Obama: Is He Helping Or Hurting Your Business?

ChannelWeb ^ | March 29, 2010 | Steven Burke

[CutePuppy]

Emphasis mine. Excerpted the article because it's long, but well worth reading. Interesting change of attitude regarding political involvement by people who were formerly apolitical or too busy with their work or lives to get involved.

Now they feel that they have to get involved or lose financially as well as freedoms that they still have.

Article also shows how strong and robust our recovery would be were it not for huge new entitlements, deficit spending, taxes, fees and regulations and consequent economic and business uncertainty. In other words, the Obama factor / OPRAH factor (Obama Pelosi Reid and Hoyer).

[VRWC For Truth]

Barry Soetoro is an incompetent narcissistic douche bag.

[fatnotlazy]

Of course, he is hurting business. It’s deliberate. He wants to ruin the private sector so that he and his cohorts can blame the demise of business on the “greedy rich” and then they can just take over. They want to control everything. They want the power.

[The Magical Mischief Tour]

The real force and weight of the nightmare is about to come crashing back to Earth.

First signs of it will be once the true cost becomes apparent to the small businesses and they readjust accordingly.

The final blow will be once the law kicks in and mandates that the states set up those insurance exchanges. The feds are only footing the bill to set them up then they become a federally unfunded mandate where the states will have to foot the bill.

Many states have balanced budget amendments and laws that require them to spend only what they take in.

It will be a nightmare the size and scope of which no one has ever seen.

Your taxes will go up on the federal level, possibly a nationwide VAT. Then comes he state tax increases to compensate for the huge amount of money needed to fund these exchanges.

[Revolting cat!]

My girls get more johns than they can handle, thank you!

[Pollster1]

"Is Obama helping or hurting your business" is like asking if the new TSA procedures are helping or hurting airport efficiency.

[givemELL]

If one is a private MD, extinction of medical practice will occur within 4 years...and most will not wait for the hanging.

[presently no screen name]

That's it. Not too sure those interviewed understand that w/quotes like this...

"I don't think they understand the dynamics of what it is like to run a business," he said. "They are lawyers and career politicians.

While he's right, IMO, he's giving them cover unknowingly. The point is they don't care - it's all about their commie agenda and bringing America down. Can't deny that - it's happening.

[MuttTheHoople]

Is Obama hurting business?

[savedbygrace]

He’s hurting mine. For Q1 2010, total receipts were 10% of normal.

Ten percent of normal.

Hurting doesn’t even begin to describe it.

[MrB]

If you manufacture firearms or ammunition,
you’re in about the only private business
that 0bama is “helping”.

[The Duke]

My little IT company resembles the one described in the article, but I've got to say that we're doing the best business we've done in 25 years (including the dot.com days).

I attribute it either to many of our competitors going out of business or possibly me becoming more paranoid about the economy and marketing smarter.

Some of my customers, also in the IT business, are seeing unexpected surges.

Maybe it's the investor-fueled IT businesses that are experiencing difficulties(?)

[Disambiguator]

If you manufacture firearms or ammunition, you’re in about the only private business that 0bama is “helping”.

I work in the firearms industry, and this is true. We are having a record year.

[livius]

According to the WSJ, IT businesses are having a boom time. I don’t know why this would be, except perhaps that they and their technologies are more international or are linked to international businesses, so they are being pulled up by demand outside the US or the effects of that demand.

[CutePuppy]

Full article does address exactly this aspect - depends on the nature or a mix of company's IT products or services:

..... Some of the small businesses that closed their doors did not move quickly enough from capital-expenditure-based IT solutions to annuity-based IT services. But many were simply walloped by macroeconomic issues, which set into motion a flurry of federal government bailouts: large companies such as insurer AIG, General Motors and even financial institutions like Citigroup, among them. .....

Shea has watched three competitors go out of business in the past several years. And he knows if not for his company's shift into managed services, Alpha NetSolutions might not even be around today. .....

And as you said, fewer remaining businesses share in either the surge of capex or compete for increased demand in services.

[fuzzybutt]

I am in one of the very few that are starting to benefit from the “Zero”. The Democrats are driving up crime and I work in the security business.

Until Zero we really had to work to make sales, now the people come to us ready to buy something, anything to protect their family from the increasing violence/crime. Selling has become increasingly easier each month.

About 95% of working folks do not share my luck however. God bless you all.

[Busywhiskers]

Barry is helping my business. I am a tax accountant.

[Free America52]

Killing my business which is a small 7-person software company selling to retailers.

[fuzzybutt]

One of my best friends is an accountant and he is making great money this year.

[eggman]

My guess for the uptick would be companies that downsized staff and slashed budgets last year are now looking to get some projects moving and don’t have the staff to do it. They’re not confident of a recovery so they are putting off hiring support staff but can’t continue to put off needed work.