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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636 comments Add your comment
moonbat betty
October 9th, 2012
9:17 pm
Thats what she said
JamVet
October 9th, 2012
9:19 pm
he is not very good at his job.
Says the guy who voted for Bush twice.
And would do so in four weeks again if he could…
emmy
October 9th, 2012
9:21 pm
Last time I checked he nearly went broke under a Republican president.
F. Sinkwich
October 9th, 2012
9:21 pm
“I think he is a good guy”
I think he is nothing more than a Chicago thug euro-socialist who pretty much despises America.
Brosephus™
October 9th, 2012
9:22 pm
jm
I never knew Jay sold his soul to the “Dark Side”..
That does explain the rift raft though. I knew somebody left a portal open somewhere.
F. Sinkwich
October 9th, 2012
9:23 pm
“And would do so in four weeks again if he could…”
Over O’bozo?
Hell, yeahhhhhhhh.
barking frog
October 9th, 2012
9:28 pm
Jm
what will the Fed buying
40 billion dollars in home
mortgages do for housing
industry ?
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 9th, 2012
9:29 pm
… then-bachelor Barack Obama’s practice of wearing a gold band…
First birthers, then skewers, then jobbers and now ringers.
Jm
October 9th, 2012
9:29 pm
Frog 9:28
Help housing / bailout
In return for higher inflation later
Possibly much higher
Ahem
October 9th, 2012
9:30 pm
I heard some noise, but nothing much was said. Again!
And yes, if it was Oblunda or Bush, I would indeed go with W.
BRW
October 9th, 2012
9:32 pm
“Over O’bozo? Hell, yeahhhhhhhh”
Okay caught ya. That settles it. It’s a Troll. Not even a Rob-me fan could be this dumb.
Jm
October 9th, 2012
9:32 pm
Sink euro socialist? Yes I agree
I don’t think he hates America
But I think he is not a fan of the America we would prefer
More freedom loving, law abiding etc
Terry Hood
October 9th, 2012
9:32 pm
Jay, you are the most predictable shill for liberals. You obviously abhor anyone making more money than what you deem appropriate. This guy is very successful. If he doesn’t want to pay confiscatory taxes, he has the right to downsize as he sees fit. Of course, that assumes he owns his own company. If Obama wins a second term, his company will be nationalized given the vindictive behavior of Team Obama.
Ahem
October 9th, 2012
9:33 pm
First birthers, then skewers, then jobbers and now ringers
First clowns, then more clowns, still more clowns, and now the King O’ Clowns.
Krystal'sBalls
October 9th, 2012
9:33 pm
@Stinkwich
Let me exercise my freedom of speech if I may. The U.S. is pretty damn tough to like sometimes, if we must be totally honest about it.
BRW
October 9th, 2012
9:33 pm
“If Obama wins a second term, his company will be nationalized given the vindictive behavior of Team Obama.”
So far from the truth it has a different zip code…..
JamVet
October 9th, 2012
9:34 pm
“I would indeed go with W.”
BWAHAHAHA!!!! BWAHAHAHA!!!! BWAHAHAHA!!!!
Hopeless and changeless!
Tom Middleton
October 9th, 2012
9:35 pm
My work experience was with bosses who told me what time to be at work, what to wear, how to cut my hair, when to break for lunch, etc., but not one of them, fortunately, tried to tell me how to vote.
To me, a God-given unalienable right like voting shouldn’t be taken away by someone trying to build an empire and mansion to himself, even when declaring himself a freedom-loving patriot.
I mean, the sacred right to vote IS freedom according to our Founders, what it is that’s made our country so very special and great.
And when someone like Mr. David Siegel decides that it’s his freedom alone that really matters, not that of his employees, what are we supposed to think, that he really is a patriot?
Not a chance, Jay, in this life or any other. He’s just another Republican lying flip-flop hypocrite who only cares about his wealth!
Springfield, MO worker
October 9th, 2012
9:36 pm
I worked for Westgate Resorts call center in Springfield, MO for 8 years. We got email from this monster all the time, especially during election times. He is very pushy and threatening in these emails, but never really comes out and says “do this or I’ll fire people”.
In October 2008 he shut us down and fired all of us with no warning or severance pay. Management didn’t even know about it. As a matter of fact, they had management tell employees that all was well so they would keep selling and doing customer service calls. He didn’t even pay people the sick or vacation time they had. I remember emails during that time telling us all to contact our congressmen and senators to have them vote for the bail out so we could keep all our jobs. The bailout passed, then we were still shut down. He went on to shut down centers in 2 other centers as well.
