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“We Are Not Hiring Until Obama Is Gone”.

By: Skip MacLure (Diary)  |  November 27th, 2011 at 04:15 PM  | 

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Bill Looman is not someone’s political hack. He’s far from being the left’s favorite guy right now, also. Bill is a ten year Marine veteran, who would like nothing more than to grow his company. Pretty obviously, when he started placing signs in the windows of his company vehicles and a large billboard in front of his offices, he had no idea that he, his company, and his signs, would go viral.

Through my own professional acquaintances, and being in a business that quite frequently brings me into contact with business owners, particularly here on the left coast, I can see that overbearing taxation and regulation by an all but totalitarian state government, completely and totally unresponsive to the people they are supposed to serve, have cost Californians millions of jobs and billions of dollars.

Extreme leftist governance has placed this once most prosperous region in the world into a depression economy with 44 or 45 billion dollars worth of unfunded liability, It’s no wonder that businesses will not commit to hiring new personnel, and only grudgingly replace losses due to attrition.

Bill Looman’s company, US Cranes LLC, manufactures and services overhead cranes and monorail lift systems. Well, guess what? Gee whiz, and all that stuff… Overhead cranes are for the most part utilized by companies that manufacture things… or have a need of a heavy lifting capability. Not accidentally, manufacturing on all levels has been the special targets of Obama’s agents of destruction, as has the energy sector.

The Barack Hussein Obama regime’s assault on American business has been almost universally successful, backed as it has been by the greatest job-killer in US history… the EPA.

The Marine Corps does a lot more than build men. They teach pride of achievement, and leadership skills simply unavailable outside the confines of the brotherhood. Marines are taught to adapt and overcome. That’s, in essence, what Bill and his company are doing… adapting to overcome an untenable situation. He has simply put a face and a name to what is occurring all over the nation as businesses hunker down, hoping to survive the Marxist’s perfect storm.

I’ll be interested in seeing how the regime retaliates on Bill and his company for having the unmitigated temerity to speak the truth. His company may become the “Joe the Plumber” of manufacturing. Obama may just find that his incessant hectoring is a two-edged sword. He and his minions attempted to destroy “Joe the Plumber”… and failed. Joe is alive and well and may just end up in Congress. They tried to destroy him and failed. Truth versus unbridled arrogance and power.

If they try it with Bill Looman they may just find that he’s a mouthful they don’t want to chew.
Semper Fi, Bill.

Semper Vigilans, Semper Fidelis

© Skip MacLure 2011

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  • izoneguy

    I come in contact with small business’s of all sizes.
    I hear the same refrain from many of the owners.
    They will not hire or expand until Obama is gone.

    • http://www.criterionchemical.com Chemical Sam

      I currently work in a business incubator, and the business is struggling. I will not hire until Obama is gone. I can’t afford expansion or hiring on any level now. Because of payroll taxes, becaue of Obamacare, because of all the people that demand more from me because I make from than them (and not by much, really). I am sure that business will continue to suffer until after Obama, and the people who were stupid enough to elect him, are removed from power.

    • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine

      over the country.

      • audax

        Saw the writing on the wall and went “Galt” in 2008.

    • logicalpositivist

      U.S. News compared his job approval numbers to the last 8 presidents. Guess who finished dead last? Below even LBJ. Way below where Bush was in 2003.

      http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2011/11/29/obamas-job-approval-drops-below-carters

    • http://www.theprecinctproject.wordpress.com ColdWarrior

      He seems like Republican Party conservative precinct committeeman material.

      Thank you.

      ColdWarrior

    • drsheilahere

      I have been writing about Obama for the last year. I have also been saying no one is doing anything until he is out of office. My latest offering is: “Obama’s Arrogance. It’s Most Unbecoming.” keep the pressure up on anti-Obama sentiment.
      http://contributor.yahoo.com/user/1017868/sheila_dunnells_phd.html

    • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine

      This defines the current age of Obama, ie that the job producers are on the sidelines and have been since the Dems took over Congress in 2007, when Obama was one Democratic vote in Congress.

      The message was sent in 2007 that profits were not respected.

  • txpat

    and my customer base is primarily chemical plants, and offshore drilling.
    Obama’s EPA regulations, and upcoming Obamacare has hurt our business.
    I am thankful our business in Texas because it could be so much worse.
    Federal regulations is taking a toll, and not being able to forecast out due to all the changes has effected us.
    We use to carry three months of inventory, now we keep one month at a time.
    We have still managed to continue health insurance for our employees at no cost to them, but it’s been tough.
    I had to raise deductible to help bring the cost down. My insurance rep told me cost increases are due to Obamacare. That was before they were told they can’t say that any more.
    I have spoke to business owners in my area, and they are all in agreement Obama must go. That will be the only way business will be able to get back on track.

