CEO to Workers: I May Fire You if Obama Wins

[Xipe Totec]

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."



http://finance.yahoo.com/news/ceo-workers-youll-likely-fired-131640914.html

[yourout]

1. What an ass.....I guess I know where I WON"T be staying.

[JustAnotherGen]

2. He didn't make all of the right decisions

He over extended himself, then had to fire 5 thousand people - because he is a craptastic business person. Now he needs to go shack up in his new versaille and shut up already.

[2on2u]

3. Jerk. Some people want to work, some want their social security that THEY PAID INTO, some

want decent schools that tax dollars pay for, some want decent roads that tax dollars pay for, and when it comes down to it this dude drives on the same roads, uses the same schools, will get the same social security and medicare that he is accusing others or expecting. What a shithead.

[robinlynne]

4. I have heard this smae story several times. (different repugs)

The workers in my building told me the owner of the building told them the exact same thing. One of them shyly asked who I am going to vote for, and got really happy when I said Obama. He said the owner of the company tells them they all need to vote for Romney. The he said proudly, we are the Latino vote. We are important.

[CANDO]

5. Sounds like an economic terrorist.

Should be arrested for making terrorist threats.