Westgate is an evil company with many devious and dishonest practices. Lies and truth stretching and omissions to future customers is a common occurrence. Unfortunately I know this because I bought in to the BS that was involved in selling an overpriced over promised over rated timeshare to people. The 3 day 2 night getaway for 99$ with a 90 minute timeshare tour that actually is a much longer high pressure sales pitch, is presented as a great deal with no pressure, is actually a terrible deal and very stressful. People are promised certain amenities and show tickets, but it all changes when you get there. I feel terrible that I sold so may of these packages.
David Siege is a bad man with no boss and no morals. Unfortunately this situation is very common all over the world. The rich lie cheat and steal and get away with it, while the poor get to live paycheck to paycheck and go to jail for much lesser crimes. The rich run things, this has always been the way. I hope I live to see this change, but I doubt it.
barking frog
October 9th, 2012
9:37 pm
Jm
can you say bubble?
Ahem
October 9th, 2012
9:37 pm
Hopeless and changeless!
The title of your autobiography?
(I guess you’re here because WalMart didn’t need greeters tonight)
Keep Up the Good Fight!
October 9th, 2012
9:38 pm
Clowns? from someone not even willing to identify WND as his info source for his islamophobic nonsense? WND makes Brietbart and Fox look “fair and balanced”
Ahem
October 9th, 2012
9:41 pm
islamophobic
Careful to not sprain your ankle taking such great leaps.
Jm
October 9th, 2012
9:42 pm
Frog
Yes it is perpetuating the bubble, bailing out borrowers, screwing savers, rewarding bad behavior
Whatcha gonna do?
Hey Springfield
“In October 2008 he shut us down and fired all of us with no warning or severance pay”
Maybe you remember this thing called the financial crisis that was unfolding then
Keep Up the Good Fight!
October 9th, 2012
9:44 pm
Ahem, don’t worry about my ankles, I’d be more worried about the strain you would put on your head if a post like that required a brain.
F. Sinkwich
October 9th, 2012
9:44 pm
“I don’t think he hates America
But I think he is not a fan of the America we would prefer”
Perhaps it would be better to say he is simply a stranger to America…
F. Sinkwich
October 9th, 2012
9:46 pm
“The U.S. is pretty damn tough to like sometimes, if we must be totally honest about it.”
Is your real name Michelle?
JamVet
October 9th, 2012
9:46 pm
Ahem you are the nutjob major league fan of the (W)orst ever.
The man who left office with an approval rating worse than any president since record keeping began.
But you LOVED his ineptocracy. You want more!
More botched invasions! More dead GIs! More economic meltdowns!
Gawd, you Bushbots make me laugh…
Ahem
October 9th, 2012
9:47 pm
Ohio Obama Rally Features Rap Rendition of Sesame Street Theme Song
So let me get this straight; you boneheads are voting for more Obarassment?!?
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 9th, 2012
9:47 pm
Golden rings (golden ring) with one tiny little stone
Waiting there (waiting there) for someone to take you home
By itself (by itself) it’s just a cold metallic thing
Only love can make a golden wedding ring
Ringers.
Jm
October 9th, 2012
9:47 pm
Sink 9:44
Perhaps. To our America anyway.
He certainly doesn’t get the beauty of devolution of power to states
Which I prefer
Then socialist Yankees and Californians can have their socialist utopia
And the rest of us can go on living a sane normal life
Everyone is better off
Ahem
October 9th, 2012
9:49 pm
@
JamVet
October 9th, 2012
9:46 pm
Pssst…just between us; are you back on the bottle?
JamVet
October 9th, 2012
9:49 pm
Abomb, pace yourself, son.
You’ve got to get through the next four weeks without having an aneurism.
And after that, you’ll have to come up with a new blog name!
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 9th, 2012
9:49 pm
MY PRECIOUS!
Ringers.
kayaker 71
October 9th, 2012
9:51 pm
Liberals always want what someone else has, whether they earned it or not. They are petulant whiners who characterize anyone who has had the initiative and drive to accumulate wealth as a loser. All of you whiners and wannabees would like to have that little honey at your beck and call but don’t have the balls to admit it. And you would like to have all of that money that Mr Siegel has accumulated but you don’t have the gumption to work for it like he did. Just whine on and on about what a conservative jerk he is.
