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	Name:	Talullahhound -
	Subject:	For the Lake Martin Tea Party crowd
	Date:	3/9/2012 8:10:41 PM

It would not surprise me at all if a lot of small businesses never hired people back. They've probably learned how to do the "more with less". A lot of them found out that they can impose longer work hours and heavier workloads on their employees and they will shoulder it and get the job done.

I know you like to blame it all on Obama, but the economy was going south before he took office. The Fed and economists have all been saying that it would be a slow recovery, and that's what is happening. I know it makes for lovely politics to blame the Administration, but I don't buy it. Just the convergence of a lot of bad policies going back years, a bit of every Administration sticking it's head in the sand and not paying attention.
And after listening to Rick Santorum and seeing what is happening around the country regarding women's health issues backed by Republican administrations, I don't think conservatives have any right to talk about Obama's "social engineering". I suspect that if Rick Santorum got into the WH, we'd see social engineering that would set this country back decades.

And Obamacare? At least it is something. Bush ignored it for the whole of his Administration. I always go back to the point that before the economy crashed, people thought it was one of the biggest problems facing the country. Our health care premiums were going out of sight because we are paying for those without insurance. I seem to recall that Small Business owners were screaming about that -- and many of them dropped coverage of their employees. It had nothing to do with Obamacare at the time, because Obamacare didn't exist.

Business will always whine about something. I've been listening to it for years. If they got out from under USG laws and regulations, then they will whine that they are being priced out of the foreign markets becasue the USG isn't subsidizing their business or they are having to deal with offsets.

I gather that you are a small business owner. I assume you are making a profit because you are still in business. I also assume that when you stop making a profit, you will stop owning businesses.