Obama said quite clearly before the election that he didn’t care if his plans depressed revenue, as long as he made things more “fair.”

Maybe someone out there can do a better search than I, through LexusNexus or whatever, because I can’t find the quotation. I know the first time I heard it I cracked up.

I tend to think in terms of online businesses, but try to follow this example anyway: see that ad at the upper right? What is to prevent Ed and Michelle from fixing things so that the revenues from that ad only go directly to an offshore bank account for future investment overseas? [technically, this is very easy) The other ad revenues, of course, go to their normal US bank account.

The first revenues never touched US shores, so the US has NO jurisdiction and no claim to tax the revenues!

This is even better if their servers are offshore (which will help insulate from future first amendment restrictions).

Other reports gave accounts of Obama whining about moving jobs offshore. Well if hotair.com and redstate.com are like me, they are already using tools like odesk.com to move much of their web site programming offshore, paying $22 for programmers as opposed to $70 – and many of these Indian and Mexican programmers will do a lot of work on a fixed cost basis – I’ve had surprising amounts of work done on fixed-cost of only $25.

Being all down-home international is not for the big guys anymore – the internet made it easy for the $250,000 business to move operations and profit centers offshore.

Obama can b**ch but he can’t stop it – he will just make it worse by trying to fight it and with his bullying as over the Chrysler mess.

I give the people a certain amount of benefit of doubt for wanting “hope n change” versus the last 6 years of the houses and Bush, but come on. This is just sheer stupidity.

People were not listening when he was campaigning, all they heard was “free free free for me me me” and “rape the rich, they’re the problem”.

At this point I’m wishing we could roll back the rules so only property owners are allowed to vote. I’m sick of liberals that find it too damn hard to practice even a modicum of critical thinking. These stupid F*CKs don’t deserve the freedoms they use to trash the country they live in.

And, when I first heard about this I wondered if Obama would go after the Kennedy foreign shielded funds, and still get Kennedy’s vote.

Yeah .. but we can still dream, no ?

It’s as if he has made the decision to only be a one-termer. No one can be this stupid.

sherry on May 5, 2009 at 10:41 AM

Look how fast Obama has placed our Country into turmoil. Of course the finances were already a mess, but he has increased the mess tenfold. His plan from the beginning was all about changing the way our government operates to match the agendas of all his thug friends, and putting his name and face on everything. Now that he has the power and has soothed his narcissistic needs, he can move on in four years, and will live on as the youngest surviving past president w/ book deals and speeches, and his enduring worshippers still following his every move.

Either the way the outcomes look to be similar.

I think we’re seeing why Warren Buffet has only spoken with him once since he became president.

MayBee on May 5, 2009 at 10:33 AM

Then why is Buffet praising him saying that he is doing the right things?

PrincipledPilgrim on May 5, 2009 at 10:34 AM

Mr. Buffet is afraid of Obama, he doesn’t want to get the same treatment that some of the big business guys are getting, so he is going to be his best buddy, despite what he actually thinks.

No kidding, but when Sarkozy spends money and political capital trying to liberalize the French economy, deal with the filth in the Banlieues, and has a smoking hot wife (not to mention his personal trainer) it is intriguing. Especially when the guy sitting in the Oval Office is a Marxist black supremacist who is trying to set up ACORN as a civilian militia and is married to someone who bears resemblance to a Star Trek character, I find it hard to continue to engage in bashing France.

Business haters = 80% of the American public these days.

angryed on May 5, 2009 at 12:01 PM

So you mean only 20% of the people work for companies?
Out of that 80% I guess these are the folks that think their
jobs suck. What will suck is when everyone will have to work
for the government. No more private industry. Taxes taken
right of the top with no chance of return. No need for the IRS
or accountants any longer. No shopping, no products, no restaurants.
Is this really what the 54% voted for? If you get a welfare check now
and do nothing – those days will be over. Barry will have a nice job
ready & waiting. Welcome back to the plantation.

MDWNJ on May 5, 2009 at 10:49 AM

Now, now, now… there’s no need to insult carrots!

I believe the interview is what prompted Gibson’s question. When she asked him, and got his response, she looked at him as if he had two heads.

bikermailman on May 5, 2009 at 12:15 PM

This is what America gets for electing a clean-up version of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. All are nothing but poverty merchants.

Anti-black? No way. The minute Walter Williams or Thomas Sowell runs for office, I’m first in line to vote. But certainly no one who sits in Jeremiah Wright’s church for 20 years. I hate intolerant haters–such as too many on the Left.

Looks as if the Tea Parties are going to get bigger and bigger.

d1carter on May 5, 2009 at 12:38 PM

I’m looking forward to them! :D

Looks as if the Tea Parties are going to get bigger and bigger.

d1carter on May 5, 2009 at 12:38 PM

Interesting. If they hold one in Cincinnati, Ohio, I’m wondering whether it’ll attract the entire downtown office of Procter & Gamble.

Just what the economy needs, something to douse the financial picture of a large domestic manufacturer.

From wiki:

The Blue Eagle, a blue-colored representation of the American “thunderbird,” with outspread wings, was a symbol used in the United States by companies to show compliance with the National Industrial Recovery Act. It was proclaimed on July 20, 1933, as the symbol of industrial recovery by Hugh Samuel Johnson, the head of the National Recovery Administration.[1][2][3]

The design was sketched by Johnson, and based on an idea utilized by the War Industries Board during World War I.[1][3]

All companies that accepted President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Re-employment Agreement or a special Code of Fair Competition were permitted to display a poster showing the Blue Eagle together with the announcement, “NRA Member. We Do Our Part.”[1][2][3] Consumers were exhorted to buy products and services only from companies displaying the Blue Eagle banner.[1][3] According to Johnson,

“When every American housewife understands that the Blue Eagle on everything that she permits into her home is a symbol of its restoration to security, may God have mercy on the man or group of men who attempt to trifle with this bird.” [4]

On September 5, 1935, following the invalidation of the compulsory code system, the emblem was abolished and its future use as a symbol was prohibited.

If you sold goods at a lower price than a store with a blue eagle, your store got busted up.