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Home Depot Co-founder: Obamacare Will ‘Kill Off’ Small Business
Newsmax ^ | 4/11/2013 | Todd Beamon and Kathleen Walter

Posted on 04/11/2013 8:22:47 PM PDT by tobyhill

Retired Home Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus declared to Newsmax TV in an exclusive interview that “Obamacare is going to kill off small business.”

“If [employees] are thrown out of their medical plans now, where they’re covered in a good plan and thrown under the bus, they’re going to be destroyed,” Marcus said on Thursday. “If, in fact, they don’t stay as full-time employees but go to part-time employees, they’re going to be destroyed.

He talked to Newsmax at the Job Creators Alliance Free Enterprise Leadership Summit in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.

“People have to understand that the villain is not their employer; the villain is the U.S. government,” Marcus added. “Obamacare is the capper. That’s the bullet to the temple.”

Marcus, who retired from Home Depot in 2002, established the Job Creators Alliance two years ago. The nonprofit group seeks to advocate for entrepreneurs and small-business owners.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 0carenightmare; democrats; govtabuse; healthcare; homedepot; obama; obamacare; pelosi; smallbusiness
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To: C. Edmund Wright

home depot has done more to support what is destroying small business than they are willing to see.

They can cry me a river


81 posted on 04/12/2013 12:49:37 PM PDT by stanne
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To: stanne

I’d also add: Conservatism supports cool, unemotional acceptance and analysis of facts, and respect for other points of view.


82 posted on 04/12/2013 12:49:43 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: C. Edmund Wright

this is like playing chess with a pigeon.


83 posted on 04/12/2013 12:50:42 PM PDT by stanne
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To: Revolting cat!

Then a little respect, please.


84 posted on 04/12/2013 12:52:08 PM PDT by stanne
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To: tobyhill

Geez, they just NOW figuring this out?
What a bunch of maroons.


85 posted on 04/12/2013 12:53:11 PM PDT by Little Ray (How did I end up in this hand-basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
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To: stanne

I’m on your side, whad’ya think?


86 posted on 04/12/2013 12:54:45 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: Revolting cat!

Then a little respect, please. unless, as a liberal you’re about to say something even more personally offensive, as you’ve been unable to accept my point of view


87 posted on 04/12/2013 12:55:06 PM PDT by stanne
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To: Revolting cat!

:) whoah, I clipped you in that crossfire.


88 posted on 04/12/2013 12:55:59 PM PDT by stanne
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To: Revolting cat!

I can use a little support, here, thanks.


89 posted on 04/12/2013 12:57:00 PM PDT by stanne
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To: stanne

I won’t argue any more with somebody who is obviously a relative or close friend of the former CEO of Home Depot, using a form of endearment when referring to the man as “Bernie”. I don’t know any Bernies, except one Bernie Schwartz I knew what I was growing up in Brooklyn NY.


90 posted on 04/12/2013 1:03:59 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: stanne

It’s like this (to expand on my previous post.) Cold, verifiable facts, that you don’t have to like or dislike, but reacting to them emotionally or attacking people who bring them up and calling them idiots, won’t change them:

(1) Big box retailers push out small businesses. (Business publications, economists, acknowledge it, as does everyone else.)
(2) There is a film somewhere on Internet showing a German ghost town, which lost all its businesses after Big Box retailers opened up in the neighbourhood. It is silent, there is no commentary.
(3) Big business supports big government.

I don’t give a damn about any “Bernie” or his Home Depot, I’m just an observer and not a defender of any moguls or any policies.


91 posted on 04/12/2013 1:12:55 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: Revolting cat!

You are not implying that I was doing personal attacks, I hope.

I don’t care about the personalities here, their names nor anything else relative to that.

I don’t care who’s gay or who isn’t or who supports them or who doesn’t and I give plenty of money to one particular gay person who assists us at home and who is part of the family, to a degree.

There is a difference, here, and that is there are some corporations who give to causes. and it is a matter of record that they do. HD gives to the militant gay cause which seeks a societally destructive path. I don’t hate them. I have no emotion toward the situation.

I do not give to them because I don’t want MY money going to this cause. I don’t give to Unicef nor Catholic Charities because of their contributions to Planned Parenthood.

It’s about not wanting to contribute to the destruction of marriage and in the latter case, kids.

These forces will not respect my view, which is based on religious formation, and they don’t have to.

But I can admit that they don’t respect my right to not think that gay marriage nor abortion are alright.

That’s it.

On the Mark Levin show they play a pro amac commercial, citing the need to recognize what evil forces aarp’s financial support or PP and Obama.

It’s the same thing.

Nothing to do with emotions and attacks.


92 posted on 04/12/2013 1:45:33 PM PDT by stanne
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To: stanne

well said.


93 posted on 04/12/2013 1:46:30 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: Revolting cat!

did I get caught in the crossfire? I don’t know any “bernies”, nor refer to anyone who runs a corp by first name.


94 posted on 04/12/2013 1:47:13 PM PDT by stanne
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To: Revolting cat!

:)


95 posted on 04/12/2013 1:48:19 PM PDT by stanne
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To: stanne

Crossfire, sorry...


96 posted on 04/12/2013 2:01:29 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: PeterPrinciple

When you are a Von Braun -you earned it. I support my BIL.


97 posted on 04/12/2013 3:40:10 PM PDT by Lumper20 (`)
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To: jboot

They still have the pensions to steal. That could keep them going for a little while longer, and the little guy will be hosed even sooner.


98 posted on 04/12/2013 4:09:12 PM PDT by DarkWaters ("Deception is a state of mind --- and the mind of the state" --- James Jesus Angleton)
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To: Lumper20

I support my BIL


That may be, but my point is that if the government is your major customer, don’t complain about what your customer wants!


99 posted on 04/12/2013 6:32:00 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple
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To: PeterPrinciple

When I want your opinion- I will ask for it.


100 posted on 04/12/2013 6:42:56 PM PDT by Lumper20 (`)
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