem.
-- Posted by We Regret To Inform U on Fri, Jan 16, 2015, at 5:24 PM
Maternity is a short-term disability payment (only out of pocket the business owner has is the cost of the insurance), thus if a business has over a certain amount of employees and offers health and disability insurance, they must chose a plan that does not specifically exclude maternity.
If one owned more than an "imaginary" business, you would know paternity leave is included in most group plans also.
Not a new issue.
Regret, What else do you want to exclude? Breast cancer?
-- Posted by CSIP2016 on Fri, Jan 16, 2015, at 5:31 PM
"If one owned more than an "imaginary" business, you would know paternity leave is included in most group plans also."
Imaginary? Just can't get over it can you Mel?
Leave wasn't included in my daughter's and she works for a good company. I was the one helping her out. Also unlike the many that were in the maternity ward that suck off the government teat she had to pay for the birth. Then when she goes back to work she can pay for theirs.
-- Posted by We Regret To Inform U on Fri, Jan 16, 2015, at 5:53 PM
I once worked at a place that had a lot of women working. They had a lot of turn over as many took maternity leave and came back to show off the new baby when they quit.
Sounds like that proposal would cause less women to be hired.
-- Posted by Old John on Fri, Jan 16, 2015, at 5:53 PM
BTW Imp. Do you know what calculating insurance exposure is for?
-- Posted by We Regret To Inform U on Fri, Jan 16, 2015, at 5:55 PM
OJ
I had a friend that owned a bar. He said not only the birth but also them calling in 1 hour before work and saying they have a sick kid and most of them didn't have the baby daddy living with them to help.
What happened to good family values?
-- Posted by We Regret To Inform U on Fri, Jan 16, 2015, at 5:58 PM
What does your daughter's lack of maternity (and paternity) coverage have to do with the topic you brought up? You daughter obviously did not choose to work for a company with a compensation package that included the coverage. Who's fault is that? What happened to personal responsibility?
What happened to her baby daddy? Where is his paternity coverage? Stop expecting the government to take care of your adult kids. Stop whining about their bad choices.
-- Posted by CSIP2016 on Fri, Jan 16, 2015, at 5:59 PM
If one owned a business they should be familiar with EEOC regulations. Ignorance running amuck tonight.
-- Posted by CSIP2016 on Fri, Jan 16, 2015, at 6:02 PM
-- Posted by Shapley Hunter on Fri, Jan 16, 2015, at 6:15 PM
" Stop expecting the government to take care of your adult kids."
Stop expecting someone else to pay the expenses of expanding your family or entry into the all respected and honorable single mom by choice club.
-- Posted by Old John on Fri, Jan 16, 2015, at 6:22 PM
"honorable single mom by choice club"
Pretty sure it takes two to tango, (99% of the time). Both genders are responsible for their own family planning.
It is also an individual's personal responsibility to negotiate their compensation package.
Finally, it is a business owner's responsibility to comply with EEOC regulations.
-- Posted by CSIP2016 on Fri, Jan 16, 2015, at 7:14 PM
We don't need anymore government regulations....for the few big companies that remain in the USA we don't need another excuse for them to go overseas. When a baby is brought into this world, it's up to the parents to provide for the up bringing and care and not the governments....present maternity leaves have worked well so don't rock the boat.
-- Posted by Truth Slinger on Fri, Jan 16, 2015, at 7:21 PM
"What does your daughter's lack of maternity (and paternity) coverage have to do with the topic you brought up?"
You brought it up. Still trying to be the monitor?
-- Posted by We Regret To Inform U on Fri, Jan 16, 2015, at 7:22 PM
"Maternity leave, now often called parental or family leave, is the time a mother (or father) takes off from work for the birth or adoption of a child. Actual paid "maternity leave" -- while the norm in almost all countries -- is unusual in the United States, although some enlightened companies do offer new parents paid time off, up to six weeks in some cases.
"Most likely, you'll use a combination of short-term disability (STD), sick leave, vacation, personal days, and unpaid family leave during your time away from work.
"The picture did improve in 1993 with the passage of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), which entitles most workers to up to 12 weeks of job-protected medical leave for birth or adoption. However, the FMLA doesn't cover those who work for smaller companies and guarantees only unpaid leaves.
"Which benefits are available to you will depend very much on which state you live in. In 2002, California led the way in enacting paid family leave, and other states such as Washington and New Jersey followed suit. And not all states allow women to take short-term disability leave to cover pregnancy, birth, and postpartum recovery.
