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servantforuse -> RE: CEO to Workers: I May Fire You if Obama Wins (10/10/2012 8:49:00 PM)

Steve Wynn just put on hold a 2 billion dollar casino project in Las Vegas. He can't afford to move forward with the Chosen One as president.



Whippedboy -> RE: CEO to Workers: I May Fire You if Obama Wins (10/10/2012 9:36:44 PM)

HAHAHAHAHAHA!
Yes, I'm SURE that's the reason he's holding it.
Did he not know Obama was President?
So let me get your reasoning straight here...There is a billionaire who decides to build a casino during the admin of a Pres he hates then, right before the election, he proclaims wait, I can't build this while he is still in office! Does that REALLY make sense to you? What do you think the investors would think if this was serious? Wynn is a prick anyway.
Are people REALLY stupid enough to think a BILLIONAIRE is going to hold a casino being built for that reason?
Interest rates are at an all-time low, Wall Street has record profits, there is a cheap and plentiful work force in Vegas and they are complaining about what? I know my stocks/401 is kicking as right now and has been for about 18 months.
PLEASE give me an explanation.



tazzygirl -> RE: CEO to Workers: I May Fire You if Obama Wins (10/10/2012 9:42:38 PM)

~FR

I think its cute that the thought of electing Romney will automatically make all these business decisions much easier, that the money will flow, prosperity will reign once again and our economy will boom.

I got bridges to sell, people!



Owner59 -> RE: CEO to Workers: I May Fire You if Obama Wins (10/10/2012 9:47:13 PM)

The cons couldn`t care less about jobs or embassy security........

It`s about hating President Obama.



TheHeretic -> RE: CEO to Workers: I May Fire You if Obama Wins (10/10/2012 9:52:18 PM)


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ORIGINAL: tazzygirl


I think its cute that the thought of electing Romney will automatically make all these business decisions much easier, that the money will flow, prosperity will reign once again and our economy will boom.




More likely than that rise of the seas bullshit, President Obama was mouthing off about, Tazzy.



tazzygirl -> RE: CEO to Workers: I May Fire You if Obama Wins (10/10/2012 10:34:34 PM)


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ORIGINAL: TheHeretic


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ORIGINAL: tazzygirl


I think its cute that the thought of electing Romney will automatically make all these business decisions much easier, that the money will flow, prosperity will reign once again and our economy will boom.




More likely than that rise of the seas bullshit, President Obama was mouthing off about, Tazzy.


Realistically, it wont happen. Wynn has been pulling out of the Vegas market for a while now, setting up shop in places like Macao.



dcnovice -> RE: CEO to Workers: I May Fire You if Obama Wins (10/11/2012 5:21:10 AM)


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ORIGINAL: TheHeretic


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ORIGINAL: dcnovice

Would you prefer that BOL say "You're on your own," spurring contractors to issue warning notices about closings and layoffs that may never actually occur? Whom, if anyone, would that benefit?




Do you find the notion so troubling when school districts issue the layoff warnings before an election, because a ballot measure might not pass?


I asked my question first.



DomYngBlk -> RE: CEO to Workers: I May Fire You if Obama Wins (10/11/2012 5:35:10 AM)

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ORIGINAL: dcnovice

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David Siegel, the owner of Westgate Resorts, sent a surprising email to his employees Monday.

It 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."

Story and email at Yahoo Finance/CNBC


So we have one ex-CEO bashing government statistics, though he admits he has no evidence of fraud. Now we have another threatening the jobs of swing-state voters. Impressive bunch we hand our livelihoods over to. Good thing they'd never stoop to fear-mongering, eh?




Just looking around at his financial headlines think he is probably way out there on credit and about to go out of business anyway. Timeshare business isn't exactly booming right now.....



Aswad -> RE: CEO to Workers: I May Fire You if Obama Wins (10/11/2012 6:11:21 AM)

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ORIGINAL: searching4mysir

If the government is going to make that more difficult, why shouldn't he just shutter the whole operation and retire?


Here's a thought: he can keep overcoming difficulties, as one assumes building the company has required.

Or, more radically: he can be a fellow human being.

IWYW,
— Aswad.



searching4mysir -> RE: CEO to Workers: I May Fire You if Obama Wins (10/11/2012 6:16:58 AM)


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ORIGINAL: Aswad

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ORIGINAL: searching4mysir

If the government is going to make that more difficult, why shouldn't he just shutter the whole operation and retire?


Here's a thought: he can keep overcoming difficulties, as one assumes building the company has required.

