are not getting the sales we d like because everybody is worried about getting laid off because of this fiscal cliff. it s in the mindset. the president solved it, bingo. you just said the word. if i boil down the past four years of economic hardship why we re stalled from every businessperson i talk to at every level, from the small business, bagel owner at bagel heads in florida to jamie dimon, they all say the same thing, uncertainty. if it s jamie dimon, you don t know how much you ll be able to grow jpmorgan chase because of uncertainty. if you re rob at bagel heads in pensacola, florida, you don t know whether you hire another employee because and every time i go in there, i hear about this tax, are they going to pass it? no. i hear they ll do this regulation. how will that impact me? i said don t worry about it, it will never get through the house. what about this? it s true. what the bozos in washington don t understand is when they go on the floor and make these propos
economy by just not scaring the hell out of business people who are trying to figure out whether to invest or not. i m not talking about wall street, business owners, i m talking about rob at bagel heads in pensacola who every time i go in and buy a bagel he asks, look, joe, look behind. i get 12 people back here. do i hire four more or if i hire four more, what regulations am i strapped with. and then every time and then the next time rob says, i hear they re going to be taxing me on this. i hear i m going to be getting this regulation. this, my friends, is rob maki at bagel heads in pensacola, florida. this is not jamie dimon. so this is multiplied. let me make this point, because this is critically important. you always don t need a 14-point plan to save the economy. sometimes you need to have leadership that understands that within reason, it is just you