Posted on 11/24/2011 5:08:43 AM PST by Morgana
A west Georgia business owner’s sign that he is not hiring until President Obama leaves office is going viral, according to a local Georgia television station.
"New Company Policy: We are not hiring until Obama is gone," read the company’s signs on the side of its trucks, according to the station, 11Alive.
"Can't afford it," explained the employer, Bill Looman. "I've got people that I want to hire now, but I just can't afford it. And I don't foresee that I'll be able to afford it unless some things change in D.C."
Looman's company is U.S. Cranes, LLC. He said he put up the signs, and first posted pictures of the signs on his personal Facebook page, six months ago, and he said he received mostly positive reaction from people, "about 20-to-one positive," the station reported.
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“That Which Is Seen, and That Which Is Not Seen”
In the department of economy, an act, a habit, an institution, a law, gives birth not only to an effect, but to a series of effects. Of these effects, the first only is immediate; it manifests itself simultaneously with its cause—it is seen. The others unfold in succession—they are not seen: it is well for us if they are foreseen. Between a good and a bad economist this constitutes the whole difference—the one takes account of the visible effect; the other takes account both of the effects which are seen and also of those which it is necessary to foresee. Now this difference is enormous, for it almost always happens that when the immediate consequence is favourable, the ultimate consequences are fatal, and the converse. Hence it follows that the bad economist pursues a small present good, which will be followed by a great evil to come, while the true economist pursues a great good to come, at the risk of a small present evil.
In fact, it is the same in the science of health, arts, and in that of morals. If often happens, that the sweeter the first fruit of a habit is, the more bitter are the consequences. Take, for example, debauchery, idleness, prodigality. When, therefore, a man, absorbed in the effect which is seen, has not yet learned to discern those which are not seen, he gives way to fatal habits, not only by inclination, but by calculation.
This explains the fatally grievous condition of mankind. Ignorance surrounds its cradle: then its actions are determined by their first consequences, the only ones which, in its first stage, it can see. It is only in the long run that it learns to take account of the others. It has to learn this lesson from two very different masters—experience and foresight. Experience teaches effectually, but brutally. It makes us acquainted with all the effects of an action, by causing us to feel them; and we cannot fail to finish by knowing that fire burns, if we have burned ourselves. For this rough teacher, I should like, if possible, to substitute a more gentle one. I mean Foresight. For this purpose I shall examine the consequences of certain economical phenomena, by placing in opposition to each other those which are seen, and those which are not seen.
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The Chinese have a parallel in an old proverb that states:
Today's Problems were often yesterday's solutions.
I listened to my seventy two year old neighbor crying about how hard he has to work to pay taxes, keep the large home, large car(s), etc., and how he is worried about how he is going to make it when he is ninety. Yep, both he and his wife voted for the Marxist rabble that occupy the White House.
Meanwhile, I am cruising on my side of the street in early retirement,working a growing ministry, baking my own bread, eating from my own garden( including an abundant crop of pecans this year), driving my older(paid for)Volvos, fishing frequently in my older(paid for)boat, and hunting when the freezer level drops enough to put another deer or a hog in.
My wife and I have talked about the possibility of either starting another business, or managing one if the economic climate changes, but right now we are content to live the life of beach bums while the leftists whine.
Happy Thanksgiving from the Blessed at the Beach!
Kinda ticks me off that Perry was telling everyone that if they voted for him that all the jobs would be in Texas.
Problem is he forgets about the rest of America.
Frankly I think this is to date the most taunting of a message to spread around against Obama. It especially targets everyone. And the liberal elite groups with Phds, MBA and all their degrees or the ones just out of very expensive schools are finding that non credited people are actually having a better chance of getting work because they are more diverse in skills.
this is the de facto policy of a good many companies...whether publicly stated or not....
Bold public move that more companies should emulate
Being hassled by the govt sucks whether there is anything to be found or not. As to your last sentence does Joe the Plumber ring a bell? Hows about the guy that asked Clintoon in a public forum to name any country that had taxed itself to prosperity.
He has landed a few new customers already because of his gutsy stand!
Originally published in "The Life of Colonel David Crockett," by Edward Sylvester Ellis.
