Posted by
Skip MacLure on Sunday, November 27, 2011 4:26:05 PM
Bill Looman is not someone’s political hack. He’s far from being the
left’s favorite guy right now, also. Bill is a ten year Marine veteran,
who would like nothing more than to grow his company. Pretty obviously,
when he started placing signs in the windows of his company vehicles and
a large billboard in front of his offices, he had no idea that he, his
company, and his signs, would go viral.
Through my own professional acquaintances, and being in a business
that quite frequently brings me into contact with business owners,
particularly here on the left coast, I can see that overbearing taxation
and regulation by an all but totalitarian state government, completely
and totally unresponsive to the people they are supposed to serve, have
cost Californians millions of jobs and billions of dollars.
Extreme leftist governance has placed this once most prosperous
region in the world into a depression economy with 44 or 45 billion
dollars worth of unfunded liability, It’s no wonder that businesses will
not commit to hiring new personnel, and only grudgingly replace losses
due to attrition.
Bill Looman’s company, US Cranes LLC, manufactures and services
overhead cranes and monorail lift systems. Well, guess what? Gee whiz,
and all that stuff… Overhead cranes are for the most part utilized by
companies that manufacture things… or have a need of a heavy
lifting capability. Not accidentally, manufacturing on all levels has
been the special targets of Obama’s agents of destruction, as has the
energy sector.
The Barack Hussein Obama regime’s assault on American business has
been almost universally successful, backed as it has been by the
greatest job-killer in US history… the EPA.
The Marine Corps does a lot more than build men. They teach pride of
achievement, and leadership skills simply unavailable outside the
confines of the brotherhood. Marines are taught to adapt and
overcome. That’s, in essence, what Bill and his company are doing…
adapting to overcome an untenable situation. He has simply put a face
and a name to what is occurring all over the nation as businesses hunker
down, hoping to survive the Marxist’s perfect storm.
I’ll be interested in seeing how the regime retaliates on Bill and
his company for having the unmitigated temerity to speak the truth. His
company may become the “Joe the Plumber” of manufacturing. Obama may
just find that his incessant hectoring is a two-edged sword. He and his
minions attempted to destroy “Joe the Plumber”… and failed. Joe is alive
and well and may just end up in Congress. They tried to destroy him and
failed. Truth versus unbridled arrogance and power.
If they try it with Bill Looman they may just find that he’s a mouthful they don’t want to chew.
Semper Fi, Bill.
Semper Vigilans, Semper Fidelis
© Skip MacLure 2011