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In reply to the discussion: David Siegel Email To Workers Threatens Layoffs If Obama Is Reelected (UPDATE) [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)9. When your employer can fire you because you don't contribute and vote to his candidates,
you're a slave.
You need to fire your employer.
So much for free enterprise. I have supported the idea all my life and now in my old age seeing what is going on in this country, I wonder if I have been wrong. Private businesses make so many messes, such chaos and impoverish people. I'm sorry, but this is just wrong.
What a mess.
We need desperately to raise inheritance taxes on large estates. We need to raise taxes on the rich as soon as possible and as much as possible.
No individual in our society should have or think he has as much power as this man thinks he has. You can't call a political system a democracy or even a republic when one person can threaten people or dares to threaten people in that way.
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David Siegel Email To Workers Threatens Layoffs If Obama Is Reelected (UPDATE) [View all]
trailmonkee
Oct 2012
OP
why isnt threatening an employee illegal? what if they all vote for rmoney and potus still wins
leftyohiolib
Oct 2012
#2
Timeshares are going under big time so he is setting the stage to blame Obama
kelliekat44
Oct 2012
#58
Mr. Clampett's chair is his "king" seat from which he issues his edicts -the wife doesn't look happy
wordpix
Oct 2012
#50
Welcome to the red-state world, where you CAN lose your job for your political understandings. nt
patrice
Oct 2012
#8
When your employer can fire you because you don't contribute and vote to his candidates,
JDPriestly
Oct 2012
#9
They are in the picture to distract the weak minded. Looks like it worked.
rhett o rick
Oct 2012
#22
So one of the biggest scam artists in the scammyest of all scammy businesses tells another lie.
Hassin Bin Sober
Oct 2012
#17
re:David Siegel Email To Workers Threatens Layoffs If Obama Is Reelected (UPDATE)
allan01
Oct 2012
#20
He also goes on to say that his tactics for helping Bush win “may not necessarily have been legal.”
chowder66
Oct 2012
#37
His company and product have very negative reputation in the timeshare community n/t
2Design
Oct 2012
#38
The Queen of Versailles Official Trailer : Riches to Rags With Jackie & David Siegel - video
Tx4obama
Oct 2012
#41
Amen. We should boycott his properties for threatening to fire his employees...
hughee99
Oct 2012
#49
If he's CEO, does he have a board of directors who might object to his bullshit?
randome
Oct 2012
#55