David Siegel and the billionaire’s sad lament
The man above is David Siegel, owner of Westgate Resorts, allegedly the largest time-share company in the world, with his wife Jackie. After a financial setback during the recession, Siegel now brags that “we’re the most profitable we’ve ever been.” He and Jackie have resumed construction on a 90,000-square-foot home, called Versailles, that they are building in Florida. If and when it is completed, it will be the largest private home in the country.
According to the Wall Street Journal, when completed Versailles will boast “13 bedrooms, 23 full bathrooms, a 6,000-square-foot master suite (with plans in place for a bed on a rotating platform), a banquet kitchen plus 10 satellite kitchens, a 20-car garage, three pools, a two-story wine cellar and a grand hall with a 30-foot stained glass dome.”
With that background established, this is the email that Siegel sent to his employees yesterday:
Subject: Message from David Siegel
Date:Mon, 08 Oct 2012 13:58:05 -0400 (EDT)
From: [David Siegel]
To: [All employees]To All My Valued Employees,
As most of you know our company, Westgate Resorts, has continued to succeed in spite of a very dismal economy. There is no question that the economy has changed for the worse and we have not seen any improvement over the past four years. In spite of all of the challenges we have faced, the good news is this: The economy doesn’t currently pose a threat to your job. What does threaten your job however, is another 4 years of the same presidential administration. Of course, as your employer, I can’t tell you whom to vote for, and I certainly wouldn’t interfere with your right to vote for whomever you choose. In fact, I encourage you to vote for whomever you think will serve your interests the best.
However, let me share a few facts that might help you decide what is in your best interest. The current administration and members of the press have perpetuated an environment that casts employers against employees. They want you to believe that we live in a class system where the rich get richer, the poor get poorer. They label us the “1%” and imply that we are somehow immune to the challenges that face our country. This could not be further from the truth. Sure, you may have heard about the big home that I’m building. I’m sure many people think that I live a privileged life. However, what you don’t see or hear is the true story behind any success that I have achieved.
I started this company over 42 years ago. At that time, I lived in a very modest home. I converted my garage into an office so I could put forth 100% effort into building a company, which by the way, would eventually employ you. We didn’t eat in fancy restaurants or take expensive vacations because every dollar I made went back into this company. I drove an old used car, and often times, I stayed home on weekends, while my friends went out drinking and partying. In fact, I was married to my business — hard work, discipline, and sacrifice. Meanwhile, many of my friends got regular jobs. They worked 40 hours a week and made a nice income, and they spent every dime they earned. They drove flashy cars and lived in expensive homes and wore fancy designer clothes. My friends refinanced their mortgages and lived a life of luxury. I, however, did not. I put my time, my money, and my life into this business —-with a vision that eventually, some day, I too, will be able to afford to buy whatever I wanted. Even to this day, every dime I earn goes back into this company. Over the past four years I have had to stop building my dream house, cut back on all of my expenses, and take my kids out of private schools simply to keep this company strong and to keep you employed.
Just think about this – most of you arrive at work in the morning and leave that afternoon and the rest of your time is yours to do as you please. But not me- there is no “off” button for me. When you leave the office, you are done and you have a weekend all to yourself. I unfortunately do not have that freedom. I eat, live, and breathe this company every minute of the day, every day of the week. There is no rest. There is no weekend. There is no happy hour. I know many of you work hard and do a great job, but I’m the one who has to sign every check, pay every expense, and make sure that this company continues to succeed. Unfortunately, what most people see is the nice house and the lavish lifestyle. What the press certainly does not want you to see, is the true story of the hard work and sacrifices I’ve made.
Now, the economy is falling apart and 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. Yes, business ownership has its benefits, but the price I’ve paid is steep and not without wounds. Unfortunately, the costs of running a business have gotten out of control, and let me tell you why: We are being taxed to death and the government thinks we don’t pay enough. We pay state taxes, federal taxes, property taxes, sales and use taxes, payroll taxes, workers compensation taxes and unemployment taxes. I even have to hire an entire department to manage all these taxes. The question I have is this: Who is really stimulating the economy? Is it the Government that wants to take money from those who have earned it and give it to those who have not, or is it people like me who built a company out of his garage and directly employs over 7000 people and hosts over 3 million people per year with a great vacation?
