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K.K. Tool Co.’s Kyle Koehler on the hard work his family put together to build the company.
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Communities want more time President Obama is Roanoke incident.
If you are successful somebody on the line.
-- -- someone in your life.
Some may help to quit.
This.
Unbelievable American system that we have been allowed you to -- Some invested roads and bridges that you got a business.
That you don't build that.
Somebody else.
All right so here's the question do small businesses really not to do it on their own.
Small business -- -- can't cola is in Dayton Ohio and he's with -- right now.
-- you operates the machines weren't already are good once KK tool.
Okay that's a small business reasonable -- does employ -- you look I know you do you work hard.
I just want you to take us through a typical day at book McConnell cola go.
Well we are quintessential family business we work in a business to my father started forty years ago.
His sons and his daughters all work there I'm one of them as I said your produce the other day when she found -- -- She called me in -- in the office she was surprised and -- colder.
All of us punch in at the same time clock our employees do every day we come in at 7 o'clock every morning we leave when the last employee leaves in the evening.
We work -- every day and were there on site to answer customer questions to work with our employees who work with our customers.
We worked the same -- my father taught us to work.
Over the past forty years the way he did when he started this business did he put his own money at risk when you some of the business.
In 1970 to -- he was working as a Foreman another tool and die shop he took a 7000 dollar loan out.
Bought a vertical milling machine set in front of my two older Brothers.
It -- were gonna start a business and from that point on continue to work is normal job while teaching my son and his son's.
And myself and my sister's the -- and I business he.
Work not only his other job but he worked his job we what many years without the fancy things we never went to Disney -- order places like that.
We work he taught us to work most of us all of us work through high school and through our college years a few of us went off ecology came back.
But he is and we've invested our money we've never use government money we've never used tax abatements -- loans.
From the government we've used our own money we've invested a wise.
-- would you say flat house the president is wrong the government didn't help you.
You didn't you did it on your -- -- successful on your own would you say that flat out.
Absolutely it like I said the other day that met that somebody put -- road in front of our profit Henis and ethernet connection.
And that's all took to start a business that we missed out because we spent the last forty years.
We're doing a party anger if argued -- on you angry when you let the president decide that and -- and Virginia last Friday you anchored.
Absolutely absolutely this president spent the last four -- chasing profit businesses.
Out of this country with the threat of higher taxes higher taxes higher taxes.
According to him if you're profitable you're villain.
And that's not who we are we provide good jobs for good employees.
They work hard we compensate them the fact that he wants to that.
But make a villain out of anybody who makes a profit I don't know anybody.
Who wants to work for a business that's not profitable people didn't go to work at Solyndra because -- I was gonna go out of business and a year.
They -- the work for -- because they wanted to secure job at the same time.
We didn't start our business to work out for forty years of Sunday we -- -- -- we get to move it to China we're in the United States because this is the place with a free market.
Flourishes time can't call -- -- -- -- KK tool company -- -- in Dayton Ohio thank you very much for joining us appreciate it.
Thank you still.
