Worst. President. Ever… 85% of Small Businesses Are Not Hiring – Half Fear Obamacare Costs

Barack Obama is the worst jobs president since the Great Depression.
And, 85% of small businesses say they are not planning on hiring anytime soon… Because of excessive regulations and Obamacare.

Gallup reported:

U.S. small-business owners who aren’t hiring — 85% of those surveyed — are most likely to say the reasons they are not doing so include not needing additional employees; worries about weak business conditions, including revenues; cash flow; and the overall U.S. economy. Additionally, nearly half of small-business owners point to potential healthcare costs (48%) and government regulations (46%) as reasons.

Companies typically hold back on hiring when the economy is weak and when their operating environment is not providing sufficient revenues or cash flows. This appears to be the case right now, as the economy has been weak for more than four years. Less typical is for many owners to point to such things as potential healthcare costs and government regulations.

#1 February 15, 2012 at 10:03 pm
Jim commented:

The best president money (or fear) can buy – BHO
#2 February 15, 2012 at 10:27 pm
kato commented:

Maybe we should elect Alan Iverson to finish the job that this subprimer started.
#3 February 15, 2012 at 10:32 pm
Buffalobob commented:

And yet there are enough nitwits in this country that keep his approval numbers above zero.
#4 February 15, 2012 at 10:35 pm
FurryGuy commented:

#3 February 15, 2012 at 10:32 pm
Buffalobob commented:

And yet there are enough nitwits in this country that keep his approval numbers above zero.

Every tyrannical and dictatorial regime throughout history always has had a solid core of supporters because they gain power and wealth from evil. You expecting a different result from doing the same thing yet again as has been done in the past?
#5 February 15, 2012 at 10:35 pm
nana commented:

Have Mercy on US all! This guy wants America on her knee.
#6 February 15, 2012 at 10:43 pm
James commented:

Who in their right mind is gonna vote for obama, the worst president in american history.
#8 February 16, 2012 at 12:33 am
chuck in st paul commented:

“They’re just hoarding the money and deliberately not hiring to make Obama fail!” – libtards everywhere

Too late jack wagons, Obysmal = epic fail and he did it all on his own.
#9 February 16, 2012 at 1:45 am
tommy mc donnell commented:

the myth doesn’t want a weak economy he wants a destroyed one. nobody revolts when things are going well.
#11 February 16, 2012 at 5:11 am
JimK commented:

Not only are 85% of small business owners not hiring but startups are at a 25 year low:
http://tinyurl.com/6p275sj
#13 February 16, 2012 at 5:55 am
Questionman commented:

For those who think that Obama is the worst president in history, only need to look back when Bush was president and then you have one of the worst. It’s amazing how much hate people have for a black president. I thought Americans were above that, but I guess not. And those same people who have been conned into believing that he’s the worst president ever need to get out more, live outside their little bubble they are living in and enjoy all the freedom’s we still have
#14 February 16, 2012 at 6:50 am
1RedBeard commented:

Questionman has to be one of the most idiotic trolls ever to foul this site, using the intellectually vacant racism thing over and over and over again, reciting it like Rainman worrying about when Judge Wopner is coming on TV.

Of course, Questionman cannot address the actual topic here, because he cannot defend Obama within that context. There is no defense possible.

We put a sign in the front window of our office 2 years ago, saying: Sorry – we’re not hiring at this time. It will probably not come down until or unless the Quisling in the White House is sent packing.
#16 February 16, 2012 at 6:56 am
Militant Conservative commented:

Who is John Galt?!
#17 February 16, 2012 at 7:04 am
Militant Conservative commented:

#13 February 16, 2012 at 5:55 am
Questionman commented:

Listen up son, I work in the OR surgery area as an

Engineer on visualization systems. Anthrex, DePuy,

Stryker, Smith Nephew, Ethicon and more are not

Hiring even to fill vacant positions. ALL of these

companies are converting thier sales force from

1099 (small business operators) to direct employees

With smaller compensation packages. This is

happening in the whole industry due to the fear

Of what Obama care Will do if not repealed.

So, as you see, this is reality not your cranial rectal

inversion view of the economy.
#18 February 16, 2012 at 7:18 am
Taqiyyotomist commented:

When people like “questionman” and many folks in my real life say things like “rememer how bad it was during the Bush years?”, it is simply the product of the MSM.

What they “remember” about the Bush years was the constant 24/7 smearing, criticism, cries of “George Bush hates black people”, illegal war for bloody oil, and lies about a “crappy economy”. Nevermind that it was all lies. It was an incessant, hypnotic drum-beat.

And questionman “remembers” it, how “bad” it was, quite well.