One day in the House of Representatives a bill was taken up appropriating money for the benefit of a widow of a distinguished naval officer. Several beautiful speeches had been made in its support. The Speaker was just about to put the question when Crockett arose:
"Mr. Speaker--I have as much respect for the memory of the deceased, and as much sympathy for the sufferings of the living, if suffering there be, as any man in this House, but we must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for a part of the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living. I will not go into an argument to prove that Congress has not the power to appropriate this money as an act of charity. Every member upon this floor knows it. We have the right, as individuals, to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right so to appropriate a dollar of the public money. Some eloquent appeals have been made to us upon the ground that it is a debt due the deceased. Mr. Speaker, the deceased lived long after the close of the war; he was in office to the day of his death, and I have never heard that the government was in arrears to him.
"Every man in this House knows it is not a debt. We cannot, without the grossest corruption, appropriate this money as the payment of a debt. We have not the semblance of authority to appropriate it as charity. Mr. Speaker, I have said we have the right to give as much money of our own as we please. I am the poorest man on this floor. I cannot vote for this bill, but I will give one week's pay to the object, and if every member of Congress will do the same, it will amount to more than the bill asks."
He took his seat. Nobody replied. The bill was put upon its passage, and, instead of passing unanimously, as was generally supposed, and as, no doubt, it would, but for that speech, it received but few votes, and, of course, was lost.
Later, when asked by a friend why he had opposed the appropriation, Crockett gave this explanation:
"Several years ago I was one evening standing on the steps of the Capitol with some other members of Congress, when our attention was attracted by a great light over in Georgetown. It was evidently a large fire. We jumped into a hack and drove over as fast as we could. In spite of all that could be done, many houses were burned and many families made houseless, and, besides, some of them had lost all but the clothes they had on. The weather was very cold, and when I saw so many women and children suffering, I felt that something ought to be done for them. The next morning a bill was introduced appropriating $20,000 for their relief. We put aside all other business and rushed it through as soon as it could be done.
"The next summer, when it began to be time to think about election, I concluded I would take a scout around among the boys of my district. I had no opposition there, but, as the election was some time off, I did not know what might turn up. When riding one day in a part of my district in which I was more of a stranger than any other, I saw a man in a field plowing and coming toward the road. I gauged my gait so that we should meet as he came to the fence. As he came up, I spoke to the man. He replied politely, but, as I thought, rather coldly.
"I began: 'Well, friend, I am one of those unfortunate beings called candidates, and---‘
"Yes I know you; you are Colonel Crockett. I have seen you once before, and voted for you the last time you were elected. I suppose you are out electioneering now, but you had better not waste your time or mine, I shall not vote for you again."
"This was a sockdolager...I begged him to tell me what was the matter.
" ’Well, Colonel, it is hardly worth-while to waste time or words upon it. I do not see how it can be mended, but you gave a vote last winter which shows that either you have not capacity to understand the Constitution, or that you are wanting in the honesty and firmness to be guided by it. In either case you are not the man to represent me. But I beg your pardon for expressing it in that way. I did not intend to avail myself of the privilege of the constituent to speak plainly to a candidate for the purpose of insulting or wounding you. I intend by it only to say that your understanding of the Constitution is very different from mine; and I will say to you what, but for my rudeness, I should not have said, that I believe you to be honest.
…But an understanding of the Constitution different from mine I cannot overlook, because the Constitution, to be worth anything, must be held sacred, and rigidly observed in all its provisions. The man who wields power and misinterprets it is the more dangerous the more honest he is.'
" 'I admit the truth of all you say, but there must be some mistake about it, for I do not remember that I gave any vote last winter upon any constitutional question.’
“ ‘No, Colonel, there’s no mistake. Though I live in the backwoods and seldom go from home, I take the papers from Washington and read very carefully all the proceedings of Congress. My papers say that last winter you voted for a bill to appropriate $20,000 to some sufferers by a fire in Georgetown. Is that true?’
" ‘Well, my friend; I may as well own up. You have got me there. But certainly nobody will complain that a great and rich country like ours should give the insignificant sum of $20,000 to relieve its suffering women and children, particularly with a full and overflowing Treasury, and I am sure, if you had been there, you would have done just as I did.'
