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The White House has launched a coordinated campaign to push back against the perception taking hold in corporate America and on Wall Street that President Barack Obama is promoting an anti-business agenda.

Obama has been happy to be seen by voters as cracking down on Wall Street but those efforts have had an unintended result: feeding a sense that the president and his party are indifferent or even actively hostile toward big business, whether those businesses are Silicon Valley tech companies, Midwestern manufacturers or Main Street small businesses.
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In a Thursday interview, White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel argued that rather than recoiling against Obama, business leaders should be grateful for his support on at least a half-dozen counts: his advocacy of greater international trade and education reform open markets despite union skepticism; his rejection of calls from some quarters to nationalize banks during the financial meltdown; the rescue of the automobile industry; the fact that the overhaul of health care preserved the private delivery system; the fact that billions in the stimulus package benefited business with lucrative new contracts, and that financial regulation reform will take away the uncertainty that existed with a broken, pre-crash regulatory apparatus.

It’s like walking in on a burglar sacking your home, and listening to the burglar give a speech about how he isn’t really burglarizing you.

No wait, it’s worse than that: It’s like the burglar telling you the flawed policies of the previous burglar resulted in your home being burglarized all wrong, so he fixed the bugs in the system. And you should be thanking him.

Well, the way Ace is seeing it, Obama is tying cement shoes to the economy.

Another company announces that the healthcare bill the President and the Democrats had to write in secret and pass under cover of darkness will sink it when the bill goes active in 2014.

My friends, reason number 3,401 that ObamaCare needs to be repealed:

The Columbus-based family owned restaurant chain – known for serving small square hamburgers called “sliders” – says a single provision in the bill will eat up roughly 55 percent of its yearly net income after 2014.

Starting that year, the bill levies a $3,000-per-employee penalty on companies whose workers pay more than 9.5 percent of household income in premiums for company-provided insurance.

White Castle, which currently provides insurance to all of its full-time workers and picks up 70 to 89 percent of their premium costs, believes it will likely end up paying those penalties. The financial hit will make it hard for the company to maintain its 421 restaurants, let alone create new jobs, says company spokesman Jamie Richardson. White Castle employs more than 10,000 people nationwide, and more than 1,200 in Ohio.

This is really unbelievable when you think about it. It is almost as if — I would say exactly as if — our highest offices are filled with compulsive liars who cannot stop lying. They have never or very rarely been caught at anything; they come from a world in which there’s never a consequence, there’s always another speech to be made in which they get to ask that liar’s question “Who ya gonna believe, me or your lyin’ eyes?”

Hey Rahm — an additional expense is an additional expense. I can see if a business manager starts crunching through a forecast, and produces the numbers that say so-and-so many people cannot be hired or will have to be laid off, your “I must have the last word” argument up above isn’t going to mean a whole lot. But you’re a smart guy, you can see that for yourself. You’re probably not talking to him.

Which brings us back to the primary complaint against the Obama team: They can never stop complaining.

They are an executive-branch version of that pipsqueak we’ve all met in the office. The guy who always has to have the last word about everything. The brown-noser. He never gets any real work done, because the one computer application he uses more than any other is the e-mail. When he isn’t on the e-mail system, he’s making lots of noise, having “folksy” conversations with people, acting chummy — but only to find out what’s going on, dictate to people what they should be thinking, or some combination of those. And then it’s back to e-mail. Know the type?

We’ve got an awful lot of people walking around like this. A lot of people. They’re not just in the White House, they’re out in corporate America too. Their work can’t ever speak for itself.

Cross-posted at Cassy’s place.

[…] Cross-posted at House of Eratosthenes. […]
- Cassy Fiano » Obama Being Tough on Business: Who Ya Gonna Believe, Rahm or Your Lyin’ Eyes? | 07/09/2010 @ 07:23
Obama has been happy to be seen by voters as cracking down on Wall Street but those efforts have had an unintended result: feeding a sense that the president and his party are indifferent or even actively hostile toward big business…

Democrats….anti-business? Get outta here! Never!

What they are is anti-smallbusiness. They’re perfectly happy to get chummy with the big guys, something the Republicans are always being accused of doing. The fact of the matter is that Wall Street gave more to the Democrats in 2008 than to the Republicans…by far.

This is really unbelievable when you think about it. It is almost as if — I would say exactly as if — our highest offices are filled with compulsive liars who cannot stop lying.

http://www.amazon.com/Lies-Lying-Liars-Tell-Them/dp/0525947647/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1278707369&sr=1-1

Gee, do you think Al Franken is interested in writing a book about these guys, too? I’m not holding my breath. (I still can’t believe Minnesota voters sent that douchebag to the Senate…but this is what happens when Democrats are allowed to out-and-out cheat in an election recount.)

With regard to Obama being a big complainer, I’ve also taken notice that he’s a big do-nothing and time-waster. Last night, during all the coverage of LeBron James switching basketball teams, they read a viewer-submitted question on the air…submitted by someone living in Roseville, CA (near and dear to Morgan and myself). The questoin was about a game of “horse” played between LeBron and Maximum Leader Zero. Apparently ol’ Dear Reader found his way onto a basketball court in between numerous rounds of golf, and demonizing the other half of the country.

I turned to a conservative co-worker (the only one, actually) and asked, “Shouldn’t Obama be solving our national problems, not playing basketball with LeBron James?”
- cylarz | 07/09/2010 @ 13:34
Seriously, do you think the healthcare act will ever be repealed? Republican’s won’t touch that fifty percent voter approved entitlement booger with Byrd’s dead dick.

Not ever happening.

Pick a new battle my friend, that one’s a dead horse.
- Daphne | 07/09/2010 @ 17:37

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