Female Small Business Owner Forced to Fire 800 Employees, Says She'll Fold If Obama Reelected

Rush Limbaugh.com ^ | June 18, 2012 | Rush Limbaugh

[Pelham]

I’ll bet a lot of those 800 laid off construction workers are vacationing back home in Mexico. Or they’re collecting welfare via an anchor baby. There hasn’t been a large non-union residential construction firm in SoCal hiring Americans in decades. Custom builders, small shops, remodel firms, they hire Americans.

The drywall trade in SoCal was a classic example. In the ‘70s it employed a lot of blacks. It was unionized and provided a decent living. But the builders broke that union by hiring illegals for about a third less. The illegals could afford the lower pay by living 20 to an apartment, saving their money to take back to Mexico. Payback came some years later when the illegals threatened to strike and drove drywall costs back up.

[Ciexyz]

There is also the problem of bankruptcies, businesses just folding and not paying you for services performed.

[1FreeAmerican]

TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN!!

[LibLieSlayer]

No, it isn't... it is stupid not to expect his pledged “Replacement” of obamacare to closely resemble romneycare... and that will do nothing to reduce the size of government or reduce the deficit... it will grow it just like obamacare. It is stupid to think that romney will cut off the EU or not embrace QE thus reducing the value of the dollar. The EU is going down and every American dollar wasted in supporting them is money thrown away but we still have to pay the loan off.

You are delusional to think that mitt will make the changes necessary to save our economy... he will just prolong the agony of the fall of our economy. One has to look at his record in office as governor... for that is what he will do as president. I do not think you will have to worry about mitt winning after his embracing the kenyan’s unconstitutional power grab through Amnesty. mitt told fox news yesterday that he would not pledge to get rid of obama’s amnesty plan... and those millions of jobs will cost our economy more $$$$ and rob jobs from tax paying American citizens. That is twice now that mitt has shunned Conservative ideology and agreed with obama... and it will not be the last time either. mitt must be defeated at the convention by whatever means necessary. mitt may not be obama but he will drive the car to the same destination... he may take a longer and different road... but failure is the address we will arrive at.

LLS

[familyop]

"Half the people in this country pay taxes to feed the other half that are too lazy and stupid to feed themselves."

Some truth there, but many of those paying taxes are also producing nothing of value. They are getting their incomes from debt/revenues (or rely on government-employed customers) and are pushing for more socialist policies (political class regulators and educators).

Sell to the Chinese, IMO. We need an economic housecleaning. And I'm poor for the time being, BTW (saving and building), but hard working, not lazy and not on any kind of welfare. I'll be fine, and so will many others who appear to be poor while being technically inclined. Do it.

Let's show 'em what a real technocracy is (not socialism but a nation run by the truly productive--the physically technically inclined).

[Carry_Okie]

The key here is that Obama insisted that every job that got stimulus money to assist had to be a union job, be it a bureaucrat in a state government office or on a construction job, so you didn't get a penny because you aren't union.

And of course the Federal government has the power to make such a distinction pursuant to the equal protection clause.

Oh, wait....

And I'll bet nobody sued.

[freedomfiter2]

800 employees doesn’t qualify as a small business. That said, there’s a lot of businesses that will go down if the imposter is reelected. Probably mine included.

[Kaslin]

Depends on the size of the town where the business is located, but if you paid attention she is down to 200 employees

[LibLieSlayer]

Yes, I have never worked harder in my life and had less. obamao has destroyed a lifetime of work and savings. I will never forget. I only hope that we survive and hold him accountable by law for what he has done. He deserves justice from a Jury of 12.

LLS

[bohica1]

I have sympathy for ALL the business owners in this economy. I know first hand how government regs have destroyed small business. Right now we have 3 generations living in my house! My daughter lost her small business, and my father in law cant make it on his retirement and ss checks due to increased utilites, food, rents, medical, etc. This country is in such a sad state......God help us if obozo gets reelected. Oh and btw, none of us qualify for ANY of the free handouts the gov likes to give away.

[DH]

Back during the 1982 old depression in South Texas I experienced the same thing. My employees never missed a payday but the electric company was turning my home power on and off and there were times that I was completely out of cash to buy anything for myself.

You have to go through it to even realize the hardships that a small business owner can experience with a downturn of the economy. Eventually I had exhausted all of my savings just to make payroll. Eventually, the bankruptcy filings from my customers forced me to lay off all workers and I had to bring the business back to prosperity by myself. Now, years later, I prosper but EXTREMELY cautious in hiring more new employees or buying new equipment due to the uncertain future to come.

The lessons learned in 1982 guide my daily personal and business life to this day and will into the future.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

This was all for long time ago.

Now the next election is here. Hold on for a bit longer.

If Romney wins, then this will turn around. Bigtime.

[listenhillary]

You seem to hate businesses, banks and private industry in general. What is your preferred government run economic system? Monarchy? Dictator? Fascism?

[Balding_Eagle]

I heard that woman call in.

The first thing I thought of was that any Liberals, and Obama himself (if he was listening) were besides themselves with glee. Their policies are working, and, given the chance, they’ll double down.

[Rennes Templar]

“mitt must be defeated at the convention by whatever means necessary.’

Our priority is to get Obama out of office, win congress, then work with Romney as best we can. Any other efforts are futile delusions.

[LibLieSlayer]

We just disagree. There will be little change for the good under romney. NOTHING that he has ever done in his past as governor or in the way he is campaigning today... points to any ideological core that will save us. Like I said... mitt will get us to Destruction Avenue... a bit slower and by a slightly differing route.

LLS

[Kickass Conservative]

Yep, my Wife lost her Job the end of April.

COBRA for the two of us is $1300 a month.

Tapping the Retirement Funds while I type this. Thank goodness I followed the Golden Rule, save for a rainy day or an Obama Presidency.

[Rennes Templar]

I’m probably more in agreement with you after seeing this today...

http://images.politico.com/global/2012/06/120618_kissinger_flier.pdf

[Sequoyah101]

I just keep pulling out my copy of “IF” by Kipling.

Good luck to us all. We are getting older and more tired. Somedays I don’t know if I have enough energy to pull another rabbit out of the hat.

We really have no choice do we? We just have to keep going until we can’t anymore or we finally succeed.

yahoo my friend.

[Pelham]

“You seem to hate businesses, banks and private industry in general.”

Hardly. You need to stick to commenting on posts that you are capable of understanding, which obviously doesn’t include what I write.