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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You know what really pisses me off? When Bush won, there were a lot of unhappy Dems, but after the election they said we're still Americans and we aren't going to screw the country and stall the Congress so that nothing gets done for the next 4 yrs b/c we're mad "our guy" didn't get elected. When Obama got elected Republicans got bent out of shape and decided to dig their heels in and do NOTHING so that they could "prove the wrong guy won" and Obama screwed up the country. It wasn't about doing what was right for the USA, it was about screwing up everything Obama tried to do. And here we are again. Screw the little guys and fire the workers to "prove" that Obamacare can't work. Stop being spoiled children and start remembering that we're all AMERICANS. This is it for the next 4 years. Find a way to make it work and stop screwing your fellow Americans to try to make a point. We're all supposed to be on the same side now. Or have you forgotten the election is over?![/quote]

Don't worry, it's all bluster.  This is a time honored response of business owners whenever they face a regulation they don't like (which is all of them).  When I was a kid, they mandated vapor reclaiming pumps in my state.  The owners howled and said that it would cost them more to comply with the law than they make and they would shut down and the people would vote the bastards out once they couldn't get gas anymore.  But like a kid holding his breath, you know he's going to breathe, and money is the businessman's oxygen.

This pattern repeated itself with cars (remember how catalytic converters were going to kill the auto industry?) Smoke stack scrubbers, financial regulations, you name it.  Oh, it's going to kill my business.  Banning smoking in restaurants would cause a tidal wave of business to spill over into neighboring states. Instead it reduced heart attacks.  Blah blah blah.

Don't get me wrong, there is such a thing as bad or overly aggressive regulation, but Obama is not the antichrist and he is not killing business.

Business people do what is in their economic interest.  They will not fire people to prove a point.  They will make money because they want money.

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Are you stupid? In the end businesses will just raise prices and we the consumer will pay for it. With things like your above examples technology advances and mass production cause the price comes to come down so we pay it less and less each year. With healthcare that never goes down and goes up faster than inflation so we will end up paying more for the same product with no end in sight for cost decreases like with technology.[/quote]

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