CarMax Co-Founder: Obama Is Right, I Didn't Build It

breitbart.com ^ | 9/2/12 | Wynton Hall

[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.

[Jagdgewehr]

"President Obama has shown he has the vision to support businesses and allow them to grow. He has shown he understands the need to invest to make this happen."

Really? Where is his proof for that? In the fact that the private sector is shriveling up?

[bgill]

CarMax co-founder and former CEO Austin Ligon, who will be a featured speaker at the Democratic National Convention

Adding this one to my ever growing ban list.

[Proud2BeRight]

Oh yes! Get the “you didn’t build that” front and center and then have it delivered by a used car salesman.

[chris37]

O...K...I’ll be sure to never use this commie front company for anything at all.

[paul in cape]

CarMax closing price on August 31 = $30.59.

Anybody want to guess which way it's heading?

[Steely Tom]

CarMax + ‘l’ + ‘r’ = CarlMarx.

[treetopsandroofs]

Doubling down after first denying that’s what the Fraud meant?

[treetopsandroofs]

Doubling down after first denying that’s what the Fraud meant?

[theBuckwheat]

And then there was the Cash-for-Clunkers scheme that sent a lot of usable used cars to the crusher and that boosted the value of the used cars that remained. Great for CarMax!

[treetopsandroofs]

Doubling down after first denying that’s what the Fraud meant?

[Hatteras]

He must not be on the DNC distribution list. The President’s quote was taken out of context and he didn’t really mean what he said, remember?

[Bookwoman]

Yeah - just tell that to the coal industry.

[treetopsandroofs]

Doubling down after first denying that’s what the Fraud meant?

[treetopsandroofs]

Doubling down after first denying that’s what the Fraud meant?

[vg0va3]

So carmax now = carLmarX

(i know it is witha K)

Thank you LeeperMax

[treetopsandroofs]

Doubling down after first denying that’s what the Fraud meant?

[treetopsandroofs]

Doubling down after first denying that’s what the Fraud meant?

[treetopsandroofs]

Doubling down after first denying that’s what the Fraud meant?

[dfwgator]

Smells a lot like Fascism to me.

[Fred Hayek]

So, Mr. Ligon, you drank the Kool Aid while deciding to negotiate with the crocodoile. Now, just think, Obama wins, and a few years down the road the crocodile decides that it is your turn to be eaten. Your attempts at appeasement will be meaningless, since, in Obama’s view, you run a business, therefore YOU are the enemy.
Either way this election goes, Mr. Ligon, you have destroyed your company. One way, by appeasing the crocodile (it never works), and the other way, by chasing away a lot of customers.