"Your employer may have policies that dictate the order in which you can take different kinds of leave. In any case, you'll want to start looking into your options as early as you can during your pregnancy and make sure you have all your paperwork sorted out before the baby arrives."
-- Posted by Shapley Hunter on Fri, Jan 16, 2015, at 7:26 PM
What happened to her baby daddy? Where is his paternity coverage? Stop expecting the government to take care of your adult kids. Stop whining about their bad choices.
-- Posted by improvisational on Fri, Jan 16, 2015, at 5:59 PM
She is married to him. Thanks to Obama his insurance will not pay the deductible as it would have 2 years ago. What bad decision? To have a baby and pay for it? Some people don't live with the liberal logic to be a leach as the Obama junkies do. Who expects the government to pay? I taught my kids to pay their own way.
If one owned a business they should be familiar with EEOC regulations. Ignorance running amuck tonight.
-- Posted by improvisational on Fri, Jan 16, 2015, at 6:02 PM
It looks like someone is off their meds tonight.
-- Posted by We Regret To Inform U on Fri, Jan 16, 2015, at 7:32 PM
My observation have reading these posts is that about 90% of the people on here who know everything there is to know about running a business have never done so, and have never made a payroll.
Textbook examples of what to do next in a business, also written by people who have never made a payroll, don't cut it.
-- Posted by Have Wheels Will Travel - ΑΩ on Fri, Jan 16, 2015, at 9:08 PM
"My observation have reading these posts is"
Should read..... 'My observation after having read these posts is'
-- Posted by Have Wheels Will Travel - ΑΩ on Fri, Jan 16, 2015, at 9:14 PM
Wheels, I think Regret said it in his last post.
-- Posted by Old John on Fri, Jan 16, 2015, at 9:21 PM
Wheels
When I started I thought charge a dollar reap 25 cents. Wasn't long before I realized I had to raise it to $1.50 so I could get 20 cents if I wanted help.
-- Posted by We Regret To Inform U on Fri, Jan 16, 2015, at 9:22 PM
One of my customers told me that I needed to maintain at least a 40% profit margin to win his business. His idea was that he didn't want to risk losing service after the sale. He retired shortly after me.
As far as the single mommy thing, I know more than one young former lady that made it a point to be single mothers at a young age. They got the benefits and then moved on after birth. At least a couple moved back with parents and no longer work.
-- Posted by Old John on Fri, Jan 16, 2015, at 10:33 PM
-- Posted by Old John on Fri, Jan 16, 2015, at 10:33 PM
Old John,
I had an older businessman tell me early in my business career..... when pricing your services you have to take a little and leave a little. Translated, you must make a profit to be around to service your customers and you cannot rip people off.
Another gentleman who had been around the horn, so to speak, called me in his office once when I solicited his business said, I am going to do business with you, now read these, and he shoved his financial statements across the desk. He said if you are going to give me credit, you have a right to know that I can pay you. We did business together until he passed away years later.
I will take my advice and help from successful business people who have been where the rubber meets the road rather than someone who has never been there or done that, but has read or heard about it in a classroom.
A friend of mine and I still laugh about a meeting we went to when we were in our 30's where a gubment man was sharing his knowledge of running a successful business. His bottom line was, if you need to make more money on your products, you will either have to raise your prices or cut your cost........... hmmmmmmmm any dummy knows that, and we sat here all evening for that choice advice?
-- Posted by Have Wheels Will Travel - ΑΩ on Sat, Jan 17, 2015, at 8:43 AM
Found this on a link FFF had posted elsewhere and on something else. I think it pretty much fits here.
-- Posted by Have Wheels Will Travel - ΑΩ on Sat, Jan 17, 2015, at 9:07 AM
Wheels, I sat through a week of management training and got a whole lot of practical and useful knowledge, not so much from the instructors but from fellow classmates that had real experience.
I would advise any youngster that wants to run a business to seek out a successful owner of that type business and offer to work for free for a week. Might be that you just thought you wanted to run that type business but if you still do, at least you have some idea of what it's about.
-- Posted by Old John on Sat, Jan 17, 2015, at 9:20 AM
A lot of even so called small companies have Earned Time Off programs that allow employees to amass days off for holidays, sickness or vacation.
-- Posted by Old John on Sat, Jan 17, 2015, at 9:35 AM
Old John,
I was just freshly 25 years old when I started my own business. I had been to school and learned the basics and worked in the trade so I knew my trade, but literally nothing about the mechanics of running a business.... other than you have to sell it for more than it cost. I had a wife, 2 kids, a house, a car and a pickup truck, none of them paid for by the way. :-)
I worked every hour I could and listened to people who were in the business and I never spent any of the money I took in until the bills were paid. We did not have steak every night for dinner either. And we may have been the last people in America to get a color TV.
