Posted on 11/04/2008 7:17:47 PM PST by Republican Extremist
As it appears that Obama has won this election, following Fox News calling both Ohio and PA for him, I think it is now time for the businessmen and women who run this country to make it quite clear what the consequences are to those people who sold out their freedom for empty promises.
Small business owners, your taxes are now going to be raised. You now will face the difficult choice of either cutting your costs by laying people off, or by passing the increased costs of taxation on to your customers. This time I want you to take the time to tell that laid off employee exactly why he has lost his job. Tell him that the Obama tax increase has forced you to take his salary and give it to "the middle class". If he protests that he is part of the middle class, then explain that he should make good use of the $500 he sold his vote for, because it cost him his job.
For the manufacturers: When you move your production facilities overseas because the US has the second highest corporate income taxes in the world, make sure your workers understand that their Union is mostly to blame, and they should go talk to them about why it was a good idea to vote for the guy who would make all union votes public.
For your customers: Explain that the price of your product has gone up because of your taxes being increased, and because the rising price of oil from keeping the caribou happy has forced you to charge them more. Tell them you tried inflating your tires, but unfortunately it did not put any more gasoline in your tank.
Consumers: When you go shopping, and are considering buying a high ticket item, when you change your mind, make sure that they know that if you had only kep that extra 3% of your salary.... the "chump change", you could have bought their item.
In short: It is time for us all to become John Galt.
Make them understand that capitalism requires capital, and unfortunately Obama gave the capital you needed to somebody who was more deserving than them.
Ask them how it feels to be "rich".
Tell them that you are sure they will be OK, because Obama told them it would be so.
Ask them how they are enjoying their "Change", and if they have any more "Hope" for the future.
I like to do the TV/radio split. Radio is better for descriptive calls. Not to mention most of those big TV guys are libs, whereas a radio guy might be a local with a real connection to the team.
I’m not going to act like a Gore voter. I lived through that here in Florida in 2000.
I would not deter anyone from being a journalist, but I've been doing what I do for too long to waste the knowledge I have. Somebody else will have to do that part.
My suggestion is not that we all stop spending and investing. It does us no good to become poor. My suggestion is to direct our capital to places where it will enrich ourselves and our like-minded allies, while denying it to those who oppose us.
Let those who voted for Obama have a recession where they live and work. We can have a booming economy amoungst ourselves.
Please add me to Galt’s Gulch.
Would you or someone else on this thread be interested in this? I suspect we're living in the second half of the book, and those FReepers who have avoided reading it need to understand where we're heading.
Never read it, may have to check it out
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Please add me to your Atlas shrugged ping list.
Bookmarked...love sites like that! Thanks!
Plus all that crap comes from China thanks to Bill Clinton. Let it rot
it works. People quit driving and look at gas prices now
sho local and avoid the big chain stores. Everything you buy there is a piece of @@@@ anyway. Go online and buy American if you can find anything still made here
For the last several years, I have have stopped going to movies with certain “stars” or those produced from certain studios. I also have completely stopped buying musical CD’s.
Finding everything I need made in America is next to impossible now. I keep looking, but geez it is difficult.
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I live near several small towns and I periodically go into the hardware stores, ask to see a high priced item, have the guys or girls take it out of the box, look it over, make guttural noises, and then say "Oh wait, this is made in China, never mind". Believe me they are getting the message
Nice rant. Thanks for posting this.
Add me as well.
That's an excellent answer to the question posed. It's the basic recipe for finding the Gulch. I think the only map you'll find is already in your mind, you need to be able to recognize what's needed and then act decisively.
Add me as well.
I read Atlas Shrugged last year, WOW! I didn’t know there was a name for what I have been doing all these years.
“So here it is: there is no Galt’s Gulch, and if you shut off your part of the economy then it will go to China or India. Starve the beast? The beast will borrow against your grand children while they nationalize your 401K. Infiltrate the media and start reporting who, what, when, where, and how. Ten serious journalists could have stopped Obama’s campagin dead. Stop the post-modern, relativistic prattle and the he-said she-said style of reporting. A sort of, kind of conservative news channel and talk radio is not enough. We need to infiltrate the AP and be the one to file the stories to begin with. We need to buy up local papers and pour a big can of America into them. If you think about it, wasn’t that what Mrs. Rand was really doing when she wrote her book—she was informing and influencing people and what, fifty years later, we’re here quoting her even though not 1 in 10 here are objectivists or whatever”
A very good post to chew on.
So the next question is the means - are you suggesting we pool our resources to buy these media outlets?
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