Home Depot cofounder: 'America will go down the drain' if Hillary Clinton is elected

[TexasTowelie]

Home Depot cofounder Bernie Marcus says “America will go down the drain” if Hillary Clinton is elected president.

“Every indication is that America will go down the drain if in fact she is elected,” he told FOX Business Network’s Neil Cavuto in a recent interview.

“When I listen to Hillary Clinton and I listen to the {economists} who never in their life ever hired a human being or trained a human being, I say, I don’t know the world that they belong in. I know that when you have high taxes that you kill off jobs. Killing off jobs means hurting America. It means hurting the economic wealth of America — and that’s not good for anybody.”

He accused the Clintons of being a “corrupt family” and urged Republicans to vote for Donald Trump even if they don’t like him.

Read more: http://elections.gatehousemedia.com/home-depot-cofounder-america-will-go-drain-hillary-clinton-elected/?sitename=pjstar

[lpbk2713]

1. I am happy to say ...

I only shop at Home Despot as a last resort when I can't find what I need somewhere else.

[Pauldg47]

9. Me too.....

Their charge card rates are criminal....

[Historic NY]

27. Hell yeah........

they sucked people in with the old con of no interest and then bam!!.......

[saltpoint]

2. Good to know next time I'm in the market

for pliers or a screwdriver. Look for me at another retail outlet than Home Depot.

Marcus uses the words "every indication," but cites zero indications that doom is eminent.

Elizabeth Warren has endorsed Hillary Clinton. Might be interesting to see Marcus try to persuade us that Elizabeth Warren doesn't know anything about economics.

[Farmgirl1961]

3. No more Home Despot for me

Hopefully Lowe's is a little better???

[A HERETIC I AM]

5. Shop your local Ace Hardware

Locally owned franchises

The money you spend stays in your area for the most part

[Pauldg47]

10. Buy ace stock....

[A HERETIC I AM]

14. It's not publicly traded

[Pauldg47]

73. Darn, I wasn't sure....

[trotsky]

25. Another vote for Ace here.

I love my local store. There is always someone to help. Not so at the giant box stores.

[DinahMoeHum]

53. True Value Hardware stores, too.

Locally owned franchises there, too.

The one I shop at has been in the business for over 100 years.

[A HERETIC I AM]

55. Yup

Spend a couple bucks more for a hose or a shrub or whatever, keep a locally owned business thriving

[SticksnStones]

72. I'm a furniture maker by trade

And I do my damndest to shop my local ACE for supplies.

Still it's soooo hard to spend $17.99 for a quart of polyurethane when it's 9.99 at the depot, but I do it as often as I can...shop and source local is the battlecry for small tourist towns like mine.

[SunSeeker]

17. Lowes has slightly better quality merchandise.

Home Depot tends to sell cheap crap that breaks or looks like shit fast. Not something you want to use on your house. Their outdoor light fixtures suck. The "bronze" patio light I bought rusted within a year. They sell the cheapest sprinkler heads, Toro, constantly need adjustment. I try to avoid Home Depot like the plague.

[nolabels]

48. The Home Depot was once worse (hard to imagine)

I only go to that place out of last desperation.

[malaise]

19. No

Same RW shite

[mercuryblues]

4. I must be misremembering

His hero, bush, slashed taxes and the economy tanked. We have a huge debts thanks to his hero putting 2 wars on a credit card and so on. But Hillary is going to ruin America.

Fuck him and his cheap ass merchandise.

[Hortensis]

61. Greed rules. America would do well, Home Depot

would do well, but government assistance writing laws to run competitors out of business, help pump up profits by many means, including screwing labor, and lowering taxes would mean profits weren't AS high. So he speaks out.

Greedy schmuck. Bet he's built a whole virtuous ideology around himself.

[still_one]

6. Charles Schwab said the same thing about President Obama. Lying assholes

[duncang]

7. I'm glad I don't go there much

But I'll make sure I won't again. And drive that extra block.

[global1]

8. And You Could Buy Those Drains At Home Depot.....nt

[mrmpa]

11. and those drains are made in China......n/t

[Wellstone ruled]

12. Wasn't this Guy as well as Jack Welch that

fronted the Rethugs to the tune of 100million to steal the 2000 election?

[MADem]

13. Ace is the place with the helpful hardware folks.... nt

[Binkie The Clown]

15. I never shop Home Depot, and certainly never will.

Fortunately, where I live we have a locally founded, locally owned hardware that's better than Home Depot anyway.

[applegrove]

16. I'm never shopping at 'home despot' again.

[oioioi]

18. I am going to call them this morning and tell them so.

[Divine Discontent]

20. I posted a message on their facebook page

https://www.facebook.com/homedepot#


I said I was glad to know their co-founder's views so I could shop with my many purchases elsewhere.

