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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JamVet
October 9th, 2012
6:48 pm
getalife, so who is Joe the Plumber?
NiF? DrainTheSwamp? AJCwhateverhisfacewas?
His “I’m off to go eat my steak” style looks exceedingly familiar.
In a way though bro, I’m kinda bummed.
Knowing that Filky is Andy blows.
I loved b*tchslapping Filky. But Andy? I just don’t have the heart to torture him anymore. (He’s paid his dues to society!)
pogo
October 9th, 2012
6:48 pm
More recent evidence of the Obama campaign’s desperation is the “Big Bird” attack. Have they actually sunk to this level? Now even the producers of Sesame Street are telling Obama to lay off and not use them in his desperate attempt to use them as his campaign patsies. My God, how low can a candidate go and does the man have any pride at all? Apparently, Obama is willing to go very low since he has absolutely nothing else to run on. Then again, he could try and “Wag the Dog” and bomb Iran before the election. I wouldn’t doubt he would do this. With Obama and Axlerod, there is no threshold as to how low they are willing to go even if it means massive amounts of American taxpayer money and American lives. He is desperate and he should be. The American people are waking out of their stupor and are starting to realize what a real moron was elected in 2008.
Andy Miller
October 9th, 2012
6:50 pm
Company stronger than it has been since 2008, now able to restart work on his “palace” Versailles. And yet, like so many others can’t bring himself to support Obama. Better than he have only 500 million and a welfare queen not get food stamps, than for him to have a billion and the welfare queen eat a steak. They believe the cheaters are all at the bottom when the truth is the bottom cheaters get chump change next to those at the top who bilk the system every day. Those really in need who get caught in his and Mitt’s notion that 47% of the country are moochers be damned.
JD
October 9th, 2012
6:52 pm
Opulence, I has it.
Good for him.
kayaker 71
October 9th, 2012
6:52 pm
If I were Mr. Siegel, I would hope that those magnificent hooters on my trophy wife were real and not plastic. If, indeed, Mr. Siegel started his company out of his garage, as he says, he deserves a certain respect, even from Bookman. If Bookman doesn’t like 23 bedrooms, so be it. Maybe Mr. Siegel and that blond he is married to, does. Last time I looked, it was a free country, and everyone has a right to buy whatever they please,if they can afford it. I would venture that Mr. Siegel and that specimen he calls a wife, have put those 23 bedrooms to good use. Why, in your wildest dreams, does anyone think they have a “right” to one dime of Mr. Siegel’s money? After he pays his taxes legally, it is all his. This whole thread is from outer space……. insane.
That Black Guy
October 9th, 2012
6:53 pm
YouLibs
October 9th, 2012
6:46 pm
ThatBlackGuy
I think she loves him despite all that money, don’t you?
_________________________________________
Not my place to judge her.
Just like I don’t judge the welfare queens at Whole Foods buying prom dresses and lobster with foodstamps.
JamVet
October 9th, 2012
6:54 pm
Looking at that adorable couple, do you think that that “enhanced” woman would even look twice at that guy if he didn’t have a big, thick, full, throbbing ………………………………………………… wallet?
atljack
October 9th, 2012
6:54 pm
To “You Libs”.
Conservatives get this “rich envy” completely wrong. Liberals love truly rich people like Warren Buffet, Steve Jobs and Billy Gates. Why? Because they EARNED their money by creating good products or providing services that help people.
Liberals dislike rich people like this guy Siegel because a) he is mean-spirited b) ostentatious and c) his company has dubious business practices.
Few people in America dislike rich people unless the rich people are lowlifes (like birther-baiter Donald Trump)
barking frog
October 9th, 2012
6:55 pm
Jamvet
seems like doom and
hairy callousedhand were
big on steak ..
josef
October 9th, 2012
6:56 pm
KAYAKER
“This whole thread is from outer space……. insane.”
And so is what prompted it…
moonbat betty
October 9th, 2012
6:57 pm
I guess Bookman wants to help Obama fan the flames of class warfare.