Obviously, our present government believes that taking my money is the right economic stimulus for this country. The fact is, if I deducted 50% of your paycheck you’d quit and you wouldn’t work here. I mean, why should you? Who wants to get rewarded only 50% of their hard work? Well, that’s what happens to me.
Here is what most people don’t understand and the press and our Government has chosen to ignore – to stimulate the economy you need to stimulate what runs the economy. Instead of raising my taxes and depositing that money into the Washington black-hole, let me spend it on growing the company, hire more employees, and generate substantial economic growth. My employees will enjoy the wealth of that tax cut in the form of promotions and better salaries. But that is not what our current Government wants you to believe. They want you to believe that it somehow makes sense to take more from those who create wealth and give it to those who do not, and somehow our economy will improve. They don’t want you to know that the “1%”, as they like to label us, pay more than 31% of all the taxes in this country. Thomas Jefferson, the author of our great Constitution, once said, “democracy” will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.”
Business is at the heart of America and always has been. To restart it, you must stimulate business, not kill it. However, the power brokers in Washington believe redistributing wealth is the essential driver of the American economic engine. Nothing could be further from the truth and this is the type of change they want.
So where am I going with all this? It’s quite simple. 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. Rather than grow this company I will be forced to cut back. This means fewer jobs, less benefits and certainly less opportunity for everyone.
So, when you make your decision to vote, ask yourself, which candidate understands the economics of business ownership and who doesn’t? Whose policies will endanger your job? Answer those questions and you should know who might be the one capable of protecting and saving your job. While the media wants to tell you to believe the “1 percenters” are bad, I’m telling you they are not. They create most of the jobs. If you lose your job, it won’t be at the hands of the “1%”; it will be at the hands of a political hurricane that swept through this country.
You see, I can no longer support a system that penalizes the productive and gives to the unproductive. My motivation to work and to provide jobs will be destroyed, and with it, so will your opportunities. If that happens, you can find me in the Caribbean sitting on the beach, under a palm tree, retired, and with no employees to worry about.
Signed, your boss,
David Siegel
The email does raise an interesting question or two, such as, if it’s true that “even to this day, every dime I earn goes back into this company,” where did all the money for that house come from? And if he made all the right decisions, why did he come so close to bankruptcy? Why does he blame government for the fact that he had to pull his eight kids out of private school? If he couldn’t support a family that large, why did he keep having children?
Under ordinary circumstances, I also wouldn’t think it necessary to pity poor Mr. Siegel. After all, he would seem to have more than enough pity for himself to fill all three swimming pools at Versailles, allowing him to wallow in that emotion to his heart’s content. But clearly, this is a man completely unfamiliar with the concept of “more than enough.” Judging from his email, the poor unappreciated soul wants and needs more pity still; he is a victim, you see, treated shabbily and unfairly, and he’s not going to take any more of it, by golly.
Attention, attention must finally be paid to such a person.
– Jay Bookman
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Jeffrey
October 9th, 2012
5:38 pm
So he just told his employees he’s better than them. Helluva motivator this guy. And time shares? That’s innovative. Who ever heard of preying on suckers before. Have fun cleaning that shack.
Jeffrey
October 9th, 2012
5:39 pm
Oh yeah he apparently sacrificed a first wife on the way. Wonder how the money she got went back into the company?
ByteMe - Thugs vs. Ilk... in 3D!
October 9th, 2012
5:40 pm
Is David Siegel pregnant?
Joe Hussein Mama
October 9th, 2012
5:40 pm
Are we sure that woman on his lap isn’t a ventriloquist’s dummy?
East Cobb RINO, Inc. (LLC)
October 9th, 2012
5:41 pm
They probably have their IT staff digging through all 7000 employees sent items to try to find the mole. Wonder what will happen to him/her?
