Comment by Jim Campbell
Since the calls appear to be coming in at 20:1 in favor, do you suppose those against are Obama fans living on your tax dollars on Uncle Sam’s plantation. Ojobkiller, in the White House and his crew are making sure they are well taken care of in exchange for their vote.
WACO, Ga. — A west Georgia business owner is stirring up controversy with signs he posted on his company’s trucks, for all to see as the trucks roll up and down roads, highways and interstates:
“Can’t afford it,” explained the employer, Bill Looman, Tuesday evening. “I’ve got people who I want to hire now, but I just can’t afford it. And I don’t foresee that I’ll be able to afford it unless some things change in D.C.”
And much more!
Looman’s company is U.S. Cranes, LLC. He said he put up the signs, and first posted pictures of the signs on his personal Facebook page, six months ago, and he said he received mostly positive reaction from people, “about 20-to-one positive.”
But for some reason, one of the photos went viral on the Internet on Monday.
And the reaction has been so intense, pro and con, he’s had to have his phones disconnected because of the non-stop calls, and he’s had to temporarily shut down his company’s website because of all the traffic crashing the system.
Looman made it clear, talking with 11Alive’s Jon Shirek, that he is not refusing to hire to make some political point; it’s that he doesn’t believe he can hire anyone, because of the economy. And he blames the Obama administration.
“The way the economy’s running, and the way my business has been hampered by the economy, and the policies of the people in power, I felt that it was necessary to voice my opinion, and predict that I wouldn’t be able to do any hiring,” he said.
Looman did receive some unexpected attention not long after he put up his signs and Facebook photos. He said someone, and he thinks he knows who it was, reported him to the FBI as a threat to national security. He said the accusation filtered its way through the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security and finally the Secret Service. Agents interviewed him.
“The Secret Service left here, they were in a good mood and laughing,” Looman said. “I got the feeling they thought it was kind of ridiculous, and a waste of their time.”
So Bill Looman is keeping the signs up, and the photos up — stirring up a lot of debate.
“I just spent 10 years in the Marine Corps protecting the rights of people… the First Amendment, and the Second Amendment and the [rest of the] Bill of Rights,” he said. “Lord knows they’re calling me at 2 in the morning, all night long, and voicing their opinion. And I respect their right to do that. I’m getting a reaction, a lot of it’s negative, now. But a lot of people are waking up.”
moderate away
tried to post another but a up came a pop-up saying
‘slow down…posting too fast.’
you kidding me…!?
must be operative word to alert us to your mental non-aquity, hmmm…?
the war was won against the confedrate south but obviously not against proud retardation displayed there
thanks again for generously letting me post ; )~
Bill Looman simply put before the public what every small businessman is up against in America today.
Until there’s regime change in Mordor-on-the-Potomac, and there’s some surety that this endless dirigiste diddling with the economy is going to come to an end, the people responsible for business planning can’t predict how their markets are going to jump.
There’s just too damned much evidence that satisfying consumer demand isn’t what does it right now. Not as long as the Kenyan Keynesian’s got the nation by the throat, as is evidenced by what Jon Corzine (Obama’s “man on Wall Street”) looks to be getting away with in the MF Global collapse.
Anybody in the MSM paying attention to that? The commodities futures markets are coming to pieces like a cheap hand grenade with the perception that banksters who’ve got “connections” with our Mombasa Messiah are being allowed to get away with embezzlement, and nothing is going to be done by our “Fast and Furious” Department of Justice to punish or prevent it.
Credit to Bill Looman for having the guts to make it obvious to anybody who cares enough to look.
So years of republican decision making has nothing to do with the economy now????? You need to see the documentary “Too big to fail” to see who is responsible for this mess. Why do republicans have amnesia regarding their choices? The southern states are not at the bottom of all the state ratings for nothing you know. I believe that they are actually fighting for last place in the education rating….
At 6:28 AM on 28 November, we’ve got “Liberal” fascist Michelle Blanch whining:
Tsk. In the words of H.L. Mencken, “In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for. As for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.”
That understood, I’m also not a National Socialist Democrat American Party (NSDAP, ’cause they quit having anything to do with the word “democratic” when they rammed Obamacare down the nation’s throat) supporter.
The Red Faction has always been the party of corporate welfare, currency counterfeiting, screw-the-consumer protectionism, government pork barrel spending, and general banksterism. They were that bad when Lincoln – an utterly corrupt railroad lawyer elected for the sole purpose of enforcing the Morrill Tariff of 1861 (which was the real precipitant of the southern states’ secession) – was calling himself a “Whig.”
The problem is that when the old “solid gold” Bourbon Democrats got shoved out by the Progressives (who’ve been calling themselves “Liberals” since they made the word “progressive” signify pretty much what it does in oncology) at the beginning of the 20th Century, our Blue Faction has gone further down into the cesspool than ever their good old “bipartisan” buddies ever did. Or could.
Ah, but Michelle Blanch is a “Liberal” fascist partisan of the National Socialists, and therefore utterly and perfectly pig-ignorant of history.
Gotta be, else poor Michelle would look into whatever excuse she uses for a soul, perceive the festering evil there, and Do The Right Thing to herself.
The Republicans suck, sure. But they’ve always sucked.
The difference between the Red Faction and the National Socialists, however, is that the useta-be “Democrat” predatory conspiracy sucks so much worse that they make even the most “go-along-to-get-along” traitorous RINO wastoids look – well, not good, but certainly less bad by comparison.
Not all that goddam hard, is it? Never thought I’d be nostalgic for Dubbya, but give us a criminal scumbucket like our Fraudulence-in-Chief (the “President-With-an-Asterisk”) and corrupt insider-trading bastids like Nancy Pelosi and Dingy Harry Reid – and then even (yecch!) Mitt the Massachusetts Mamzer Romney looks like cholera next to metastatic bowel cancer.
Cholera can kill you, but youve got a chance. Stage IV adenocarcinoma of the bowel?
You’re dead.
Q.E. [Barrack Hussein Obama - or whatever in hell his name really is] D.
Now we have a chance for a president who does have a clue. The following, by a businessman talkinb about insourcing people to work in technology, claiming the peoplw who can do the job do not live in America: “If I want a chip engineer, I’m not goint to hire a former carpenter to do the job.” That’s what we have in the office of the president. We’ve got a social worker lawyer to run the econmy, the education system, the gain arms control (now some of the men working on it admit it was to have a crisis big enough to get gun control), who hasn’t a clue about finding the men to do jobs that do not involve the government sticking it’s nose and sniffing up all the good stuff. I propose we find a good cabinet for any president: How about Santorum for homeland security? How about Trump for ambassador to China? How about Cain for Treasury secretary? The rest of you do some!