June 13, 2012

Spare change

It appears the Mitt Romney has found his "Joe the Plumber" of the moment in Jimmy John's sandwich shop franchisee, Tim Wulf, who said that President Obama had no idea how capitalism worked.
The irony there, being that Jimmy John's saw a 22% increase in sales for 2010 earning it the title of 2nd-fastest growing fast food chain.

But the statement that Wulf made that really irks me is that despite his personal success and Jimmy Johns corporate success in recent years under this administration, Obama shouldn't be reelected because the "rules" (I'm assuming he's referring to taxes, healthcare, and payroll, as opposed to actual rules.) could change and all businesses should wait and see before hiring more workers or opening new locations.
Why does no one ever call 'bullshit' on this line? The GOP has been going on about this since the 2010 elections. HELLO! You high school government class geniuses: We live in a Democracy in which the elected officials who play an active and significant part in passing our laws (the House of Representatives) is up for election EVERY TWO YEARS. If you were truly worried about the possibility of the "rules" changing, you would be paralyzed from any entrepreneurial activity because it could change every other year!

If you're a fiscal conservative who feels that the poor deserve no safety net, unemployed people are just lazy, the military-industrial complex is underfunded, and the tax burden on billionaires is just too high I totally understand your support for Mitt Romney. But don't lie about it.

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