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Wed Oct 10, 2012, 02:02 PM

formercia (18,154 posts)

CEO to Workers: I May Fire You if Obama Wins

By Robert Frank | CNBC – 4 hours ago

David Siegel, the owner of Westgate Resorts, sent a surprising email to his employees Monday.
lIt said that if President Barack Obama wins re-election and raises Siegel's taxes, he will have to lay off workers and downsize his company - or even shut it down.
"If any new taxes are levied on me, or my company, as our current President plans, I will have no choice but to reduce the size of this company," he wrote. "Rather than grow this company I will be forced to cut back. This means fewer jobs, less benefits and certainly less opportunity for everyone."

In a version of Romney's "47 percent" remarks, Siegel added that "people like me who made all the right decisions and invested in themselves are being forced to bail out all the people who didn't. The people that overspent their paychecks suddenly feel entitled to the same luxuries that I earned and sacrificed 42 years of my life for."
The points are ones that have often been made during this election. But what makes the letter surprising is the source.
--snip--

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/ceo-workers-youll-likely-fired-131640914.html

What Hubris....

Asshole.

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16 replies	Author	Time	Post
CEO to Workers: I May Fire You if Obama Wins (Original post)	formercia	Oct 2012	OP
I think that's	JustAnotherGen	Oct 2012	#1
Also	JustAnotherGen	Oct 2012	#2
LOL	BillyJack	Oct 2012	#3
Illegal?	JaneQPublic	Oct 2012	#4
here you go:	steve2470	Oct 2012	#8
also here, same law:	steve2470	Oct 2012	#9
Cool! Thanks!	JaneQPublic	Oct 2012	#13
If you declare you aren't a job creator in public	Johonny	Oct 2012	#5
Workers to CEO....GO FUCK YOURSELF !	RagAss	Oct 2012	#6
Sounds like this shitheel needs a little visit	hifiguy	Oct 2012	#7
Time to open Easy Initech's Discount Pitchforks And Torches Emporium!	Initech	Oct 2012	#10
pffff...if my CEO sent me that letter, I would vote for Obama just to be a dick.	Volaris	Oct 2012	#11
We need to contact his customers about this!	Springslips	Oct 2012	#12
Blatant class warfare. nt	BarackTheVote	Oct 2012	#14
What new type of crack is he smoking? Rich people got the bailout...	Taitertots	Oct 2012	#15
We will quit if Rmoney is elected! ...and fuck you too!	L0oniX	Oct 2012	#16

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Wed Oct 10, 2012, 02:10 PM

JustAnotherGen (5,600 posts)

1. I think that's

A bizarre form of voter intimidation. . .

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Wed Oct 10, 2012, 02:11 PM

JustAnotherGen (5,600 posts)

2. Also

Read this this post . . .

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021507035

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Wed Oct 10, 2012, 02:17 PM

BillyJack (818 posts)

3. LOL

Siegel added that "people like me who made all the right decisions and invested in themselves are being forced to bail out all the people who didn't. The people that overspent their paychecks suddenly feel entitled to the same luxuries that I earned and sacrificed 42 years of my life for."

All of those tax benefits (cuts) for the rich didn't~which YOU GOT ON THE BACKS OF THE 99% didn't help you one bit either, did it? you smarmy, lying, twisted SOB!!!!

You made "all the right decisions"....yeah, sure you did. NOBODY/NOTHING helped you.....

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Wed Oct 10, 2012, 03:23 PM

JaneQPublic (4,705 posts)

4. Illegal?

Someone else posted a similar office email from a boss last week or so, and someone responded to the post with quotes and links to the US Code stating that to try to coerce someone to vote one way or another or to not vote at all was against the law.

Wish I could find it now, but no luck.

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Wed Oct 10, 2012, 04:29 PM

steve2470 (14,742 posts)

8. here you go:

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/594

18 USC § 594 - Intimidation of voters

Whoever intimidates, threatens, coerces, or attempts to intimidate, threaten, or coerce, any other person for the purpose of interfering with the right of such other person to vote or to vote as he may choose, or of causing such other person to vote for, or not to vote for, any candidate for the office of President, Vice President, Presidential elector, Member of the Senate, Member of the House of Representatives, Delegate from the District of Columbia, or Resident Commissioner, at any election held solely or in part for the purpose of electing such candidate, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.

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Wed Oct 10, 2012, 04:30 PM

steve2470 (14,742 posts)

9. also here, same law:

http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/USCODE-2011-title18/html/USCODE-2011-title18-partI-chap29-sec594.htm

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Wed Oct 10, 2012, 05:01 PM

JaneQPublic (4,705 posts)

13. Cool! Thanks!

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Wed Oct 10, 2012, 03:47 PM

Johonny (11,079 posts)

5. If you declare you aren't a job creator in public

is it ok to raise there taxes?

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Wed Oct 10, 2012, 04:24 PM

RagAss (13,415 posts)

6. Workers to CEO....GO FUCK YOURSELF !

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Wed Oct 10, 2012, 04:27 PM

hifiguy (13,029 posts)

7. Sounds like this shitheel needs a little visit

from these folks:

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Wed Oct 10, 2012, 04:33 PM

Initech (38,935 posts)

10. Time to open Easy Initech's Discount Pitchforks And Torches Emporium!

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Wed Oct 10, 2012, 04:48 PM

Volaris (1,583 posts)

11. pffff...if my CEO sent me that letter, I would vote for Obama just to be a dick.

My hotel owner put out a "memo" in 2009 after the market crashed, saying that because the market crashed, the company would be on a permanent hiring and wage increase freeze. Well, motherfucker, that's not news, because I had already worked there for over a year with no offer of a raise for my good work and professional loyalty. Its an excuse. That piece of paper is still sitting in the office somewhere, too. I voted for Obama last time, and the day that letter showed up was the day I KNEW I had made the right decision. The ENTIRE lack of recovery in this country is excused by CEO's as being the REASON there is no recovery. "well, the economy is in the tank, see, and until there is a major recovery, we can't do anything about the recession."
Well, are you guys job creators? or not? Are you "Masters of the Universe" RESPONSIBLE for the state of the economy? OR NOT?
For the daily double, Alex, my answer is "Only when it works in OUR favor?"
Oh, good, I won the Daily Double.

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Wed Oct 10, 2012, 04:51 PM

Springslips (157 posts)

12. We need to contact his customers about this!

They may need to look at their options since they may need the service/product he produces. They might want to find someone else now. Also, do they really want to be in business with someone who has such low acumen as to select no profit than have a litter less because of taxes? Who know what other thing this guy would make a stupid judgment on.

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Wed Oct 10, 2012, 06:40 PM

BarackTheVote (560 posts)

14. Blatant class warfare. nt

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Wed Oct 10, 2012, 07:04 PM

Taitertots (5,501 posts)

15. What new type of crack is he smoking? Rich people got the bailout...

and continue to get the vast majority of the subsidies, tax breaks, and handouts.

I hope he does shut his business down. What does he think will happen? His competitors will just expand and/or new competitors will enter the market creating new jobs. Is he really such a megalomaniac that he thinks that resorts will disappear if he isn't controlling them?

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Wed Oct 10, 2012, 07:41 PM

L0oniX (17,363 posts)

16. We will quit if Rmoney is elected! ...and fuck you too!

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