Posted on 10/14/2010 5:55:15 PM PDT by MontaniSemperLiberi
Nikki Haley is almost everything the South Carolina Chamber of Commerce could want in a candidate for governor: A former small business owner (she helped run her family's luxury-clothing company in Lexington, S.C.), Haley has served on the boards of two local chambers and campaigns on the traditional business gospel of lower taxes and smaller government.
As Haley was steaming toward an easy win in the Republican primary runoff last June, the South Carolina Chamber's board—56 business leaders representing sectors ranging from banking to health care to construction—met at Clemson University to decide whether to endorse her or her general election opponent, Vincent Sheheen, a Democratic state senator. It took only 20 minutes around a U-shaped conference table for the board to make its decision: Almost 80 percent of members voted for the Democrat—even though they knew Haley was a virtual lock to become the next governor of their heavily Republican state.
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"Big Business is sitting there on fat, pushy duffs looking for government to keep them in business," said Armey in an August interview with Bloomberg Businessweek. Only "incompetent" companies needed bailouts, he added. "People who run corporations are basically taking care of themselves. They're not very reliable people, and they're very comfortable with Big Government that greases the skids for them."
(Excerpt) Read more at businessweek.com ...
Sounds about right to me.
Consider the source people. Businessweek is the financial version of Newsweek.
Corporate subsidies and stimulus. Big Business Likes.
Government/Business Social-Facism
And so, is this a reason to support or not support the TP? The same TP that opposes a crony, self-dealing political system opposes the same impulse in business. The TP does not have the tired liberal reflexive reaction against “corporations” or “transnationals”. All the TP wants is for the law(s) to be observed. That means those who violate the law get removed from their positions of authority and punished; instead of being rewarded with the highest bonuses and official positions in the administration.
This latest National Security guy is only the latest outrage, but is just as much of a jaw dropping nominee as Eric Holder. Maybe even more. A flat out criminal.
*Big Business*
56 out of how many, small number...
Name them!
I seem to remember Jimmy Carter quoting Business Week magazine as saying that Reagan’s tax cuts would lead to massive inflation. How did that turn out?
Finally, after decades of neglect, the individual enterprise system which made America the most prosperous, most free, and most benevolent society ever to exist in the world, has been stifled, strangled, and overcome by the burdens of a too-large government.
Now, the current Administration is openly hostile to business, and the business leaders who have not bothered to study the ideas of America's Founders and to defend the Constitution which those Founders framed--those business leaders are finally waking up, and some of them are involved in the Taxed Enough Already movement.
Not all business leaders have been so clueless, however. In Texas, back in the 70's and 80's, there was Eddie Chiles, former owner of the Texas Rangers, and Walter Davis. In Illinois, there was James R. Evans, who wrote "America's Choice." In North Carolina, there was W. David Stedman, who published magazine ads, free enterprise radio messages, spoke to national manufacturers' associations and business groups, and used corporate profits to publish a book called "Our Ageless Constitution," here, laying out the principles underlying the Constitution and its protections for freedom of individual enterprise.
Today, there needs to be a massive move by America's business leaders to preserve the liberty they inherited and to oppose all who are participating in "killing the goose that laid the golden egg" of plenty in America for over 200 years.
I have found BusinessWeek, BusinessInsider, and especially The Economist to take a sneering attitude towards grass roots movements and social conservatism. They do so at their own peril.
I’m pretty sure that where I work, if my boss was given two candidates to pick from to hire it would go like this:
HMMM, tea party member, believes in personal responsibility, if they screw up they probably will make it right and pay the consequences.
VS
Someone with an entitlement attitude, who most likely doesn’t have much of a work ethic and not dependable.
And we have clients we do business with who are the same. Some you get burned on, and won’t take their work again, because you end up working for free. They just game the system in their own way.
Easy choice.
Business Week was a lefty rag POS magazine when McGraw Hill owned them. McGraw is best known for overpriced school books spewing leftist propaganda to your kids and S&P for giving wortheless mortgage backed securities AAA ratings.
Now Mr. 9/11 Victory Mosque Bloomberg owns the rag.
BW has always been a left wing rag. Brought to you by McGraw Hill who panders to leftist teachers unions to get their incredibly overpriced books in the classroom.
THIS is why we are not more ahead than we are, however the Tea Party needs to dialogue with the business community, WE DO need to dismantle 90% of Big-Government, but there is a right way to do this..(and then there is a destructive way, that WOULD kill many people financially as well as turn many away from free-markets).
We have analy...ze how Big-Government is structured, and cause and effect (how it came to be, if we “pull-the-right-pieces” how it will cause prosperity, over just cutting without affect to cause). WE DO NEED TO DISMANTLE BIG-GOVERNMENT we just need to do it in the right was! ~My 2c, J. J. S.
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Definitely the case. I escaped that world after I realized that shariah-compliant banking is the next big fad that the biggies are chasing. There is a reason that Wall Street firms and the Big 4 are in the pockets of and lining the pockets of the bolshevik bastards; they are absolutely in love with stimulus packages and with raping taxpayers via fat govt contracts managed by clueless government employees... not to mention licking their lips at the billions in contracts represented by the nationalized medical service. Short term gain, but long term loss when the government goes bust. But it doesn't matter as when all is said and done the partners and principles have their boats and their homes in the Caribbean. In my experience, large businesses are absolutely overrun with the most effete, politically-correct dregs of our society.
One does not join the Tea Party. It is a political attitude. Your attitude defines whether you are in or out.
Taxed Enough Already!
That is the entire state of mind that defines a member.
No further action required.
It is a conservative, return to our roots movement.
The Left either is or pretends to be retarded, and that includes the Lame Stream Media.
On June 23, the Chamber announced it would stand behind state Sen. Vincent Sheheen.
In the primary elections, the Chamber endorsed both Sheheen and Republican gubernatorial candidate Rep. Gresham Barrett.
Barrett was defeated by state Sen. Nikki Haley in the June 22 runoff, and by a decisive 65-35 margin.
SC Chamber supports the Democrat. It's a shame, even though we all know Niki will win. Here is their website.
Thus another reason Glenn Beck's call to support the chamber by sending money today should have fallen on deaf ears in SC.
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