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The SBA definition of small business, I believe, includes those businesses with up to 500 employees. Some areas of business have managed to bribe their way into being included with up to 1000 employees.

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"When it’s asked what specific regulations harm small businesses – which account for about 65 percent of U.S. jobs — the Chamber of Commerce points to health care, banking and national labor."

Just off the top of my head, I'd have a very hard time naming any businesses larger than health care, banking and national labor.

It's also very clear that the banking industry in the United States is not over-regulated. As we struggle to work our collective way out of The Great Recession, who could possibly suggest such a thing?

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right. i went on a rant about this a couple days ago.

it's like they got the idea to bitch excessively about excessive regulation b/c of the excessive number of disastors we have witnessed of late due to LACK of regulation: BP, wall street, mining deaths, natural disastors, polluted eggs, nuclear power plants (thankfully NOT here. yet), volcanoes, building codes, big plastic land in the middle atlantic.

but i guess it would be better for the global economy if my local diner didn't require hair nets.

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You wanna involve Joe Walsh? Announce his firing and defenestration in the first sentence of your speech.

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what is UP with the asshole joeness? joe walsh, joe barton, joe wilson, joementum.

seriously.

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also: brake safety standards for the hooverhound.

that is a tragedy just waiting to happen.

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can somebody please explain to me what the 'obama regulations' are? or is this just another straw man argument to undermine him when in fact most of the regulations are years or decades old?

ususually for baggers, they are not being specific.

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Why aren't those Bush-Era tax cuts to "jobs creators," extended by Obama, producing more jobs?

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In another note, have you noticed that "the rich" have been sanitized a la Frank Luntz,into "jobs creators?" Try it at home! The next time some Tea party blowhard starts talking about jobs creators, just substitute "the wealthy and/or rich."

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I prefer the real Joe Walsh <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watc..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4Wr5Wq5QHM">http://www.youtube.com/watc...

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Your regulatory ways confuse and frighten me.

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man...this dude went straight downhill since leaving the Eagles.

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