ByteMe - Thugs vs. Ilk... in 3D!
October 9th, 2012
5:41 pm
Are we sure that woman on his lap isn’t a ventriloquist’s dummy?
So you’re saying his left arm in the picture is fake?
Miss Understood
October 9th, 2012
5:41 pm
Why not just continue to offer the health insurance like you do now?
He’s required by law to offer Health insurance if he has more than 5(?) employees that work for him on a full time (32+ hours/week) basis.
He must not be a very good businessman if he’s not only breaking the law, but too dumb to let the guy quit and save himself some paperwork……
BRW
October 9th, 2012
5:42 pm
“Are we sure that woman on his lap isn’t a ventriloquist’s dummy?”
No. She’s no dummy, unless she signed the pre-nup……
barking frog
October 9th, 2012
5:43 pm
If you are surprised by this
then you don’t know many
’successful’ people. Most
I know believe this crap. Just tax his ass and if he quits wave byebye.
Joe The Plumber Too
October 9th, 2012
5:43 pm
Joe mama, disrespect in the office is never allowed at my business, how about yours?
Don’t forget, my business has done pretty good for the past thirty years but thanks for asking.
ByteMe - Thugs vs. Ilk... in 3D!
October 9th, 2012
5:43 pm
If we raise just his taxes to 60% will that make him go away already?
BRW
October 9th, 2012
5:45 pm
Ok Joe, Prove it. List your company name and we’ll check you out, and ensure you follow THE LAW to it’s letter…..
Joe Hussein Mama
October 9th, 2012
5:45 pm
ByteMe — “So you’re saying his left arm in the picture is fake?”
I think that arm belongs to a particularly soft and supple employee that Mr. Siegel no doubt employs as a seat cushion.
Pizzaman
October 9th, 2012
5:45 pm
Republican crap! Poor billionaire wants to keep more so he can hire more? Not likely. If Willard wins he’ll layoff as many as possible.
Vote Early, Vote Often, to hell with voter ID, vote absentee!
Jay
October 9th, 2012
5:45 pm
Why don’t you leak all that to Hannity and Tucker Carlson, Pogo? It can be their next “bombshell.”
Joe The Plumber Too
October 9th, 2012
5:46 pm
miss understood, I am not required by law to pay half of my employees insurance as I do now by any law. Whole picture sister……..
josef
October 9th, 2012
5:47 pm
iRUN
Well, something like that! But, yes…but, you know, if you acknowledge that folks are going to call you a snob, uppity and all that. When you try to tell them that there’s a great deal of responsibility that goes with it, they miss that part…you apparently were raised right…
What were you doing in Kampala? Any take on what’s going on with the gay folks there?
Joe Hussein Mama
October 9th, 2012
5:47 pm
J. Plumber — “Joe mama, disrespect in the office is never allowed at my business, how about yours?”
I’m smart enough not to let my temper get me on the hook for an employee’s unemployment benefits. You ever heard of Constructive Termination?
“Don’t forget, my business has done pretty good for the past thirty years”
FWIW, I doubt that you’re a plumber and I doubt that you have a business. Kind of like the *real* Not-Joe the Not-Plumber.
Union
October 9th, 2012
5:48 pm
@jhm.. if i tell my employees they can be fired for using drugs or tobacco on their time and i test.. i can fire them.. obviously it would have to be company policy and set forth in the guidelines, etc. but in accordance with the verbiage of your post.. i can do just that..
Joe The Plumber Too
October 9th, 2012
5:48 pm
brw…..thats funny. Have a good night people, there is a steak calling my name at home.
East Cobb RINO, Inc. (LLC)
October 9th, 2012
5:48 pm
Her days as Mrs Seigal are numbered now that Rhea Perlman is back on the market.
Union
October 9th, 2012
5:49 pm
@ miss understood..
