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Well, what does the founder of Home Depot know about creating jobs anyway?

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Investors Business Daily interviewed Bernie Marcus, co-founder of Home Depot, and what he said can’t be too pleasing to King Barack:

IBD: What’s the single biggest impediment to job growth today?

Marcus: The U.S. government. Having built a small business into a big one, I can tell you that today the impediments that the government imposes are impossible to deal with. Home Depot would never have succeeded if we’d tried to start it today. Every day you see rules and regulations from a group of Washington bureaucrats who know nothing about running a business. And I mean every day. It’s become stifling.

If you’re a small businessman, the only way to deal with it is to work harder, put in more hours, and let people go. When you consider that something like 70% of the American people work for small businesses, you are talking about a big economic impact.

IBD: President Obama has promised to streamline and eliminate regulations. What’s your take?

Marcus: His speeches are wonderful. His output is absolutely, incredibly bad. As he speaks about cutting out regulations, they are now producing thousands of pages of new ones. With just ObamaCare by itself, you have a 2,000 page bill that’s probably going end up being 150,000 pages of regulations…

IBD: If you could sit down with Obama and talk to him about job creation, what would you say?

Marcus: I’m not sure Obama would understand anything that I’d say, because he’s never really worked a day outside the political or legal area. He doesn’t know how to make a payroll, he doesn’t understand the problems businesses face. I would try to explain that the plight of the businessman is very reactive to Washington. As Washington piles on regulations and mandates, the impact is tremendous. I don’t think he’s a bad guy. I just think he has no knowledge of this.

Silly capitalist. He really doesn’t get it, does he, comrades? See, Obama is growing the economy by making sure nobody makes too much money. You only need so much, after all. And who better to decide how big your bank account should be than Obama?

These greedy fatcats need to figure out a way to create jobs without turning a profit, and they need to do it pronto. Or maybe they want another scolding? Is that what you want, you monocled, top-hatted plutocrats?