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We Are Witnessing The Death Of Small Business In America
TEC ^ | 12/16/2012 | Michael Snyder

Posted on 12/16/2012 3:59:31 PM PST by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 12/16/2012 3:59:36 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

More like “Murder”.


2 posted on 12/16/2012 4:01:35 PM PST by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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And small business keeps voting for this.

So what do you want me to say?


3 posted on 12/16/2012 4:11:38 PM PST by Tzimisce (What do you do when every every branch of the government is corrupt and aligned against you?)
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To: SeekAndFind

Secondly, the balance of power in our nation needs to be dramatically shifted. Conservatives run around talking about the need to reduce the power of government and liberals run around talking about the need to reduce the power of corporations, and actually both of them are right.

Big government and big corporations are big buddies.


4 posted on 12/16/2012 4:13:46 PM PST by freedomfiter2 (Brutal acts of commission and yawning acts of omission both strengthen the hand of the devil.)
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RE: And small business keeps voting for this.

How do you know this?


5 posted on 12/16/2012 4:16:34 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

I was watching a special about how Cuba is getting “New Freedoms” like being able to own a cell phone or applying to get a biz license. Makes me wonder if in the future an Amercian Citizen wants to open a restaurant will they have to plead before one of Obama’s panels to get one?


6 posted on 12/16/2012 4:18:15 PM PST by jakerobins
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To: Tzimisce

Small business is the most Republican sector of all.


7 posted on 12/16/2012 4:28:41 PM PST by buwaya
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To: SeekAndFind

Small business can’t keep up with the excessive regulations.


8 posted on 12/16/2012 4:33:49 PM PST by tiki
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To: freedomfiter2

Yep!


9 posted on 12/16/2012 4:36:10 PM PST by tiki
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To: SeekAndFind

All by design. Fascists prefer working with a very few entities they can easily direct. Democrats want as many Americans reduced to dependency upon large entities, whether the government or large corporations in bed with it, as they can get. Self reliant people cannot be steered like cattle.


10 posted on 12/16/2012 4:38:59 PM PST by Trod Upon (Civilian disarmament is the precursor to democide.)
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Conservatives run around talking about the need to reduce the power of government and liberals run around talking about the need to reduce the power of corporations, and actually both of them are right. Big government and big corporations are big buddies.

Hear hear - Preach it!

11 posted on 12/16/2012 4:48:35 PM PST by DaveyB (Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. -John Adams)
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To: SeekAndFind

http://uregina.ca/~gingrich/s28f99.htm

...d. Petty Bourgeoisie and Middle Class. The lower middle class or the petty (petite) bourgeoisie (the bourgeoisie was sometimes called the middle class in this era), constitutes “the small manufacturer, the shopkeeper, the artisan, the peasant”.

The characteristic of this class is that it does own some property, but not sufficient to have all work done by employees or workers. Members of this class must also work in order to survive, so they have a dual existence – as (small scale) property owners and as workers. Because of this dual role, members of this class have divided interests, usually wishing to preserve private property and property rights, but with interests often opposed to those of the capitalist class.

This class is split internally as well, being geographically, industrially, and politically dispersed, so that it is difficult for it to act as a class.

Marx expected that this class would disappear as capitalism developed, with members moving into the bourgeoisie or into the working class, depending on whether or not they were successful. Many in this class have done this, but at the same time, this class seems to keep recreating itself in different forms.

Marx considers the petite bourgeoisie to be politically conservative or reactionary, preferring to return to an older order. This class has been considered by some Marxists to have been the base of fascism in the 1920s and 1930s. At other times, when it is acting in opposition to the interests of large capital, it may have a more radical or reformist bent to it (anti-monopoly)...


12 posted on 12/16/2012 4:51:47 PM PST by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: freedomfiter2
Big government and big corporations are big buddies.

The end result is commonly known as "Fascism"

We are but a few steps away from it...

13 posted on 12/16/2012 4:54:56 PM PST by Popman (Gun control will not really control guns, but it will give the illusion of controlling people)
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Very small employers are actually exempt from most of of the Obamacare mandates and fines. Small employers who couldn’t previously afford benefits may actually be helped, since they the exchanges may enable workers who previously wouldn’t have taken no-benefit jobs to be willing to accept them.


14 posted on 12/16/2012 4:55:01 PM PST by only1percent
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Methinks we are witnessing the death of America in America.


15 posted on 12/16/2012 4:56:29 PM PST by SecondAmendment (Restoring our Republic at 9.8357x10^8 FPS)
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To: SeekAndFind
Apart from the various political considerations here, any analysis of small business decline should include an examination of the effect of the Internet on the particular businesses.

Brick-and mortar retail businesses are getting creamed by Internet vendors, and that's just the start.

16 posted on 12/16/2012 4:57:50 PM PST by TChad
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Big government and big corporations are big buddies.

Big government and big labor are big buddies, too.

The one begats the other.

Big government necessitates big business -- in order to deal with the reality that big government can destroy medium and small businesses totally by accident.

On the other hand, big government requires big labor -- for the financial support and "boots on the ground".

Reduce the size of government and big business and big labor will both find their natural level.

17 posted on 12/16/2012 5:15:10 PM PST by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA; Ignorance on parade.)
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To: SecondAmendment
bingo...
18 posted on 12/16/2012 5:15:49 PM PST by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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as small businesses stay to close... our economic diversity decreases... reducing items that other countries would want... driving down non-domestic sales... resulting in an inability to pay off national debt


19 posted on 12/16/2012 5:23:28 PM PST by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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There is no upside to what the Food Stamp President and the progressives are up to. They are like Lenin and Stalin who exterminated the Kulaks (small businesses and successful farmers) as their first order of business in order to eliminate any competition to the state run businesses. The progressives are trying the same thing to eliminate any competition to GE, Google, GM, etc. Remember, their ultimate goal is to eliminate them.


20 posted on 12/16/2012 5:49:07 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (The law of unintended consequences is an unforgiving and vindictive b!tch!)
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