{"id":1789936,"date":"2022-12-29T15:17:54","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T20:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1789936"},"modified":"2022-12-29T15:18:03","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T20:18:03","slug":"nobody-gives-a-damn-home-depot-co-founder-slams-americans-refusing-to-work-thanks-to-socialism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nobody-gives-a-damn-home-depot-co-founder-slams-americans-refusing-to-work-thanks-to-socialism\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Nobody Gives A Damn\u2019: Home Depot Co-Founder Slams Americans Refusing To Work Thanks To Socialism"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnobody-gives-a-damn-home-depot-co-founder-slams-americans-refusing-to-work-thanks-to-socialism%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1789936&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Bernie Marcus, who along with his business partner Arthur Blank built Home Depot into a giant financial success, slammed Americans who don\u2019t want to work.<\/p>\n<p>Marcus, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/billionaires\/profiles\/bernard-marcus\/?sref=MTy2GeXk\">Bloomberg<\/a> Estimates is worth $5.25 Billion, but he and his wife have donated more than $2B to more 500 organizations through the Marcus Foundation. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/5680bb94-4fda-4bb5-887a-62ca1b4341fd\">interview<\/a> Financial Times<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m worried about capitalism,\u201d Marcus stated. \u201cCapitalism is the basis of Home Depot [and] millions of people have earned this success and had success. I\u2019m talking manufacturers, vendors and distributors and people that work for us [who have been] able to enrich themselves by the journey of Home Depot. That\u2019s the success. That\u2019s why capitalism works.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marcus said that thanks to \u201csocialism,\u201d \u201cnobody works. Nobody gives a damn. \u2018Just give it to me. Send me money. I don\u2019t want to work \u2014 I\u2019m too lazy, I\u2019m too fat, I\u2019m too stupid.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marcus wasn\u2019t worried about any criticism he might elicit about his comments, especially from those he termed \u201cwoke.\u201d He declared, \u201cWe used to have free speech here. We don\u2019t have it. The woke people have taken over the world. You know, I imagine today they can\u2019t attack me. I\u2019m 93. Who gives a crap about Bernie Marcus?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marcus reserved most of his harsh criticisms for those who have great wealth and then sit on their cash. \u201cToo timid to jump in, these are people who took great risks in whatever they did, but they\u2019re afraid to take this risk [to get] into the charitable world and help other people. Why, I don\u2019t know,\u201d He said.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the recipients of the Marcuses\u2019 largesse include the construction of the Georgia Aquarium, for which they gave $250 million, millions for an autistic center in Atlanta, and research into autism, cancer, stroke, and veterans\u2019 PTSD.<\/p>\n<p>Marcus, who donated to Trump and Florida GOP Governor Ron DeSantis and supported Trump&#8217;s former president, called President Biden \u201cthe worst president in the history of this country.\u201d He called Trump\u2019s policies \u201cspot on,\u201d But there was more \u201cIt\u2019s going to be very interesting in \u201824 because I think that DeSantis will challenge him. And may the better man win.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marcus was 90 years old when he heard that Trump supporters were criticizing him. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=100008008667978\">fired back<\/a> On Facebook \u201cIn the next ten years, God willing, I will accomplish more to save this world than my critics will do even if they had forty lifetimes.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bernie Marcus, who along with his business partner Arthur Blank built Home Depot into a giant financial success, slammed Americans who don\u2019t want to work. Marcus, whom Bloomberg estimates has a net worth of $5.25 billion but has, with his wife, donated over $2 billion to over 500 organizations through their Marcus Foundation, spoke in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":1789939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[12429,3884,4684,6202,12427,12430,7397,3944,12428,6195],"class_list":["post-1789936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-nobody","tag-americans","tag-co-founder","tag-daily","tag-damn","tag-depot","tag-refusing","tag-slams","tag-socialism","tag-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1789936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1789939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1789936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1789936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1789936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}