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Obama Seizes on Growing Political Divide Between Small Business and Big Corporations

Jan. 25, 2013 8:43pm Christopher Santarelli

The GOP has always been presumed to be the party of business, but with friends and supporters on the boards of major conglomerates and Wall Street banks, President Barack Obama has presided over a growing political and philosophical divide in the American business community with big business drifting further away from the Republican Party and small businesses as vocal as ever against Democrats. William Galston writes in The New Republic on some of the reasoning for why small businesses and large corporations are beginning to drift apart on politics:

There are deep and structural differences between these two sectors. Most small businesses pay taxes through the individual code, while big businesses pay corporate rates. Small businesses typically hire through family and local networks, while big businesses draw from a national labor pool. Small businesses focus mainly on the domestic market, while big businesses are just as concerned about overseas sales. Corporations have sizable cash flows and access to credit markets, which gives them a cushion against adversity and added costs; small businesses often operate much closer to the margin and are acutely sensitive to policies that threaten to drive up costs. Corporate CEOs can hire experts to help them cope with added regulatory burdens and can spread the costs over a large workforce; small business owners must deal with these burdens by themselves and have few ways dilute their impact.

On ‘Real News‘ Friday the panel discussed how the Obama administration is forming an alliance with big business, and what consequences such a partnership would have on the economy and middle class:

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rdk
Posted on January 27, 2013 at 12:00pm
Big business is friendly with whoever or whatever is in power.
Small business is protected by the GOP.
Unions are protected by the Democrats.
Poor people are force fed by Democrats.
No matter what, the vast middle class ends up holding the short end of the stick.

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Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on January 26, 2013 at 4:17pm
He did cause it. He tied to centralize all banking by bankrupting community banks. Killed over 1,000 of them, working on the rest. He is killing industry so as to centralize it and unionize wholesale. Obamacare and regulation both seek to do this.
This is just the beginning of the part where obama goes off demonizing exactly what it is HE is doing, and then hide behind the bush (no pun) claiming it’s really the other guy to blame. “Inside/out” Jihad by proxy..

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Arshloch
Posted on January 26, 2013 at 2:29pm
obummer did not seize on any divide, he CAUSED it.

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- fastgen1
  Posted on January 26, 2013 at 3:30pm
  This is true, but, he has more suffering for us who work. He has many more 40 acres and a mule to had out, as he obviously hates the whitey……
  
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MCLOVINIT
Posted on January 26, 2013 at 1:54pm
“Four dead in Ben-gha-zi”. (Sing to the tune of Neil Young’s “Ohio”…”Four dead in Ohio”)

R.I.P. Ambassador Stevens & three brave American patriots

“What difference does it make?” – Hillary Clinton

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- SocialistSlayer
  Posted on January 26, 2013 at 2:26pm
  It doesn’t ! – Not when you have a Group of Republicans that have no balls to stand up against them !
  
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rdk
Posted on January 26, 2013 at 1:40pm
I am glad someone noticed. The GOP is indeed the friend of small business. But big business is a friend of whoever is in power and whichever party will see that business flows its way.

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Tom70
Posted on January 26, 2013 at 12:20pm
Yes the “ONE’” it is all about destroying this once great country for his money backers filth like Soro’s and many other’s who support him. What I don’t understand is what will they get out of the countries distruction

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- fixer
  Posted on January 26, 2013 at 2:40pm
  they need to bring us down to the least common denominator. in other words,they can’t raise up all the other countries to our level,so they need to take us down to the lowest level of every thing.only then can they institute their ONE WORLD ORDER. AGENDA 21
  
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jesunn
Posted on January 26, 2013 at 10:09am
This is not news for me. I am a small business owner and I dropped out of the GOP in 2000. In the late 1990′s the GOP couldn’t do enough for big business. Congressional records show comments by GOP congressmen saying “that’s where the money is”, remember “K” street. That is why I spent time firing GOP members “Santorum”. How is it that Lowes and Home Depot sell China product and ignore US product of better quality and lower price. Se ABC news on that subject. Both parties have at grown Washington at the expense of the Middle Class and Small business. Now big business supports a minimum income “tax payers payout” so they can continue the ponzi scheme. Big business through Hedge funds has become the 1904 “Trusts” of the current times. Obama has not pushed us any further left than Republicans would have had they controlled the economy. Currently both parties support “staple a green card to your diploma” which I believe will ship more technology and manufacturing out of the country. H1B’s, work visa’a that big companies get that suppress wages
and their costs that small business can’t get. All this under the premise that “American are not smart enough, lazy or do not have the current skills. All you get from Republicans is Democrat ideas ‘the lite version’. Many business can’t even be started because your supplies are overseas. Think steel, electronic components, machinery.