California law permits public-sector employees in a bargaining unit to
decide by majority vote to create an “agency shop” arrangement under which all the employees are represented by a union. Even employees who do not join the union must pay an annual fee for
“chargeable expenses,” i.e., the cost of nonpolitical union services related to collective bargaining. Under Abood v. Detroit Bd. of Ed., 431
U. S. 209, a public-sector union can bill nonmembers for chargeable
expenses but may not require them to fund its political or ideological
projects. Teachers v. Hudson, 475 U. S. 292, 302–311, sets out requirements that a union must meet in order to collect regular fees
from nonmembers without violating their rights
http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/11pdf/10-1121c4d6.pdf
Miss Understood
October 9th, 2012
5:49 pm
And time shares? That’s innovative.
I love the convenience of a time share, but you’re right, they’re the biggest scam, (outside of Insurance), ever.
You “buy” your timeshare for $0 down and pay $200/month for 60 months for it. Every year you pay “taxes” on your property, (sometimes as much as $2K); and you have a small “fee” everytime you use it.
The catch is if 20 people “own” along with you, your timeshare, then monthly the true owners, Siegel, is getting $200*20 on one “apartment” in a building that has 200 apartments. He’s also getting $2K a year from you and your other “owners” to pay off his taxes on the property.
It’s a great scam — classic really.
But people like me, who are ULTRA LAZY about booking reservations for vacations. LOVE timeshares.
One call, that’s all.
I’m sucka for a timeshare…………..
BRW
October 9th, 2012
5:49 pm
“brw…..thats funny. Have a good night people, there is a steak calling my name at home”
Sure. Unemployed loser…..
Doggone/GA
October 9th, 2012
5:49 pm
Oh, and BTW, just to show what wimps these people are…the real Versailles, the Palace of Versailles in France…has 2300 rooms and had NO BATHROOMS when it was built.
They BOTH suck
October 9th, 2012
5:50 pm
He is probably over built and looking to blame Uncle Sam if he has to lay folks off instead of saying he has more supply than demand.
However I could be wrong, but I doubt if his demand is outpacing supply he wont find a way to make it work; charge a little more and maybe absorb some of the costs.
Joe The Plumber Too
October 9th, 2012
5:50 pm
joe mama, I doubt you are a real hussein either young man.
pogo
October 9th, 2012
5:50 pm
Ever heard of Robert Roche Jay? His company owns “Obama.com” and he is a campaign bundler for the Obama campaign. He is centered in Singapore and he has very close associations with the Chinese government. Why don’t you talk about this gentleman Jay? Is he selling out the governance of our country to the Chinese just to keep Obama in the Whitehouse. And why would the the Chinese want Obama re-elected? They know that they can buy him, that is why.
barking frog
October 9th, 2012
5:51 pm
Joe the plumber
If not legally required to
pay half your employees
insurance, why do it?
Stupidity?
Don't Forget
October 9th, 2012
5:51 pm
Mr Plumber, nice dodge on the question. If you provide insurance now, when there is no fine, why would you cancel it when there would be a fine for doing so? You’re story makes no sense and is just a piece of political rhetoric designed to frighten people.
bman
October 9th, 2012
5:52 pm
That email was pitiful. It’s always the super-rich who gets the press. This guy, nearly everyone in Hollywood explaining to us all how we should think, and who we should vote for. And why? Because they know it all.
The difference? His employees don’t give him money.
Oh well…to each his own
josef
October 9th, 2012
5:52 pm
Doggone
At my age, I ain’t go no problem with 13 bathrooms!
Joe The Plumber Too
October 9th, 2012
5:53 pm
brw, I guess you figured me out. I’m homeless, unemployed and have to get off this Library computer before closing time. Can’t pull anything over your eyes huh little fellow? Play nice dims, gotta go.
Joe Hussein Mama
October 9th, 2012
5:53 pm
Union — “@jhm.. if i tell my employees they can be fired for using drugs or tobacco on their time and i test.. i can fire them.. obviously it would have to be company policy and set forth in the guidelines, etc. but in accordance with the verbiage of your post.. i can do just that..”
Nope. Not in accordance with the verbiage of my post at all. If those are *conditions of employment,* they’re distinct from the type of intimidation that Mr. Siegel clearly engaged in.
