CEO: PRESSURING WORKERS TO BACK ROMNEY IS LIKE TELLING KIDS TO ‘EAT YOUR SPINACH’
Source: ThinkProgress
CEO: PRESSURING WORKERS TO BACK ROMNEY IS LIKE TELLING KIDS TO EAT YOUR SPINACH |
Billionaire CEO David Siegel, who runs a timeshare empire, threatened to fire employees if President Obama is reelected in November, saying in an email, the economy doesnt currently pose a threat to your job. What does threaten your job however, is another 4 years of the same Presidential administration. In explaining himself to the New York Times, Siegel compares his employees to children who need parental guidance and dont know whats good for them: I really wanted them to know how I felt four more years under President Obama was going to affect them. It would be no different from telling your children: Eat your spinach. Its good for you.
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Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/10/27/1101071/ceo-pressuring-workers-to-back-romney-is-like-telling-kids-to-eat-your-spinach/
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)Ironically Republicans aren't good for CEOs either.
SharonAnn
(13,778 posts)kelliekat44
(7,759 posts)Robb
(39,665 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)Unknown how many are aware of these laws that Democrats passed to protect them. The bigger problem is the economic intimidation which has been going on for years. Workers have put up with labor infractions, longer hours, disrespect on the job and other harmful things in fear.
Even when employees know their boss is acting illegally, we still have laws on the books allowing people to be fired at will and without any or little or dishonest reasons given to stay at work. We have right-to-work state laws, discouraging unionization and penalizing those who do work in union jobs, the most blatant in Ohio which were defeated but are still causing harm in WI.
The devastation in so many communities caused by the Romney business model have people terrified of the unemployment line. The GOP fought everything Obama did to protect those whose jobs were gone and looking for work, losing their homes and healthcare.
There is a consistent pattern in the acts of GOP lawmakers across the country, especially in the House and Senate, to force workers to submit to unfair labor practices. There is a huge difference in policy. We must put these thugs out of office.
brer cat
(24,605 posts)and about as useful. Nagging children is NOT a useful tool...nor is that dude. Hope his workers are slipping his emails under the table to the dog.
lolly
(3,248 posts)The assumption is that people who work for a living are too stupid to figure out how to vote.
This is really just a short step away from arguing that people who aren't wealthy shouldn't be allowed to vote at all.
truthisfreedom
(23,155 posts)Apt analogy.
HockeyMom
(14,337 posts)These CEO'S are precisely WHY I quit working in the businessworld.
mysuzuki2
(3,521 posts)Spinach is good for you and tastes good if it is prepared correctly.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)is tastier (and of course, healthier) raw. I use it in place of lettuce in salads.
DallasNE
(7,403 posts)And the fact that he says "the economy doesn't currently pose a threat" makes me think that the reason he is looking down his nose at Obama has more to do with the color of his skin than the state of the economy.
heaven05
(18,124 posts)a rich corporate pig. Thinks just because he can offer jobs to someone, he's big daddy. POS.
underthematrix
(5,811 posts)frontier airlines or buy or rent westgate properties
blazeKing
(329 posts)Faygo Kid
(21,478 posts)Get ready for more of this crap if the Romneys get "their turn" at the presidency.
entanglement
(3,615 posts)stiff inheritance tax rates. These arrogant parasites are so openly contemptuous of the working class, it is sickening.
DBoon
(22,397 posts)and he would never be able to get away with this crap in the first place
entanglement
(3,615 posts)The ultimate goal is the return of ownership and control of productive enterprise to workers and the direction of investment for the good of society rather than the destructive speculative rackets, wars and finance parasitism that characterize present-day capitalism. However, working-class consciousness is rather limited as of now, and there is a long, long way to go before we get anywhere close to that goal.
