Georgia Company's Breaking Point: 'We Are Not Hiring Until Obama Is Gone

A recent report claims that a Georgia business owner has been posting "controversial" signs on his company's trucks.

What do they say?

"New Company Policy: We are not hiring until Obama is gone."

See the 11Alive news update:

"Can't afford it," explained the employer, Bill Looman, Tuesday evening in a recent 11Alive report. "I've got people that 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."

Looman's says he put the signs on his company's trucks and posted pictures of them to his personal Facebook page six months ago. When he originally did that, he said that he received mostly positive reaction from people, "about 20-to-one positive."

However, one of those pictures went viral on Monday and the reaction was enormous.

In fact, the reaction was so huge that Looman had to disconnect his phones 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," 11Alive reports.

Here is a screengrab of the front page of the company website:

Looman made it clear:  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 poor economy that the Obama administration has helped to create, adds the 11Alive report.

"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.

Apparently, someone really didn't like the signs: Looman was reported to the FBI as a threat to national security. The accusation started with the FBI, went through the Department of Homeland Security, and ended with Secret Service Agents interviewing 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."

Despite the visit from the Secret Service, as well as the flood of calls and Internet traffic, Looman refuses to take the signs down.

"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."