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AbrahamsSheepdog
Posted on January 26, 2013 at 9:51am
Damn it Save America! Please if you’re blessed, if you love, if you want hope, you need to man-up. (women too). a Godless nation doesn’t pray. Take forty seconds and thank your Father, ask for safety and wisdom.. ;)

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AbrahamsSheepdog
Posted on January 26, 2013 at 9:42am
My local business has worked in his eyes I guess. Why guys can’t get ahead is easy…it’s the economy stupid. And taxes out the ass. The flylord of dark bizzaro world is combining his thugs. Peaps-zz- It’s His resume!!! All He do. Heavens ta Betsy, fellahs. Ship High In Transit

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OldSurfRat
Posted on January 26, 2013 at 8:30am
As a small business owner for nearly 20 years I would say that one of the reasons that there is a divide is do to the fact that it is easier for the government to control large companies through the legislation of laws. Also big business is controlled by CEOs, unions and shareholders which none of have their blood, sweat and life devoted to the company.

However a small business generally has the founder and long term employees working there which do have there blood and sweat on the line.
As an owner I can tell you that I try to keep the government, unions and alike out of my doors.
Why do I do this? Because we built this thing and I will be damn if some snot nose politician or some fat a$$ union leader is EVER going to tell me how to run my company. I am not beholding to any punk a$$ politician or useless union and that is how I will die PERIOD!!

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- Skeeterhawk
  Posted on January 26, 2013 at 8:55am
  Right on.
  
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TexPat
Posted on January 26, 2013 at 8:12am
DIVIDE AND CONQUER This has been his agenda from the beginning. And, I am sorry to say, it has worked.

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- neverending
  Posted on January 26, 2013 at 9:53pm
  That has been one of his primary goals and you are right it has and is working. Just another avenue to tear down this country.
  
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term limits for congress
Posted on January 26, 2013 at 7:24am
Big companies are the new unions. They are just as controlling as the unions. Only liberal views are allowed. In their desire for diversity in the work force, they push out anyone over 50 (too costly) and only hire diverse workers (no white males). Arriving at work with a Romney bumper sticker will guarantee your place on the layoff list during the next reorganization. And, this article is correct – big companies can react/absorb govt regulations much more easily than small companies. I have worked in a company that had an entire department dedicated to regulatory compliance.

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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on January 26, 2013 at 7:38am
  exactly right. Big corporations have powerful lobbies and they purposefully keep the regulatory and tax code impossible to follow. The big agricultural companies control the FDA in order to get their unhealthy food into our bodies and the defense contractors keep us at war in other countries. And we all know the corruption of the banking system.
  
  And they all love the fed because a loose monetary policy is good for the biggest corporations who use debt and leverage their borrowing ability from the fed.
  
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- AUsername
  Posted on January 26, 2013 at 9:24am
  no it won’t Romney is a liberal to.
  
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betterpart
Posted on January 26, 2013 at 4:58am
Obama shouldn’t worry. He built that.

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jadams9845
Posted on January 26, 2013 at 4:55am
ObamaNazi will always choose corpratism over free market capitalism. Just ask John Corzine, he’ll tell you. If you can’t ask him, call HSBC….they launder money for the drug cartels. They love ObamaNazi.

How’s that ‘freedom’ thing workin’ out for us?

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AZhunter
Posted on January 26, 2013 at 4:49am
I owned a successful small trucking company. When the machines elected O I saw what was coming and sold sold my company to a larger corporation owned by native Americans. They get huge tax breaks and lots of government favoritism. I chose them because my competition was the worlds largest garbage company which doesn’t have to play by the same rules I did. Huge tax breaks for them. City officials in their pockets. And unlimited funds behind them.
Sure enough O and his liberal law making cronies started immediately sending out regulations choking out small haulers. The new regulations on trucking companies are meant to benefit the larger companies and squeeze out the smaller ones and they’re doing their job.
With the machines changing votes, he’s re-elected. Looks like I won’t start another business. I started my first hauling company at 19 years old. Owned companies for 26 years. This is the first time I’ve ever worked for someone else. The people I now work for now are trying to sell their company because of all the regulations choking them out. This country is in trouble.

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media-bias-steals-elections
Posted on January 26, 2013 at 2:13am
Campaign strategy for Repblicans is not rocket science?

1. They will take your guns if you elect them.

2. You can not afford the lawyers needed to comply with regulations, and we will do something about it?

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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 11:18pm
Divide, control and conquer until all are subjugated under his iron fist dictatorship. What else is new from the communist in the White House.

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zoro51
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 10:50pm
he IS not now nor ever was a comunicator a organizer but a DIVIDER IMPEACH N REMOVE NOW SAVE AMERICA before HE declares him self GOD ON EARTH n starts KILLING us all

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- YOURSENSEI
  Posted on January 26, 2013 at 1:21pm
  Mr or Ms ZORO51,
  
  This is what you must know:
  
  Finally, a voice of reason in this crazy mixed up world. The Tea Party needs a strong charismatic leader. Would you be willing to serve?
  
  It is so.
  
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