I regret none of it. As I remember Bob Gibson saying on the day he retired and Gussy Busch gave him the keys to the new GMC Motor Home that we had installed the A/C's on the roof..... I did it my way.
-- Posted by Have Wheels Will Travel - ΑΩ on Sat, Jan 17, 2015, at 9:48 AM
A lot of even so called small companies have Earned Time Off programs that allow employees to amass days off for holidays, sickness or vacation.
-- Posted by Old John on Sat, Jan 17, 2015, at 9:35 AM
My stepfather worked for the state. He retired with another 6 months of pay coming because of that. He always boasted that he was paid 1995 wages for 1960's and 70's work.
-- Posted by We Regret To Inform U on Sat, Jan 17, 2015, at 12:28 PM
So, as a taxpayer it must really p_______ you off to see him receive 6 months pay for not working for it?
-- Posted by left turn on Sat, Jan 17, 2015, at 1:34 PM
I think this is must viewing for someone wanting to a business today.
-- Posted by Have Wheels Will Travel - ΑΩ on Sat, Jan 17, 2015, at 1:48 PM
Lefty,
I guess what you missed was the fact that it was an "Earned Time Off program". Do you get that now "earned"?
-- Posted by Have Wheels Will Travel - ΑΩ on Sat, Jan 17, 2015, at 1:52 PM
"wanting to a business"
Should be 'wanting to start a business'
-- Posted by Have Wheels Will Travel - ΑΩ on Sat, Jan 17, 2015, at 1:54 PM
This is a anti business President. For some reason he is like this and he also loves heavy regulations and taxes.
-- Posted by swampeastmissouri on Sat, Jan 17, 2015, at 4:10 PM
No Wheels (aka Einstein and Regrets mouth piece), I didn't miss anything especially the ways of you 2 guys and some others. Nice try though. You guys are a laugh a minute.
-- Posted by left turn on Sat, Jan 17, 2015, at 6:07 PM
Republicans Poised To Raise YourTaxes-But That's OK Because They'll Call Them "User Fees"
By Robert Gehl, January 11, 2015.
One dollar and eighty-five cents.
That's how much a gallon of gas costs at the convenience store around the corner from my house. $1.85. If you told me a year ago that we'd be paying less than $2 for a gallon of gas, I would have captured you with a butterfly net and taken you to the psych ward.
But here it is -- again, cheap gas. And Congress (Democrats and Republicans) are going to muck it all up.
Leaders from both parties are discussing raising the federal excise tax on gasoline, now 18.4 cents per gallon, to pay for improvements to the nation's transportation infrastructure.
Did I say "tax"? I meant "user fee." That's what Republicans are calling it.
"I prefer not to increase taxes but to me that's a user fee," Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch said. "People who use the highways ought to pay for them. And that's a small price to pay to have the best highway system in the world."
A "user fee"? Sure! Just ask fellow GOP Senator James Inhofe, who now chairs the Public Works committee.
"It's not a tax," Mr. Inhofe said. "It's a user fee."
Money from the Federal Excise Tax on gasoline is at 18.4 cents and has been there since 1993.
Depending on a bunch of factors, each penny increase in the tax user fee generates about $1.8 billion in additional revenue that goes into the Federal Highway Trust Fund. In 2011 (the latest numbers I can find, for some reason, $32 billion was dumped into that account. Most folks argue we need much, much more to keep up with maintenance, repairs and expansion of our roads.
The talk is around raising the tax user fee by around 15 cents per gallon.
Whether that's the right thing to do or not, remember: If it's passed by a GOP-controlled Congress, it is not a tax. It's a user fee.
Because Democrats raise taxes -- which are evil. Republicans raise user fees -- which are great.
Right?
-- Posted by FreedomFadingFast on Sat, Jan 17, 2015, at 7:22 PM
FFF, Historically democrats have been champions of revenue enhancements and other terms to white wash reality. Mainstream republicans have a tendency to shoot themselves in the foot politically speaking. Obama has got out in front promising fuel prices to go back up and democrats will make hay out of any republican suggestion to raise fuel taxes.
IMO
There is enough money wasted that could be diverted to federal highway spending. Any increase in fuel tax if needed should be contemplated on a state basis.
