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Hi I don't know squat about business, and my name is Barack Obama
Townhall.com ^ | 05.04.2009 | Kevin McCullough

Posted on 05/04/2009 10:18:34 AM PDT by jodiluvshoes

Since President Obama has never run so much as a corner store, it's easy to understand why he might just be so confused about how the real business world works. He's never had to meet a payroll. He's never had to do projections, or cost analysis, and certainly has no idea how to help poor people.

Because he keeps doing things to make it more and more difficult for them.

Today he's announcing that he's going to crack down on business taxes, discounting some of the deductions that they are allowed to take.

He calls it closing loopholes. Economists call it lengthening the chance of economic recovery from his worst in a generation recession that he seems insistent upon making last as long as possible.

(Excerpt) Read more at kevinmccullough.townhall.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Editorial; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: barackobama; bho44; bhoeconomy; business; democrats; obama; overseasaccounts; taxes
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1 posted on 05/04/2009 10:18:34 AM PDT by jodiluvshoes
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To: jodiluvshoes

Yeah but he went to the Ivy League (gasp).

And, he has a law degree. (gasp, gasp).

So he has an Ivy League Law degree.

Among OTHER Ivy Leaguers, infesting Washington, that qualifies him to do ANYTHING.


2 posted on 05/04/2009 10:21:21 AM PDT by EyeGuy
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To: jodiluvshoes

This isn’t news. He admitted it during the campaign. He said he’d hire people who understood economics on his team to cover his knowledge gaps.

Too bad America didn’t consider it important for the gig.


3 posted on 05/04/2009 10:21:40 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (IRONY - we know more about the First Dog's historical papers than we do of President Barack.)
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To: jodiluvshoes

You just don’t understand. He was a community organizer. Oh, and he’s articulate.


4 posted on 05/04/2009 10:22:29 AM PDT by SaveTheChief (Obama lied, America died.)
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To: EyeGuy

It’s funny how suppossedly the “smartest people in the room” will trust anyone with an Ivy League degree. Didn’t Bernie Madoff teach them a lesson? A Con Artist with a Harvard Degree is still a CON ARTIST!


5 posted on 05/04/2009 10:24:12 AM PDT by jakerobins
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To: jodiluvshoes

He can read anything off a teleprompter.


6 posted on 05/04/2009 10:24:34 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys--Reagan and Bush)
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To: jodiluvshoes
Today he's announcing that he's going to crack down on business taxes, discounting some of the deductions that they are allowed to take.

Thus promoting the idea of who he thinks is in charge and doing a slow shred of the Constitution in the process.

Tea Parties are so appropriate... (right place, right time)

7 posted on 05/04/2009 10:25:10 AM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, Question everyone else)
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To: yldstrk
He can read anything off a teleprompter.

That's a crock of B.S. yldstrk!

He only reads what the teleprompter wants him to read! ; )~

8 posted on 05/04/2009 10:29:12 AM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, Question everyone else)
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To: jodiluvshoes

0 may not know anything about business, but he owns business now. People will have to get used to our Fascist leader.


9 posted on 05/04/2009 10:29:37 AM PDT by pallis
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To: EGPWS

I asked Obama voters if they’d want him to come in and run their companies. They said no, because he doesn’t know anything about their business. BUT THEY GAVE HIM THEIR COUNTRY!


10 posted on 05/04/2009 10:30:55 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: jakerobins

Even redoubtable Conservative Ann Coulter is in love with the hollow Ivy League credentials.

That and the lack of at least 10 lbs of strategic-placed feminine cushioning is about the only thing I don’t like about her.


11 posted on 05/04/2009 10:31:27 AM PDT by EyeGuy
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To: jodiluvshoes

This came by way of email and is funny, but it’s too close to the truth.

Three contractors are bidding to fix a broken fence at the White House. One is from Chicago, another is from Tennessee, and the third is from Minnesota.
All three go with a White House official to examine the fence. The Minnesota contractor takes out a tape measure and does some measuring, then works some figures with a pencil. “Well,” he says, “I figure the
job will run about $900: $400 for materials, $400 for my crew and $100 profit for me.”
The Tennessee contractor also does some measuring and figuring, then says, “I can do this job for $700: $300 for materials, $300 for my crew and $100 profit for me.”
The Chicago contractor doesn’t measure or figure, but leans over to the White House official and whispers, “$2,700.”
The official, incredulous, says, “You didn’t even measure like the other guys! How did you come up with such a high figure?”
The Chicago contractor whispers back, “$1000 for me, $1000 for you, and we hire the guy from Tennessee to fix the fence.”
“Done!” replies the government official.

And that, my friends, is how the new stimulus plan will work.


12 posted on 05/04/2009 10:31:55 AM PDT by AuntB (The right to vote in America: Blacks 1870; Women 1920; Native Americans 1925; Foreigners 2008)
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To: massgopguy
They said no, because he doesn’t know anything about their business. BUT THEY GAVE HIM THEIR COUNTRY!

Obama will tell us that it's Bush's fault.

13 posted on 05/04/2009 10:36:29 AM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, Question everyone else)
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To: jodiluvshoes
Dear Obama: Please stop destroying capitalism, it amounts to " Biting the hand that feeds You",

If everyone is out of work there will be no taxes to collect, and so "loopholes" (tax incentives) will no longer be an issue...

Damn commie kenyan BASTARD

With all due respect, a Tea Party Taxpayer

14 posted on 05/04/2009 10:36:41 AM PDT by KTM rider ( lack of production and greed killed capitalism , socialism will fill the void)
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To: jodiluvshoes

It really is glaring, his ignorance.

I once had a lot of his “idealistic” beliefs. But then I left college, got a job, and learned how the real world worked.

It’s ironic that our freedoms and our economic system end up creating so many cossetted, ignorant individuals who end up wanting to tear it down.


15 posted on 05/04/2009 10:37:15 AM PDT by cvq3842
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To: SaveTheChief

In a rare nationwide coincidence newspapers, editorial boards and columnists are no longer singing the praises of those poor downtrodden community organizers!

What happened to their respect and fanfares for these altrustic individuals?

Or could it have been that they would have praised roller skaters had Obama been a roller skater?


16 posted on 05/04/2009 10:38:25 AM PDT by relictele
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To: AuntB

that is so frightenly close to what I think we are seeing...


17 posted on 05/04/2009 10:39:51 AM PDT by epluribus_2
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To: relictele

altrustic => altruistic


18 posted on 05/04/2009 10:40:06 AM PDT by relictele
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To: AuntB

LOL - well written.


19 posted on 05/04/2009 10:40:52 AM PDT by patton (Oligarchy is an absorbing state in the Markov process we find ourselves in. Sigh.)
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To: jakerobins

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Madoff

Madoff was born to Ralph and Sylvia Madoff. Ralph Madoff was a plumber before becoming a stockbroker.[18] Madoff graduated from Far Rockaway High School in 1956,[19] attended the University of Alabama for one year, then transferred to and graduated from Hofstra University (then Hofstra College) in 1960 with a degree in political science.[20] The following year, he attended Brooklyn Law School, but did not continue.


20 posted on 05/04/2009 10:48:36 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (AGWT is very robust with respect to data. All observations confirm it at the 100% confidence level.)
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