[catnipman]

“I do not see any chance for improvement till the leadership is replaced.”

Indeed. No one in their right mind is going to invest in U.S. economic growth as long as Marxists are in charge of the economy.

It makes no sense to take additional risks to try to increase profits if those profits are going to be stolen by Obama and “redistributed”, whether such redistribution occurs via Obamacare, increased taxes, increased regulation, deliberately increased increasing energy prices, deliberate destruction of the currency via insane inflationary policies, or deliberate destruction of the Constitution by ignoring it.

That’s the real reason our economy is in the crapper, and everyone is “Going Galt” in every which way they can figure out how to until things change.

U.S. economic growth will explode as soon as Obama is gone and his successor abolishes all of the job-killing programs, Obamacare, uncertainty, taxes, and regulations he promulgated.

[TomGuy]

That’s the real reason our economy is in the crapper, and everyone is “Going Galt” in every which way they can figure out how to until things change.

Large corporations can and are moving things outside the US.

Small companies don't have that luxury. Yet, when the turnaround does come, it will be from those small companies hiring that will cause much of the 'local' growth.

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In the mid-80s recession, some at the company of 300 employees tried to get unionized. Union agitators from out-of-state came in and did their bullying.

One day, I happened by searching through documentation in the Contracts Office (part of my job), and I saw a memo from the foreign parent company to our company president. Basically, the memo said -- If they vote the union in, close the plant down. [Few employees at the plant knew that was in the cards.] They did, however, vote down unionizing by a small margin.