C_U_L8R
(45,020 posts)Eat your shit sandwich.
liberalmike27
(2,479 posts)That is pretty much it for the last 20 years.
tomg
(2,574 posts)children, it is obvious we don't know how to manage money. So they should pay us in special money that we can only in their special stores to buy the spinach they provide for us.
barnabas63
(1,214 posts)backscatter712
(26,355 posts)nolabear
(41,991 posts)"Why, they're like my children. I know what's best for them. They don't understand complicated things..."
world wide wally
(21,754 posts)but that's just me
TomCADem
(17,390 posts)...or lawn signs for fear of being retaliated against.
liberalmike27
(2,479 posts)I don't know how much yard signs and bumper stickers influence people, but they might have a slight effect on undecided people. At the very least, all these folks working for employers who are telling them basically you're going to be fired if Obama is reelected, surely aren't likely to put up a yard sign, or have a sticker on their car.
And imagine driving into a parking lot at work, with hundreds of Romney stickers, and NO Obama stickers, through intimidation.
Of course, there's nothing saying this sort of thing hasn't always happened, and that anyone who puts a sticker on their car might run afoul of someone with a different candidate.
KathieG
(2,049 posts)...and I can take my spinach into a private booth, eat candy instead and just tell you I ate the spinach. Dumbass.
I hope this shit backfires hardcore for these assholes.
liberalmike27
(2,479 posts)Spinach is actually good for you, while Romney won't be good for them.
Kind of messes up the metaphor.
reACTIONary
(5,771 posts)...my bet is that some of the more indecisive ones just made up their minds.
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)This ballbag couldn't suck more if he were a Dyson powered by jet fuel.
griloco
(832 posts)BAINOs Billionaire Americans In Name Only who Romney wants to extort your vote with threats of layoffs and firings for they do not believe in Freedom Democracy America as tyrants never do.
They don't know how brave Americans will never dishonor all the brave men and women from Attucks to Stevens, Smith, Doherty and Woods, from Paul and Burns to Liuzzo and King*, from Lexington, Concord, Bunker Hill, to Normandy and Iwo, and beyond, the Minutemen, Doughboys, GI's, Rosie Riveters, soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines. Americans one and all stand tall on their shoulders and cast that precious ballot anointed in their blood sweat and tears according to our conscience for we all know to cow to the BIANO bluff would mean slinking to a job the next day and every day of our lives, gut wrenching for we could no longer stand tall and bellow "Land of the Free, Home of the Brave" and we would know what is meant by a coward dies a thousand deaths while the brave die but once. Fight the BAINO tyranny, Cast your conscience be it Obama or Romney.
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Crispus Attucks 1770 Boston Massacre first fatality of War of Independence
Chris Stevens, Sean Smith, Glen Doherty, Tyrone Woods 2012 killed in Benghazi attack
Alice Paul, Lucy Burns, 1917 suffragists beaten during "Night of Terror" for picketing White House
Viola Luizzo 1965 killed by the KKK
Martin Luther King 1968 killed by James Earl Ray
ck4829
(35,091 posts)Don C. Nuttin
(84 posts)Spinach is good for them.
AAO
(3,300 posts)(speaking to David Siegel, not the OP)
surrealAmerican
(11,364 posts)... are adults, and may be smarter than he is ...
... after all, how could they be? - he has more money, therefore he must be smarter.
Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)Teamster Jeff
(1,598 posts)I honestly believe most people realize these CEOs are full of shit. The CEOs know that Obama is not bad for business but what they are really concerned about is their own personal Tax bills.
Billsmile
(404 posts)Is like making your children play fairly with others.
savebigbird
(417 posts)Tutonic
(2,522 posts)Paris Hilton and Lindsey Lohan--do you want the STDs to burn off your manparts a little at a time or in one massive scoop?
kimmerspixelated
(8,423 posts)FASCISM!
bigregg4838
(92 posts)CEO's pressuring workers; Mitt Romney flip flopping... The GOP are like Horny Teenaged Boys: They will say or do anything to "put it in." LOL!!
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Tom Ripley
(4,945 posts)I fixed that headline for ya
dchill
(38,532 posts)yurbud
(39,405 posts)Even if it fools some people, once they buy and take a bite, they know they've been had.
The Republican base has developed a taste for it though and won't eat anything else.
Angleae
(4,493 posts)I also liked liver.
I was also considered weird.
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)yurbud
(39,405 posts)yurbud
(39,405 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Wow! Does he have any openings? Sign me up right now!