Krystal'sBalls
October 9th, 2012
9:53 pm
No it’s not Michelle, and while I understand that it makes you feel real good to buy that entire distortion about that soundbite, the truth of the matter is for many people that are “Americans” they have no real reason to be proud of this country. In fact, it is NO DIFFERENT than recognizing a parent is $****y parent and feeling no real pride about THEM. It really isn’t complicated at all. We have that freedom.
Ahem
October 9th, 2012
9:55 pm
“You’ve got to get through the next four weeks without having an aneurism.
And after that, you’ll have to come up with a new blog name!”
Nothing but another old-timer trying to tell others what they have to do. Maybe tomorrow night they will need you again.
Ahem
October 9th, 2012
9:57 pm
Later boys and girls. You, too, Ol’ Man.
moonbat betty
October 9th, 2012
9:58 pm
geeze, if you could harness the liberal energy that was wasted here tonight on another’s dime…
moonbat betty
October 9th, 2012
9:59 pm
GOOD GRIEF!
Springfield, MO worker
October 9th, 2012
10:00 pm
Jm. Yes I do remember the crisis. It was the way he fired all of us, not the fact that it happened. We were told we were safe by our supervisors, we all should have gotten some severance pay, or at least some warning. At minimum some compassion. We showed up for work and there was security guards there to escort us to or desks and back out. We had no notice and then minutes clear out. They were all from out of town and had zero compassion. They were rude. They lied to us, it was wrong.
Companies do down size sometimes, I understand that, but. Manners would have been appreciated.
The threatening emails for years were wrong as well. Yet I do understand that he is rich and powerful enough to do what ever he wants. Its the system that needs redesigned.
Fred ™
October 9th, 2012
10:02 pm
Wow.
Shine
October 9th, 2012
10:02 pm
boo hoo hoo….i’d quit a job that gave me a bs letter like that. @#$% him
barking frog
October 9th, 2012
10:03 pm
Fred™
MoM
ragnar danneskjold
October 9th, 2012
10:04 pm
Mr. Siegel probably anticipated that Obama’s State Department would throw Obama under the bus, over the “video caused the Libya attack” lie. Well-deserved.
Fred ™
October 9th, 2012
10:04 pm
barking frog
October 9th, 2012
10:03 pm
Fred™
MoM
+++++++++++++++
She’s been deader than a hammer for 20 years but thanks for asking.
barking frog
October 9th, 2012
10:06 pm
Fred™
just another view and an
old old joke..
JamVet
October 9th, 2012
10:08 pm
Abomb is a trip.
Watching him melt down over and over again during the next four weeks should be highly entertaining…
Fred ™
October 9th, 2012
10:08 pm
She’s still dead.
barking frog
October 9th, 2012
10:10 pm
Fred™
Too bad, I know you miss
her.
Fred ™
October 9th, 2012
10:12 pm
Nope. She never liked me anyway.
Jeffrey G
October 9th, 2012
10:14 pm
Perhaps he should ask his wife to go back on the stripper circuit.
barking frog
October 9th, 2012
10:14 pm
Fred™
Negative attention is better
than none. Sets the tone
for many lives.
Fred ™
October 9th, 2012
10:15 pm
Why do you need to attack his wife? She bore him 8 children did she not? She looks damn good for having 8 kids.
Fred ™
October 9th, 2012
10:15 pm
Barking Frog: I wouldn’t know. I got none.
barking frog
October 9th, 2012
10:16 pm
Jeffrey G
October 9th, 2012
10:14 pm
Perhaps he should ask his
wife to go back on the
stripper circuit.
………….
Think that’s a lap dance in
the picture ?
Welcome to the Occupation
October 9th, 2012
10:21 pm
What do Fox News, Slate magazine, New York Times, Washington Post, LA Times, Chicago Tribune and others have in common?
They reeeeeeealy pi$$ed Chavez won.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2012/10/hugo_chavez_s_presidential_victory_means_that_venezuela_will_get_much_worse_before_it_gets_better_.html
RF
October 9th, 2012
10:22 pm
“That chick has more plastic in her chest than that dude has biscuits in his belly.”
And a bad hairdo. You’d think with that kind of money, she’d put a better coiffe above the chest. She needs an episode of “What Not To Wear” just for her.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 9th, 2012
10:22 pm
She bore him 8 children did she not?
She’s wife number two or three so I’m thinking, not.
G Mare
October 9th, 2012
10:23 pm
Fred, I missed something along the line – usually scroll thru most of the rightwingers here – but must say, if your mom is no longer with you, I am truly sorry for your loss. Both my parents have been gone for many years, but I still miss them to this day.
barking frog
October 9th, 2012
10:24 pm
Are conservatives boycotting
Citgo or are they just lip
serving hating Chavez.
