He was a principled man and ran an honest business. I've always enjoyed Chic-fil-ay's billboards.
RIP Mr. Cathy
He was a principled man
WASHINGTON — The federal government paid $11.3 million in taxpayer-funded farm subsidies from 1995 to 2012 to 50 billionaires or businesses in which they have some form of ownership, according to a report released Thursday by the Environmental Working Group, a Washington-based research organization.
The billionaires who received the subsidies or owned companies that did include the Microsoft co-founder Paul G. Allen; the investment titan Charles Schwab; and S. Truett Cathy, owner of Chick-fil-A. The billionaires who got the subsidies have a collective net worth of $316 billion, according to Forbes magazine.
He was a leach who sucked off public money in the form of subsidies. . .
Oh. A leach because he took subsidies that were legally available to him? He and his ilk are not are not the ones sucking the lifeblood from our society. You should change your lean to super nutty liberal. You sound like Harry Reid.
Then get the law changed that allowed this.
Can't. Moronic conservatives (including the ones that like to call themselves "Libertarian-Right" because they think it sounds more cool) keep voting for pols that like corporate welfare.
In the same way that the government subsidizing Solendra and other "new energy" companies is corporate welfare. I'd much rather invest federal dollars
Uh uh, NO. In a free market, you don't get to decide how the govt. chooses to spend my money.
End of discussion. You seriously need to learn about the concept of free market and/or how rent-seeking is detrimental to it. The federal govt. ought to have no business picking and choosing favorites at the expense of taxpayers.
I'd just as soon the government not give anything to anybody, quite frankly. That would make a truly "free market."
But you must not really believe that or else you wouldn't be celebrating a big welfare bum like truett cathy instead a real entrepreneur that succeeds solely through his/her own efforts.
But you must not really believe that or else you wouldn't be celebrating a big welfare bum like truett cathy instead a real entrepreneur that succeeds solely through his/her own efforts.
He might have done something later in life that you disagree with but he WAS a real entrepreneur.
Nope, when you get $11.4 million in welfare from uncle sammy each year, you're a leach, not an entrepreneur.
Hell, if the feds gave me that much a year as a freebie, I'd have more than enough capital to easily start my own chicken business and wipe Chick Fil-A off the map. Or maybe start my own chain of premium European style-cafes in upscale communities and wipe out Starbucks in those areas.
Nope, when you get $11.4 million in welfare from uncle sammy each year, you're a leach, not an entrepreneur.
Hell, if the feds gave me that much a year as a freebie, I'd have more than enough capital to easily start my own chicken business and wipe Chick Fil-A off the map. Or maybe start my own chain of premium European style-cafes in upscale communities and wipe out Starbucks in those areas.
CFA's owner received tons of $$ in taxpayer farm subsidies, and therefore, should have been subject to stringent food safety rules, instead of selling toxic chemical discs and calling it food.
Only purely private businesses (i. e. independent drug dealers) have the right to sell whatever they want.