Or, more radically: he can be a fellow human being.

IWYW,
— Aswad.




You are missing the point. The government is taking away any incentive to succeed and continue to keep other people employed. The government is HURTING the economy, not helping it.



Lucylastic -> RE: CEO to Workers: I May Fire You if Obama Wins (10/11/2012 6:26:10 AM)

what utter cobblers
greedy people are hurting the economy, and making bullshit excuses



mnottertail -> RE: CEO to Workers: I May Fire You if Obama Wins (10/11/2012 6:26:45 AM)

What I don't understand, why don't we take these people out and shoot them for treason?



Lucylastic -> RE: CEO to Workers: I May Fire You if Obama Wins (10/11/2012 6:47:20 AM)

Freedom of speech??



mnottertail -> RE: CEO to Workers: I May Fire You if Obama Wins (10/11/2012 6:56:41 AM)

Free to say it, and treasonous to do it.

I am going to force you to suck my cock.  There I said it, and you can snicker and make jokes and all sorts of shit, yanno: tee hee, and sure, anytime pal.  But if I actually do it, and it ain't in your plan.......well different kettle of fish, is it not?  



Lucylastic -> RE: CEO to Workers: I May Fire You if Obama Wins (10/11/2012 6:58:47 AM)

But Ron how could I refuse you:)[;)]
But yerse mydear you are correct:)



Marc2b -> RE: CEO to Workers: I May Fire You if Obama Wins (10/11/2012 7:02:47 AM)

SNOPES.


This appears to be an updated version of an urban legend that went around in 2008. Note in particular the similarities in the following two paragraphs (emphasis mine)


From the Yahoo article:

I started this company over 42 years ago. At that time, I lived in a very modest home. I converted my garage into an office so I could put forth 100% effort into building a company, which by the way, would eventually employ you. We didn't eat in fancy restaurants or take expensive vacations because every dollar I made went back into this company. I drove an old used car, and often times, I stayed home on weekends, while my friends went out drinking and partying.

From the Snopes article:

I started this company twelve years ago. At that time I lived in a 300 square foot studio apartment for 3 years. My entire living space was converted into an office so I could put 100% effort into building a company, which by the way, would eventually employ you.

There are other similarities as well.




Lucylastic -> RE: CEO to Workers: I May Fire You if Obama Wins (10/11/2012 7:10:56 AM)

After Gawker published its piece, they spoke to Siegel, who confirmed that he sent the email and that he based it off a chain email that went around before the 2008 elections. "It speaks the truth and it gives [employees] something to think about when they go to the polls," he told Gawker.

coercion is just what people need in their decision to vote who they wish for. NOT



DomKen -> RE: CEO to Workers: I May Fire You if Obama Wins (10/11/2012 7:15:08 AM)


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ORIGINAL: searching4mysir
The government is taking away any incentive to succeed and continue to keep other people employed.

Precisely how is the government doing this?

Returning the tax rate to th level it was during the boom years of the 90's?



PowerXXXchange -> RE: CEO to Workers: I May Fire You if Obama Wins (10/11/2012 7:15:56 AM)


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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic

what utter cobblers
greedy people are hurting the economy, and making bullshit excuses


Agreed. Business expansion IS hurting, but the lack of consumer demand is the reason, NOT the possibility of taxes on the owners.

And the reason for low consumer demand? People deleveraging - paying off credit cards, mortgages, while under employed. Basically, trickle down economics is a fantasy.

IMHO, we have lowered household debt by 15% since its peak three years ago, and still have 2-3 more years to get to where we were in the mid 80's.


PxC



DomKen -> RE: CEO to Workers: I May Fire You if Obama Wins (10/11/2012 7:19:12 AM)


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ORIGINAL: Marc2b

SNOPES.


This appears to be an updated version of an urban legend that went around in 2008. Note in particular the similarities in the following two paragraphs (emphasis mine)


From the Yahoo article:

I started this company over 42 years ago. At that time, I lived in a very modest home. I converted my garage into an office so I could put forth 100% effort into building a company, which by the way, would eventually employ you. We didn't eat in fancy restaurants or take expensive vacations because every dollar I made went back into this company. I drove an old used car, and often times, I stayed home on weekends, while my friends went out drinking and partying.

From the Snopes article:

I started this company twelve years ago. At that time I lived in a 300 square foot studio apartment for 3 years. My entire living space was converted into an office so I could put 100% effort into building a company, which by the way, would eventually employ you.

There are other similarities as well.



Seigel said he used the older fake letter as a guide. Snopes even says so at the end of the article



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