Now, if you’d like to demonstrate that Mr. Siegel clearly indicated voting for Republicans to be a condition of continued employment for his staff when he hired them, then I am all ears. Otherwise, you’re just blowing smoke.
Road Scholar
October 9th, 2012
5:55 pm
“Are we sure that woman on his lap isn’t a ventriloquist’s dummy?”
Ya’ know she is a blond!
How will he complete the house decor ? French tacky? All those clappers and emergency push buttons in case he falls down? His wife and kids will probably short them out… Just imagine the utility bills?
I wonder how many tax loopholes he has used for his personal and work accounts? He probably will write of the entire mortgage as a place to entertain his clients…or his wife’s boyfriends!
Joe Hussein Mama
October 9th, 2012
5:55 pm
J. Plumber — “joe mama, I doubt you are a real hussein either”
Shrug.
“young man.”
I *wish* I was still a young man.
Doggone/GA
October 9th, 2012
5:56 pm
“At my age, I ain’t go no problem with 13 bathrooms”
Read it again! 13 BEDrooms and 23 BATHrooms!
Doggone/GA
October 9th, 2012
5:57 pm
“Ya’ know she is a blond!”
Look again, she’s not blonde (blond is masculine)
Road Scholar
October 9th, 2012
5:58 pm
josef: Are you that full of s…?
Sorry could not resist. I know what you mean. The old camel bladder is not what it once was!
Miss Understood
October 9th, 2012
6:00 pm
miss understood, I am not required by law to pay half of my employees insurance as I do now by any law. Whole picture sister……..
OK –maybe I missed something here — if you already pay for health insurance, (half as you say), then why did you fire the guy for asking for Health insurance?
Union – In states that haven’t passed so-called Right-To-Work laws, the union can charge all workers in a “negotiating unit” for the direct cost of representing them, but cannot, by law, force them to pay for the union’s political activities. “They can only be required to pay for their share of bargaining costs and representation costs – not politics, not legislative stuff, not anything else.
josef
October 9th, 2012
6:00 pm
Doggone
Okay…no problem with 23 either!
Beastie Boys
October 9th, 2012
6:01 pm
You gotta fight, for your right, to paaaaarty!
josef
October 9th, 2012
6:02 pm
ROAD SCHOLAR
Not sh*t, piss and vinagre!
Doggone/GA
October 9th, 2012
6:02 pm
“Okay…no problem with 23 either!”
Makes me wonder if they’re going to require that all of their guests use a bathroom twice everytime they have to go!
barking frog
October 9th, 2012
6:03 pm
josef
does Unmentionable drink
gin and tonic also ?
deegee
October 9th, 2012
6:04 pm
“David Siegel, owner of Westgate Resorts, allegedly the largest time-share company in the world.”
Doesn’t that speak for itself? If you can sell a time share, you can sell a load of crap to an employee.
Welcome to the Occupation
October 9th, 2012
6:04 pm
Simple Truths: “Welcome to the Occupation @ 5:18: You have size envy?”
Yeah, guess so. Though I’m told I shouldn’t.
bob
October 9th, 2012
6:05 pm
He didn’t build that but her doctor built those.
Granny Godzilla
October 9th, 2012
6:05 pm
Dave and Jackie need Sr. Mary John Ellen to tell them the
story of Lou and Marie and their Versailles.
Messy business.
Same decor .
GT
October 9th, 2012
6:05 pm
I can’t connect the dots. You have this group that barricade themselves in the church, bully people with moral indignation and call themselves conservative. Then in about every group of that tea party crowd there is one or two of these grease balls who the right wants to be the symbol of America, this guy and Donald Trump being one of many. They got big problems with Obama, a family man, two daughters, and a wife of 20 years, bigger problems with gay marriage yet this puss belly married a high paid prostitute, probably his second or third and they are fine with that image. Not unlike Newt who has made this kind of thing fashionable. Communities use to keep these nuts in a closet, you heard your parents talk about them at the dinner table, now they are front and center. Nut balls are the in thing, at least with other nuts. I would like to hear more about this from Romney who won the primary because he is the least nutty in an insane asylum. Romney who is paying for most of his campaign with these nut balls money yet just last week sounded exactly like Obama in a debate, yet these were the nut balls celebrating. Can’t connect the dots.