[Vinca]

21. I imagine he said the same or worse about Obama.

The smarter rich people support Democrats. They realize Democrats are the cleaning crew that comes in to repair the damage Republicans do when they're in office.

[Stuart G]

22. k and r for exposure...no more Home Depot..ever

I might add that if enough of us boycott this company, it could be hurt severely . Say, 20 percent reduction in revenue could hurt their profit in a .........huge !!!! way...

[aka-chmeee]

23. Not if the drain was purchased at Home Depot nt

[HughBeaumont]

24. It comforts me to know . . . .

. . . that this brainless, dickless, insufferable, rug-wearing, Metamucil-swilling, neo-Fascist, shithuffing, Republicon ass grabbing, money laundering, government purchasing, waste of average coitus, side boil on the ball of humanity, most in need of repeated iron-fist punches to his fucking smug denture-wearing gob, corporate asscock bitch motherfuckgeezer is going to be worm food soon.

His views and fluffing of long-debunked Dead Reagan/Dead Coolidge horseshit will be relegated to the landfills of history, reviled and best left forgotten, much like Reagan himself if he wasn't named after everything not nailed down. The winner-sodomize-everything version of capitalism he knows and profits off of will inevitably lead to horrible ruin, and with all hope, our children will be brighter than we were and sweep this steaming pile of a human in a dank and nostril burning sewer where he and the rest of the fucks belong.

Bernie Marcus is a piece of FUCKING shit. Why can't this worthless fuck just go away, and take the rest of his progress-blocking bag of assholes with him?

[Different Drummer]

42. You get an A for creativity!

. . . that this brainless, dickless, insufferable, rug-wearing, Metamucil-swilling, neo-Fascist, shithuffing, Republicon ass grabbing, money laundering, government purchasing, waste of average coitus, side boil on the ball of humanity, most in need of repeated iron-fist punches to his fucking smug denture-wearing gob, corporate asscock bitch motherfuckgeezer is going to be worm food soon.

[HughBeaumont]

56. Here's a heaping helping pile of irony from the YouTubes.

Bernie Marcus talks about how Obamacare will kill small businesses.

The Founder. Of HOME DEPOT, one of the biggest steamroller of small businesses in modern history. CONCERNED. About Small Businesses.

IS THIS SERIOUS???

[WinkyDink]

49. The Ruder Pundit! KUDOS!

[muntrv]

26. Down the drain? Like what happenned in 2008 under Bush?

[Renew Deal]

28. But it's OK if it's a Chinese manufactured drain sold at Home Depot

[Phentex]

47. exactly!

always about the bottom line for these people.

[heaven05]

29. damn!!

can't shop there anymore either. I stopped Papa John's when he threatened his employees with losing their healthcare and jobs if BHO was elected. Everytime I see his smarmy face I want to spit in it.

[Different Drummer]

44. Probably just my opinion, but...

their pizza sucks, anyway.

[GWC58]

79. Exactly!

I stopped Papa Johns after my first, and only, time there. Their pizza is nasty & greasy, just like its asshole owner.😝

[Warpy]

52. I haven't shopped there for years

but I'll probably cringe and do it when this dump needs repainting since Behr paints hold up better than anything else I've ever used and they're the Home Depot store brand.

Otherwise, I'll go to Lowe's, thanks. They're not a whole lot better but at least they're quieter.

(Home Depot lost me when they fired all the old guys who were semi retired from the building trades and hired a bunch of teenagers who didn't know anything because they were cheaper workers. They corrected that but it was too little, too late)

[Stellar]

30. I thought they felt and said the same thing about Obama.

I think conservatives are supposed to say dumb ish like that. My son got a second job from Home Depot two years ago when he was having hard times. I don't think they cared about Obama when they hired him.
Look at all the jobs that Obama has created since he's been in office.

[whatthehey]

31. Why have pundits and journalists let this idiotic false argument stand unchallenged for decades

This is not esoteric high finance you need a CPA and a lifetime in business to understand or explain.

It's basic and simple, rendered in its essential summary:

Whether you are a tiny home business or a massive conglomerate, your income taxes are based on profits. Profits are what's left over after all costs, including all labor and hiring costs. How then do higher corporate taxes reduce hiring? One way to LOWER your taxes is to have more costs, including labor.

Now sure if somebody talked about raising FICA, he may have a point, because that's an extra tax driven by hiring. But income taxes are much higher and a far greater focus for CEOs, and they do not in any way cause companies to hire fewer people.

[metroins]

32. Argh. I was going to go to Home Depot today

Still might.

Lowes just doesn't have what I need.

[MineralMan]

33. Well, Mr. Marcus, I won't be buying that drain plumbing at Home Depot.

Deal with that. Keep your politics to yourself. You're pissing off customers. That's never a good idea.

