Shut down 01/01/2013 all gas stations, coal companies, power stations, restaurants, grocery stores, 7-11’s, liquor stores, tobacco companies, oil companies, stop all drilling, manufactoring companies, car companies, except for “government motors” it is no longer privately owned! It will take the government about six (6) seconds to send a mouth piece to the business owner asking what they want in return to get back to work for the government, this is when the American business owner tells Obamay to bend slightly at the knees about 30 degrees and kiss his ass goodbye!!!
End of communism in America over night!
If every business shut down the government would step in and take over and there’d be a line a mile long of people willing to work for them.
Wrong.
In six seconds Obama would execute and executive order fining and imprisoning every business owner who kept his business shut for more than an hour.....as they would be “terrorists” threatening national security....
And the HDA and TSA would be his enforcers with all the ammo they have......
Nice try......
Nice dream, but the mouthpiece will not be sent — just some govt. gunmen and a new manager supplied by the new owner, the US govt.
All large companies are public. This means that they are not toys of their CEO. They simply cannot be shut down because that would be against their corporate charter. The CEO would be kicked out and replaced within minutes.
Most of other companies - that are privately owned - employ living, breathing people. You, as the sole owner, may have the power to close the company. But do you have the moral right to leave your employees - who agreed to work for your company - without income? They all would need to join you in that strike. My bet is that hardly more than one or two out of ten can afford it. Most working stiffs don't have much money in the bank, but they all have bills to pay and kids to feed.
Finally, if you are the sole owner and the only employee, your business is tiny. You may be a consultant, for example, or a writer, or a musician, or a handyman. If you close your business it will not be noticed - not by Obama, not by the county, and not by your neighbors even. Your démarche would be a complete waste.
Furthermore, even if by some miracle enough businesses close, remaining businesses will double and triple the sales - and the prices. You know who will be blamed for that? You. Not Obama; it will be personally you, the owner of the business that you closed in an act of political protest. Obama would then sprinkle some salt on your wounds, as he loves to do, by saying that those irresponsible rich men decided to become the enemy of the people. Do I need to continue this train of thought?
Some posters also said that this opens the door for nationalization of "essential" businesses and industries. Well, that may be the case as well.
I know conservative (Christian) business owners and THEY will be getting my business.
Sadly, there is some stuff that we simply cannot do without, like food and gas.
However, non- essentials are going to be STRICTLY off limits.