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CarMax Co-Founder: Obama Is Right, I Didn't Build It
breitbart.com ^ | 9/2/12 | Wynton Hall

Posted on 09/02/2012 11:18:05 AM PDT by ColdOne

CarMax co-founder and former CEO Austin Ligon, who will be a featured speaker at the Democratic National Convention, says he and his company's 17,000 employees aren't responsible for his billion dollar company, the government is:

As President Obama has said, I didn't do it alone. I succeeded because we had a committed team of CarMax associates working round the clock to build our business. We found ready capital from healthy and flexible capital markets that allowed us to grow. We benefited from an effective national transportation infrastructure that let us move products from one market to another, and we had cooperation and assistance from federal, state, and local governments in providing clear rules of the road that let us plan and grow our business.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: business; carmax; democrats; government; obama; youdidntbuildit
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1 posted on 09/02/2012 11:18:08 AM PDT by ColdOne
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To: ColdOne

They are going to stick to this meme? Hahahahahahahahahaha! Excellent.


2 posted on 09/02/2012 11:20:05 AM PDT by fhayek
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To: ColdOne

What a foolish “businessman”

Watch the value of his company drop like a rock after this


3 posted on 09/02/2012 11:20:09 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (Now a Chick-fil-A customer . . . God bless Dan Cathy)
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To: ColdOne

I just don’t understand business owners who associate their businesses with a political stand once side or the other. What is there to gain?


4 posted on 09/02/2012 11:20:41 AM PDT by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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To: ColdOne

Another commie lib willing to fall on his sword his his emperor.


5 posted on 09/02/2012 11:20:45 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Had enough of the freaks running the show yet?)
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To: ColdOne

CarMax just became CarLeast.

Be pretty easy to mail a photo of an empty chair to this idiot.


6 posted on 09/02/2012 11:21:09 AM PDT by moovova (Hope-ium...Time to kick the habit.)
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To: ColdOne

wow, talk about a mind-numbed robot.

another company to boycott, yipee


7 posted on 09/02/2012 11:21:55 AM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: ColdOne
Another commie lib willing to fall on his sword his for his emperor.
8 posted on 09/02/2012 11:21:55 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Had enough of the freaks running the show yet?)
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To: ColdOne

And stupid remarks like Ligon’s are going to wind up destroying CarMax.


9 posted on 09/02/2012 11:22:20 AM PDT by dfwgator (I'm voting for Ryan and that other guy.)
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To: ColdOne

You know, Obama has one admirable quality.

He sticks to his guns.

The problem lies in what battles he chooses.

He’s 100% wrong on something. It’s going to seriously wound him, politically. And he doubles-down.


10 posted on 09/02/2012 11:22:28 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Communist Party = Democrats. Socialist Party = Republicans. WE NEED A CAPITALIST FREEDOM PARTY!)
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To: ColdOne

Wonder why he’s a “former” CEO?


11 posted on 09/02/2012 11:23:12 AM PDT by dfwgator (I'm voting for Ryan and that other guy.)
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To: moovova

Empty chair = Who Is John Galt!


12 posted on 09/02/2012 11:23:19 AM PDT by paul in cape
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To: ColdOne

Well, I paid taxes to build those roads. Can I stop by the Car-Max near my office on Tuesday and drive away in one of OUR cars? Since your business belongs to all of us, you shouldn’t have a problem with a little bit of “to each according to his needs.” Right?


13 posted on 09/02/2012 11:23:39 AM PDT by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: fhayek

Doubling down, as another put it. Doubling down on a bad meme. Way to go, rats!


14 posted on 09/02/2012 11:23:39 AM PDT by coloradan (The US has become a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
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To: ColdOne

Definitely a Cash 4 Clunkers beneficiary as the used car market was propped up. The Chicago Way works for a lot of people.


16 posted on 09/02/2012 11:24:00 AM PDT by nascarnation (Defeat Baraq 2012. Deport Baraq 2013)
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To: fhayek

Add a couple of letters to CarMax and you’ve got Carl Marx.

Perhaps this is what this idiot was thinking of when he named his company.


17 posted on 09/02/2012 11:24:14 AM PDT by Dan in Wichita
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To: dfwgator
Oh, that's a given. No way would I touch Carmax, stockwise or by patronizing them. Hell no. Not after this.

Let government pick up the slack, Ligon.

18 posted on 09/02/2012 11:24:34 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Communist Party = Democrats. Socialist Party = Republicans. WE NEED A CAPITALIST FREEDOM PARTY!)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

did he get his obamaocare waiver yet?


19 posted on 09/02/2012 11:24:54 AM PDT by alrea (if demand is inadequate to sell the supply, prices just fall until supply equals demand.)
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To: ColdOne

You have to feel for his thousands of employees that just had their earning potential destroyed.

Let’s see what his stockholders think about his proclomation.

CarMax, Inc
NYSE: KMX - Aug 31 4:03pm ET
30.59+0.30 (0.99%)


20 posted on 09/02/2012 11:25:07 AM PDT by vg0va3
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