Posted on 09/17/2010 6:16:16 PM PDT by Starman417
Bernie Marcus, founder of Home Depot, laid into Obama and pals this morning on CNBC and it was a sight to behold. As Greg Hengler said:
...may have been the best defense of small business, and the most important attack on the Obama Adminsitration all year. Marcus knows a little something about small business, because his business - Home Depot - was once a small business before it became a very BIG business. Home Depot employs 320,000 people, so Mr. Marcus knows a few things about job creation.
Dead on target:
[VIDEO AT SITE]
Marcus - Now you take some of the people the President surrounded himself with, now think about it a second, they're all academics...most of them...I mean all of them, they come out of Harvard they come out of Yale. These guys are all on tenure. By the way they're all on tenure. Tenure means they get paid whether they work or not, tenure means they are on insurance for life, tenure means they don't ever have to worry about anything just because they were there for a number of years. America is not that way. America is not that way. And if the President got out of, you know, Washington, in his cloak as I talked about, and started moving around the peasants which is people like everybody else in the world except for Washington. Washington has their own insurance plan, they got their own pensions, they don't even abide by their own rules they everybody else lives by.
Here he is on the anti-business attitude of Obama and company:
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net...
OK, but, just to balance things off, HD has probably been the largest killer of small business in America for the last 25 years.
This guy was on FOX Business with Neil Cavuto earlier as well.
He said there’s no way he could start a company like Home Depot today.
Said the climate today is totally different than when he co-founded HD back in 1978.
Something about lawyer fees and taxes, etc. would make it too difficult to start a new business like HD in 2010.
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This is the same Home Depot that sponsors Gay Rights Parades that are led off by brainwashed children?
HOORAY Bernie! It’s about time ANY and ALL producers blasted these parasites out of the water...FOREVER!
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He isn’t just an out of touch academic. What Obama does is DELIBERATE. Read Dinesh D’Souza’s article to find out who Obastard is and why he is doing it. http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2010/0927/politics-socialism-capitalism-private-enterprises-obama-business-problem.html
Bernie hasn’t been affiliated with Home Depot in ten years...
It's OK. Why not let them destroy each other? Sorta like Kung Fu. Let 'em use their energy against themselves.
Maybe they are trying to win back customers?
It’s real insult to academia, btw!
1978. The good old Carter years.
Telling it like it is...
They killed off a particular type of inefficient small business which commanded premium prices for commodity items due to geographic proximity. Wal-Mart killed off another of those types.
It has to be so, otherwise those small businesses are just another political pressure group seeking a government preference to maintain their mini-monopolies.
Can you please give it a rest? Why do you think it’s incumbent to attack successful people? Are you a Democrat?
The first damn response in the thread and you had to take the opportunity to snipe at Home Depot.
This is also the same Home Depot that allows illegal aliens to harass its customers?
un hunh. Just deal with it.
Right! And gawd knows, big business monopolies are just so much more efficient!
You get an "A".
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