Small business owners pessimistic post-election
U.S. small-business owners are pessimistic post-election, with the Wells Fargo/Gallup Small Business Index plunging to -11 in November from 17 in July. This is the most pessimistic that owners have been about their operating environment since July 2010, when the index stood at -28. …
The quarterly survey was conducted Nov. 12-16, 2012, with a random sample of 607 small-business owners, representing the fourth quarter of 2012. Small-business owners grew increasingly optimistic throughout the first two quarters of 2012, with the index reaching a high of 23 in May. Prior to the beginning of the recession in 2008, index scores were generally higher than 100. The Wells Fargo/Gallup Small Business Index was initiated in August 2003.









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I bet these racists also think making a profit is moral.
Kataklysmic on December 2, 2012 at 2:02 PM
If anyone who you know was an Obama voter says that they support small businesses over big stores like Wal-Mart, tell them that their actions don’t follow their words. And call them hypocrites. And liars.
thebrokenrattle on December 2, 2012 at 2:04 PM
The problem is they are PROUD of thier ignorance.
When I pointed out the disparity of The top 1 percent garnering 16.9% of all income, but pay 36.73% of all income taxes on a “friend’s” Facebook page his response was surprising to say the least.
the are truly impervious to facts.
jaydee_007 on December 2, 2012 at 2:12 PM
Maybe they thought that R&R had a chance of helping the US if elected? Now that bho was re-elected they know what is coming down the pike and none of it is good!
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letget on December 2, 2012 at 2:13 PM
The context was,
Followed up by the quotation above.
jaydee_007 on December 2, 2012 at 2:14 PM
To say we’re “pessimistic” is quite the understatement..I was never “rich” before, but I’d reached a level of comfort I enjoyed..I will NEVER experience that level of comfort again…
I’ll survive, but the days of new vehicles, spring break vacations with the kids, and “slowing down” on work are long gone forever..I’d always planned to work til I died (because i love it) just not this hard…before, I wanted to work from 60 to 75ish to stay busy, now I need to work til 75ish just to exist…
Tim Zank on December 2, 2012 at 2:18 PM
If you own a business fire a handfull of millennials. They brung Obama, twice. Make them suffer.
Schadenfreude on December 2, 2012 at 2:23 PM
^Typical Leftist mindset, 2012
visions on December 2, 2012 at 2:28 PM
Not all of us.
thebrokenrattle on December 2, 2012 at 2:29 PM
Fluke you, bastids, and yours, until you are raw. YOU deserve NO less. Fluke you until you scream in horrendous pain.
May you all starve, in the dark and cold.
Starve the Looters.
Schadenfreude on December 2, 2012 at 2:29 PM
Hasn’t bho, or is he going to shortly, meet with small business owners? Wonder if he got/will get an earfull? Even if bho gets an earfull, he doesn’t give a flit about them anyway by his policies!
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letget on December 2, 2012 at 2:30 PM
Only stupid people believe that the “rich” will pay more. They will always increase the prices of what they offer/sell.
The middle class and the poor will always pay.
Obama hates the middle class. You were all snookered, while he and Michelle live like Louis XV and Michelle de Obamanette.
Schadenfreude on December 2, 2012 at 2:31 PM
This, until you all bleed, bastids.
Schadenfreude on December 2, 2012 at 2:32 PM
Not surprising when the country just chose a lifelong Marxist over a free market whiz.
WisCon on December 2, 2012 at 2:33 PM
visions on December 2, 2012 at 2:50 PM
I am almost to the point of posting my resume on Craigslist…with a big fat disclaimer at the bottom that I didn’t vote for Obama either time.
MelonCollie on December 2, 2012 at 3:12 PM
MelonCollie on December 2, 2012 at 3:12 PM
Don’t expose yourself to danger.
Schadenfreude on December 2, 2012 at 3:22 PM
It’s going to be another four years just being happy to keep the business alive… any need to expand would pretty much come as a shock. Hire? Not likely.
lynncgb on December 2, 2012 at 3:28 PM
Obama will be most happy if the businesses go under.
He is the Destroyer in Chief.
Don’t believe anything else. He is destroying apace, and has just really begun. Now he has carte blanche.
Schadenfreude on December 2, 2012 at 3:30 PM
The millennials didn’t elect Wilson, FDR, Nixon, Johnson, or Carter.
That’s like blaming a lost football game on a receiver who missed the final pass of the game. If the team had played better in the first half it wouldn’t have come down to that.
WeekendAtBernankes on December 2, 2012 at 3:30 PM
http://legalinsurrection.com/2012/12/disheartened-obamaphiles-should-just-stop-talking/
davidk on December 2, 2012 at 3:31 PM
(We also didn’t cede control of our institutions to the communists, fascists, and progressives. Maybe there wouldn’t be so many stupid millennial sheep if the *AHEM* past generations had done their damned job.)
WeekendAtBernankes on December 2, 2012 at 3:32 PM
davidk on December 2, 2012 at 3:33 PM
not really, the electorate had a 4 year track record to consider which was abysmal, millenials chose this sack of sh*t willingly and wholeheartedly, they deserve to experience the loser existence they helped perpetuate…
Tim Zank on December 2, 2012 at 3:38 PM
Exceptions strenghthen the rules. Good on you!
Schadenfreude on December 2, 2012 at 4:28 PM
No sh*t? Understatement of the year. “Pessimistic” barely scratches the surface.
Harbingeing on December 2, 2012 at 4:39 PM
Just got word that my GF’s father is going to have to retire. His company knows how bad they’ll been hit by the election, and everyone who already has a parachute ready is bailing out. Chalk another one up for the Zero.
MelonCollie on December 2, 2012 at 11:05 PM