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Chick-fil-A Founder Truett Cathy dies at 93

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 and ran an honest business. I've always enjoyed Chic-fil-ay's billboards.


RIP Mr. Cathy

I love there sandwiches. I wonder if they will now be open on Sunday?
 
He was a principled man

He was a leach who sucked off public money in the form of subsidies. . .

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.
 
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.

Taking money from someone else's pocket (i. e. taxpayers) without permission is being a leach, or a thief, or a welfare bum. The legality of the theft is irrelevant.

In a free market, legal theft can't exist. When you learn about the concept of free markets instead of watching foxnews all day long, this will become clear to you.
 
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.
 
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 in the economy by providing incentives to businesses than give it away to sleezy, lazy scumbags who squander it on lottery tickets and cigarettes.
 
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.
 
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."
 
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.

Haha. You're a fool.
 
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.

"Cathy was born Samuel Truett Cathy in Eatonton, Georgia on March 14, 1921. He attended Boys High School (now Henry W. Grady High School) in Atlanta. Cathy served in the United States Army during World War II. Cathy began the chain in the Atlanta suburb of Hapeville in 1946 with a restaurant called the Dwarf Grill, named because of its small size. It was there that he, along with his brother and business partner Ben, created the chicken sandwich that later became the signature menu item for Chick-fil-A. The original restaurant (since renamed Dwarf House) is still in operation and the company operates other Dwarf House locations in the metro Atlanta area. He married Jeanette McNeil in 1948; the couple had three children: Trudy, Don and Dan." - S. Truett Cathy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 
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.

Their revenue is 5 billion dollars per year. This 11.4 million I'm assuming you are talking about is the reported 11.3 million that was given out to billionaires COLLECTIVELY between the years of 1995-2012 (17 years). That is an average of 660,000 per year for all of the billionaires collectively. Out of his 5 billion per year. What was that to him? Probably less than 50,000 each year? He probably did not even know he got that money.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/07/us/billionaires-received-us-farm-subsidies-report-finds.html?_r=0

Chick-fil-A founder S. Truett Cathy dies at 93
 
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.

He built the company before he had the farms. That is an entrepreneur.
 
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.

Chick-Fil-A is really good food. It's not so much fast food as it is good food fast.
 
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