My case in point: in 2012 the Koch brothers made 11 billion in profit yet still laid off over 25% of their workers in Green Bay, many middle aged. Now they need to find retraining, find a job, and still support their families. Most ended up losing their homes or at the very least downsizing. What CEO has every lost their home, needed to be retrained, or lost their life savings trying to make ends meet after a business went under or they got fired?
What I heard from Obama is that one man cannot make a successful business without good workers and good workers should be recognized for their contribution to the organization. Currently the climate is that only the CEO is of any importance and should take advantage of their workers any way they can.
",,,Obama has signed bills with 17 small business tax cuts"
http://www.politifact.com/tru...
A quote directly from Obama's speech.
the entire transcripts of the speech can be read here:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the...
I've been looking looking for any mention of "the founder of a corporation" but can't seem to find it. Maybe you can point me to it?
You are correct, all 35 raves are me wearing multiple disguises.
Please keep posting comments, I love a good laugh.
"Owner" is said twice in his speech, "We’ve got to deal with homeownership..." and "...I want to help America’s homeowners."
Are you really that stupid that you don't know how easy it is to do a search on a web page or any electronic document? I'm betting you didn't make it past the 8th grade. Do a search for "owner" on his speech and all you get is two references to "owner" and both are in the word "homeownership".
I love your lying and crying, it is just so damned entertaining.
Thank you for being a beacon to remind us all that for every person like you who's intelligence is far below the average stupid person, there is a person just as far above the average stupid person, like me.
Wow, you are the first extreme liberal right-winger that I know of that supports unions.
Well, HERE is EXACTLY what he said:
"There are a lot of wealthy, successful Americans who agree with me -- because they want to give something back. They know they didn’t -- look, if you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own. You didn’t get there on your own. I’m always struck by people who think, well, it must be because I was just so smart. There are a lot of smart people out there. It must be because I worked harder than everybody else. Let me tell you something -- there are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there. (Applause.)
If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business -- you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen. The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet.
The point is, is that when w...
Well, HERE is EXACTLY what he said:
"There are a lot of wealthy, successful Americans who agree with me -- because they want to give something back. They know they didn’t -- look, if you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own. You didn’t get there on your own. I’m always struck by people who think, well, it must be because I was just so smart. There are a lot of smart people out there. It must be because I worked harder than everybody else. Let me tell you something -- there are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there. (Applause.)
If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business -- you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen. The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet.
The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together."
Gee...I don't see anything wrong or objectionable there! Guess that's why Faux and Friends decided to edit (and lie)...again...
Phrase ~ "a sequence of two or more words arranged in a grammatical construction and acting as a unit in a sentence" Dictionary.com
Although he did say that it doesn't explain or sum up the entire speech so by definition of what a "key phrase" is, yours is not. I would suggest taking a high school English class or two.
"It is not the CEO who is taking the risk when creating a business, it is the worker."
This is incorrect, it is the investors who are taking the risk. Employees get paid for their time. Investors risk losing their investment.
"What CEO has every lost their home, needed to be retrained, or lost their life savings trying to make ends meet after a business went under or they got fired?"
Hundreds of them, thousands. You forget the thousands of small business owners who are CEOs of their own companies with the few hundred that run giant corporations. The small business owner is putting everything on the line, and they get screwed the most.
"What I heard from Obama is that one man cannot make a successful business without good workers and good workers should be recognized for their contribution to the organization."
The main point of that segment of Obama's speech was, "what we then do is ask for the wealthy to pay a little bit more", and what followed was his reasoning why they should.
Though I don't disagree that wealthy corporations and individuals should pay more I disagree with his reasoning completely. I also find that the problem is not the tax rate, but upon what we are levying the...
"It is not the CEO who is taking the risk when creating a business, it is the worker."
This is incorrect, it is the investors who are taking the risk. Employees get paid for their time. Investors risk losing their investment.
"What CEO has every lost their home, needed to be retrained, or lost their life savings trying to make ends meet after a business went under or they got fired?"
Hundreds of them, thousands. You forget the thousands of small business owners who are CEOs of their own companies with the few hundred that run giant corporations. The small business owner is putting everything on the line, and they get screwed the most.
"What I heard from Obama is that one man cannot make a successful business without good workers and good workers should be recognized for their contribution to the organization."
The main point of that segment of Obama's speech was, "what we then do is ask for the wealthy to pay a little bit more", and what followed was his reasoning why they should.
Though I don't disagree that wealthy corporations and individuals should pay more I disagree with his reasoning completely. I also find that the problem is not the tax rate, but upon what we are levying the most taxes (payroll vs income) as well as the special dispensations, subsidies, and tax breaks that are given to busniesses and sectors with the largest profits.
Just raising the marginal and capital gains tax rates will do f--k all to address these issues.
http://www.taxpolicycenter.or...
92% is far too high however, the Laffer Curve indicates there should be an opitmal point of taxation that gains the most revenue. Tax too high and the economy slows, tax to low and revenue drops while adding nothing to the economy. There is some evidence that we should be increasing the tax rate but only to around 32-36% (overall).
As to contributions I'm split on this issue. While I completely understand your point, and I agree with it on a personal level, as a business owner with my business in a different district that the one I live in I am frustrated that I have no say in legislation for that district. On the other hand I agree that contributions and campaign spending is out of hand and subverts democracy.
Mostly though, we need to simplify and make the tax codes comprehensible. There are far too many twist and loopholes that allow politicians to give favors to some at the expense of the rest of us and have made it so confounding that no one understands it.
I see your point on being able to vote in the district that your business resides. Without giving it much thought I really don't have a problem with that. I would and do have a problem with businesses instead of individuals giving money to politicians.
So, again without giving it much thought, I'd say allow the small business owner to vote in the district their business resides and allow them to contribute as an individual to politicians but the business should not be allowed to vote nor should the business be allowed to contribute money to politicians, and the business would not have to pay any taxes but the individuals who own the business would pay a progress tax just like everyone else, without loop-holes.
Liberals want nothing to do with FACTS it gets in the way of the hate they live on -