Why I'm voting for Romney
Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2012 12:23 pmI had asked for people's personal stories as to what is driving their vote in the Benghazi thread. All I got was "i have a sick friend" stories, so here is my personal story as to why I’m voting for Mitt Romney….
I’m 39 and am a manager for an hvac distributor where my branch has logged anywhere from 3.6 million to 5+ million in sales every year for the last 7 or eight years. I hire people and I fire people and deal with hundreds of small business owners of which I’ve known some for over 15 years. I employ 7 people that range anywhere from college grads to college students to guys who have never held a job. When Barack took office I had 9 people and yearly sales were 5 million. So now I’m down to 7 people and a yearly sales of 3.8 million. I’ve been told that if we don’t get back to the 5 million dollar mark that we will lose another person and that person will probably be me. It’s the owners’ company and I completely respect that decision if it comes to be next year this time.
My customers are scared, my employees are scared and to be perfectly honest, I believe our ownership is scared. Barack and his out of control spending and forced healthcare scares business. Barack’s blundering of foreign policy and complete inattentiveness to what is really happening in the world scares business. When businesses are scared they reduce their spending and begin to cut corners. Things that need to be done are put off until next year.
We currently need to up fit our restrooms, replace the tires on our two forklifts (which is expensive as hell, wtf), repair a leaky warehouse roof, fence in our back lot, update our showroom and many other things that we are “putting off” until next year. If Barack is reelected a couple of those things will get done and the rest will continue to be kicked down the road. If Romney is elected, it is very likely all these thing will get done due to the comfort level our ownership will have in the economy. Right or wrong, that’s just how it is, it’s their money and they are the risk takers since they are the business owners.
You have to realize that this is one small business out of millions across the country. At the moment we have real “shovel ready” business for a plumbing company, a roofing company, the forklift maintenance company and several carpenters. All be told we have $10000-20000 work that we COULD feed back into the economy. If Barack is reelected we will probably just do the forklift tires and maybe fence in our backlot ($3000-4000).
Guys, this is now it works. Money trickles down and if you think you can make it trickle up then you’re a damn fool. The free sh!t has got to go and the people who say we need to go up on taxes need to go. Reduced spending on entitlements is the only correct answer we have left for ourselves. If we continue to tax more and more, the government will continue to spend more and more. Romney understands this as a business man. He is a person who has had to run a forecast for the next fiscal year and has had to turn a profit. Romney is the one who has had to jockey his way through the government redtape to turn a profit. Barack has never done these things. I am someone who has had to run a forecast and maneuver through government redtape and who is responsible for turning a profit. I am someone who has to budget and plan for things that may or may not happen in the next 12-18 months. Barack is not. I trust someone who is capable like I am, someone who understands how it works. I trust Romney to do what needs to be done to get us out of the red and back in the black. Barack is incapable.
The people in our economy are like the sand in an hour glass. The workers/producers are the sand at the top and the non producers who sit at home and wait for a check are at the bottom. Human nature will generally follow the path of least resistance and more and more producers every year realize “hey, why bust my ass, I’ll just hop on the government teat, go home and wait for my handout.” So as the sand pours from the top down to the bottom guess what??? Yeah, eventually you have a pile of stagnant sand just sitting there and NOBODY is producing. It’s unsustainable. The government entitlement programs are on a path to collapse and we can either sit back and watch the show or we can turn the hourglass over and make people go back to work and to begin providing for themselves once again.
Sorry for anyone who has a sick friend who is suffering and can't afford whatever treatment they may need. Unfortunately there will be many more "sick friends" out there that will still not be able to get treatment years from now if we don't change course. The government is inefficient at everything it does and healthcare is no exception. Doctors will become fewer and fewer as the years go by, Quality of care will be reduced and sick friends will become more and more.
