Beck: Small Biz Fighting Obama Admin Is Like ‘Going 15 Rounds With Ivan Drago’
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Six months ago, members of the “99%” pitched their first tent in Zuccotti Park with plans to squat there indefinitely. Glenn Beck opened his Monday evening program by marking the half-year anniversary of the Occupy movement and to discussing the downward spiral being perpetuated on many other fronts of American life.
“Happy anniversary, Occupy,” Glenn quipped. “You rock…and, rape.”
As Occupy‘s purported concerns are America’s economy and the country’s unemployment rate, Glenn delved into some harsh realities on these very topics.
“With the full backing of the media,“ Glenn cautioned that the Obama administration has been diligently trying to convince Americans the recession is over by spinning a ”fairytale“ citing ”better than expected jobs numbers“ and ”upbeat sales at retailers“ as proof that ”happy days are here again.”
Yet contrary to what the administration would have American’s believe, nearly half polled in a recent survey reveal that Americans are not confident the economy will recover.
“It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see we have severe shortages in food, supplies, gas and jobs,” Glenn said pointedly.
Making matters worse:
Glenn reminded that while Japan is poised to lower its corporate tax rate, next month America will in fact raise its tax rate, effectively garnering the U.S. the title of: Highest corporate tax in world.
“Nothing attracts new business and business expansion like taking more money from them,” Glenn blazed. And more than any other country, to boot.
Despite this grim road ahead, small business has been responsible for 65% of new jobs over the past 17 years.
And now, delivering the coup de grace to business owners, New York is raising the minimum wage by $1.25.
Reciting statistics which reveal that for 32 straight months — “the longest since the Great Depression” — 23.8% of Americans aged 16-19 are unemployed, Glenn rhetorically asked if raising the minimum wage will “help or hurt” the youth group?
One must also consider how longtime employees of a local 7-11 will feel when the new teenage hire is earning as much as they are from day one on the job.
“The state simply doesn’t understand…or more likely, doesn’t care, that companies have to pay bills,” Glenn remarked.
Companies can’t just force customers to spend more, nor can they get federal bailouts at the drop of a hat. Companies “can go belly up,” he warned.
“But when there are cheap political points to be scored, none of that matters.”
Turning back to food shortages, Glenn cautioned that when farms go out of business, Americans will have less food and thus will become dependent on foreign food sources, just like they already are on foreign oil.
He also made the astute observation that farmers, along with small business owners and oil refineries, “feel like they’ve just gone 15 rounds with Ivan Drago” when going toe to toe with the Obama administration.
And speaking of refineries:
According to Glenn, regulations over the last few decades have led to new refineries becoming “essentially non-existent.”
And if you live in the Northeast, according to Glenn, “get ready for some serious pain at the pump” as the region’s largest refinery, Sunoco, is closing after losing $1 million a day for three years running. That’s approximately $1 billion is losses.
Or, as Glenn pointed out, 335,000 barrels of oil off the market.
But what makes matters so dismal is that Sunoco‘s fail comes on the heels of the Conoco Phillips’ shut-down.
“Those two refineries alone accounted for 20% of all gasoline produced in the Northeast,” Glenn reminded.
And the decreased output likely exacerbates an already abysmal forecast for gas prices, which have jumped 6% in February alone.
But here is the glaring question for Glenn: “Why are refineries losing money?”
The administration’s role:
“Keep in mind the administration‘s defense for high gas prices is that it’s completely out of the president’s control,” Glenn quipped.
So, by the administration’s logic, nothing Obama does can make the gas prices go down. “So which is it?” Glen pressed. “Can you effect it [gas prices] or not?”
Other points to consider:
Refineries are faced with limited access to inexpensive oil because there are “not enough pipelines” in the U.S. Yet Obama “jammed government health care down America’s throat“ but ”wasn’t able to get the Keystone pipeline done.”
“But haven’t you heard? This president is ‘pro-drilling,’” mocked Glenn.
Rising tensions in the middle east and between Western nations and Iran are making matters worse, but Glenn pointed out key moves the president made that have only intensified an already negative situation. Obama:
- Praised Mohamed Bouazizi — a man who set himself ablaze and started a revolution in the streets while comparing himself to Rosa Parks
- Encouraged citizens of other middle east nations to start similar “revolutions”
- Warred with Libya by “funding and aiding rebels” who eventually assassinated their president, before savagely dragging drug through the streets while cheering
- The administration is set to release $1.5 billion in aid to Egypt
It might be worth noting that Egypt has officially declared Israel — with whom it once shared a cold peace — its Public Enemy No.1.