From a business standpoint, Siegle is is not wise to write such a letter and I don’t doubt he could be a real jerk., but that’s not our problem.
There are lots of jerks in the world.
josef
October 9th, 2012
6:58 pm
altjack
I would agree with that…
barking frog
October 9th, 2012
6:58 pm
Big Bird was brought into
the political arena by….
Mitt Romney.
That Black Guy
October 9th, 2012
6:59 pm
And I don’t care what any of ya’ll say about her.
I’d hit it.
Donovan
October 9th, 2012
7:00 pm
Oh, my! Am I reliving the Russian Revolution brought on by the stimulus of Obama circling the drain?
Do I dare say that Jay Bookman has finally exposed himself and peeled back the onion layers of suppressed Marxist doctrine?
Are lower level operatives in Team Obama beginning to explode?
Stay tuned. This downward slide of the Democratic Party is like the last days of the Hitler regime. The propaganda machine run by Josef Goebbels churned out more and more incredulous misinformation to keep the people dumbed-down.
Class warfare is always a convenient fall-back position when everything else fails. Marx did it. Stalin did it. Mao did it. Ho Chi Minh did,it. Castro did it. Kim II-sung did it. Hugo Chavez did it. Evo Morales did it. Daniel Ortega did it.
We saw the complete melt down of Air America principals after the first Bush victory. We saw the news of leftists seeking professional help in dealing with the second victory of GW. I say to you exploding heads to get a hold of yourselves. Take a deep breath and smell the sweet breeze of Romney revival. Help is on the way.
moonbat betty
October 9th, 2012
7:00 pm
“Big Bird was brought into
the political arena by….
Mitt Romney.
Honey Boo Boo was brought by the liberals.
Cage fight! Big Bird vs. Honey Boo Bool
barking frog
October 9th, 2012
7:00 pm
josef
atljack and altjack are
different at least altjack is.
Kyle
October 9th, 2012
7:01 pm
That guy is such a douche bag…I work 50 hours a week just to make ends sorta meet and that moron really believes that the poor should be taxed even more? He can retire now and live in the Bahamas on the beach and hes bitching about paying a little tax…that’s a perfect example of why most people hate rich people. Not because they have money or a beautiful gold digging wife or husband that is trying to off them at every chance but because they are so cheap and stingy that they wouldn’t spare a dollar to save hundreds of people lives. I can only hope he gets what he deserves or at least breaks a hip.
That Black Guy
October 9th, 2012
7:01 pm
Heading home.
josef, I left you and DDR a little ditty at the end of the last thread.
YouLibs
October 9th, 2012
7:01 pm
I agree with every word you said kayaker, those liberal wealth enviers never know when to stop. My problem, though, is with fat people getting more food than me. I have had to go to work for forty years now while they stay at home and draw welfare so they can eat little debbies and drink Mountain Dew all day. I keep working off all my fat doing physical labor just so I can pay the taxes that allow them to get their Baconators for free.
That should’ve been me having that heart attack at the Heart Attack Cafe in Vegas.
I can’t help it, I am doomed to envy their excess.
I curse the unfairness of this life.
TM
October 9th, 2012
7:02 pm
I wonder id Jay cares about Richard Trumka living fat and rich off his workers pay checks.
kayaker 71
October 9th, 2012
7:02 pm
Meanwhile, Bill Gates, that staunch liberal patriarch from Washington State, has some digs that would probably rival Mr. Siegel’s house. Appraised value of this limousine liberal’s home is pegged at 150M and change and his yearly property tax bill is close to 1M dollars. Both of them started out of their garage but Siegel is a conservative. That makes all of the difference, does it not? All of the evil rich 1%ers who pay most of the taxes in this country are to be demonized…….. but only if they are Republicans.
barking frog
October 9th, 2012
7:02 pm
That Black Guy
me too. in each bedroom
or until i died.