Meanwhile Mo can work on important things like raising taxes to build a sports arena. :(
-- Posted by Old John on Sat, Jan 17, 2015, at 7:38 PM
-- Posted by left turn on Sat, Jan 17, 2015, at 6:07 PM
You are to be pitied Lefty.
-- Posted by Have Wheels Will Travel - ΑΩ on Sat, Jan 17, 2015, at 9:42 PM
Some ETO programs are designed so employees pay for all holidays, sick days and personal days out of the ETO fund. Some may argue for a higher per hour wage and a set number of paid days off.
Whatever the arrangement, the agreement between employer and employee, I don't see reason for government to be involved past laws to remedy breach of such agreements.
-- Posted by Old John on Sat, Jan 17, 2015, at 10:20 PM
So, as a taxpayer it must really p_______ you off to see him receive 6 months pay for not working for it?
-- Posted by left turn on Sat, Jan 17, 2015, at 1:34 PM
You cant get it around your head can you?
BTW this man also bought long term care insurance instead of letting spending all of his money and letting the taxpayer pay the $4000 a month for his nursing home for 5 years. He went knowing he didn't have to depend on Obama to save him.
BTW his children got all of his money tax free. They were pretty happy. I bet that hurts doesn't it. You guys love inheritance tax. Before you get a tore up I was his step son. I was just the executor.
-- Posted by We Regret To Inform U on Sat, Jan 17, 2015, at 11:09 PM
Rick
Most of those people dont even have to skills to push a broom. They are too lazy.
-- Posted by We Regret To Inform U on Sun, Jan 18, 2015, at 3:19 PM
More businesses gone than created. And now Obama wants to raise $320 BILLION in taxes and will talk about it in his worthless "State of the Union" talk.
Record taxes collected this past year - in the TRILLIONS. And Obama wants more.
Common - are you for this bigger government move by your president?
-- Posted by not_sorry on Sun, Jan 18, 2015, at 4:14 PM
Dugdugdug,,,,,I see ship loads of Chinese goods are waiting in western harbors for Walmart and Kmart,,,,let them rot,,,,,,we need jobs in this country but your big business buddies are against helping the working man. SKREW yall, hope unions hold out till hell freezes over.
-- Posted by Dexterite1 on Sun, Jan 18, 2015, at 4:49 PM
Dex Also shiploads waiting to go out. Isn't there some kind of saying about cutting off a nose to spite a face?
-- Posted by Old John on Sun, Jan 18, 2015, at 5:33 PM
Dexter
Big business isn't my buddy. Small business is getting shafted by the empty suit and big biz.
The union slowdown thing will cost you in the long run.
-- Posted by We Regret To Inform U on Sun, Jan 18, 2015, at 7:44 PM
we need jobs in this country but your big business buddies are against helping the working man. SKREW yall, hope unions hold out till hell freezes over.
-- Posted by Dexterite1 on Sun, Jan 18, 2015, at 4:49 PM
Dexter could you fill us in on who the "big business buddies" are?
-- Posted by Have Wheels Will Travel - ΑΩ on Sun, Jan 18, 2015, at 7:49 PM
I wonder if Dexterite is talking about big business like GM or GE....
-- Posted by BonScott on Sun, Jan 18, 2015, at 8:33 PM
Bon
Cash for clunkers.
-- Posted by We Regret To Inform U on Sun, Jan 18, 2015, at 8:36 PM
Cash for clunkers was a successful hands up stimulus program. The hundreds of thousands of jobs were saved in the automobile industry. Taxpayers' investment in the automobile industry has been repaid in more than one way.
-- Posted by good.for.the.gander.good.for.the.goose on Mon, Jan 19, 2015, at 7:18 AM
From Wikipedia:
"On August 26 the DoT reported that the program resulted in 690,114 dealer transactions submitted requesting a total of $2.877 billion in rebates. At the end of the program Toyota accounted for 19.4% of sales, followed by General Motors with 17.6%, Ford with 14.4%, Honda with 13.0%, and Nissan with 8.7%. It led to a gain in market share for Japanese and Korean manufacturers at the expense of American car makers, with only Ford not taking a significant hit. Meanwhile, Japan's own program excluded U.S. cars. The Department of Transportation also reported that the average fuel efficiency of trade-ins was 15.8 mpg (miles per gallon), compared to 24.9 mpg for the new cars purchased to replace them, translating to a 58% fuel efficiency improvement.