Jumping topics, Glenn revealed the Obama administration, “quietly and without reason,“ announced the proposal of an executive ordered titled ”National Defense Resources Preparedness.“ The order renews and updates an order from 1950 that gives the president some ”pretty eye-popping powers,” according to Glenn.
Among them are:
- The power to take control of all civil energy supplies (including oil and gas)
- Control over civil transportation
- Re-enabling the draft
Glenn recoiled at the fact that the president can even exercise the order in peacetime and believes the only logical explanation for the administration’s push is in its “anticipation of an imminent disruption” to the flow of oil to America.
He cautioned that Iran is already threatening to shut down the Straights of Hormuz pending an Israeli attack and that up to 40% of the world’s oil travels through those very straights.
Glenn ceded that while the updated order has many of the same powers as it did previously, America has never before had a president or administration “so hell bent on destroying” what we believe America to be and to “reshaping it so closely to what their hearts desire.”
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charles1540
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 9:50amYet too many brain dead Americans think this Obama is wonderful. Ever day they get the daily propaganda from the mainstream liberal media who provide cover for the most incompetent president since Jimmy Carter. We can only hope the election turns out as it did when Carter ran for re-election.
Report Post »SCARED
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 5:29pmYeah, um anyone else ever wonder if Obama’s absence with regard to leadership is because he always needs to see what the women of the White House think first. Make no mistake Valarie Jarrett and Michelle Obama run this country. Makes perfect sense to me. The man in the White House has mommy (and daddy for that matter) issues and in order to keep the women around he tries always to please them. idk, just sayin’
Report Post »RacistWhiteMan
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 10:37pmYou’re damn right “Scared.” I didn’t elect a skirt to the White House, let alone a highly educated one with opinions. As soon as my wife became too lippy I had to cut her loose. So what if she took the 3,500 ft2 Dutch Colonial house and stopped giving me an allowance. I’d rather live in a beat-up airstream trailer and collect disability than let some successful woman with the body of a college coed but tell me what to do.
Report Post »teddyc73
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 8:42amThe small business I work for has been struggling to stay in business the entire Obama presidency. During that time we have gotten worse, not better. Before that we were booming. We continue to shrink and reduce our work force just to stay viable. None of our employees have seen pay increases in years yet we have to deal with rising prices everyday. So for us the economy is NOT improving. The stuff Glenn points out scares the heck out of me but it needs to be said and said and said. I cant for the life of me think why ANYONE would vote for Pres Obama again. Other than maybe those that are waiting for more of his “Obama money”. Heaven help us.
Report Post »jvickers5937
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 2:19amThanks for scaring the piss out of me Glen. I’m not looking forward to this year one single bit. I see the writing on the wall and it is written in fecal matter all the way.
Report Post »rc30
Posted on March 19, 2012 at 11:07pmI just went too my home town of Flint Michigan from Texas. Last time there was 2010. Now its 10 times worse. The two big malls are like ghost town. Half the food court is gone. Only half the stores and that just the mall. So me and my son went to my friends house that works at truck and bus GMC plant.
Report Post »He just laugh and said thing are worse now then before. No new trucks in the holding and loading lot. He said they only build enough to be shipped. That there not enough orders to run more then one shift. Also crime is crazy murder every night I was there. Gun shots heard all night and my brother lives in the good part.
Now Flint Michigan has about 150,000 people. Now if you put Dallas Houston Austin all together it won’t match Flint Michigan crime rate. Now I would say all the Texas city I listed would be around 6 to 8 million. Only ???? that is needed here is are you better today then yesterday. Ronald Reagan smart man and a ???? to ask any one who supports what we have today.
2theADDLED
Posted on March 19, 2012 at 11:07pmWhat happens when the peon makes the same wage as a union worker think they will be content with that ? That’s why unions support the increase in the minimum wage.
Report Post »And why is Barry still cashing his Government paycheck doesn’t he believe in fair share and redistribution of the wealth. Kinda Hypocritical to not return or donate it to a charity.
possom
Posted on March 19, 2012 at 10:34pmThis is going to be an entertaining year. What do think king obie’s going to do next? Mabye abolish the union’s? No wait he won‘t do that until after he get’s re-elected, let’s wait and see. Keep your powder dry folk‘s only 9 more mo’s to go.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on March 19, 2012 at 11:07pmIf the Left thinks that it loosing… after having their President, DOJ, DOD, etc… they will go for a Last Stand!