F. Sinkwich
October 9th, 2012
7:02 pm
“This whole thread is from outer space……. insane.”
You’re right, K71, what is the point of this blog? Did that daily DNC conference call instruct Jay and his robotic peers to start ridiculing successful rich people?
Oh wait, ridicule?
Alinsky 101.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 9th, 2012
7:03 pm
Wow!
That kind of money entitles him to what ever abode he can afford.
That kind of money doesn’t entitle him to write such a coercive email, although it’s painfully obvious that kind of money has given him the sense of entitlement that he can buy anything/anyone.
Maybe he can.
josef
October 9th, 2012
7:06 pm
TBG, FROG
She already done been hit with the scaggy stick!
TBG
Checking it out now…
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 9th, 2012
7:07 pm
This downward slide of the Democratic Party is like the last days of the Hitler regime. The propaganda machine run by Josef Goebbels…
Godwin’s Law, proven yet again.
barking frog
October 9th, 2012
7:09 pm
josef
and they brew alcohol
for just such an occasion
and if that fails paper bags..
josef
October 9th, 2012
7:09 pm
FORMAL BLACK GUY
barking frog
October 9th, 2012
7:11 pm
You Libs
go to mcdonalds..
kayaker 71
October 9th, 2012
7:14 pm
Kamchak, 7:03.
If he made only 30K/yr, he still has the right in this country, to write any e-mail he wishes, as long as he is not breaking the law. It’s called opinion……. a thing that I am reminded most every day on this blog. It’s not about the money….. it is more about the envy. Don’t tell me that in their heart of hearts, most of the posters on this blog wouldn’t think a little about chasing that blond honey from one bedroom to another if they could keep it up. Face it, you are just pissed off that some pot-bellied conservative rich white guy, who represents everything that liberals hate, can get away with this.
YouLibs
October 9th, 2012
7:15 pm
kayakr
Ever heard of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation? They are slightly less self-absorbed than your buddy up above.
Bill Gates changed the world forever by expanding human capacity in manifold ways. He’s still shy and nerdy.
USMC
October 9th, 2012
7:15 pm
Doctor Zhivago Trailer 1965
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAWrXTn5Www
One of the great movies of all time for “Pasha” Bookman and the gang.
Z
October 9th, 2012
7:17 pm
It takes all kinds, not my kind human, but to each his own. This human needs to remember though, what comes around, goes around no matter how wealthy you are.
Don't Forget
October 9th, 2012
7:20 pm
Meanwhile, Bill Gates, that staunch liberal patriarch from Washington State, has some digs that would probably rival Mr. Siegel’s house.
Wow, you completely missed the point. Show me where Bill Gates threatened his employees if they didn’t vote a certain way and then you’ll have a point. Otherwise you’re just taking up space.
barking frog
October 9th, 2012
7:20 pm
Does anyone believe any
employee paid any attention
or that the 1000 who
stroked his ego told the
truth ?
They BOTH suck
October 9th, 2012
7:22 pm
Don’t Forget
What’s up? Don’t recall seeing you on lately. Hope all is well with you and yours.
Joe Hussein Mama
October 9th, 2012
7:23 pm
K71 — “If he made only 30K/yr, he still has the right in this country, to write any e-mail he wishes, as long as he is not breaking the law.”
Slow down.
Stop.
Go back to the beginning of the thread.
Read forward SLOWLY.
Find the parts you missed.
Your Mom
October 9th, 2012
7:23 pm
If you have money – you invest in things like resorts and you manipulate people to actually do the hard work – what an ass thsi guy is – leave the country already Westgate Resorts will probably be declaring bankruptcy like the corporate welfare child that it always has been – privatize the profits socializa the losses thats the doucebagle mantra
TM
October 9th, 2012
7:24 pm
What the heck is going on at North Atlanta High School??
Keep Up the Good Fight!
October 9th, 2012
7:25 pm
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
He lies. His corporation pays all of this. HE pays on his salary and his dividends. Funny how these “corporate people” forget who they are…. well except when they are writing emails whining and threatening because they dont want to pay more taxes despite getting the lion’s share to the benefits for his “corporate person”.