Fred ™
October 9th, 2012
10:27 pm
Is she Kam? Info on them is scarce. I know she was a former beauty queen turned trophy wife but a stripper? I never read that………
Z
October 9th, 2012
10:34 pm
Time Shares, Really, Time Shares, holy molee, you can’t give those things away. I would say he made a very poor choice for a business especially since it was Bush and Republican policies that screwed up his business and he has the nerve to blame President Obama. Ha! Just another selfish Wealthy Republican, who thinks all those working people are going to taking his money. I would tell this character, I hope the door hits you in the arse on your way out to the Caribbean, and good riddance. And as long as your going take Romney with, you two make a perfect couple, he’s already set up there with his hidden stash of cash, probably as you are. Who needs enemies when we have people like this living in this country.
Dead blog
October 9th, 2012
10:34 pm
Lights out
Jm
October 9th, 2012
10:36 pm
Timeshares are a borderline scam
In America though, you are (or used to be) responsible for your own decisions in lie
getalife
October 9th, 2012
10:37 pm
The headline at drudge is Big Bird.
America is laughing at mitt.
mitt is too weak to be President. Period.
Jm
October 9th, 2012
10:37 pm
Life
G Mare
October 9th, 2012
10:38 pm
Josef, from earlier, tasteless indeed!
Jm
October 9th, 2012
10:38 pm
Getalife
Obama is a puppet of his handlers
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 9th, 2012
10:40 pm
Fred
I didn’t say anything about a stripper (a tacky comment with no corroboration) and I think I may be wrong about the kids.
She was “the 1993 winner of the Mrs Florida America beauty pageant”, so that means she was married 19 years ago at the age of 27.
Westgate Founder and CEO David Siegel was found guilty of sexual harassment in a lawsuit brought by former Westgate employee Georgette Meyers.[4] Meyers worked for Westgate for 14 years. She claimed that Siegel offered $1 Million to have sex with her. Meyers claimed that she had to repeatedly fight off unwanted advances from Siegel, and a Florida court awarded Meyers $5.4 Million in damages in February 2008.
Seems he’s strayed a bit, too.
Fred ™
October 9th, 2012
10:44 pm
Kam: That’s the best I could find as well. Although I did see in one article that they are raising a niece. I also saw in ANOTHER article reference to a grown son, whom I imagine was not from her.
Dude has done a good job of staying off the internet.
Josh
October 9th, 2012
10:44 pm
Wouldn’t you people defending him be upset if it were a pro-Obama letter? I question your motives. The point is that it isn’t his place as an employer to be doing this. He needs to get the crap sued out of him to help prevent this type of intimidation from bosses that lean liberal or conservative. What if a silicon valley exec sent something along the same lines – but it was pro-Obama? You would be enraged, right? Just because someone ‘works’ all his life and shares the same values as your beloved political candidate is a moot point here.
Jm
October 9th, 2012
10:44 pm
Kam
The guy’s a dbag
Somewhat else is new?
America is full of them.
As a matter of fact, I think you live with one.
Jm
October 9th, 2012
10:45 pm
So what, ot somewhat
Dern autocorrect
David Shivers
October 9th, 2012
10:45 pm
Oh, that poor guy in the picture with his golden throne and younger, sexy wife in his lap. I just feel so sorry for the poor, victimized schmuck!
Fed Up
October 9th, 2012
10:45 pm
What I find amusing is how the liberal media and Obama worshippers do not see the real point of this email. There are middle class employees who could be out of a job because of the socialist agenda. Do you really think this CEO or any of the others will be hurt as much as the employees whose jobs will be lost and who in this economy, may not be able to find another? I am not one of the people that need to worry either way. I also can move to another part of the world when the going gets tough here but I know many who cannot afford to do the same. There are people who like to work, who don’t feel the government should support them and who want to WORK for their own American dream. If you would rather stay home and expect the government to take care of you, I hope you like Ramen noodles. Enjoy!
cece
October 9th, 2012
10:45 pm
…Soo sadd!! I think the blowed out balloon woman wrote the letter
Glenn
October 9th, 2012
10:45 pm
Jay, your article lit up the boards tonight. Doesn’t take much to stir the class warfare and envy crowd. Let’s take a little time to research the authenticity of the letter. The letter you attribute to David Siegel looks oddly similar to a letter scored as LEGEND on Scopes.com. http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/valuedemployees.asp
Great “journalism”, JB. Do the work.