    • donald_24

      I was just curious:

      What specific part of ObamaCare is hurting your business?

      • txpat

        Last 2 years in a row due to up coming changes insurance. Such as if someone gets a chronic illness they get to stay on the insurance.
        Free health check ups, and the insurance companies have to hold larger amount of money in case of a major emergency effecting millions at one time.
        Also I believe, but will have to wait until spring to know for sure that my rate will go up again due to Kathleen seblelious making some more items mandated to insurance companies to be “free”.
        Birth controll, prenatal, breast feeding equipment.
        As we all know nothing is free, and there will be a price paid.
        The insurance companies will past the cost down to the customers.

        • bonnman

          We have 22 employees and we actually qualified for tax credits that just became available in 2010 that are targeted to small businesses. I don’t agree with a lot of Obamacare but this has actually been helpful but this will depend on the size of your company.

          • txpat

            One owner has multiple Health issues which puts such a small group in pricier
            Bracket.

          • citizenkh

            have between 100 and 500 direct hires nationwide. One of my customers had an excellent plan which it had to change. Their employee health coverage is one reason that former union workers have joined their non-union workforce.

      • heraklios

        .

        • donald_24

          Ha ha. No, I am not on the DNC payroll. But I am an independent and, excluding the awful individual mandate, I don’t think ObamaCare is as bad as everyone says. I like the ban on pre-existing conditions and the ban on lifetime/annual caps. I actually come from a family of doctors, and of the ones I am close with, they all like ObamaCare. In fact, my uncle actually flat out said that he wants single payer or a public option. And he is a non-invasive heart surgeon. I have yet to meet a single doctor who dislikes ObamaCare. My uncle hates insurance companies because many of them refuse to pay or pay only pay extremely low reimbursements. So I can see where he comes from.

          • txpat

            Why does he think that more people on plans will make insurance companies better?
            Do they handle Medicare/ Medicaid also?
            Just curious, because my husband heart doctor isn’t happy with Obamacare, or Obama.
            Maybe this is difference of opinion is from a regional point of view.

          • donald_24

            Because ObamaCare will mean more patients who can pay. Currently he is in a poor area where a lot of people don’t have insurance so they don’t pay for their care in many cases.

            And yes, he takes Medicare and Medicaid. Medicaid pays very low re-imbursements however.

          • txpat

            If Obamacare went into effect it would be quantity over quality.
            Just my opinion, but I would think it would be like the care doctors who primarily handle Medicare/ Medicaid.
            I have seen this type of doctor experience with my Mother in a nursing home.
            The only quality doctors that worked well with my Mother were the one’s that I paid up front, and they were specialist. I couldn’t find a specialist that would take Medicare/ Medicaid.

    • Scope

      With the SC possibly deciding on Obamacare next Junish, no matter what the outcome, it is going to hurt Romney. If he is our nominee then, we are in deep do-do. If they rule the individual mandate unconstitutional, Romneycare has as much of a set-back as Obamacare. If they rule the mandate constitutional, Romney will be hated for being the first one to impose such a law, and using his state, and advisers, for the incubator to promote it on a federal level.

      No matter what the decision, Romney will be a GOP villian in the whole debacle. He cannot be the nominee.

      • heraklios

        Ahem….I think we already decided that….

        • Scope

          but there are still many that have not understood that yet.

    • tomatin

      Insurance premiums always went up regardless. I hate Obamacare because it gives small business no flexibility and will cost people trillions in new taxes.

      I don’t know who your agent is but they always gave different reasons why it went up.

  • donald_24

    Any MBA will tell you that making hiring decisions based on politics is incredbly insane. Let’s say that demand suddenly increases next week for Mr. Looman’s cranes and he can’t make cranes fast enoguh with his current workforce. Is he going to still refuse to hire someone and let the competition snatch up those sales? That would be an awful business strategy and will lead to failure.

    What if Bill Gates refused to hire anyone until Carter was gone?
    What if Steve Jobs refused to hire anyone until Clinton was gone?

    Do you think Apple and Microsoft would be as successful today if they put politics ahead of profit?