Jm
October 9th, 2012
7:26 pm
Siegel does look preggers
Jm
October 9th, 2012
7:27 pm
Tm
My guess: interim principal did or said something racist
Complete guess tho
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 9th, 2012
7:27 pm
If he made only 30K/yr, he still has the right in this country, to write any e-mail he wishes, as long as he is not breaking the law.
If he is coercing his employees how to vote, then I believe a judge might see it more than just “opinion.”
Don’t tell me that in their heart of hearts, most of the posters on this blog wouldn’t think a little about chasing that blond honey from one bedroom to another if they could keep it up.
Unlike you, I won’t presume to speak for anyone other than myself, but no — I would not be one to chase her around. I prefer brunettes.
Face it, you are just pissed off that some pot-bellied conservative rich white guy, who represents everything that liberals hate, can get away with this.
“Pissed off” and “hate” requires far more passion than you or this asshat David Siegel deserve.
Krystal'sBalls
October 9th, 2012
7:28 pm
It is attitudes like this guy’s, that will find people like him in the U.S. strung up before long if the climate in this country doesn’t change. And I’m not just talking about people who simply “have money”. You mark my words. It’s all in the air, and not inconceivable at all.
Steve-USA "None of the Above"
October 9th, 2012
7:28 pm
Who could possibly want a house that big. Not me even if I had the cash.
josef
October 9th, 2012
7:28 pm
Dont Forget
Yeah, where have you been?
Bud Wiser
October 9th, 2012
7:28 pm
I wonder how much she cost …………. for medical enhancements, that is.
His most attractive feature to her has to be the size of his …. wallet.
Good goin’ if you can get ‘em.
UPGRAYEDD
October 9th, 2012
7:29 pm
Siegel would be nothing without the blood, sweat and toil of his employees. His disdain for them and his self-aggrandizement are precisely what makes him the least sympathetic figure in this entire scenario.
The fact that he has a track record of mixing politics with his employees’ livelihood is enough to make this distorted turd of a capitalist an enemy of the state.
Jm
October 9th, 2012
7:29 pm
Jamvet 6:54 trophy wife envy
barking frog
October 9th, 2012
7:30 pm
Keep up
he just pays what any
self employed person or
corp pays and he will write
off much of the house
and let us help him pay
for it.
Don't Forget
October 9th, 2012
7:31 pm
TBS, good to see you too. I’ve been working too much to post the last couple of months. All is well for the most part. Thanks for asking.
kayaker 71
October 9th, 2012
7:33 pm
Don’t Forget, 7:20,
Then why even post a thread like this if not to inflame the liberal have nots who would criticize most anything about Siegel. A guy like this, in liberal eyes, is the enemy. He represents most everything that liberals hate….. being white, fat, having some kind of 20 something honey, making all that money, living in the largest residential house in the country, not wanting to share it any of this wealth with anyone, gettin’ all that nookie….. why, that dirty SOB should be drawn and quartered.
Doggone/GA
October 9th, 2012
7:33 pm
“most of the posters on this blog wouldn’t think a little about chasing that blond honey ”
Hell, I wouldn’t even turn my head to watch her leave the room
barking frog
October 9th, 2012
7:34 pm
Don’t Forget
Restructuring to contend
with Obamacare ?
iRun
October 9th, 2012
7:34 pm
josef – are you using the code-word version of uppity or the Merriam-Webster version? I can and have been accused of the MW version, and rightly so. I do, in fact, take a great deal of pride in my privileged upbringing and old heritage. At the same time, I don’t believe this makes me inherently superior to other human beings. And my international travels have only entrenched me further in that belief.
And, no, the plight of the gay Ugandan is not improved. It is, however, a gorgeous country with food that will certainly remind you of soul food, uncoincidentally.
