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    Companies Pressure Employees to Vote for Romney

    This is one of more compelling stories of the year, IMO. It discusses the power that companies now have over their workers in this increasingly union-less era we live in: the power to effectively bully many of them into voting for their favored political candidates with threats of layoffs and downsizing as the alternative. The money trail makes it abundantly clear who is the favorite of corporate America is in this presidential election: Mitt Romney of the Republican Party. You should hear some of these lines in the linked video. Here are a couple of my personal favorites:

    "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 the company."

    --David Siegel: Westgate Resorts CEO to his employees
    Explaining his blatant threats to his employees in an interview with Bloomberg Business Week, he followed up by putting it this way:

    I've always looked out for their best interests. We're like a family. They're like my children, and I'm the Jewish mother telling them to eat their spinach and vote for Romney." .... "I wanted to let my employees know what will come if they make the wrong choice. They need to worry if Obama gets reelected. The company is doing the best we've done in our history. We're making lots of money, but we're not growing.
    Aside from the sheer weirdness of his analogy (and the fact that the vast majority of American Jews will be voting for President Obama if opinion polling is to be believed) and how demeaning it is to know that your employer thinks of you like a child rather than as a mature, intelligent adult, think about the latter half of that statement for a minute. He says that his company is doing better than ever! So why then would he "have no choice but to reduce the size of [his] company" if Obama should win re-election and the approximate status quo continue? What you see there is that this zillionaire capitalist is NOT making an economic argument. He is indeed issuing a threat. (Trust me, a 4% difference in the tax rate is NOT going to break Mr. Siegel.) Both within the framework of this election and beyond, we need to think deeply about whether this kind of thing -- threatening subordinates to get your way at the polls -- is compatible with the whole idea of society being democratic. We need to think deeply about what kind of society we want to live in.

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    Polly, how would an employer know who you voted for? Tha is, where is the evidence for bullying? Looks like the employer is just giving his opinion on what will happen should BO be reelected. Where's the fire?
    Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining silent about capitalism, should do the same.


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    Another leftist fantasy but it is a great example of why, exactly, unions are demanding card check elections instead of secret ballots. Now we know who wants to control the vote, don't we, Polly?

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    This isn't anything new.

    Its not even a threat to employees. It's simply the way companies view and do forecasts. A company that isn't looking ahead and taking into account who could be in office and what that means for their business and employees isn't a very good manager.

    Thousands of owners are saying the same thing.

    They are telling you guys on the left straight up, Obama is bad for business. Maybe it's time y'all actually stopped slamming business and listening to the Marxist in office and paid attention to what is going on on the ground in this country and around the world.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mister D View Post
    Polly, how would an employer know who you voted for? Tha is, where is the evidence for bullying? Looks like the employer is just giving his opinion on what will happen should BO be reelected. Where's the fire?
    You're correct ... but the fact that they would even imply is a shame.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cigar View Post
    You're correct ... but the fact that they would even imply is a shame.
    What was implied and by whom?
    Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining silent about capitalism, should do the same.


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    Last election company I work for sent out email strongly suggesting we vote for Obama. I remember similar from other companies I've worked for. Happens all the time. Free speech.

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    Exactly.
    Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining silent about capitalism, should do the same.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Mister D View Post
    What was implied and by whom?
    I personally don't give a $#@!, because I don't answer to any Boss and when I step into a Voting booth I do whatever the $#@! I want.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cigar View Post
    I personally don't give a $#@!, because I don't answer to any Boss and when I step into a Voting booth I do whatever the $#@! I want.
    Masturbate to pictures of shirtless Barrack. Have fun. This will be your last chance to do that.

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