[Tsiyu]

34. Thanks for sharing, TexasTowelie

Precious billionaire Bernie Marcus is crowing about how he "trained and hired" people?

Let me tell you about Home Depot. It is one of the WORST places to work in retail in the US.

I was a private contractor working for a nursery and was in their stores often. Their employees worked their asses off for the lowest wages you can pay. Most were not given anywhere near fulltime hours, and their schedules were dicked around so much they were expected to be available any day of the week, any shift, so it was impossible for them to get second jobs without losing the part time Home Depot jobs.

A delivery dude with a semi tried to come into the lumber lot one day, even when the gal in the booth told the man his truck would not fit under the gate--- repeatedly. I heard her tell him to go around to the proper dock over and over, because I was right there doing inventory on shrubs. Dude tries to drive in anyway -- you could see he was one of those men who insist women know nothing and his lame ass knows it all -- and shears the bracing at the gate and the top of his truck, scaring the fuck out of all of us and putting us all at risk.

They fired the gal. She was crying and sought me out the day they let her go (I became the defacto counselor for a lot of the fired and mistreated workers) because she had a child to support and didn't understand why SHE got fired over that asshole truckdriver's idiocy. I saw so many people treated like shit at Home Depot, but the stores each rely on the fools who have no life, who LIVE for their Home Depot apron pins and pats on the head from the manager. As long as they have those core sycophants to piss on fires, they don't need to care about any of their other workers.

HOME DEPOT TREATS ITS WORKERS LIKE CRAP

The second way Home Depot is a scourge on humanity is the amount of crap they are dumping in our landfills. Managers don't like sales. They prefer to keep their stores full of overpriced garbage looking pristine and clean by loading their enormous trash compacters with so much waste, I would sometimes go home at night and cry about it. It was that bad.

They could have donated items, but no. I regularly had to stuff a dozen whole trees, fifty shrubs and hundreds of flats of bedding plants in their dumpster-----and that was only ONE DAY'S LOAD. I would inevitably clog the thing and have to ask one of the Home Depot employees to help me make it churn again. You have no idea how much other stuff was in there: cabinets, plumbing, tools, etc. If you multiply all of the stores times that level of waste, there is no question that Home Depot is using the US as its personal landfill. It is DISGUSTING and should be a CRIMINAL ACT.

Bernie Marcus is a wrinkled up waste of a heartbeat. His company is a sham, a show, and their screws and other hardware are SHIT. Go to a farm store to buy hardware and stop supporting those Big Box moguls. You'll get fasteners and bolts that actually work from a farm store or smaller hardware store.

Home Depot DOES NOT provide good jobs, good service or decent products. Home Depot DOES destroy people's hope AND heavily pollutes the United States of America.

Anyone who takes advice from Bernie Marcus is as much of an evil (but nonetheless doddering fool) as he is. He Knows NOTHING about what is best for this nation or its people, and the company he founded --HOME DEPOT -- only USES PEOPLE and DUMPS ENDLESS TRASH IN OUR LANDFILLS.

[TexasTowelie]

41. You're welcome.

I hope that I will never find the need to go there for supplies or employment.

[Tsiyu]

63. We do what we have to do sometimes

but yes, we should all hope we can completely avoid the evil companies that exist.

Most people won't bother to "starve the beast" but I don't think Marcus' comments are going to increase sales.


Have a great evening, TT

[Zambero]

35. Agent Orange weighs in

It's mo secret that Home Depot has more than one tool in the shed. I choose to shop at Lowes, even though it's a few more miles distant.

[mcar]

36. Another reason to not shop there

[Runningdawg]

37. Home Depot

and the contractors who shop there should all be voting Hillary. They can't take a chance Trump will win and deport their cheap labor force that forms outside every morning.

[oioioi]

38. Home Depot Customer Service 1 [phone]

[maveric56]

39. As opposed to going up in flames...

If drumpf is elected?

[tandem5]

40. anybody else want to join me in tweeting to home depot:

"Ace is the place with the helpful hardware folks!"

[Different Drummer]

46. Thanks for the suggestion! I just tweeted them. n/t

[Warren DeMontague]

43. Alternative hardware store for me, from now on.

[LaydeeBug]

45. I shop at Lowe's.

just because of that asshole

[nolabels]

50. Just imagine if some entrepreneur got a good idea and started a new kind of store...........

Some kind of do-it-yourself hardware+ kind of store that catered to and had smart people like us in mind

[LaydeeBug]

57. :) nt

[Egnever]

68. Sadly lowes is no better.

I did the same for a long time then I found this out.

https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/pacgot.php?cycle=2016&cmte=C00251751

Total Contributions from this PAC to federal candidates
(15% to Democrats, 85% to Republicans)

Now I hate them both. Sadly there is no viable alternative near me.

