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CEO to workers: you'll likely be fired if Obama wins

10 points by akkartik 14y ago

fredsanford 14y ago
Wow, the guy makes great points and has some serious issues. However... The rhetoric ruins the whole thing - at least for me.
petrilli 14y ago
You should watch the film (Queen of Versailles). It's clear that 1) he's completely devoid of a soul; 2) he exploited the cheap money thing knowingly to build his business on subprime loans and didn't care who got hurt in the process (see #1). He's the perfect modern Republican. His wife comes off much more compassionately, and quite honestly, smarter, if likely insecure and troubled.
- FireBeyond 14y ago
  Interesting, how much perspective matters - I read the same article on Gizmodo, and some of the comments were a polar opposite. "You can kinda feel some sympathy for him, amongst his other issues, his wife comes off as a raging bitch." It shows how polarized American society has become that one person's compassion becomes another's "raging bitch".
dccoolgai 14y ago
This would be a great story to post on a Mainstream Media news site.
ebrenes 14y ago
This is pretty much, par for the course. During G.W. Bush's first election my SO at the time received a similar corporate communication from the executives in MBNA. Pretty much telling them they would all be out of a job if they didn't vote for Bush, so she did.
techinsidr 14y ago
This part is so true: "Obviously, our present government believes that taking my money is the right economic stimulus for this country. The fact is, if I deducted 50 percent of your paycheck you'd quit and you wouldn't work here. I mean, why should you? Who wants to get rewarded only 50 percent of their hard work? Well, that's what happens to me." Excellent article.
- onetwothreefour 14y ago
  LOL. By taking that line of thinking to its logical conclusion, there should be no taxes and no government. That's not going to happen, no matter who's in charge. This is not an excellent article unless you're devoid of any analytical thinking skills.
  - snogglethorpe 14y ago
    It's absurd even without taking it to its logical conclusion. There's no inherent value associated with what he does, the amount of money he "earns" is pretty arbitrary. The only way you can really judge it is by comparison to other people doing the same thing. You can compare to people doing other things, but this is at best an extremely crude measure, and borders on meaningless for people with extremely high incomes as he has. Taxes affect him the same as anybody else, so there seems no basis for complaint there—he's not being singled out or treated unfairly—and given that at his income level, the amount he earns is almost completely arbitrary, there doesn't seem any basis for saying that he doesn't get what he "deserves." In other words, despite his pathetic attempt to claim he's being "wronged," really he's simply saying that he wants moar money, and will threaten and browbeat people to try and achieve that end. Business as usual I suppose...
techinsidr 14y ago
I think many startups and successful entrepreneurs can appreciated this part: "...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."
- onetwothreefour 14y ago
  No, they don't. Because not everyone is as shallow, self-centered and soulless as this guy.
tthomas48 14y ago
Regardless of your politics. If any CEO doesn't understand the lack of moral character in making a statement like this, I wouldn't expect them to have the moral character to run a business. And I would run fast lest I be implicated in a criminal act.

10 points by akkartik 14y ago

Wow, the guy makes great points and has some serious issues. However... The rhetoric ruins the whole thing - at least for me.

petrilli 14y ago

You should watch the film (Queen of Versailles). It's clear that 1) he's completely devoid of a soul; 2) he exploited the cheap money thing knowingly to build his business on subprime loans and didn't care who got hurt in the process (see #1). He's the perfect modern Republican. His wife comes off much more compassionately, and quite honestly, smarter, if likely insecure and troubled.

FireBeyond 14y ago
Interesting, how much perspective matters - I read the same article on Gizmodo, and some of the comments were a polar opposite. "You can kinda feel some sympathy for him, amongst his other issues, his wife comes off as a raging bitch." It shows how polarized American society has become that one person's compassion becomes another's "raging bitch".

dccoolgai 14y ago

This would be a great story to post on a Mainstream Media news site.

ebrenes 14y ago

This is pretty much, par for the course. During G.W. Bush's first election my SO at the time received a similar corporate communication from the executives in MBNA. Pretty much telling them they would all be out of a job if they didn't vote for Bush, so she did.

techinsidr 14y ago

This part is so true: "Obviously, our present government believes that taking my money is the right economic stimulus for this country. The fact is, if I deducted 50 percent of your paycheck you'd quit and you wouldn't work here. I mean, why should you? Who wants to get rewarded only 50 percent of their hard work? Well, that's what happens to me." Excellent article.

onetwothreefour 14y ago
LOL. By taking that line of thinking to its logical conclusion, there should be no taxes and no government. That's not going to happen, no matter who's in charge. This is not an excellent article unless you're devoid of any analytical thinking skills.
- snogglethorpe 14y ago
  It's absurd even without taking it to its logical conclusion. There's no inherent value associated with what he does, the amount of money he "earns" is pretty arbitrary. The only way you can really judge it is by comparison to other people doing the same thing. You can compare to people doing other things, but this is at best an extremely crude measure, and borders on meaningless for people with extremely high incomes as he has. Taxes affect him the same as anybody else, so there seems no basis for complaint there—he's not being singled out or treated unfairly—and given that at his income level, the amount he earns is almost completely arbitrary, there doesn't seem any basis for saying that he doesn't get what he "deserves." In other words, despite his pathetic attempt to claim he's being "wronged," really he's simply saying that he wants moar money, and will threaten and browbeat people to try and achieve that end. Business as usual I suppose...

techinsidr 14y ago

I think many startups and successful entrepreneurs can appreciated this part: "...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."

onetwothreefour 14y ago
No, they don't. Because not everyone is as shallow, self-centered and soulless as this guy.

tthomas48 14y ago

Regardless of your politics. If any CEO doesn't understand the lack of moral character in making a statement like this, I wouldn't expect them to have the moral character to run a business. And I would run fast lest I be implicated in a criminal act.