@kayaker – I am sure your response regarding the different in Mr Seigel and Mr Gates is predicated upon the likely fact you’re not aware of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which is controlled by Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett. It is the single largest private beneficiary in the world, and certainly an important contributor to The Global Fund, HIV and TB research, amongst other endeavors to increase the quality of life of people across the globe.
I say this with much admiration despite the fact I am in disagreement with many of the Foundation’s positions.
It is not admirable for a man with such a house to poor mouth to his employees. At the understated least it’s in poor taste.
Joe Hussein Mama
October 9th, 2012
7:34 pm
I wonder what kind of return policy there is on those bewbz of hers.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 9th, 2012
7:35 pm
…having some kind of 20 something honey…
She is 46.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 9th, 2012
7:37 pm
I wonder what kind of return policy there is on those bewbz of hers.
Divorce papers.
barking frog
October 9th, 2012
7:38 pm
Doggone/GA
i bet you would watch her
leave the room but not
for the same reason I
would…its a woman thing..
Don't Forget
October 9th, 2012
7:38 pm
Josef, working an awful lot. Not sure the new job will work out. My schedule is radically different than what they told me (for the worse of course), they’ve shorted me over $2000 in NET pay already and they’re more than 30 days overdue in providing the benefits they promised. I dont think I even have health insurance right now and I’m getting close to looking for a lawyer.
Doggone/GA
October 9th, 2012
7:39 pm
“She is 46″
I never was any good at guessing people’s ages. I thought she looked older than that.
BRW
October 9th, 2012
7:40 pm
YAKKER69, Keep up please. The point of this story is not envy, though I believe you are envious of many free-thinking ideas spouted on this page. The point of this story is that this A-Hat is threatening his employees, the people that got him to where he is financially (remember….You didn’t build that???), to vote a certain way or lose jobs. Basic logic, even for someone as narrow minded as you, says this is wrong and EXTREMELY Un-American.
UPGRAYEDD
October 9th, 2012
7:40 pm
K71
You are dead wrong in your characterization of liberal envy of this self-congratulating one-dimensional SOB. I happen to vote liberal and I work my fool A off and have since I was 15. Over the years, I have acquired some wealth and aspired to work for more of it. I have employed as many as 20 in my organization and have always recognized them as the cornerstone of my success. Without them, I’m a one man shop and my wealth acquisition is limited accordingly. This miserable excuse for a capitalist believes that he, and he alone, has worked the hours and put in the time to become the Great David Siegel. Poppycock. It would do him right if every single one of his employees left their jobs simultaneously, and no one moved in to fill in the vacuum it created. Goodbye Mr. Siegel. Goodbye success.
Mr. Siegel owes his standing to his employees, to his country, and to his own incredible work ethic. Problem is, he only views one of those three contributors as the source of his success. That’s what pizzes me off. I don’t envy him. I despise him.
Doggone/GA
October 9th, 2012
7:40 pm
“i bet you would watch her leave the room”
You’d lose that bet.
JamVet
October 9th, 2012
7:41 pm
Jm at 7:29,
JamVet envy.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
October 9th, 2012
7:42 pm
Frog, I am sure he would never hold lavish parties there and claim they are business expenses.
It is interesting to note that he does not claim that he needs a great tax break to “create jobs”, he just threatens that if taxed more, he just might take his ball and go home.
Don't Forget
October 9th, 2012
7:42 pm
No Kayaker, the central point is about his using his power as an employer to politically intimidate his employees. The parts about his wealth and success merely serve to disprove the notion that Obama has been harmful to him or his business and they do so quite convincingly.
stands for decibels
October 9th, 2012
7:44 pm
if it’s true that “even to this day, every dime I earn goes back into this company,”
well, it’s not true, of course.
and as for this guy, I think Radiohead put it best: “When I am king, you will be first against the wall.”
kayaker 71
October 9th, 2012
7:45 pm
Kamchak, 7:35,
How can this non-caring right wing idiot even think about marrying someone at least 20 yrs his junior and still have the audacity to state that he wants to keep what he made and not share it with anyone? Gates has chosen go give most of his money away, just as has Bernie Marcus who founded Home Depot but these are decisions that each individual has to make for themselves. It is absolutely no one’s business what Mr. Siegel does with his money. It he wants to start a fire in one of his living rooms and burn the whole lot, it is no one’s business but his. It’s that way in a free society.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 9th, 2012
7:45 pm
I never was any good at guessing people’s ages. I thought she looked older than that.
