Comments on: Emanuel Wants To Undo Investor Reforms

By: Tater Salad

Tater Salad — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:47:30 +0000

Please, please small business owners, don’t cave in to the White House and let them get their hooks into you. Do NOT accept ANY federal dollars. This is exactly what the Obama administration wants you to do. They will then “own” you and dictate to you on how to run your business and how to support “their agenda”. Please do not fall for this.

By: canary

canary — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:42:57 +0000

This has been unchallenged on informal wikiepedia site for along time now.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rahm_Emanuel

Emanuel is known for his “take-no-prisoners style” that has earned him the nickname “Rahmbo.”
[21] Emanuel is said to have sent a dead fish in a box to a pollster who was late delivering polling results.
[17] On the night after the 1996 election, “Emanuel was so angry at the president’s enemies
that he stood up at a celebratory dinner with colleagues from the campaign, grabbed a steak knife and began rattling off a list of betrayers, shouting ‘Dead! … Dead! … Dead!’ and plunging the knife into the table after every name.”
[7][5] Before Tony Blair gave a pro-Clinton speech during the impeachment crisis, Emanuel reportedly screamed to Blair’s face “Don’t fuck this up!” while Clinton was present; Blair and Clinton both burst into laughter.[22] However, by 2007 his close friends were saying that he has “mellowed out.”[10] ….that chronicle these and other quotes and incidents.[23][24][25][26]

By: sbaxter

sbaxter — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:27:22 +0000

Clue: Private equity is targetting small cap public firms. Dropping the cost/savings of SOX compliance to the bottom line is the incentive.

Rahm is attempting to stymie a windfall for private equity investment – in effect, mitigate the unintended consequences of over-regulation.

By: TwilightZoned

TwilightZoned — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:35:37 +0000

This guy’s nothing but a pit viper.
We need a mongoose, or several, to take
out this and all the other venomous snakes
that are poisoning this country.

By: Liberals Demise

Liberals Demise — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:34:02 +0000

Can you say, “Kickback” ponzi …….. Chi-Town style?

By: proreason

proreason — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:44:47 +0000

There is something suspicious about this. There is something sinister about it.

I think Steve’s point about saving their “phoney baloney jobs” is that destroying small business could lose the Statists the next election. That might be true, but I think that is one of their highest goals, and I fully expect to see them implement dozens more measures to do it. The 8% tax in the Health Care Cram-down is one of them. Halting the Bush tax cuts is another. Ruining Auto Dealerships is a third. There will be many more.

Destroying small businesses is next in-line behind families and religion on the statist Hit List. The reason is that small businesses (like families and churches) are hard to control, and serve as social frameworks that enable people to bond and resist government domination. Destroying small businesses is much higher on the fascinst hit-list than Big Business, because Big Business is easy to control. If you don’t believe that, just look at what is happening in the country today, and what happened in Nazi Germany. Big Business lines up behind Big Government instantly, every time. Pharma, GE, Banks, GM, the list is endless.

So I think there must be another shoe to drop. I cannot conceive of them doing something to help Small Businesses. There is a sinister objective in this. We just don’t know it yet.