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    Default CEO to Workers: I May Fire You if Obama Wins....

    This from CNBC :

    http://finance.yahoo.com/news/ceo-wo...131640914.html

    enjoy

    it's long but is well put

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    I like the idea because it is the truth.

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    If we the people allow the government to interfere with businesses to such a degree that businesses have to shut down then we the people are getting exactly what we deserve.

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    I'm sure I'll get flamed for this; whatever.

    When you own a company, you decide how much you can afford to pay yourself from its profits. This guy is paying himself enough that he "has enough money for the rest of [his] life and enough to leave a good inheritance for [his] kids," has paid off his debts, including the note on the "largest new house in America," in which he is currently installing new elevators and marble, all of which he refers to as cutting back and being "lean and mean," but his poor, struggling little company will have to lay people off if he has to pay taxes, rather than reduce his salary or his profit margins. Is that the gist of it?

    Fvck him. He's a scumbag.
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    I wonder if John Galt has talked to him yet?

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    Why shouldn't he pay himself first, isn't that reaping what he's sown?

    He's provided opportunities for his emplyees, he's not obligated to take continue care of them.

    It's fine to ride along on someone good fortune (being employed by them) but one should not expect more than the opportunity to work for them.

    Let go of the shirtails and make your own success.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Teufelhund View Post
    I'm sure I'll get flamed for this; whatever.

    When you own a company, you decide how much you can afford to pay yourself from its profits. This guy is paying himself enough that he "has enough money for the rest of [his] life and enough to leave a good inheritance for [his] kids," has paid off his debts, including the note on the "largest new house in America," in which he is currently installing new elevators and marble, all of which he refers to as cutting back and being "lean and mean," but his poor, struggling little company will have to lay people off if he has to pay taxes, rather than reduce his salary or his profit margins. Is that the gist of it?

    Fvck him. He's a scumbag.
    He never says his company is "struggling."

    Why is it that people whom produce a job for others are seen as scumbags? It goes back that mentality that says, "you didn't build that." Take a little time out of your life and read Atlas Shrugged, you will see that what is going on in this country is what is "fvck" up. It's not about not having enough to pay the extra taxes, is about being a slave to those that do not earn the money they get. Fuck them, I might go on strike too.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SAnd View Post
    I wonder if John Galt has talked to him yet?
    Took me a little time to write mine so you beat me to it.

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    I think it's a scumbag move because he's going to fire these people tomorrow on the possibility that something might impact his business in the next 4 years.

    It's bullshit fearmongering tactics that have no basis in our current reality.

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    Not everyone can own their own company. Capitalism will not work if there are only employers and no employees. But screw them, I guess. Let them eat cake.
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