" ‘It is not the amount, Colonel, that I complain of; it is the principle. In the first place, the government ought to have in the Treasury no more than enough for its legitimate purposes. But that has nothing with the question. The power of collecting and disbursing money at pleasure is the most dangerous power that can be entrusted to man, particularly under our system of collecting revenue by a tariff, which reaches every man in the country, no matter how poor he may be, and the poorer he is the more he pays in proportion to his means. What is worse, it presses upon him without his knowledge where the weight centers, for there is not a man in the United States who can ever guess how much he pays to the government. So you see, that while you are contributing to relieve one, you are drawing it from thousands who are even worse off than he. If you had the right to give anything, the amount was simply a matter of discretion with you, and you had as much right to give $20,000,000 as $20,000. If you have the right to give to one, you have the right to give to all; and, as the Constitution neither defines charity nor stipulates the amount, you are at liberty to give to any and everything which you may believe, or profess to believe, is a charity, and to any amount you may think proper. You will very easily perceive what a wide door this would open for fraud and corruption and favoritism, on the one hand, and for robbing the people on the other. 'No, Colonel, Congress has no right to give charity. Individual members may give as much of their own money as they please, but they have no right to touch a dollar of the public money for that purpose. If twice as many houses had been burned in this county as in Georgetown, neither you nor any other member of Congress would have thought of appropriating a dollar for our relief. There are about two hundred and forty members of Congress. If they had shown their sympathy for the sufferers by contributing each one week's pay, it would have made over $13,000. There are plenty of wealthy men in and around Washington who could have given $20,000 without depriving themselves of even a luxury of life.' "The congressmen chose to keep their own money, which, if reports be true, some of them spend not very creditably; and the people about Washington, no doubt, applauded you for relieving them from the necessity of giving by giving what was not yours to give. The people have delegated to Congress, by the Constitution, the power to do certain things. To do these, it is authorized to collect and pay moneys, and for nothing else. Everything beyond this is usurpation, and a violation of the Constitution.'
" 'So you see, Colonel, you have violated the Constitution in what I consider a vital point. It is a precedent fraught with danger to the country, for when Congress once begins to stretch its power beyond the limits of the Constitution, there is no limit to it, and no security for the people. I have no doubt you acted honestly, but that does not make it any better, except as far as you are personally concerned, and you see that I cannot vote for you.'
"I tell you I felt streaked. I saw if I should have opposition, and this man should go to talking, he would set others to talking, and in that district I was a gone fawn-skin. I could not answer him, and the fact is, I was so fully convinced that he was right, I did not want to. But I must satisfy him, and I said to him:
" ‘Well, my friend, you hit the nail upon the head when you said I had not sense enough to understand the Constitution. I intended to be guided by it, and thought I had studied it fully. I have heard many speeches in Congress about the powers of Congress, but what you have said here at your plow has got more hard, sound sense in it than all the fine speeches I ever heard. If I had ever taken the view of it that you have, I would have put my head into the fire before I would have given that vote; and if you will forgive me and vote for me again, if I ever vote for another unconstitutional law I wish I may be shot.'
"He laughingly replied; 'Yes, Colonel, you have sworn to that once before, but I will trust you again upon one condition. You say that you are convinced that your vote was wrong. Your acknowledgment of it will do more good than beating you for it. If, as you go around the district, you will tell people about this vote, and that you are satisfied it was wrong, I will not only vote for you, but will do what I can to keep down opposition, and, perhaps, I may exert some little influence in that way.'
" ‘If I don't’, said I, 'I wish I may be shot; and to convince you that I am in earnest in what I say I will come back this way in a week or ten days, and if you will get up a gathering of the people, I will make a speech to them. Get up a barbecue, and I will pay for it.'
" ‘No, Colonel, we are not rich people in this section, but we have plenty of provisions to contribute for a barbecue, and some to spare for those who have none. The push of crops will be over in a few days, and we can then afford a day for a barbecue. This is Thursday; I will see to getting it up on Saturday week. Come to my house on Friday, and we will go together, and I promise you a very respectable crowd to see and hear you.’
" 'Well, I will be here. But one thing more before I say good-bye. I must know your name.’
" 'My name is Bunce.'
" 'Not Horatio Bunce?'
" 'Yes.’ " 'Well, Mr. Bunce, I never saw you before, though you say you have seen me, but I know you very well. I am glad I have met you, and very proud that I may hope to have you for my friend.'
