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MatthewStLouis

(904 posts) Thu Aug 16, 2012, 10:58 AM Aug 2012

Please stop calling them "Job Creators"! They are first and foremost "Profit Makers"!

Wealthy business owners and big corporations are in business to make a profit. They want to hire as few people as possible to do the most work: duh! They aren't in business to create jobs! They don't have your best interests at heart. They need to be encouraged to hire American workers at fair wages.

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Please stop calling them "Job Creators"! They are first and foremost "Profit Makers"! (Original Post) MatthewStLouis Aug 2012 OP

Correction: Profit TAKERS. BlueToTheBone Aug 2012 #1

I second that. Profit takers.... Bluenorthwest Aug 2012 #2

Every business, regardless of size, endeavors to make a profit. Nuclear Unicorn Aug 2012 #3

BlueToTheBone

(3,747 posts)

1. Correction: Profit TAKERS.

Reply to MatthewStLouis (Original post)

Thu Aug 16, 2012, 11:00 AM

Aug 2012

They don't create profits, they skim money off the top.

Bluenorthwest

(45,319 posts)

2. I second that. Profit takers....

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Thu Aug 16, 2012, 11:01 AM

Aug 2012

Nuclear Unicorn

(19,497 posts)

3. Every business, regardless of size, endeavors to make a profit.

Reply to MatthewStLouis (Original post)

Thu Aug 16, 2012, 11:11 AM

Aug 2012

My dad is a carpenter; lifelong union man and Democrat, too. He has a couple-few people at any given time to work for him but only because doing so allows him to make money he wouldn't be able to if he didn't. He never once hired somebody to make him less money

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