I just heard something that truly astounded me

Borrowing to meet payroll and then hiring more employees because you can always borrow more and spending money you don't have sounds very familiar to me... oh yeah.. that's the way the Federal Government works!!! You are absolutely right that this administration is clueless as to how to run a business or how to stimulate the business sector. I will go further and say that the unemployment rate started to rise immediately after the 2008 election. The business sector understood that the incoming administration would create an unfriendly business environment and the cutting back started in anticipation. If this president doesn't figure out what it takes to promote a healthy business climate, there will not be a comeback in the economy. Just as you can't borrow and spend your way into a successful business, the government can't keep spending money it doesn't have and expect to keep the citizens' confidence.

You are welcome. I agree that this example is very worth a rant. There are so many things that Obama is clueless about and his henchmen are just as bad. Sadly we the people are the ones who suffer from their ignorance.

You are so right. They don't have a clue.

We need leaders that have actually had real life experience. Few of them have had it.

You are absolutely right and it is in no way a "rant" to speak out against things that are outrageously wrong. The usurper knows full well that small businesses are suffering (as well as our whole country) because that is his INTENT, as he carefully, and with malice of forethought and afterthought bankrupts us. This arrogant liar is proud enough to believe he can force lie upon lie on a foolish constituency who voted for him because they didn't have the wisdom and discernment to recognize a liar when they saw him and heard him speak volumes of NOTHING. Not one word out of his mouth is to be believed and he is in no way trustworthy. Bank loans? No way! He knows exactly what he is saying, as in "the emperor has no clothes". There is neither truth, nor trustworthiness in the traitor. His continual doublespeak reveals that he considers Americans stupid and beneath him. He needs to be removed from the office he stole and tried for treason so that we can have a chance to recover from the one year horror show he has produced. The cost has been too great and he should never have been allowed to set foot in the White House because he is NOT legally or constitutionally "president".

Well, his response is just amazingly stupid. It proves he has absolutely no clue about how a business is run or how the economy works. He has no concept of what a budget is or that it might just be a good idea to keep the spending under the revenue level. He thinks it's OK to keep spending money like it's nothing, with no regard to what money is coming in. No business could be run like this. If it were, it would be bankrupt. How did the voters in this country put someone in office that is so blatantly unqualified and incompetent? They were simply taken in by a smooth talking charlatan. He talked a good game but unfortunately, that is all he can do, talk. He has done absolutely nothing while in office. He hasn't proposed any legislation. He hasn't accomplished anything. He just talks about it. You want to know what the Tea Party movement really is? It's just a bunch of people with buyer's remorse...

The whole thing is ridiculous.. run business like the government is run? i.e. spending what you don't have- and when it comes to government, after all it's not their money, not their debt.. Did I read something above about 6 figure incomes? What with all the perks (and briberies) from lobbyists and total health care, total wages for the rest of their lives.. (to say nothing of the huge carbon footprints they leave all over as they zip around in their limos and jets).. - Yet the statement you quoted is so blatantly ridiculous!

really, "W" ran a business before he got into politics, but I think he was into the government business too long It takes so much to line up the "machine" to become a top government official that a lot of the worth of having a business back ground is lost.

That's scary! What a flippant answer coming from the President. I think that we voters need to get more educated about the voting process. It needs to be something that is taught in high school, as non-partisan as it can be. It should be a requirement before you are able to vote that you go to a class and learn about the candidates and their qualifications. This will ensure a better President and government next time around. Sincerely in Christ, Leesa C. Eph.2:8,9

The only loans available for business are micro loans for large businesses who will hire a lot of people to stimulate the area growth according to the SBA. If you are a small business the only way you are going to get a loan is if you don't need one! The banks are not wanting to loan unless you have nearly a credit score of 700 or higher, have a very very sound financial statement and can show growth to pay the loan back. If you need a loan to meet payroll then a bank is going to look at your business as unstable. The government does not want or believe in small business helping the financial crisis but wants big business manufacturing, bio businesses ect that can hire in mass to locate in our country. Where are these big businesses that are going to save us? The government should support the small businesses that are established or want to start a business instead they still support corporate greed no matter what party they belong to because the government does not understand living paycheck to paycheck or the blue collar worker.

You are so right. If I can't make my payroll I am out of business, what could I possibily use to get a loan. I cannot risk my home or my family savings for a business in today's markets.

Was that the extent of Mr. Obama's response, because it doesn't make any sense. It also does not address the problem. There is one senator I know of who has run a successful business, Bob Corker of Tennessee.

I agree. By and large, Americans seem to like their politicians to have that mainstream-approved elitist air about them: big, brand-name schools, something to do with law, professional advocacy for hot-button causes never hurts, and any link to the commons is ironically frowned upon. Anything like basic business or a common life is truly taboo. It's so weird to me. America was created to be controlled specifically by the everyday folks. Sure, intelligence is a MUST! But we're talking about knowing the atmosphere of your country and its problems and people, not necessarily being well-versed in political theory and knowing ways to step beyond the limits of the Constitution. It amazes me that a guy like Mitt Romney (not that I think he's presidential material, mind you) is blasted for having real-world business experience, but a guy like Obama is held up to be his superior due to his status as a law professor and a community oranizer (read: someone alerting people of problems but not fixing them). America may have been constructed with a specific intent, but it has quickly reverted back to Rome, where only the rich, disconnected landowners elect themselves to decide what's best for the rest of the people. I don't know about anyone else, but I would like my representatives, local or otherwise, to be more like the hundreds of millions and less like the few thousand. I think a lot of people in America find themselves needing to worship a politician on some levels, or else there's no reason to vote for them. It's painfully obvious why kings were able to rule their kingdoms for so long.

And most obvious, the business that are doing good, have no problem borrowing money anyway. The companies that can't borrow money, can't because they are doing awful! We act like telling the banks to lend more is the answer... no having customers with money is the answer. But the problem is, that leaves out government, and supports the great satan... TAX CUTS. *GASP!*

Obama has never had a real job is whole life, community organizer, a constitutional law professor(maybe), and politician. This answer would be excepted to come from a man without any business back ground. The only business I could think of that would need a bank loan to make payroll are probably in fiscal trouble. If you have enough customers to make a profit, you will have enough money to make payroll.

Like you, what I have heard is that perhaps one person in the cabinet and working under President Obama has ever worked for a living. The others have either been politicians, or part of the education system. I used to run into the same thing just in real life, talking about budgeting in a church class. Do not get me wrong, I like the people I know that are teachers, but a long time ago, when my hubby and I were having some trouble because of fluctuating income, these people had not a clue. The educators had always had a paycheck and they were many of them children of people who had contracts and paychecks. They had no clue that the real world has to worry about erratic cash flow, and that the answer is not borrowing. I would like to see us elect people who have had to work for a living.

Obama and the members of Congres are just politicians.They don't have a clue as to what goes on in the real world.