OK, Explain this to me Like I’m a Complete Idiot, Part VII:

[HughBeaumont]

So today, Candidate Jesus Eyes was on (RN)CNBC today, and she said something that I found intriguing.

Yes, you read that right. Michelle Bachmann said something . . . intriguing.

“Intriguing” in the sense that I’m . . . stunned. And I need it explained to me as if I’m a four year old.

She said, fellow readers, and I’m paraphrasing, that “Clearly, Business Owners are paralyzed with fear thanks to this Administration’s policies.”

Earlier, Governor Failey Barbour was on CNBC, stating about the same thing . . . that there’s “too much uncertainty among business owners thanks to this Administration’s policies.”

There’s that little clincher again . . . "this Administration’s policies". I hear it an awful lot in regards to why this economy isn’t recovering and how it seems to be a standard “go to” so as not to place any speck of blame for this debacle on the “job creators” (snicker).

To which I ask these brain surgeon politicians on the slime side of the aisle – WHAT CHANGED?

Seriously, logically explain to me WHAT CHANGED in 10 years.

Have any taxes been raised on any rich person, any “job creator” (snicker)?

Have any breaks been taken away? Any perks been rescinded?

Are corporations making less profit? Is productivity down? Are CEOs making less?

Has there been a WPA enacted to cause them in any way to be scared of “dat creepin’ soshulism”??

Has Universal Health Care been enacted to take away even a cent of their enormous profits?

Has a giant wave of “yewnyunsim” swept the country, causing them to dole out more in precious wages and worker benefits?

Speaking of which, have wages risen in real dollars since 1979?

Has life for the “job creators” been made even an atom-bit less comfortable under this administration?

What has changed? There’s been just a little more than zero job growth in 10 years, with most of the positive numbers coming during Democratic administrations. Yet they keep prattling on and on and on as if Obama was like the second coming of Eugene V. Debs or something (if ONLY).

Explain this to me Like I’m a Complete Idiot: What does ANY Business Owner REALLY Have to Be Uncertain About other than the fact customers aren’t coming through the door because you won’t HIRE or PAY them better? If nothing has changed in 10 years, WHAT’S their problem?

Or could it simply be the unspoken truisms that A) Corporate Owners really, really, REALLY hate Democrats (or at least their idea of how they are) and B) Corporate Owners are steadfastly refusing to blame themselves/hold themselves accountable in ANY way for their blatant and willfull destruction of this economy?

[locahungaria]

1. Sorry, I have no explanation.....

other than these freakazoids seem to suffer from extremely selective amnesia.....which party started these "good times a rollin' "?

If they had half a brain, they'd be worshiping Mr. Obama rather than burying him.

:banghead:

[asjr]

2. They all majored in BS at the same school. They use

the phrase about this administration because they think it will work. If any one of them came out and said it is all Repubs fault I would keel over.

[global1]

4. It Is All The Repugs Fault.........

Start with Reagan. Then Bush 1 and Bush 2. Now left with the mess that they created Obama is getting zero cooperation out of the Repugs to climb out of this mess. The Repugs are doing what they do best and that is to turn things upside down to make it look like the other side is at fault. The unfortunate thing is that the MSM always goes along with their lies and never challenges them and they continually get away with it.

[freshwest]

3. You're correct on every point. 'A lie repeated often enough becomes the truth,' and they know it.

[HughBeaumont]

5. You know what else is funny?

On the very same station that I got this material from . . . CNBC . . . they just had a graphic of a key piece of the crapola job numbers this year - 11 straight months of government job losses.

This is interesting because, as we all know, the Norquistites in the Repub party want to get government small enough to drown it in a bathtub, right?

321 thousand government jobs have been lost in 11 months. Stay with me now . . .

Of those 321, 306k are STATE AND LOCAL jobs.

What happened in November?

Anyone?

Anyone?

Uh, yeah, the WAVE OF FASCIST JOB-CUTTIN', DEPARTMENT-SLASHIN' REPUBLIGOVS, THAT'S WHAT!!!

So shouldn't the Repigs be PRAISING these job numbers, since one of their goals has been achieved?

And shouldn't the Repigs heads be exploding, since this represents a shrinking of "gub-mint" . . . under a Democratic President?????

[Gold Metal Flake]

6. I fuckin' love your posts, man.

Keep it up!

:toast:

[ieoeja]

7. This administration's tax policy *has* created uncertainty.

They extended the tax holiday two years. That means taxes go up in two years. Unless they extend it again. Or enact a permanent tax cut.

Had they not extended the holiday, it would be business as usual. But for now business is still dancing around that.

Computer infrastructure getting old? Postpone the upgrade until the holiday ends! Otherwise, a higher percentage of the expense will come out of the owners' pockets rather than out of the government's pocket (you will, after all, write off the expense which is what makes the "higher taxes means investors have less money to invest" the stupidest political argument ever).

$10,000,000 upgrade
2011 - $9,000,000 post-tax + $1,000,000 pre-tax at 10% tax rate
2013 - $8,500,000 post-tax + $1,500,000 pre-tax at 15% tax rate


So she is right. But only because Obama sided with Republicans on this issue.

[HughBeaumont]

8. Willfull KICK

:kick:

[librechik]

9. answer? No, nothing has changed

except for the share of our nation's wealth which has seeped inexplicably from the middle class to the wealthiest. That's been a very big change.