"A study published after the program by researchers at the University of Delaware concluded that for each vehicle trade, the program had a net cost of approximately $2,000, with total costs outweighing all benefits by $1.4 billion. Another study by researchers at the University of Michigan found that the program improved the average fuel economy of all vehicles purchased by 0.6 mpg in July 2009 and by 0.7 mpg in August 2009."
-- Posted by Shapley Hunter on Mon, Jan 19, 2015, at 8:30 AM
" The hundreds of thousands of jobs were saved in the automobile industry."
Apparently, that was hundreds of thousands of Japanese and Korean jobs that were saved.
-- Posted by Shapley Hunter on Mon, Jan 19, 2015, at 8:31 AM
Utah gives homes to the homeless. They say it reduces homelessness. Well, duh! By definition, it would.
I have no problem with that - as a state programme. Somewhere, however, someone sees that and thinks: "the federal government needs to be doing that". Wrong. That isn't the role of the federal government. The states are free to do it, or not do it, as they see fit.
The idea is a simple one: the state owns apartments or builds little shacks (nice shacks, but "shacks" under most definitions), and makes them available to the homeless as they find them. The apartments and shack communes are basically over-sized homeless shelters. After the homeless are settled in, they are visited by case-workers who examine their situation and assist them in getting medical care, job assistance, mental health assistance, or whatever is needed to get them off the "assisted" roles and back on their feet.
Again, it works at the state level because it is managed at that level, and can be fine-tuned as needed. If you make a federal programme of it, it will likely be constrained and unworkable, and end up costing more than it will save.
-- Posted by Shapley Hunter on Mon, Jan 19, 2015, at 8:46 AM
The hundreds of thousands of jobs were saved in the automobile industry. Taxpayers' investment in the automobile industry has been repaid in more than one way. -- Posted by Tribune on Mon, Jan 19, 2015, at 7:18 AM
When you get past the glossy talking points of this president you see it was an overall failure.
Using these socialist ideals, why wouldn't we just borrow another couple of trillion dollars this year and get unemployment down to 1%? Sounds so nice and sweet doesn't it? If one completely ignores the debt which, factually, has been doubled by Barack Obama.
We collected a huge increase in taxes (or "revenue") last year. Massive. Yet the debt continues to grow. And Obama wants another $320 BILLION increase in taxes that he'll talk about in the state of the union.
There is a limit to how much debt / borrowing this country can take on. But Obama supporters don't believe so. The debt is real and so are the consequences. It's not "funny money" and you and your kids will pay a huge price.
-- Posted by not_sorry on Mon, Jan 19, 2015, at 9:14 AM
-- Posted by Tribune on Mon, Jan 19, 2015, at 7:18 AM
Tribune, go ask the GM shareholders if they ever got their money back...
-- Posted by BonScott on Mon, Jan 19, 2015, at 10:06 AM
Tribune, go ask the GM shareholders if they ever got their money back...
-- Posted by BonScott on Mon, Jan 19, 2015, at 10:06 AM
BonScott,
I believe if one checks carefully you will find that a good many secured creditors were illegally left holding the bag while the labor unions were made as whole as anyone can in a situation where there is a total company failure as there was in the case of GM and Chrysler.
I know that I will never own another GM or Chrysler product after that debacle.
-- Posted by Have Wheels Will Travel - ΑΩ on Mon, Jan 19, 2015, at 10:41 AM
Very true Wheels...And they also never payed back all the money.
-- Posted by BonScott on Mon, Jan 19, 2015, at 11:40 AM
According to reports I heard on Fox, BonS, all the money has been repaid to the govt. Did I hear wrong, from Fox?
-- Posted by left turn on Mon, Jan 19, 2015, at 12:14 PM
Yes you did...I thought only "right wing nut jobs" watched FOX News...
-- Posted by BonScott on Mon, Jan 19, 2015, at 12:19 PM
"The total cost of the government's bailout for General Motors has come to $11.2 billion after the Treasury sold the last of its assets in December
"U.S. taxpayers lost more than $11.2 billion as a result of the federal bailout of General Motors, according to a government report released Wednesday.
"The $11.2-billion loss includes a $826-million write-off in March from government investments in the "Old GM" before the company's 2009 bankruptcy, the report said. The U.S. government spent $49.5 billion to bail out GM, and after the company's bankruptcy in 2009, the government's investment was converted to a 61 percent equity stake in the company. The Treasury gradually sold off its stock in GM, selling its last shares in December 2013.
"The Center for Automative Research said last year that the taxpayer bailout of GM saved 1.2 million jobs and avoided the loss of $129.2 billion in personal income in 2009 and 2010. Of the $78.2 billion the U.S. Treasury spent bailing out the auto industry through its Troubled Asset Relief Program, $58.0 billion was repaid, according to the report."