Miss Understood
October 9th, 2012
6:05 pm
The difference? His employees don’t give him money.
The difference is they work for him and he’s using COERCION and THREATS. (See Sexual Harassment Laws)
josef
October 9th, 2012
6:06 pm
Doggone…
FROG
When he drinks the hard stuff…mostly he’s a wino…
Welcome to the Occupation
October 9th, 2012
6:08 pm
Famous last words uttered at Versailles.
Let them eat silicone.
josef
October 9th, 2012
6:09 pm
WELCOME
“… Though I’m told I shouldn’t…it won’t help”
There, finished it for you!
barking frog
October 9th, 2012
6:09 pm
josef
I thought he was smarter
than you…
Joe Hussein Mama
October 9th, 2012
6:09 pm
B. Boys — “You gotta fight, for your right, to paaaaarty!”
Not any more, you’re not. One of the three died this year.
barking frog
October 9th, 2012
6:11 pm
josef
you are aware that gin was
created to drink with
English cuisine…
Brosephus™
October 9th, 2012
6:11 pm
It must really suck to be this guy. He has lawsuit written all over that letter. I’m not gonna disparage him, as he has a right to his own opinions, but if he is truly the “businessman” that he claims, he would have known better than to write such an effed up letter.
If I were in the market for a timeshare, his company wouldn’t get a second of my attention if that is the way he views and treats his employees. He’ll go broke waiting to get money from me.
barking frog
October 9th, 2012
6:12 pm
josef
and then they added
quinine water to improve
the taste…
Don't Forget
October 9th, 2012
6:12 pm
GT- Communities use to keep these nuts in a closet, you heard your parents talk about them at the dinner table, now they are front and center. Nut balls are the in thing, at least with other nuts.
“When the going gets tough, the weird go pro”
Hunter S Thompson
Pretty much sums up the last 4 years.
josef
October 9th, 2012
6:12 pm
Obviously he’s anti-gay…no self-respecting queen would ever go for that interior decorating, and look at her hair…
Welcome to the Occupation
October 9th, 2012
6:13 pm
Ha! I resemble that, josef!
That Black Guy
October 9th, 2012
6:14 pm
indigo
October 9th, 2012
5:23 pm
It’s hard to know which is the most contemptable, this filthy rich man poor-mouthing to his employees and threating layoffs or his gold-digging wife who wouldn’t give him the time of day if he was a middle-class wage earner.
________________________________________________________________
If we follow your logic, NONE of the middle class men on this blog have attractive wives.
barking frog
October 9th, 2012
6:14 pm
I like this guy as a taxpayer.
Just raise his rate.
josef
October 9th, 2012
6:14 pm
FROG
Not even gin and tonic can make English food palatable…bleeeach!
The French have 100 sauces and one religion, the English have 100 religions and one sauce.
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
October 9th, 2012
6:14 pm
Well, all I know is, if the missus set on my lap like that, my legs and hips would be in a plaster cast for a year—after the surgery to remove the bone splinters, that is.
pogo
October 9th, 2012
6:16 pm
And at this point in the campaign all Obama and Axlerod have left in their bag of tricks are childish Chicago style political attacks (i.e. “Liar, Liar, pants on fire!”). I have also seen it quoted again and again by the shallow liberals here. Obama has the audacity to call Romney a liar when the reality is that basically everything he promised the American people in 2008 was a lie. His “Hope and Change” was a total lie. He carried through with very little of it even though he had a democrat controlled congress for two years of it and what he did get passed, which was his signature legislation Obamacare, was done against the wishes of the American people. Big employers nationwide are now looking at how they can avoid Obamacare by cutting back the hours employees work to less than 30 hours per week and small business owners are looking at how they can keep their employee numbers to less than 50. Yea, that was one great piece of legislation. And in the process, he built in massive decreases in Medicaire spending for the elderly to support those young and more productive citizens (he thinks) that didn’t have healthcare coverage. What Obama did was to cut the throat of those few of us who are still willing to work and he has destroyed any hope for those out there that want to work but can’t find a decent job with decent benefits. And he screwed the elderly bigtime. Waiting lines at the doctors office and denial of medicaire benefits are just around the corner for the them. At this point they cannot even conceive of this but beginning in 2013, they are going to see. Unless of course Obamacare is repealed and a real healthcare law is written.
