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2010-07-09 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Fred 2010-07-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Employing Geinther to rebuild corporate relationships and campaign funding streams takes political desperation to an entirely new level. More please, I'll say when.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-07-09 01:35|| 2010-07-09 01:35|| Front Page Top

#2 Ogabe and his merry band aren't at war with big business, far from it. The big guys will sit by smiling as government crushes their existing smaller competitors and raises barriers-to-entry in their industries, keeping entrepreneurs out. What's really going on is a war on small businesses, starving them of credit and paralyzing them with regulatory and economic uncertainty. It's basically dekulakization without all those icky corpses.

Posted by Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2010-07-09 02:00|| 2010-07-09 02:00|| Front Page Top

#3 RbR pretty much nails it. And there's a word for this kinda thing: Fascism.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2010-07-09 02:15|| 2010-07-09 02:15|| Front Page Top

#4 Easier to control when things are all pre-centralized, right?

Posted by gorb 2010-07-09 02:57|| 2010-07-09 02:57|| Front Page Top

#5 Our CFO is pushing all possible purchases into this year because of the coming tax changes on Jan 1 2011. We will be making practically no purchases after that time no matter what happens to the tax laws because we will have pushed every conceivable purchase required in 2011 into 2010.

Get that? If you relax the tax laws after the first of the year they aren't going to have much impact because people have already pushed the transactions they had planned for 2011 into 2010

Obama is an idiot.

That is all.

Posted by crosspatch 2010-07-09 04:24|| 2010-07-09 04:24|| Front Page Top

#6 Geither and Obama thrift and economics: Talk is cheap! BS is free! Isn't that refreshing: one thing that doesn't include spending is useless pontification!

Posted by Angereque Squank5272 2010-07-09 05:01|| 2010-07-09 05:01|| Front Page Top

#7 Has any Treasury Secretary every had to assure executives that his administration wasn't anti-business?

RbR may well be right- the big guys can ask for exemptions, everyone else can pay up because it's 'patriotic.'

Posted by Free Radical 2010-07-09 09:20|| 2010-07-09 09:20|| Front Page Top

#8 You gotta wonder what some of these bastards were thinking when they bank rolled Barry's run.

Posted by Jefferson 2010-07-09 12:56|| 2010-07-09 12:56|| Front Page Top

#9 Turbo Tim can say what he likes, but the soap bubble's already been popped as far as any businessman trusting this administration. There's a 2,000-page bill lurking under every rock. And no matter how you slice it, if the deficit stays north of a trillion, there is a giant tax increase headed toward us all like a freight train.

Posted by Matt 2010-07-09 14:14|| 2010-07-09 14:14|| Front Page Top

#10 General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt is a weasel who backed Obama to the hilt to create new markets for his flagging company. Remember GE-owned NBC's "green TV" where they would flog green messages in every program they aired? Hope you like your new mandated florescent light bulbs.

Posted by regular joe 2010-07-09 15:14|| 2010-07-09 15:14|| Front Page Top

#11 Oddly haven't gotten around to installing any of those CFLs. Still rockin' the 300-W halogen here in the office, in fact.

Posted by eLarson 2010-07-09 18:05|| 2010-07-09 18:05|| Front Page Top

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