-- Posted by Shapley Hunter on Mon, Jan 19, 2015, at 12:24 PM
That was just one of Lefty's hit and runs.
-- Posted by Have Wheels Will Travel - ΑΩ on Mon, Jan 19, 2015, at 12:29 PM
Cash for clunkers was a successful hands up stimulus program. The hundreds of thousands of jobs were saved in the automobile industry. Taxpayers' investment in the automobile industry has been repaid in more than one way.
-- Posted by Tribune on Mon, Jan 19, 2015, at 7:18 AM
Talk to a used car deal and ask them how it helped.
Now the working man that can't buy new or is trying to be financially responsible has to pay twice as much for a used vehicle. The lack of used vehicles caused this and it hurt many to help a few. But you my friend think it was a great deal.
-- Posted by We Regret To Inform U on Mon, Jan 19, 2015, at 12:56 PM
Now that we can buy gasoline cheaper it might be a good time to add some taxes.
You didn't build that, you can afford it and it will help the millions of hard working American families struggling to make ends meet while providing some real jobs to keep our economy going Forward.
How am I doing so far?
-- Posted by Old John on Mon, Jan 19, 2015, at 11:59 PM
Trickle down economics.
We'll take your money and trickle it down to the "less fortunate". How's that been working out for the last 50yrs?
-- Posted by FreedomFadingFast on Tue, Jan 20, 2015, at 6:29 AM
Trickle down economics.
We'll take your money and trickle it down to the "less fortunate". How's that been working out for the last 50yrs?
-- Posted by FreedomFadingFast on Tue, Jan 20, 2015, at 6:30 AM
I know the answer Freedom, there is still poverty.
-- Posted by BonScott on Tue, Jan 20, 2015, at 7:58 AM
Obama is ready to tell us our economy is moving right along and then remind us of the old democrat standby of 'if it moves, tax it, if it don't move, subsidize it.
-- Posted by Old John on Tue, Jan 20, 2015, at 10:03 AM
The poor will always be poor if they are looking for government to support them. Government will give them just enough to stay indebted to those who distribute other people's money.
-- Posted by Have Wheels Will Travel - ΑΩ on Tue, Jan 20, 2015, at 10:57 AM
You're on Rick! After those shots fired at his residence, I bet his eyes are constantly scanning everyone near!
-- Posted by Reasoning on Tue, Jan 20, 2015, at 12:11 PM
If I win, you can take that 10 bucks and donate it to the Democratic National Party!
-- Posted by Reasoning on Tue, Jan 20, 2015, at 12:25 PM
I will double it then!
-- Posted by Reasoning on Tue, Jan 20, 2015, at 12:33 PM
And still give it to the Democrats instead of helping people?
-- Posted by We Regret To Inform U on Tue, Jan 20, 2015, at 6:01 PM
I'll be watching to see if Biden is wearing a chain bracelet.
-- Posted by Old John on Tue, Jan 20, 2015, at 7:45 PM
Just in: D.C. traffic control is dealing with congestion caused by an influx of garbage trucks apparently based upon a rumor of solidarity of voluntary adherence to Michelle rules concerning after the speech dinner parties. Reporters add to the gridlock as they seek to interview caterers.
-- Posted by Old John on Tue, Jan 20, 2015, at 8:41 PM
Anyone watch Biden last night.... did he go to sleep as Rick predicted?
-- Posted by Have Wheels Will Travel - ΑΩ on Wed, Jan 21, 2015, at 7:52 AM
Ginsberg did.
-- Posted by Old John on Wed, Jan 21, 2015, at 7:57 AM
Old John
Don't know how long he talked, but I may have myself.
-- Posted by Have Wheels Will Travel - ΑΩ on Wed, Jan 21, 2015, at 8:02 AM
Biden wasn't nodding off, he was just hypnotized by staring at that clean cut back bone of steel.
-- Posted by Old John on Wed, Jan 21, 2015, at 9:19 AM
Another wonderful blessing brought by hope and change. With small business being the backbone of the country we are looking at a decade to get back to normalcy.
Of course the liberals will say those people don't know how to run their business. They will say look at the market or Walmart's parking lot is full.
It all boils down to government keeps piling regulations on the back of businesses instead of the people because it's easier. I feel sorry for the people that started business with projections from 2005. They had no idea this mess was coming.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/05/05/u-s-businesses-are-be...
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