Oh dear, that means she was rode hard and put up wet.
Jm
October 9th, 2012
7:45 pm
I wouldn’t be so 100% certain gates is a liberal
Shatikey
October 9th, 2012
7:47 pm
“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.”
Right there^^^. If you’d like to live in a worker’s paradise where the pie is sliced equally for all move to Cuba (Cuber) or North Korea, look how well it’s worked for them.
Doggone/GA
October 9th, 2012
7:47 pm
“Oh dear, that means she was rode hard and put up wet.”
Well, there is that…but there’s also that it’s hard work trying to look younger than you are…and sometimes it does backfire!
TaxPayer
October 9th, 2012
7:47 pm
Colbert did a good segment on the PITY Party the other day.
barking frog
October 9th, 2012
7:47 pm
Keep
his ball is in her court so
he is just bsing.
Wilbur
October 9th, 2012
7:48 pm
Jay wants your money. He needs you to pay for his saviors mistakes. Jay is full of the anger, hatred and envy that fills so much of the left. The fact that you have dared to publicly call out the Chosen One will makes you in his twisted mind a legitimate target of hatred and scorn.
Jay, like his Savior, has no idea of where jobs come from. Poor man thought that Obama’s policies would bring us utopia instead of unending jobless misery. Envy, hatred and greed are hardly virtues but seem to be all the left has to offer.
Don't Forget
October 9th, 2012
7:48 pm
barking frog
October 9th, 2012
7:34 pm
Don’t Forget
Restructuring to contend
with Obamacare ?
Nope, has nothing to do with that. Honestly, it looks more like total incompetence and indifference to me.
Brosephus™
October 9th, 2012
7:49 pm
And I don’t care what any of ya’ll say about her.
I’d hit it.
I can’t say the same. First, I’ve gotta know if Fonda has a motor in the back of her Honda…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kY84MRnxVzo
JamVet
October 9th, 2012
7:49 pm
Jm, re your 7:45 are you deranged?
Seriously.
That you write the stuff that you do here on a daily basis leaves little doubt…
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 9th, 2012
7:50 pm
How can this non-caring right wing idiot even think about marrying someone at least 20 yrs his junior and still have the audacity to state that he wants to keep what he made and not share it with anyone?
Strawman. I made none of those assertions.
Gates has chosen go give most of his money away, just as has Bernie Marcus who founded Home Depot but these are decisions that each individual has to make for themselves.
More strawmen, I made no point about Messrs Marcus and gates.
It is absolutely no one’s business what Mr. Siegel does with his money. It he wants to start a fire in one of his living rooms and burn the whole lot, it is no one’s business but his. It’s that way in a free society.
And I never said he couldn’t.
All that you have posted here are strawmen.
UPGRAYEDD
October 9th, 2012
7:50 pm
According to monticello.org, Jefferson never said such a thing. Another right wing imaginary quote attributed to a founding father. Deplorable.
Jm
October 9th, 2012
7:50 pm
K71
I agree
He may be classless
That’s not illegal in America
Thank god
JamVet
October 9th, 2012
7:51 pm
Meat, with that made up Jefferson reference, the same question applies to you.
Brosephus™
October 9th, 2012
7:51 pm
Jay wants your money.
Geez, the stupid is so strong that it’s overflowing in excess. People don’t even bother to read before unleashing their jackassery upon us all. Never mind that HUGE coercive email in Jay’s essay. Damn, please be sure to try to get oxygen to that one working brain cell you have left. I’d hate for DFACS to come visit you for brain cell abuse.