I’m 39 and am a manager for an hvac distributor where my branch has logged anywhere from 3.6 million to 5+ million in sales every year for the last 7 or eight years. I hire people and I fire people and deal with hundreds of small business owners of which I’ve known some for over 15 years. I employ 7 people that range anywhere from college grads to college students to guys who have never held a job. When Barack took office I had 9 people and yearly sales were 5 million. So now I’m down to 7 people and a yearly sales of 3.8 million. I’ve been told that if we don’t get back to the 5 million dollar mark that we will lose another person and that person will probably be me. It’s the owners’ company and I completely respect that decision if it comes to be next year this time.
My customers are scared, my employees are scared and to be perfectly honest, I believe our ownership is scared. Barack and his out of control spending and forced healthcare scares business. Barack’s blundering of foreign policy and complete inattentiveness to what is really happening in the world scares business. When businesses are scared they reduce their spending and begin to cut corners. Things that need to be done are put off until next year.
We currently need to up fit our restrooms, replace the tires on our two forklifts (which is expensive as hell, wtf), repair a leaky warehouse roof, fence in our back lot, update our showroom and many other things that we are “putting off” until next year. If Barack is reelected a couple of those things will get done and the rest will continue to be kicked down the road. If Romney is elected, it is very likely all these thing will get done due to the comfort level our ownership will have in the economy. Right or wrong, that’s just how it is, it’s their money and they are the risk takers since they are the business owners.
You have to realize that this is one small business out of millions across the country. At the moment we have real “shovel ready” business for a plumbing company, a roofing company, the forklift maintenance company and several carpenters. All be told we have $10000-20000 work that we COULD feed back into the economy. If Barack is reelected we will probably just do the forklift tires and maybe fence in our backlot ($3000-4000).
Guys, this is now it works. Money trickles down and if you think you can make it trickle up then you’re a damn fool. The free sh!t has got to go and the people who say we need to go up on taxes need to go. Reduced spending on entitlements is the only correct answer we have left for ourselves. If we continue to tax more and more, the government will continue to spend more and more. Romney understands this as a business man. He is a person who has had to run a forecast for the next fiscal year and has had to turn a profit. Romney is the one who has had to jockey his way through the government redtape to turn a profit. Barack has never done these things. I am someone who has had to run a forecast and maneuver through government redtape and who is responsible for turning a profit. I am someone who has to budget and plan for things that may or may not happen in the next 12-18 months. Barack is not. I trust someone who is capable like I am, someone who understands how it works. I trust Romney to do what needs to be done to get us out of the red and back in the black. Barack is incapable.
The people in our economy are like the sand in an hour glass. The workers/producers are the sand at the top and the non producers who sit at home and wait for a check are at the bottom. Human nature will generally follow the path of least resistance and more and more producers every year realize “hey, why bust my ass, I’ll just hop on the government teat, go home and wait for my handout.” So as the sand pours from the top down to the bottom guess what??? Yeah, eventually you have a pile of stagnant sand just sitting there and NOBODY is producing. It’s unsustainable. The government entitlement programs are on a path to collapse and we can either sit back and watch the show or we can turn the hourglass over and make people go back to work and to begin providing for themselves once again.
Sorry for anyone who has a sick friend who is suffering and can't afford whatever treatment they may need. Unfortunately there will be many more "sick friends" out there that will still not be able to get treatment years from now if we don't change course. The government is inefficient at everything it does and healthcare is no exception. Doctors will become fewer and fewer as the years go by, Quality of care will be reduced and sick friends will become more and more.
ers to increase his popularity and not help the economy. I mean, "Yay! I killed Osama Bin Laden! Now let's focus on healthcare!" 
He never REALLY touched the economy, and he didn't fix as much as he could have. Well, Obama is done. Why? Because you only get ONE chance to save a country. He blew it. It's time for ROMNEY to step up. And although I like Obama's decision to invest in new energy sources, the ECONOMY is the thing that needs fixing right now. And Romney has a plan! Obama doesn't. So even if Romney's plan DOESN'T work, he still would be less of an idiot than Obama. So, Romney 2012. Time to fix old 'Merica. 
-Cheers, LOCKJAWVENOM 
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