Now that the MSM is in full fellatio mode with Obama, television-addicted junkies like questionman don’t see any bad news any longer (except the lies about Obama “inheriting” a bad economy from Bush, which Obama then made four times worse.)

So, naturally, to questionman, things are MUCH better now.

If the conservative blogosphere and FNC were out of the picture, like these so-called liberals want, there will NEVER be another piece of bad news about ANY Democrat — and questionman will think, also quite naturally for the television-hypnotized, that we are finally living in complete, utter Utopia. Because that’s all that he will ever be told.

Sick, isn’t it?
#20 February 16, 2012 at 7:38 am
Gary commented:

Questionman #13
Redbeard #14

Be fair to Questionman. Only time will tell if Obama actually turned out to be worse than Woodrow Wilson, FDR, and Lyndon Johnson.
Of course, coming around the home stretch, it looks like he’s nosing ahead.
#21 February 16, 2012 at 7:39 am
1RedBeard commented:

It was so bad during the Bush years that we had to move our business into a bigger building, expand our workforce, and increase our sales by 30%. How horrible!

But I really shouldn’t point out things like that, or our current 2 year hiring freeze and stagnant P&L under Obumble, since those things are called FACTS. Speaking in FACTS to a lib is like throwing water on Margaret Hamilton, and I would hate to be so cruel.
#22 February 16, 2012 at 7:41 am
1RedBeard commented:

Gary, you’re in trouble now. You’ve skewered three of the left’s deities.
#23 February 16, 2012 at 8:42 am
Militant Conservative commented:

I swear the libs live in a world devoid of facts.

Who gave the EO for no drilling in the gulf?

Who cancelled the XL pipeline?

Obama is an anti capitaltist.

I know you can’t handle the truth of cause and

Effect. It’s right in the open. Accept reality.

Powder is dry.
#24 February 16, 2012 at 8:43 am
tadcf commented:

Healthcare concerns are one of eight reasons for not hiring—with four ranking significantly higher.
#25 February 16, 2012 at 9:05 am
Patty commented:

Yet, Obama is still spreading lies about unemployment and how economy is doing better.

His liberal audiences are eating this up. Obama is lying to Americans and what is more perplexing is his approval rating is 50%, he can beat any Republican. Rush said this would happen and it is. Republicans need to stop fighting among themselves and call Obama out for the lies.

I do fear that Americans who are too busy will never know the truth. If they thing that if is and visa ve Obama and liberal media they will vote for this Radical again.
#26 February 16, 2012 at 9:51 am
Gary commented:

Redbeard

I hear you. We’re under hiring freeze and raise freeze, 2+ years.

I like the old expression:
You want to make a Conservative mad? Tell him a lie.
You want to make a liberal mad? Tell him the truth.
#27 February 16, 2012 at 10:04 am
NJ Mike commented:

Ahh, questionman……….seeing as how Uhhhbama has continued or expanded so many of the programs you and the filthy anti-American left protested during the Bush years, one can only come to one conclusion:
The left was engaged in pure partisan theater with two ends in mind; to see Americans die. and to regain and retain power.
#32 February 25, 2012 at 10:54 pm
ConcernedCanadian commented:

” It’s amazing how much hate people have for a black president. I thought Americans were above that, but I guess not.”

Anyone who thinks race has anything to do with why BHO is considered the worst US President in history is a blind fool.

He is the worst president ever because:

1) In just 3 years he increased your national debt by more than all presidents before him combined

2) He lied to get into office, and for every campaign promise he made he’s done the exact opposite

3) He thinks he’s above the law, and has proven so by thumbing his nose at your constitution every chance he gets. He also ignored a court order to appear and didn’t even send a lawyer in his stead.

4) He signed into law the NDAA which permits the domestic use of the Military, which is treason

5) He has declared the entire planet a battlefield – including U.S. soil

6) After promising to end the wars and bring home the military, he expanded the wars into Yemen, Pakistan, Libya and is now looking to do the same in Syria and Iran

7) He expanded the extremely un-patriotic patriot act

He nullified the bill of rights

9) His economic policy is rotten – he thinks he can spend his way out of debt.

So if you think race has anything to do with why the world thinks he is the worst US president in history you are a clueless moron. He is a war monger, a liar and a puppet. That is why he is the worst president in history.
#33 February 28, 2012 at 6:46 pm
Dave commented:

Stop blaming the president, congress, your parents and anyone else you feel a victim of. It’s your responsiblity to fix any miseries you have in life. You can have revolutions, get rid of everybody and everyone and put whoever you think will save your lives and when it’s all said and done within 6 months they’ll turn into the same thing you thought you we’re getting rid of. When the fighting is done and the dead are buried and the politicians take over it amounts to one thing….a lost cause. Best you do and fend for yourself. You’ll be better off than losing sleep over this non-sense.