Recently
Obama attacked the Staples office supply company over the issue of whether or
not they could afford to pay the increased costs of healthcare for their
part-time staff. The stupidity and lack
of understanding of how business works that came from Obama’s statements is
overwhelming and his ignorance of where a company’s money comes from is
frightening.
If Obama
wants to travel somewhere (and our president is always flying somewhere even
though our nation and the world are falling apart in front of our eyes due to
his lack of attention) he simply orders Air Force One and it’s there, like
magic (but it’s not magic; the aircraft, which is donated by Boeing and is only
available for Obama’s personal use because Boeing is able to remain profitable,
its pilots and its fuel all have to be paid for by the tax-payers, and there is
no concern for any environmental damage related to the jet fuel consumption of
the aircraft, regardless of the hand-wringing screeches about the lie of global
warming/climate change we hear from Obama).
If Obama wants his family to follow him later, another aircraft is
pulled from the hangar and the family joins him. If Obama then wants the family dog to
accompany them, yet another jet is pulled from the hangar and the dog is
transported to the family. There is no
concern nor consideration on Obama’s part about costs and inconveniences to
provide this enormous benefit to him.
Obama is a taker, not a maker.
On the other
hand, when Staples wants an aircraft for corporate travel they have to come up
with the money to pay for it. Boeing
doesn’t give aircraft to them, they have to pay for all travel from their profits
(and profits come from dealing in the marketplace and competing with other
companies while trying to please their customers), whether they own or lease
the aircraft or fly commercially they must budget the expenditure among their
other budgetary considerations, and if the cost of one expenditure goes up they
must reduce their costs in another area in order to keep their books
balanced. Obama does not have to budget
anything and he doesn’t have to earn money in order to run his
administration. Similarly the House and
Senate don’t have to compete and earn the money they spend. Their salaries are
simply given to them from the taxes we all pay.
They are given a million dollars each to pay for their staffs, to train
the staff and to travel for any government business they may conduct (and
occasionally they ride military aircraft which is also free for them at tax
payer cost).
The ignorance
of Obama is unbelievable in his belief that a billion dollar company can pay
the cost of healthcare for its employees and that it doesn’t have to worry
about budgeting these escalating costs.
Obama has added trillions of unpaid-for dollars to the national debt
because he can simply print money if it’s not readily available from the
treasury, and he can push worries about paying off this debt to future
generations with no idea of what it will cost his, or our, grandchildren in
increased taxes and reduced living standards.
Private companies can’t ignore the reality of costs as Obama can do,
they have competitors to worry about, customers to please and serve, and
increasing taxes to pay. Government
doesn’t have such worries, they just raise taxes on companies like Staples who then
must fit the increased taxes into their other expenses.
And
occasionally Obama even attacks the companies that give him the pleasures and
convenience he enjoys in the office of the president: the National Labor
Relations Board attacked Boeing (the company who provides a fleet of aircraft
for the president and his administration to use) by denying them the ability to
control their expenses by moving some of their operations to South Carolina in
order to reduce some of their labor costs.
The unions (which give money to Obama to keep him in office) didn’t like
Boeing’s attempt to operate more economically and save money by paying lower
wages to non-union American citizens (and in this way perhaps try to offset some
of the expense of providing and maintaining the free planes they give Obama).
The
socialist/communist attitude of Obama, assuming that he can order anyone to do
his bidding, and that he can issue orders that increase the cost of living and
the cost of doing business for an entire nation (the EPA increases the cost of power
plants to generate power which in turn increases costs every American company
and costs its citizens more to make their homes comfortable; Obama takes over
healthcare which increases these costs for every American and decreases their
standard of living. And our Republican
legislators, with John Boehner at their head, who were just elected in a
landslide election in November, make the fool statement that Americans voted
them into office so they could work with Obama and get some legislating
done. But Boehner doesn’t get it: we
want Obama stopped in all of his illegal actions, and stopped NOW! That’s why the Republicans were elected to office
in unprecedented numbers.)
And beyond
Obama’s ignorance of how businesses work, how the American economy functions
and how the nation remains prosperous, he was factually wrong about the
part-time staff at Staples which got him
all hot and bothered in the first place.
Obama makes uninformed statements that attack a good company, and then
flies off (in a Boeing 747, by the way) to raise money from an adoring
crowd. He never apologizes for his
incorrect, injurious statements like real people do. The press never holds him accountable for his
errors and numerous scandals (such as four deaths in Benghazi and one American death
in the fast and furious fiasco, among others).
Of course
Obama is a veteran liar who recently told us that Yemen is a classic example of
his great policy success in the middle east (just before our Yemeni embassy was
attacked and hastily closed and evacuated), and who recently boasted about his
administration ending fighting in Iraq (before sending a request to congress to
authorize renewed military action there), and who repeatedly assured the
American voting public that he believed marriage should be between a man and a
woman (but now in a book just published by David Axelrod we learn that he was
lying to get votes and that he always favored homosexual marriage), so maybe he
really doesn’t believe what he says about the way Staples is doing business,
but we’ll never get the truth from his mouth.
Most people
understand that corporations and families have the same basic need in order to
continue to exist: they must make their finances balance at the end of the year
(which the government will not even try to do) and they both have to make a
profit or they will go broke and fold. A
corporation may have to sell the corporate jet to stay solvent and a family may
have to drive the same old car for another year or delay a planned vacation until
another time in order to make ends meet.
But government, where our esteemed president lives and works, just keeps
on spending, keeps on printing money, continues to accumulate more and more
debt and keeps on regulating the lives of Americans and making their lives more
difficult and expensive.
