Lede of the Day: Businesses Irate Over Record Profits

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Here’s the lead story today from those noted communists at Bloomberg:

Investors around the world say President Barack Obama is bad for the bottom line, even though U.S. corporations are on track for the biggest earnings growth in 22 years and the stock market is headed for its best back-to-back annual gains since 2004.

The quotes in the rest of the story really have to be read to be believed. I’m not going to bother excerpting any of them because I haven’t had breakfast yet and my blood sugar needs immediate attention. Long story short, though, they just want them some nice tax cuts. Everything else is just fluff.

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