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.”
The points are ones that have often been made during this election. But what makes the letter surprising is the source.
Read More at CNBC . By Robert Frank.
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Not only is this guy right-on, but I just listened to an interview with Steve Wynn, the Las Vegas hotel owner. He was very articulate in the interview and said how Obamma boy is destroying our country. steve explained how Obammy boy had total control of all Gov senate and house and he could have fixed the most and biggest problem… JOBS. But he did nothing. Obammy boy spend almost 3 years passing obamyycare and apologizing to muslims for all that America does wrong? There are much more effective means on how to solve this problem, not just impeachment or trial for treason. My vote would be to utilize those other means… faster and cheaper.
Right on, 3,000 weaponds of Fast and Furious Hava MURDERED more than 300 people and he was in on it. He should be charged with MURDER.
Now that David Siegel, the owner of Westgate Resorts, has emailed his employees that if Obama is not elected, he would have to lay them off. Hmmmmmm David Siegel we will no longer visit Westgate Resorts and tell as many of our friends about your horrible threats against your employees. You are a sad person indeed.
You sir are going to the the SAD person IF the O'slimebo is re-elected. He will be telling you what kind of TP to use and what kind of electric car to drive. I for own WILL stay at Westgate Resorts because Siegel is smarter than people like you.
Your right. I mis-read the article. I take back all that I said.
Hi Gil, the truth is obama is bad news for all of us, if he is re-elected he will bring America down. We are at apoint of a economic crash that can happen at any given moment and this president doesn't get it nor he cares with his reckless spending, signing into laws to make it harder for people to live and operate their busineses.
Hi Linda,
The fact of the matter is that Obama does in fact “get it” and has in fact been hell bent on fundamentally transforming OUR country from a Republic of, for and by “We the people…” into a HIS country of Socialist State of, for and by HIM.
what part did you not understand? Gil? try reading if again, there many people that don't get it, and many of these morons will go and vote for this bum in the white house who is anti America and everything that this great nation stands for.
Just fire the ones that vote for Ovomit.
Now we know that Ovomit is a fake christian and a real muslim, it's time to impeach him.
The Ohio and Pennsylvania ballot boxes were stuffed in 2008 presidential election to put the usurper in power, and right now Sarah Palin is really who got the real votes for Vice President.
What I found saddest of this whole article is the comments on the original site. After this man steps up and tells the truth about his situation, the comments are vile and attack him for fighting for his EMPLOYEES job.
Obama has succeeded in his class warfare and racial warfare.
This will be the proof that Obama's economic recovery strategy is working. I could show you pictures of buildings that once held businesses inside them, now vacant. Some of these businesses have been abandoned and boarded up, even. I could show you outlets in shopping malls that used to have a long standing business inside them, replaced by another or left empty. I am astounded to see such familiar store fronts go empty seemingly overnight. Oh yes. This is evidence to me that Obama's plan is working. Exactly the way he intended it to work. If he is given more time in office, his plan to empty places of business will succeed. That's what this man is saying. It wont matter if he's a great boss that wants to keep his employees working. He wont be able to if he can't afford it. Oh, but Obama says he wants to tax only the rich and wealthy (excluding himself and his friends). But, he chose to define the rich and wealthy as people who make over $250,000. Those are small business earnings. Raising taxes on them destroys their ability to make a living. That's his plan. Drive the knife in deeper and twist.
It seems to me that more owners of businesses and bosses would write the same letters to their employees, that this would give a lot of obutthole kissers a reason to rethink their intentions, and maybe remove their lips from the butthole of the One who intends to destroy them………AFTER he uses them for his own personal agenda. That being, to destroy all small, and larger businesses in this country, by way of taxations that kill any businesses who hope to suceed. It will be the workers who suffer the most, because if their bosses, and owners can’t afford the new taxes, and high priced insurance that it takes to run a business, then what other choice does any business have, other than to lay off the workers, or close down the business? This man did the smartest thing I have ever heard of anyone doing in this day and age of too much government and overpriced everything. If every owner did this, if every CEO of every business, large or small, then across America, just maybe people would get their eyes fully open to what this Disaster/Disease in office really is, and what he really means to do, and then the lips and eyes would move back to where they belong! Wide open, and lips unglued from the ass of the mu SLIME in our White House! Maybe then, we could truly have the VOTES TO REMOVE THIS CANCER, THIS BOIL ON THE ASS OF AMERICA! This CANCER GROWS EVEN LARGER AND EVEN MORE DEADLY AS EACH DAY PASSES! And unless Americans wake up, wise up, and make the right choice, we are doomed to even more workers losing their jobs, their livlihood, and everything else, including their freedom to live as Americans! This FILTH in office intends to utterly destroy us all, and this destruction includes the idiots and fools who do not want to see him as the SLIME, the DESTROYER that he truly is! ALL CEO’s should do this same thing, WRITE SUCH A LETTER TO ALL EMPLOYEES! I applaud this man for being HONEST in a day that honesty is more reviled than ever before in our lives! God bless you!
Finally an employer who talks to his employees and tells them the truth about what the future holds if this poor excuse for a president gets re-elected.
With another Obama term in office, the only jobs to be found will be those in the government. This is and has been the objective since the beginning – how is it that people don't realize this yet? The man is a Communist, and don't let anyone convince you that he is not because he does not carry a party card. By far the majority of Communists carry no card, belong to no "party" (or belong to the Democrat Party) and would deny the fact if cornered. They would say they are progressives, progressive democrats, socialists perhaps, any of a dozen "code" words. Anything but a Communist. Still, that's what they are – professing the utopian garbage that is no more than words. Their aim is to control you. Read up on it at http://www.gov-truth.com