Report Post »GMAN455
Posted on March 19, 2012 at 10:33pmEveryone take pics of your local business’s that went out of business so far and make a video out of them and put them on you tube . And make custom garage sale signs that say HOPE AND CHANGE 9/10 have a arrow pointing at all the gas station signs in your local area too put them right by the road pointing to the gas prices
Report Post »tbl10
Posted on March 19, 2012 at 10:26pmI have been saying this for nearly a year now that there would be no general election in 2012. We will be in martial law before then. Every month new legislation or new executive order are making that statement more and more a reality. Now with OWS getting geared up for Round 2 and in addition you have all of the brainwashed kiddies getting out of the Indoctrination Centers for the summer. Guess what they will be doing this summer. Blood will be spilled in the streets this spring and summer.
Report Post »SheriS
Posted on March 19, 2012 at 10:20pmAs Obamacare takes effect, you will see more and more businesses closing or their employees let go. Small businesses can’t financially keep their businesses open and give their employees Obamacare! Watch small businesses in your are over the next few months to see the result of this disasterous law which hopefully will send Obama packing up and back in Chicago where he belongs–he never should have been elected, but that blame lies at the feet of McCain and Palin! Pray for our small businesses all over the country!
Report Post »cuinsong
Posted on March 19, 2012 at 10:19pmWe just need to replace this guy and repair the damage he has done then move on. NObama should be the mantra! His song is “The Devils Song” http://www.reverbnation.com/play_now/song_10789987
Report Post »spirited
Posted on March 19, 2012 at 10:01pmWhat is the Department of :
—> Gereral Services ?
Report Post »sunnyblack
Posted on March 19, 2012 at 9:54pm“Beck: Small Biz Fighting Obama Admin Is Like ‘Going 15 Rounds With Ivan Drago’”
He’s just a man, Rock! He’s just a man!!
Report Post »Caniac Steve
Posted on March 19, 2012 at 9:50pmtoo bad even with more to choose from…it still gets down to who is the lesser of the two evils huh ???
Report Post »jzs
Posted on March 19, 2012 at 10:02pmSorry to bust your bubble folks, but there have been no laws passed during the Obama administration raising taxes on corporations. Besides corporations don’t pay those rates anyway. Some pay none, such Newscorp, owner of FOX. I think the average actual taxes paid by corporations is about half that – a results of their lobbying efforts for exemptions.
Report Post »htMac
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 1:38pmOkay. That is an issue. Do you have a fix for it?
Report Post »spirited
Posted on March 19, 2012 at 9:42pmYa…. and now (naturally),
anyone questioning the “Act” (3-16-12 President Obama Executive Order) is being called “paranoid republicans”
>PART VIII – GENERAL PROVISIONS
Report Post »Sec. 801. Definitions. In addition to the definitions in section 702 of the Act, 50 U.S.C. App. 2152, the following definitions apply throughout this order:
(a) “Civil transportation” includes movement of persons and property by all modes of transportation in interstate, intrastate, or foreign commerce within the United States, its territories and possessions, and the District of Columbia, and related public storage and warehousing, ports, services, equipment and facilities, such as transportation carrier shop and repair facilities. “Civil transportation” also shall include direction, control, and coordination of civil transportation capacity regardless of ownership. “Civil transportation” shall not include transportation owned or controlled by the Department of Defense, use of petroleum and gas pipelines, and coal slurry pipelines used only to supply energy production facilities directly.
(b) “Energy” means all forms of energy including petroleum, gas (both natural and manufactured), electricity, solid fuels (including all forms of coal, coke, coal chemicals, coal liquification, and coal gasification), solar, wind, other types of renewable energy, atomic energy, and the production, conservation, use, control, and distribution (including pipelines) of all of these forms of energy.
spirited
Posted on March 19, 2012 at 9:44pm(c) “Farm equipment” means equipment, machinery, and repair parts manufactured for use on farms in connection with the production or preparation for market use of food resources.
Report Post »(d) “Fertilizer” means any product or combination of products that contain one or more of the elements nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium for use as a plant nutrient.