"It was one of the luckiest hits of my life that I met him. He mingled but little with the public, but was widely known for his remarkable intelligence and incorruptible integrity, and for a heart brimful and running over with kindness and benevolence, which showed themselves not only in words but in acts. He was the oracle of the whole country around him, and his fame had extended far beyond the circle of his immediate acquaintance. Though I had never met him, before, I had heard much of him, and but for this meeting it is very likely I should have had opposition, and had been beaten. One thing is very certain, no man could now stand up in that district under such a vote.
"At the appointed time I was at his house, having told our conversation to every crowd I had met, and to every man I stayed all night with, and I found that it gave the people an interest and a confidence in me stronger than I had ever seen manifested before.
"Though I was considerably fatigued when I reached his house, and, under ordinary circumstances, should have gone early to bed, I kept him up until midnight, talking about the principles and affairs of government, and got more real, true knowledge of them than I had got all my life before.
"I have known and seen much of him since, for I respect him - no, that is not the word - I reverence and love him more than any living man, and I go to see him two or three times every year; and I will tell you, sir, if every one who professes to be a Christian lived and acted and enjoyed it as he does, the religion of Christ would take the world by storm.
"But to return to my story. The next morning we went to the barbecue, and, to my surprise, found about a thousand men there. I met a good many whom I had not known before, and they and my friend introduced me around until I had got pretty well acquainted - at least, they all knew me.
"In due time notice was given that I would speak to them. They gathered up around a stand that had been erected. I opened my speech by saying:
" ‘Fellow-citizens - I present myself before you today feeling like a new man. My eyes have lately been opened to truths which ignorance or prejudice, or both, had heretofore hidden from my view. I feel that I can today offer you the ability to render you more valuable service than I have ever been able to render before. I am here today more for the purpose of acknowledging my error than to seek your votes. That I should make this acknowledgment is due to myself as well as to you. Whether you will vote for me is a matter for your consideration only.’"
"I went on to tell them about the fire and my vote for the appropriation and then told them why I was satisfied it was wrong. I closed by saying:
" ‘And now, fellow-citizens, it remains only for me to tell you that the most of the speech you have listened to with so much interest was simply a repetition of the arguments by which your neighbor, Mr. Bunce, convinced me of my error.
" ‘It is the best speech I ever made in my life, but he is entitled to the credit for it. And now I hope he is satisfied with his convert and that he will get up here and tell you so.'
"He came upon the stand and said:
" ‘Fellow-citizens - It affords me great pleasure to comply with the request of Colonel Crockett. I have always considered him a thoroughly honest man, and I am satisfied that he will faithfully perform all that he has promised you today.'
"He went down, and there went up from that crowd such a shout for Davy Crockett as his name never called forth before.'
"I am not much given to tears, but I was taken with a choking then and felt some big drops rolling down my cheeks. And I tell you now that the remembrance of those few words spoken by such a man, and the honest, hearty shout they produced, is worth more to me than all the honors I have received and all the reputation I have ever made, or ever shall make, as a member of Congress.'
"Now, sir," concluded Crockett, "you know why I made that speech yesterday.
"There is one thing now to which I will call your attention. You remember that I proposed to give a week's pay. There are in that House many very wealthy men - men who think nothing of spending a week's pay, or a dozen of them, for a dinner or a wine party when they have something to accomplish by it. Some of those same men made beautiful speeches upon the great debt of gratitude which the country owed the deceased--a debt which could not be paid by money--and the insignificance and worthlessness of money, particularly so insignificant a sum as $10,000, when weighed against the honor of the nation. Yet not one of them responded to my proposition. Money with them is nothing but trash when it is to come out of the people. But it is the one great thing for which most of them are striving, and many of them sacrifice honor, integrity, and justice to obtain it."
So, you think even the threat of being IRSed should be sufficient to silence patriotic and honest Americans?
Did you know that only about 40% of the colonial population participated in the fight against England? Something like 40% of the colonial population actively or inactively supported England. Then there was the 20% who took no side at all. Some of them were just apathetic bumps on a log, I’m sure. And then some there were those who thought it would be safer just to sit things out. Which of those two groups most describes you?
