“Recovery” explained, plus administration contempt

Charlie Gasparino, The Daily Beast:

“I know you’re paid to do the president's bidding, but I’m paid to answer to shareholders and a board of directors and your health-care plan is costing me $1.5 billion, your tax increases another $1 billion, and regulation another half a billion.  So I might have to lay off people rather than hire them.” - unnamed CEO, responding to Rahm Emanuel’s “Why aren’t you guys hiring more?”

So much for big business. Then there’s this example of the Obama crowd’s, shall we say, exquisite sensitivity toward businesspeople at the other end of the spectrum:

“Forget about Big Business moving away from us,” said one administration official, “we’re losing the Kiwanis Club guys who own a small business and spend their nights wearing those funny hats.  They’re independents and we need them but all the class warfare stuff seems to have pushed them away.”

Fortunately, the faculty lounges, the media establishment, and the “moocher class” remain firmly behind them.

(It apparently didn’t cross that person’s mind that his mild disparagement^[1] might be taken as an insult?  Says it all, doesn’t it?  “Bitter clingers,” all over again.)

Two weeks...


HT (Beast): Alphecca
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