The Snark
October 9th, 2012
6:18 pm
OMG! David Siegel is … John Galt! He’s going on strike! Mitt, please save us!
Don't Forget
October 9th, 2012
6:20 pm
and then they added
quinine water to improve
the taste…
Actually, the gin and tonic was invented for malaria prophylaxis. The quinine in the tonic water helps to prevent malaria, not that well but it does help.
The Snark
October 9th, 2012
6:21 pm
Hey Pogo:
I work pretty hard. According to my last tax return, I’ve even become one of the coveted 3%! And I just looked in the mirror, and guess what …
My throat has not been cut, by President Obama or anyone else!
barking frog
October 9th, 2012
6:22 pm
pogo
you want Romney to
write a new healthcare
law even though he
wrote Obamacare.
Didn’t he get it right?
josef
October 9th, 2012
6:22 pm
I’d say the tacky old f*rt ought to treat his woman like a Muslim, myself
http://www.timesofindiatravel.com/india-travel-times/tajmahal.jpg
F. Sinkwich
October 9th, 2012
6:22 pm
Well, I think the answer to all this is obvious. We need a new tax system to confiscate his wealth, or at least a large part of it. And pass laws limiting the number of bathrooms and kitchens in a single abode. And what about his carbon footprint — outrageous!
Everyone knows EVERY penny he earned was STOLEN from someone else.
Social justice! Shared prosperity! Fairness for all!
Brosephus™
October 9th, 2012
6:22 pm
pogo: Obama has the audacity to call Romney a liar when the reality is that basically everything he promised the American people in 2008 was a lie.
When you have to lie to make a point, you don’t really have a point to make. As I recall, he promised healthcare overhaul, and he delivered on that promise. That, in effect, makes YOU a liar.
Give it a rest. It’s obvious that you are not going to convert anybody to your run-on sentence and paragraph way of thinking. Give our eyes a break, please?
bob
October 9th, 2012
6:22 pm
Let’s worry about the rich guy and ignore how libs screw up our schools. Beverly fraud’s replacement at APS schools is on the hot seat for firing 4 teachers that the parents like and replacing them with 8 central office administrators until new teachers start. First, we don’t need power plays by gov hacks. Second, how many central office admin positions are filled but not needed. If these 8 can leave the central office to fill positions in the class then that is money not spent on kids. Libs run APS and you people want to whine about a rich guy.
Mr. Snarky
October 9th, 2012
6:23 pm
This guy is proof that a bunch of money doesn’t keep you from being a doofus.
barking frog
October 9th, 2012
6:23 pm
Don’t Forget
that is josef, fighting that
malaria daily…
getalife
October 9th, 2012
6:24 pm
Miss Universe looks like a stripper I dated.
Very high maintenance.
josef
October 9th, 2012
6:24 pm
“I’d see my wife, my Golde, looking like a rich man’s wife, with a proper double chin.”
–Reb Thomas Tevye Jefferson
BRW
October 9th, 2012
6:26 pm
I’ve seen a few of “those” employees working at time shares. Who’s willing to bet he keeps a few of them ILL-LEGALS employed? Hmmmmmm?
barking frog
October 9th, 2012
6:28 pm
josef
double chin, double stomach, double your
pleasure, double your fun
with double good, double
good buns- Thomas
Jeffersin Wrigley
SHUT UP
October 9th, 2012
6:28 pm
Jay has never met payroll before.