Obama was, is, and will always be Obama. His election was far more the result of GOP action and inaction. If we had had a conservative (compassionate my arse) President and a conservative House and Senate, when we held them, and had nominated someone who had not dropped a deuce in our cheerios, we would not have an Obama problem
I now that. They should advertise that fact like the fellow in Georgia. Make it hard for demrat voters to ignore.
I now that. They should advertise that fact like the fellow in Georgia. Make it hard for demrat voters to ignore.
I now that. They should advertise that fact like the fellow in Georgia. Make it hard for demrat voters to ignore.
Are you a complete a$$hole or what? I simply stated he made a bad move in that he was going to bring heat on himself. I didn’t state he shouldn’t have done it. In otherwords, a$$hole, I was merely stating facts.
You pop off like a typical mouthy, done nothing, asshat, keyboard commando with your blowhard bluster. We’ll see who stands in the gap when the SHTF. I know you’ll ne nowhere in sight.
“I know of a fellow in Virginia that was upset about the direction Obama, if elected, would take the economy and his rather large business. In 2008, he walked thru his parking lot and wrote down all the cars that had pro-Zero bumper stickers on them. Two years later, as Bam’s policies forced lay-offs, the first ones fired were the owners of those cars. Karma is heck!”
We know of a few small business owners, who did the same thing. This has enabled them to stay afloat. Most of them said their companies were better off without the Obozo voters. The Obozo Voters had terrible work habits and oozed negativity when they were supposedly working.
One fellow in real estate development, laid off 4 Obozoers the day Obozo was sworn in. He said that action enabled him to stay open for an extra year. The money he saved on salaries and benefits are now supporting him in his retirement.
You are assuming that sales remain the same. They haven't. I'm down to one truck and one employee (plus me) from eight guys and three trucks. Customers aren't spending money because no one knows what zero is going to destroy next.
“non credited people are actually having a better chance of getting work because they are more diverse in skills.”
People without degrees also tend to be a lot more interested in working than turning the business into their own personal social experimentation playground.
He has already had the FBI and Secret Service sicced on him according to published reports. Maybe now the IRS wants to take him on. Only in an evolving socialist America you are doomed for speaking your mind or the truth in this case. Obama is a fatal cancer on this nation.
“Frankly I think this is to date the most taunting of a message to spread around against Obama. It especially targets everyone. And the liberal elite groups with Phds, MBA and all their degrees or the ones just out of very expensive schools are finding that non credited people are actually having a better chance of getting work because they are more diverse in skills.”
One of our younger relatives has a good but hard working job in an ag business. They work in a self standing plant under a big corporation.
They had an over educated A$$hole or WAP* supposedly doing technical work, crop analysis and other supposedly scientific work. WAP was a very negative person and felt that the world owed it a big salary just to be around.
They finally got rid of WAP just before harvest. WAP felt that IT wasn’t respected and quit just before harvest. WAP’S plan was, by quiting before harvest, was to really $crew our relative and his boss during the intensive harvest and work right after harvest.
Our relative and his boss not only did their jobs, but they did WAP’S job. They found an incredible amount fake work on WAP’S computer, a lot of time on the internet searching for jobs and non work related items. Inspite of a so called masters degree associated with their work, WAP knew nothing about how the real world in their industry worked. WAP was all theory, big hat and no desire/ability to work.
So they did their jobs and WAP’S during harvest without the daily bs from it.
So our relative and his boss have proposed that the big company eliminate WAP’S position, and then divide WAP’S salary basically between our relative and his boss. About 20% will go to increase the salary for one of their hard working guys and to give him a promotion.
The big company has excellent health, dental, sick leave and retirement benefits. So they are saving a bundle not paying for the benefits the worthless one got. If this works out, and it should, the big company will be looking at the other hi ed drones in the same position the former worthless one held. The reality of this so called career, the WAP had was there was some reasonably heavy data entry during and right after harvest. With the money saved, they can hire temps to do the seasonal data entry work during and right after harvest.
WAP’S prestigious degree was not needed and worthless in the real world. That was probably why WAP became a back stabbing and worthless employee in a few weeks after being hired.
WAP was fired after about a month in its new job. WAP’s miserable work habits and negative behavior was too much for its new bosses.
WAP = Worthless A$$hole Person
A term that gets the message across to people wanting donations to a "charity" that I have no interest in giving to their cause.
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