Posted on 10/17/2008 2:58:49 PM PDT by fight_truth_decay
PARK RIDGE, Ill., Oct 17, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- A new survey by management consulting firm George S. May International shows 62 percent of small business owners said they would cross party lines this year to vote for the U.S. presidential candidate that they feel will do the most to help their business.
A poll of 850 small business owners across the United States found that nearly half said they feel their business is in jeopardy with 56 percent saying the current credit crunch has adversely impacted their business:
-- 23 percent cited late-paying customers and vendors -- 14 percent said their lines of credit were being pulled -- 9 percent said they were having difficulty making payroll -- 23 percent said all of the above -- 31 percent cited other ways, which were not specified
The poll also showed that 59 percent of small business owners surveyed feel the federal bailout of $700 billion will not help their business, while 41 percent said they feel it would.
"The results of the survey show that the presidential candidates must connect with the needs of small businesses that together employ the majority of people in America," said Israel Kushnir, president of George S. May International. "Small business owners are concerned about jobs, having access to credit lines to keep their operations going, healthcare costs for their employees, and taxes.
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And I'll spout the truth in this forum regardless of the knuckle dragging partisanship in here that is a detriment to our country, or until Jim Robinson kicks me out.
Think Michael Reagan has a piece out today? on how this "spending" administration was not like the same Republican Party under his dad.
Ramsey on Leadership and Posturing On Both sides..Here
I vote for the person who can be least Partisan..or has a history of being such.
No, you dumb sh**, the legacy of the democratic congress. Our economy was going good until after the 2006 election.Also, W tried to get Fannie and Freddie over hauled, along with a lot of other Republicans, but of course the Dems blocked all the moves.
I was told years ago that there is. No one cares if you trade a dozen eggs for 3 pounds of tomatoes, but if you barter goods and services of appreciable value or that you normally produce for cash income, you are supposed to report what you receive as income.
**62 percent of small business owners said they would cross party lines this year to vote for the U.S. presidential candidate that they feel will do the most to help their business.**
Which means they will vote McCain-Palin!
Or because this article doesn't really say who they are planning to vote for... does it say that 62% are considering switching to Democrat and voting for Obama? This article is the worst mashup of vagueness I have ever seen!
The only good growth we saw was the result of bouncing off a bottom that W helped create with his idiotic economic speeches and willful ignorance of modern American economics. Every tax cut W did was a bad one. The only one that worked was the one mainly written by congressman Bill Thomas. What growth we saw was the result of government expansion, higher commodity prices, and the real estate bubble (W was pushing home ownership too). It wasn't healthy and it wasn't sustainable.
W's most famous line will be that we need [lawbreakers] to do the work Americans won't do. It's too bad we couldn't have impeached him for that. W's a jerk and so are you. He's just about destroyed the Republican party and people like you who defend his incompetence are no help. The only reason Republicans still have a chance of being elected is because the Donks are bad too.
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