Jerome Horwitz
October 9th, 2012
7:52 pm
Envy this guy? Why? Yeah – he spent his life working hard and has a boat load of money. He’s on his third wife, probably missed his kids growing up. I think he’s pathetic.
Fortunate to have a good job with a firm who values their employees and their desire for balance in their life. Wouldn’t trade palce with this asshat for one of the 23 bedrooms.
kayaker 71
October 9th, 2012
7:53 pm
Don’t Forget, 7:42,
You ignore the fact that most of the SEIU has intimidated, cajoled and involuntarily taken contributions from union employees to vote for their candidate. I don’t criticize them for it. I think that it is wrong, but under the present laws, they have every right to express themselves to any of their employees that they please. Please save us the diatribe about how employers and unions manage their employees to do exactly as they wish. They are just not Republicans.
Jm
October 9th, 2012
7:53 pm
Jamvet the deranged
What is so loco about that statement
Lots of people are moderates
Tell me why you’re 100% certain he’s a liberal
Only ideologues live in a world of 100% certainty
iRun
October 9th, 2012
7:55 pm
Jm is correct, I would not classify Mr Gates as a liberal. However, his father certainly is.
And, to point, Jay’s point is this man, who is engaging in excess conspicuous consumption, which is his right no matter how tasteless, is issuing a thinly veiled threat to his subordinates.
He’s morally bankrupt for doing so, not to mention potentially illegal. And he’s gone beyond distasteful into full-blown disgusting for his narcissism.
Loretta Paraguassu
October 9th, 2012
7:55 pm
Wait! I saw this story before. This is a Romney advertisement. The last version this guy and his happy spending younger wife were building their tasteless Versaille. Then, he went broke and they had to abandon Versaille. Now, he is spouting the Republican line. Don’t buy it! This story is a fake.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 9th, 2012
7:55 pm
“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.”
Round 2
“Enough is enough! I have had it with these mother-f*cking snakes on this mother-f*cking plane!”
– Thomas Jefferson
YouLibs
October 9th, 2012
7:56 pm
Keep puttin’ that lipstick on that pig, kayaker. You betcha.
YouLibs
October 9th, 2012
7:57 pm
Wink.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 9th, 2012
7:57 pm
Hey Jerome — I saw a story on CNN where a rugby player lot his testicle at Old Trafford last weekend.
Gotta be some bad karma hanging around that pitch for a while.
iRun
October 9th, 2012
7:59 pm
Please excuse my poor sentence structure. I was distracted by an 11-year-old Tasmanian Devil.
Jm
October 9th, 2012
8:00 pm
Oh jamvat
Where’s you’re answer?
YouLibs
October 9th, 2012
8:01 pm
Wilbur
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmnAX1j0P_k
JamVet
October 9th, 2012
8:03 pm
Jm, why?
I could list a hundred facts, quotes, links, etc; they would not phase you in the slightest. You would just do what you always do when your vast ignorance is exposed – ballerina off to some other delusion.
You are just another Republican who is immune to said facts, truths and realities.
Educate yourself instead of making up out of thin air batsh*t crazy stuff up like that all the time.
Or don’t.
Either way, it is great comedy reading your stuff…
For the non-batsh*t crazies here, a quote from the arch-conservative (LOL!).
Well the United States has a huge budget deficit, so taxes are going to have to go up. And I certainly agree that they should go up more on the rich than everyone else. That’s just justice.
Don't Forget
October 9th, 2012
8:03 pm
Kayaker, what power does the SEIU have to take jobs away from it’s members if they don’t contribute or vote for a certain candidate? Can they lower the union member’s pay? And why don’t you get upset when corporations use their shareholder’s profits for political purposes.
Joe Hussein Mama
October 9th, 2012
8:04 pm
K71 — “It is absolutely no one’s business what Mr. Siegel does with his money.”
And if he doesn’t like what I have to say about it, he can KMA.