2. Obama has “invested” over a trillion dollars into the U.S. economy. He
used money out of worlds largest slush fund, also known as TARP 2, he
spent 800 billion on so called shovel ready jobs, bought
clunkers, provided billions in guaranteed loans to green energy
businesses, and spent tax payer money in a myriad of other ways. The
results are an economy that is likely recovering more slowly then if he
would of done nothing.
3. Potential job growth if pro-energy policies implemented
Of course there were millions of shovel ready jobs just
waiting on the Presidents okay and they would not cost
the American Tax payer a dime. The energy sector and
the Keystone pipeline projects alone could supply
millions of jobs if President Obama would let them!
4. So What Do America’s CEOs Think
Of The President’s Economic
Policies?
5. “The President is over his head on
economic issues”
Andrew Puzder of CKE Restaurants said in an Cavuto Show interview with Stuart
Varney
6. He doesn't know how to
make a payroll, he doesn't
understand the problems
businesses face. I would try
to explain that the plight of
the businessman is very
reactive to Washington. As
Washington piles on
regulations and
mandates, the impact is
tremendous. I don't think
he's a bad guy. I just think
he has no knowledge of
this.
Bernie Marcus, Home Depot
cofounder to IBD
7. The head of Boeing Co. on
Tuesday expressed
frustration with what he
said was a lack of business
knowledge inside the
Obama administration, part
of a wider rebuke of
political logjams in
Washington affecting the
private sector.
Jim McNerney, Boeing's
chief executive, said the
dialogue between the
private sector and the
administration was
challenged because "very
few people" in Washington
had business experience,
Wall Street Journal
May 9, 2012
8. I was enthusiastic in the
beginning and I'm very much
less enthusiastic now. I was
hoping that we'd get—
despite the rhetoric of the
campaign—Clintonomics.
We ended up getting
Carternomics. Jimmy Carter's
economics were a disaster
and we're headed down that
same path right now. So
Obama is the new Jimmy
Carter, economically.
CEO T J Rodgers of Cypress
semiconductor to Business Week
9. "I think this group
does not
understand what it
takes to create
jobs.“ (Referring to
President Obama
and the
Democrats.)
Intel CEO Paul Otellini at the
Technology Policy Institute's Aspen
Forum
10. Obama is creating an "increasingly hostile
environment for investment and job creation.“
Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg, in a June speech at the Economic Club of Washington
11. AN ADDITIONAL 18 CEOS WROTE AN
OPEN LETTER TO TIMOTHY GEITHNER
AND PRESIDENT OBAMA WARNING
THEM OF DIRE CONSEQUENCES FOR
THE ECONOMY IF THEY CONTINUE
DOWN THE ROAD THEY ARE ON, NO
WORD IF THEY READ IT
12. "I don't remember corporate leaders
speaking out this vehemently in the
past” said Gary Shilling of A. Gary
Shilling & Co to MSN. Gary is right, the
outspokenness of today’s CEO’s is
unprecedented in modern times. A
sure sign that the current strategy of
the White House has got them running
scared!
Story Here
13. Small Business is the Backbone of the U.S. Economy. So
What is Their Take on the President’s Handling of the
Economy?
14. “they vilified industries while embarking on an ill-advised source
of government expansion, major tax increases, massive
deficits, and job-destroying regulations," U.S. Chamber of
Commerce in an open letter to President Obama referring to
White House and the Democratic congress in 2010.
15. Gallup Poll of Small Businesses
A poll of U.S. small-business owners who aren’t
hiring (85% of those surveyed fall into this category)
are most likely to say the reasons they are not doing
so include not needing additional employees;
worries about weak business conditions, including
revenues; cash flow; and the overall U.S. economy.
Additionally, nearly half of small-business owners
point to potential healthcare costs (48%) and
government regulations (46%) as reasons. One in
four are not hiring because they worry they may
not be in business in 12 months.
16. President Obama’s “crazy programs
and agenda are anti-business”
Harry Alford, president and CEO of the National Black Chamber of Commerce on Laura Ingram
17. “As President
Obama is reading
his speech, I would
like to see a ticker
on the bottom of
the screen that
mentions all of his
anti-small business
policies,”
American Small
Business League
(ASBL) President
Lloyd Chapman
speaking about the
Presidents 2012
State of the Union
Address .
18. They are “coming up with ways to rob me (Obama likes the word
“redistribute”) and damage my businesses on a daily basis? It’s
time to get the message. Whether by mistake or on
purpose, Obama and the progressive left are damaging and
destroying more small businesses by the day.”
Small Businessman Wayne Allyn Root , read more here
19. If President Obama is not helping
big business and small business say
he is against them then that begs
the question what kind of business
does the President support?