(e) “Food resources” means all commodities and products, (simple, mixed, or compound), or complements to such commodities or products, that are capable of being ingested by either human beings or animals, irrespective of other uses to which such commodities or products may be put, at all stages of processing from the raw commodity to the products thereof in vendible form for human or animal consumption. “Food resources” also means potable water packaged in commercially marketable containers, all starches, sugars, vegetable and animal or marine fats and oils, seed, cotton, hemp, and flax fiber, but does not mean any such material after it loses its identity as an agricultural commodity or agricultural product.
(f) “Food resource facilities” means plants, machinery, vehicles (including on farm), and other facilities required for the production, processing, distribution, and storage (including cold storage) of food resources, and for the domestic distribution of farm equipment and fertilizer (excluding transportation thereof).
(g) “Functions” include powers, duties, authority, responsibilities, and discretion.
(h) “Head
Caniac Steve
Posted on March 19, 2012 at 9:46pmincluding our personal vehicles too…so what will Cass Sunstein encourage the president to do next ??
Report Post »spirited
Posted on March 19, 2012 at 9:49pm(h) “Head of each agency engaged in procurement for the national defense” means the heads of the Departments of State, Justice, the Interior, and Homeland Security, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the General Services Administration, and all other agencies with authority delegated under section 201 of this order.
Report Post »(i) “Health resources” means drugs, biological products, medical devices, materials, facilities, health supplies, services and equipment required to diagnose, mitigate or prevent the impairment of, improve, treat, cure, or restore the physical or mental health conditions of the population.
(j) “National defense” means programs for military and energy production or construction, military or critical infrastructure assistance to any foreign nation, homeland security, stockpiling, space, and any directly related activity. Such term includes emergency preparedness activities conducted pursuant to title VI of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, 42 U.S.C. 5195 et seq., and critical infrastructure protection and restoration.
(k) “Offsets” means compensation practices required as a condition of purchase in either government to government or commercial sales of defense articles and/or defense services as defined by the Arms Export Control Act, 22 U.S.C. 2751 et seq., and the International Traffic in Arms Regulations, 22 C.F.R. 12
spirited
Posted on March 19, 2012 at 9:52pmPART VII – DEFENSE PRODUCTION ACT COMMITTEE
Report Post »Sec. 701. The Defense Production Act Committee. (a) The Defense Production Act Committee (Committee) shall be composed of the following members, in accordance with section 722(b) of the Act, 50 U.S.C. App. 2171(b):
(1) The Secretary of State;
(2) The Secretary of the Treasury;
(3) The Secretary of Defense;
(4) The Attorney General;
(5) The Secretary of the Interior;
(6) The Secretary of Agriculture;
(7) The Secretary of Commerce;
(8) The Secretary of Labor;
(9) The Secretary of Health and Human Services;
(10) The Secretary of Transportation;
(11) The Secretary of Energy;
(12) The Secretary of Homeland Security;
(13) The Director of National Intelligence;
(14) The Director of the Central Intelligence Agency;
(15) The Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers;
(16) The Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration; and
(17) The Administrator of General Services.
Baddoggy
Posted on March 19, 2012 at 9:53pmOooooh man…Glenn blew it off as just a little upgrade to the EO. Don’t worry…you will LOVE the FEMA camps. It’s gonna be great Comrade. We are all Communist now!
Obama will be the one lighting the fuse. Glenn will be in Texas Stadium telling us to love the liberal Marxist Commies into submission like Ghandi. The heck with that. When the fuse is lit the real patriots don’t lay down. Dis Washington lay down? Did patrick Henry, Maddison or Jefferson lay down? Love ‘em all you want Glenn…
Report Post »mathwonk
Posted on March 19, 2012 at 9:37pmrick santorum advocates for big government-
“Republicans, I think to our credit have sort of morphed away from the Goldwater idea that the government just needs to be smaller, it needs to do less, it needs to be doing nothing except what its core functions are, to a party by and large that says look, we need to restructure the way we do programs or the way the government functions to actually create the kind of incentives or create the kind of help and programs that give that authority… I mean power to solve these problems to folks closer to people or to the family or to the individual themselves.”
Report Post »mathwonk
Posted on March 19, 2012 at 9:42pmsantorum on his big government beliefs-
“I suspect some will dismiss my ideas as just an extended version of ‘compassionate conservatism.’ Some will reject what I have said as a kind of ‘big government conservatism.’ Some will say that what I’ve tried to argue isn’t conservatism at all. But I believe what I’ve been presenting is the genuine conservatism our Founders envisioned. One that fosters the opportunity for all Americans to live as we are called to live, in selfless families that contribute to the general welfare, the common good.”
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