    • txpat

      He will pay folks overtime or perhaps bring in contract labor. Plus he will move office workers out on the mtg floor as well as lower management to get the product out. Don’t laugh I have seen it done.
      He is not going to bring in permanent employees because he may get extra business for the moment, but can’t bank on it for the long term.
      Plus companies as a whole are not paying net 30 these days.
      They are going as far out as net 90.
      This puts a strain on a company cash flow.
      Sales that’s the other thing you mention, trying to make sales these days is tough.
      Your profit margins to make a sale is very narrow these days that you sometimes will high ball a quote because you don’t want the sale due to the size of the job, the customers paying terms, possible net return on your money.
      I know that may sound absurd, but I don’t want to burn a bridge with customer for possible business opportunity down the road.

    • heraklios

      that the best strategy is to simply stand pat until the storm blows over. That is the situation businessmen find themselves in today.

  • trevorb

    is not going to be over for at least another year and possibly another five. Don’t underestimate Obama; he can still win re-election.

    • YnotNOW

      Must have the fortitude to reverse Obama’s policies (particularly ObamaCare). Even if we take the majority in the Senate (likely) and retain a large majority in the House (even more likely), there are enough “compromisers” (politically correct term for what I would really like to say) in the R caucus that we will still have a very difficult time putting a repeal bill on the President’s desk.

      This will be a longer fight – be prepared to persevere – to restore Constitutional Principles to our Government.

  • Finrod

    http://www.11alive.com/news/article/214228/3/Company-Policy-We-are-not-hiring-until-Obama-is-gone

  • sensiblecenter
    Let’s see, we don’t like a politician – so we contribute to the destruction of our country until we get our way? Changes in politicians are what ELECTIONS are for – patriots don’t subvert the prosperity of their countrymen and the families of this nation by economic sabotage.

    Shame on you, on all who put their personal piques and preferences before the good of our country. We’re in trouble. We all need to pull together to get out of it.

    If people like you were in charge during WWII, this entire site would be in German.

    Try loving America more than you hate Obama.
    It’s smarter.
    It’s spiritually and mentally healthier.
    It’s PATRIOTIC.

    • Tbone

      Employers do what they feel is in the best interest of themselves, their partners, their employees and their customers. If those things align with the good of the Country so be it, that is the way it is supposed to work.

      The problem is that your hero, Obama and his Democrat scumbuddies have taken the Country in a direction that does not align with what is good for the Employer, his partners, his employees and his customers.

      • snowshooze

        And they boil down to doing whatever it takes to make it.
        Some call it a choice.
        Looman apparently thinks he has to do this to protect himself in the long term. He is a Hero of sorts.
        I’m not in good enough shape to be so bold, or I would jump on the wagon.

    • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

      .

  • funwithknives

    what his present and immediate future needs are? After all he’s there and none of us are. It’s obvious what he is trying to illustrate like so many other job creators are bellowing into the maw of what we generously call “Objective Media” these days. They want a singular form of normalcy, not a continually ongoing form of experimentation from our Amateur -In-Chief POTUS, and his merry band of pranksters.
    Approx 1 yr. ago I read an article in a metal-working trade journal written specifically about California. It concerned out-migration of manufacturing and the reasons for same.One owner moving to Texas, put it very simply: How can a business survive when The State CONTINUALLY changes the rules , while viewing itself as superior in setting policy and future financial direction. He likened it to being a test-tube rat and saw the writing on the wall. “Especially appreciated” was the fact that Cali imports more than it generated Power-Wise, and this was THE DECIDING factor for him. He’s in Texas now and took a bunch of Tax-Payers with him.
    So it would seem there ARE options here.
    1) Wait
    2) Get a move on, to friendlier climes
    The Waiting is gettin’ REALLY OLD, at this house and the move must occur. Use a little exponential thought and frightenly imagine FOE’ MOE’ years of Barry.
    I can’t , fearing my head will explode. Or my Aorta.

  • chbroussard

    should put that sign on the front door of their business. If more people saw that sign every time they walked into a small business establishment, maybe more of them might just get the message that small businesses are actually really suffering under this administration and it’s not just a bunch of hot air spewing from the Right. A picture (or a sign) is worth a thousand words.

  • mrcoldwaterofrealityman

    He’s an ineffective president who got elected at a lousy time. I don’t much care for him, but he’s not the cause of our economic problems.

    I expect that our next president will be a Republican conservative, assuming the RNC doesn’t do its damndest to lose the election by pulling another Palin or something similar. Unless that person is Ron Paul, or someone else who believes enough in real capitalism to just let failing banks fail like Iceland did, it won’t help.