[toxicflavor]

Another explanation for why Bogen Communications is not hiring might have to do with their declining financials:

http://www.bogen.com/aboutus/financials/#historical

[ratsbane]

Good observation. The decision to hire comes down to a very simple "will hiring this person cause us to make more money than the person costs us." He's blaming the cost side of the equation for all of the decision to not to hire. He could just as easily blame himself for having failed to streamline his company's old-school high-markup sales network.

[mattmaroon]

I'm sure the author blames that on Obama too.