I like this approach

[Team Sergeant]

Dear Fellow Business Owners,

As a business owner who employs 120 people, we have resigned ourselves to the fact that Barack Obama will be our next president, and that our taxes and fees will go up in a BIG way. To compensate for these increases, we figure that the Customer will have to see an increase in our fees to them of about 8-10%.

We will also have to lay off 25 of our employees. This really bothered us as we believe we are family here and didn't know how to choose who will have to go. So, this is what we did.

We strolled thru the parking lot and found twenty Obama bumper stickers on our employees’ cars. We have decided these folks will be the first to be laid off.

We can't think of another fair way to approach this problem. If you have a better idea, let me know.

We our sending this letter to all business owners that we know. I don't think there are any federal anti-discrimination laws that would apply here.

Sincerely,
name withheld

[Red Flag 1]

Originally Posted by Team Sergeant

Dear Fellow Business Owners,

As a business owner who employs 120 people, we have resigned ourselves to the fact that Barack Obama will be our next president, and that our taxes and fees will go up in a BIG way. To compensate for these increases, we figure that the Customer will have to see an increase in our fees to them of about 8-10%.

We will also have to lay off 25 of our employees. This really bothered us as we believe we are family here and didn't know how to choose who will have to go. So, this is what we did.

We strolled thru the parking lot and found twenty Obama bumper stickers on our employees’ cars. We have decided these folks will be the first to be laid off.

We can't think of another fair way to approach this problem. If you have a better idea, let me know.

We our sending this letter to all business owners that we know. I don't think there are any federal anti-discrimination laws that would apply here.

Sincerely,
name withheld

Agreed!

Saw a sticker that said, " Will Rogers Never Met Barack Obama". If you see one on an epmlpoyee's bumper....give him/her a raise.


My $.0200001


RF 1

[KClapp]

Now that's what I call a "Fairness Doctrine"!

[kgoerz]

I saw this Anti Obama Sticker of all places IL

Ill keep my Guns, Money and Freedom. You can keep the Change

[SF_BHT]

I was just lectured and told to remove my McCain sticker from my Personal truck at the embassy today by a Senior State Official. I was polite and listened and then told him to Kiss my Ass and go away. He sent an e-mail to my Agency Head. I told him that you could not bring politics into the office and he could not talk to me any more and walked out. Next week could be fun here.

[echoes]

Originally Posted by SF_BHT

I was just lectured and told to remove my McCain sticker from my Personal truck at the embassy today by a Senior State Official. I was polite and listened and then told him to Kiss my Ass and go away. He sent an e-mail to my Agency Head. I told him that you could not bring politics into the office and he could not talk to me any more and walked out. Next week could be fun here.

B,

Hope you gave them, "The Look!"

Holly :-)

[dividebyzero]

"We strolled thru the parking lot and found twenty Obama bumper stickers on our employees’ cars. We have decided these folks will be the first to be laid off. "

Wow, being laid off for professed support for a political candidate sounds downright un-American to me, regardless of what side of the aisle they're on.

[afchic]

Originally Posted by dividebyzero

"We strolled thru the parking lot and found twenty Obama bumper stickers on our employees’ cars. We have decided these folks will be the first to be laid off. "

Wow, being laid off for professed support for a political candidate sounds downright un-American to me, regardless of what side of the aisle they're on.

Why shouldn't those who professed their support for change, and swallowed his lines hook line and sinker be the first to go?

Additionally, for somene who just "surfed in" to this website, it might behoove you to do a little reading and learning before you start spouting off about who is un-American on this site. You are a guest here, and as a fellow guest I strongly suggest you get your bearings about the type of individual you are discussing issues with on this site. This is not your normal message board.

[SF_BHT]

Originally Posted by dividebyzero

"We strolled thru the parking lot and found twenty Obama bumper stickers on our employees’ cars. We have decided these folks will be the first to be laid off. "

Wow, being laid off for professed support for a political candidate sounds downright un-American to me, regardless of what side of the aisle they're on.

You better run out and take off that Obama sticker....

[Warrior-Mentor]

Originally Posted by dividebyzero

"We strolled thru the parking lot and found twenty Obama bumper stickers on our employees’ cars. We have decided these folks will be the first to be laid off. "

Wow, being laid off for professed support for a political candidate sounds downright un-American to me, regardless of what side of the aisle they're on.

Getting laid off is certainly a "CHANGE."

After all, it's what they asked for...

[Team Sergeant]

Originally Posted by dividebyzero

"We strolled thru the parking lot and found twenty Obama bumper stickers on our employees’ cars. We have decided these folks will be the first to be laid off. "

Wow, being laid off for professed support for a political candidate sounds downright un-American to me, regardless of what side of the aisle they're on.

Is the idea un-American as promoting an individual in the military based solely on his color or ethnicity?

Or how about allowing an individual free room & board to the finest college in America based on his color?

How about free money because people really don’t like to work? That just smacks of American.

Maybe if I was a Hispanic businessman I get a contract not because of my work but because I’m Hispanic? American?

Do not profess your idea of un-American to me, ever.

Team Sergeant

[The Reaper]

Originally Posted by dividebyzero

"We strolled thru the parking lot and found twenty Obama bumper stickers on our employees’ cars. We have decided these folks will be the first to be laid off. "

Wow, being laid off for professed support for a political candidate sounds downright un-American to me, regardless of what side of the aisle they're on.

I have to agree with TS.

Who decides fairness at this business, the owner, or the People's Workers Committee?

They wanted change, now they have it.

Assuming that the story was true, what criteria would you use to react to an evolving business situation that some of your employees helped create?

Is affirmative action fair? Is a wrong done to favor one group fair to the others?

Is taxing those who work harder and longer to benefit those who choose not to, or who do not work at all fair?

How about taxing those who studied to get better grades, and who spent the extra four years or more at college to benefit those who dropped out in high school to live at home and deal drugs on the side? Is that fair?

How about grades? Should those who work harder to get an A really not get a B and the balance of the grade go to those who choose not to work harder for it? Maybe the minority should automatically get one letter grade higher, and those who are not minorities be docked a letter grade to make up for past inequities?

There is no such thing as fairness. What is fair to one is perceived as not fair to another.

Life is tough. It is tougher if you are stupid. And voting for a candidate who wants to rob from those who have worked to succeed in order to support those who do not (frequently through their own sloth) is a bad idea.

The trouble is, as soon as 50% of this nation, plus one, discover that they can vote themselves money from the public till, and are willing to do so, the game is over. They will do so till the nation and the economy collapse. We are just now seeing the tip of that iceberg.

Ther money that we are spending today is our children's debt and burden to carry. When the social security and Medicare/Medicaid debt comes due, it will break them. And no on has the balls to tell Grandma and Grandpa that. Least of all the Dims who helped create this idiocy, and who refuse to address it.

In the end, someone always has to pay. Is that not fair? Look at nature.

TR

[NSDQ]

Originally Posted by kgoerz

Ill keep my Guns, Money and Freedom. You can keep the Change

I'll second that motion and ammendment