Talk the Talk, Walk the … Check’s in the Mail
You now how Republicans are always saying how they support small business.
But only in theory.
The failed Republican Presidential candidates have left a trail of small businesses in a lurch across the county. Michele Bachmann rented golf carts to ferry around supporters in Iowa and the guy who owns the golf cart company is still waiting to be paid.
Other Republican contenders such as Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum owe even more; their campaigns are $4.85 million and $1.69 million in the hole, respectively, according to their most recent federal campaign reports.
You know, the fiscal conservatives. The talkers. The guys who say we shouldn’t have a national debt.
“Sadly, we haven’t reformed the bankrupt tax-and-spend policies that we decried [through] Ronald Reagan some decades ago,” Bachmann said at a National Press Club speech in July 2011. “We have merely replaced them with a new and insidious scheme called borrow-and-spend.”
Turf Cars owner Cal Campbell says the Bachmann campaign left the golf carts on campus with the keys inside. “When we went to pick them up, they were destroyed,” he said.
Newt Gingrich will pay his Tiffany’s bill but not the services of a small business he owes. That’s the way Republicans are.
I want you to listen to me because I am right about this. You know how the Republicans say they want to balance the budget and pay off the national debt? Honey, they are all George W Bush.
The Republicans should have been losing based on the issues for about 25 years now. Sadly, the Republicans are great on messaging; the Dems are lousy. Remember Swift Boating, Death Panels, religious freedom (defined as letting the Catholic church make personal reproductive decisions for non-Catholics) and currently the voter suppression movement they characterize as removing fraudulent voters from the rolls. The Dems need to stop being such good losers and fight back in kind. It’s not pretty, but anyone who wants their politics to be pretty needs to choose a different profession. There is a War on Women and there is a class war going on. Any Dem who undermines those messages is helping the radical right. (Also, they’re wimps.) American voters will pick a bully over a wimp every time.
1Another in a very large heap of reasons why Republicans do NOT deserve the “fiscal responsibility” badge on their Congressional Scouting Sash.
2The way Bachman treated the Turf Car guy is like Wal-Mart wiping out small businesses when they come to town. No respect, no thought for how this will play in Peoria. In the long run, lifelong Republicans will find themselves discouraged enough to not vote for anyone in that party.
3…And, yet, the small business guy that went on TV and told how Newt stiffed him? He says he is still going to vote R. Some never get it.
4Republicans only like “small businesses” like Koch and Bechtel.
5June is right. The only small businesses Republicans like are “S” corporations as defined by IRS regulations and law. The R’s have as much respect for mom and pop operations as Walmart does.
6See? they are the job-creators!!!! they are creating jobs for golf cart repair technicians, bill-collectors, lawyers….THAT IS HOW the 1% ROLLS!!
7Bush did it to a small business I used to work for in Atlanta. The place is a kennel, started by a couple of retired police detectives. Their startup business plan was based on providing kennel care for DEA dogs, since the site was near the airport. Each dog’s officer/trainer had their own keys to the place so they could get the dogs for airport duty as the need arose. Game plan was that the government would pay $10K per dog, per year for the services.
I’m sure I don’t need to tell you the punch line.
Good news is that the kennel is thriving anyway. No thanks to Bush and the lying liars around him. Thanks to the smart, hard-working couple that made the enterprise work anyway.
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