Jay has never employed anyone before.
Jay has never created a product before.
Jay is a second rate op-ed writer for a failed newspaper.
The end.
Brosephus™
October 9th, 2012
6:29 pm
I guess money doesn’t buy happiness after all. This guy ain’t happy. Jack Welch ain’t happy since he up and quit his pundit gig. Mitt Romney ain’t happy, and he made more money unemployed than probably the combined payroll of many a small business across America.
That’s why I don’t want to have that kind of lifestyle. Give me my household income now with my current financial status, and I am as happy as Gallagher at a watermelon stand.
getalife
October 9th, 2012
6:30 pm
Is that a meatball in her hand or his?
No Name Required or Not
October 9th, 2012
6:30 pm
bob
Nope. What’s going on there is coming from the “run it like a business” jive turkey brought in. This is what you get when you start to run the schools like a corporation, you know, conservatives….
Mary
October 9th, 2012
6:30 pm
How dare he try to persuade his employees on how to vote by threatening their jobs! Employees…vote your own way and please no one but yourself. If he folds someone else will purchase his properties. You’ll still have a job!
Don't Forget
October 9th, 2012
6:31 pm
The irony is that without TARP we all would have lost a lot but the wealthy would have lost much much more than average people because they had so much to lose.
barking frog
October 9th, 2012
6:31 pm
Brosephus
this guy may not have
happiness but he’s really
pursuing it..
Mr. Snarky
October 9th, 2012
6:33 pm
So if he thinks he can make money off an investment, he’s not going to make that investment just to prove a political point. He’s going to cut off his nose to spite his face. Yeah right. I don’t think so.
getalife
October 9th, 2012
6:33 pm
“More money more problems” Biggie.
barking frog
October 9th, 2012
6:33 pm
josef @6:30
o.k.
YouLibs
October 9th, 2012
6:38 pm
I couldn’t care less about how much money people have, but when I see an obese person, I get so, so, so jealous. I literally see red and start thinking that it should have been me eating all that food instead of them. If they’re over 400 pounds, all I can think of is that I want to go into their house, empty their pantry and redistribute those calories to people like me who are only a few pounds over their ideal weight.
Yes, it’s adipose envy and I’m not ashamed to admit it.
That Black Guy
October 9th, 2012
6:41 pm
GT
October 9th, 2012
6:05 pm
I can’t connect the dots.
__________________________
Synapses either from the looks of your post.
Welcome to the Occupation
October 9th, 2012
6:41 pm
Sandwich: “Well, I think the answer to all this is obvious. We need a new tax system to confiscate his wealth, or at least a large part of it”
Exactly!
You’re learning, Sandwich. You’re learning.
JamVet
October 9th, 2012
6:41 pm
Really, who cares what some fat gasbag opines about?
His opinion is no more useful than Joe the Plumber’s…
That Black Guy
October 9th, 2012
6:43 pm
I was wondering who would be the first to call her a *whore* without knowing ANYTHING about her.
GT @ 6:05 took care of that.
Rush said stop stealing his bit.
getalife
October 9th, 2012
6:43 pm
mitt will help him but mitt is lying about helping the middle class.
His campaign is a joke and our President is treating him like a joke.
YouLibs
October 9th, 2012
6:46 pm
ThatBlackGuy
I think she loves him despite all that money, don’t you?
N-GA
October 9th, 2012
6:46 pm
So he will lay people off if his taxes go up. SMART BUSINESSMAN! Obviously he doesn’t need them anyway! The demands of the business will dictate his staffing levels.
He is either a liar or he is stupid. I believe he is both, and a hypocrite to boot!
atljack
October 9th, 2012
6:48 pm
Jay,
The guys’ company almost went under when W. Bush was President and then recovered while Obama has been in office.
So it makes no sense what he is saying. He did badly under Bush and great under Obama but says if Obama is reelected he’ll have to retire?
This is a sad, sad person who is trying to fool his employees into voting for his candidate.
This is about as un-American act as I can think of.