[WinkyDink]

51. Can I still shop there if all I want are some deplorables? Home Depot is having a fire sale!

[onecaliberal]

54. Thank goodness I don't shop at Home Deplorables.

[napi21]

58. That guy is from here in Ga. He's just an example of the RW hate of all Dems.

I admit to shopping at HD quite a bit because it's 5 mins. from my house, and I've never had any problem with any of the employees or HD's policies. Since he's being such a shit now, I may have to change to shopping somewhere else.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

64. It's definitely a culture of dem hate in HD upper management.

This bs sounded familiar so I looked up the guy who said people who vote for Dems should be shot.

That was former HD CEO Nardelli. Obviously the good old boys have to hate Dems to get that high at HD.

And they were all buddy buddy with Jack Welch.

[Adrahil]

59. Remember in 1993....

when the Repugs were saying Clinton's tax increases would cause a depression, or when in 202, they were predicting $6 gas?

These fuckers are NEVER right.

[Kyblue1]

60. Boycott Home Depot

This is the same wing nut who said he would withhold contributions to the Catholic Church because the new Pope cared too much for the poor.

[Old and In the Way]

62. Obviously, this guy doesn't understand macro-economics.

He has obviously suceeded, in spite of his personal political ideology. His business, in particular, would benefit from tax policies that reduce or eliminate taxes on the middle and lower economic classes. If a 100MM peple had an extra 2-5000 dollars in decretionary spending dollars, they will use it in places like Home Depot. And with small contractors who will also spend their money in his store. Cutting taxes for the wealthiest will mostly go to foreign investment in higher growth countries..a net loss to our economy. Sure, he'd pay more taxes...but if your net income grows 10x, why would you care? He is not a very astute commentator on social-economic policies.

[Todays_Illusion]

65. Hillary is going to have to wait her turn, President Obama still has 3.5 Months to deliver

the Armageddon the conservatives promised 7.5 years ago. He didn't achieve it in 4 years so they gave him another four. . /S

[AgadorSparticus]

66. I have always gone to Lowe's. Now I feel better about it.

Besides, Lowe's has better gardening stuff....

[Egnever]

67. In other words

I don't know shit.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

69. I look forward to the "America Going Down the Drain Sale". Big discounts. nt

[ProfessorGAC]

70. That's What Guys Like Him Said in 1992 and 2008

They were wrong then. They're wrong now.

[DFW]

71. He got everything right except for one minor detail

Substitute the name "Donald Trump" for "Hillary Clinton," and his statement will be 100% accurate.

If the guy's giving interviews on Neil Cavuto, you can't expect him to get every detail correct.

[jmowreader]

74. Home Depot can be the cheapest bastards in the known universe

True story: the air conditioner in the Home Depot I was working in decided to fail so completely it couldn't be fixed. In the middle of a North Carolina summer. Corporate decided not to replace it. (Do not ask me why they put ONE air conditioner on an 80,000 square foot building with 28-foot ceilings, but they did.)

Our sales dropped 20 percent because no one wanted to shop in our store in the heat of the day. Corporate cut employee hours to compensate for the decreased sales...and didn't replace the air conditioner.

Twenty-five employees resigned and got jobs at Lowe's because they couldn't work in an oven any longer. We got the hours back, but they didn't hire anyone new and they didn't replace the air conditioner.

Then a grandfather died - no shit, he dropped fucking dead - in the middle of the lighting aisle from a combination of no AC and 12,000 watts worth of incandescent lighting, and his family sued the company. Only then did they replace the air conditioner.

[Kathy M]

75. We do not shop at Home Depot .

New Ace opened about a year ago close to us or we have shopped at Lowes

[kimbutgar]

76. I stopped going to home depot that said, if things are so bad why are they making record profits

Under the Obama presidency?

[yuiyoshida]

77. Than Home Depot better stock some Plungers...

warugaki! わるがき 馬鹿たれ Bakatare

[bhikkhu]

78. Home Depot is a pretty good employer in my area

I can remember when they opened up here, a big hiring round and a co-worker's wife got a good job.

But then again, I never cared for big-box stores on the outskirts of town. I've been renovating an old building for years now so I'm a regular customer at a couple local lumber and hardware shops, but haven't gone out to Home Depot in ages. I like that the guys at the counter know my name and ask how whatever the current thing I'm on is going, and that the one that delivers always tries to fit me into the schedule even if its a small order. And I don't price-check, doesn't matter if I pay a little more.

Its odd how some of the richest people, as chain stores and big corporations tend to produce, can be so nuts. I'm happy to vote with my wallet.

[Sienna86]

80. And that is why I've been shopping at Lowe's for the past 5 years

Lowe's treats their employees better also.

[Warren DeMontague]

81. Let's consult an expert: