He did it over the summer. Now, President Barack “Barry” Obama (as he called himself today when calling in to Governor Tim Kaine on WTOP radio, per Rosalind Helderman of the Washington Post) is about to do it again: ruin a small business with his vacation plans. It’s horrible enough that he’s destroying all business with his nationalization of the health care, financial and energy industries. (One estimate shows that if all his plans go through, 71 percent of GDP will be under government control, per U.S. Representative Michelle Bachman, a Minnesota Republican.) But does he also have to destroy local small businesses while he’s enjoying himself on the beaches of Hawaii while the rest of us suffer from climate change on the freezing, snowy East Coast?
You may remember that when he summered in Marxist Martha’s Vineyard in August, he put a small air tour company out of work, and killed the business, since it relied on the short annual late summer tourist window for customers. But with the POTUS coming to town, security prohibited any local aircraft from going airborne. The same thing is happening in Hawaii, “Barry’s” Christmas (or does he prefer “holiday”?) vacation spot. According to KITV’s Web site, several local air tour businesses are going to get hurt, and hurt real bad.
From the article:
However, Pat Magie’s seaplane tours will be sunk by the restrictions.
“We can’t fly tourists. We can’t train. We’ve got an enforced two-week vacation without pay,” Magie said.
But Barry, family and friends will have a great ol’ time on our dime. Never mind the little people. That’s what we call a very Barry Christmas.
Obama is business-illiterate. The biggest impact on the economy is not the small business owners who go bankrupt. The biggest impacts are due to business owners and investors, both large and small, who
1) choose to close or sell their businesses because of the increasing taxes, regulations, threatened benefit mandates, and poor economic outlook due to government-induced credit crunch, and those who
2) choose to not expand, to lay off, and to contract their businesses for the same reasons as above, and those who
3) choose to never invest or open a business that they otherwise would have with a business-friendly government
Why disable the most able people…the entrepreneurs?…it doesn’t work because they will contract their businesses to save themselves from the parasites, and the first victims are always the others who have less ability to run a business…the employees of the business owners…most of us.
Ayn Rand fans call this “going Galt”…when govt loots business, owners stop employing people, taking risks, and everyone gets poorer. The economy is driven by innovators and good managers making enough profit to weather economic storms. Transferring profit from the able to the less able during an economic crisis is like giving the bailout buckets to the weakest, slowest people on the ship. We’ll all sink faster, and the weakest swimmers will drown.
Isn’t it amazing what people will do?
[...] “Barry from D.C.” truly has brought change to the White House. First, it was advisers and “czars” who professed admiration for communist murderers, such as Mao, and a general affinity for Marxism. Now, despite the administration’s admonitions of conservative hyperbole and the left-wing mainstream media’s apologies for conservative over reaction to such appointments, we have the ”anointed one” himself glorifying such scoundrels on the White House Christmas tree. Not only that, but ornaments glorifying himself. [...]