Jm
October 9th, 2012
10:46 pm
Josh
If he can be sued, fine
If not, oh well
Appleseed
October 9th, 2012
10:48 pm
How did all these rich get so rich before the Bush tax cuts?
Fred ™
October 9th, 2012
10:49 pm
There are people who like to work, who don’t feel the government should support them and who want to WORK for their own American dream. If you would rather stay home and expect the government to take care of you, I hope you like Ramen noodles. Enjoy!
And I say you are full of poopy. Give me the names of “those people” you are talking about. Some addresses……..
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 9th, 2012
10:50 pm
As a matter of fact, I think you live with one.
As a matter of fact, your opinion means less to me than whale turds.
Welcome to the Occupation
October 9th, 2012
10:50 pm
Glenn: “Jay, your article lit up the boards tonight. Doesn’t take much to stir the class warfare and envy crowd.”
Just which crowd is that, Glenn?
Fred ™
October 9th, 2012
10:52 pm
Glenn
October 9th, 2012
10:45 pm
Jay, your article lit up the boards tonight. Doesn’t take much to stir the class warfare and envy crowd. Let’s take a little time to research the authenticity of the letter. The letter you attribute to David Siegel looks oddly similar to a letter scored as LEGEND on Scopes.com. http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/valuedemployees.asp
Great “journalism”, JB. Do the work.
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Wow, so not only is Siegel a complete scumbag but he’s a plagiarist too? Who would have thought. Shame on him again…….
Jm
October 9th, 2012
10:52 pm
Kam, your pal Jammies couldn’t even defend a simple point like Bill Gates is a liberal
Dude all of you über libs have no cred on this blog except ,ongst yourselves
A miserable little bunch you are
G Mare
October 9th, 2012
10:53 pm
Fred, just read where you said your mom “never liked me anyway.” Oh, the places I might go with that! But I won’t; I will only say, again, I’m sorry for your loss and her’s. So y’all can call me a pollyanna if you must, but I know I am blessed with my 3 kids & 7 grands, not to mention 3 sibs & their progeny.
And, in conclusion: Obama/Biden 2012!
Fred ™
October 9th, 2012
10:54 pm
Jm
October 9th, 2012
10:44 pm
Kam
The guy’s a dbag
Somewhat else is new?
America is full of them.
As a matter of fact, I think you live with one.
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JM? Who in Kam’s family are you calling a douche bag? That’s WAY over the top there sport.
Jm
October 9th, 2012
10:55 pm
Kam
Incidentally whale turds mean a lot if you step in one
Poor analogy. And as classless as Mr Siegel schmuck up above
Two of a kind, you and he, just opposite ends of the spectrum. And oh yeah, you’re a lot poorer too.
But what sucks is you really are as much of a dbag as he is.
Fred ™
October 9th, 2012
10:55 pm
G Mare
October 9th, 2012
10:53 pm
Fred, just read where you said your mom “never liked me anyway.” Oh, the places I might go with that!
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There is no place to go with that. She never got me Christmas or birthday presents, she never bought me clothes. She never attended any events I participated in. I had brothers and sisters. She did all of those things for them. It is what it is and she is dead. Nothing to worry about. She didn’t bother to come to my wedding either BTW.
Jm
October 9th, 2012
10:56 pm
Fred
I was alluding to Kam’s bathroom mirror
Fred ™
October 9th, 2012
10:57 pm
Jm
October 9th, 2012
10:55 pm
Kam
Incidentally whale turds mean a lot if you step in one
Poor analogy. And as classless as Mr Siegel schmuck up above
Two of a kind, you and he, just opposite ends of the spectrum. And oh yeah, you’re a lot poorer too.
But what sucks is you really are as much of a dbag as he is.
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So where is Jay with his little warnings when you really need him lol.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 9th, 2012
10:57 pm
And oh yeah, you’re a lot poorer too.
Only by your metric, sportshoe.
Fred ™
October 9th, 2012
10:58 pm
m
October 9th, 2012
10:56 pm
Fred
I was alluding to Kam’s bathroom mirror
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Oh OK, then I will bow out. I thought you were talking about his family which would have been over the top. If you are talking about HIM, while I disagree, he can handle you without my help lol.
Fred ™
October 9th, 2012
10:59 pm
Besides, I’m already on double secret probation so I have to be *good*
RF
October 9th, 2012
11:00 pm
“What I find amusing is how the liberal media and Obama worshippers do not see the real point of this email. There are middle class employees who could be out of a job because of the socialist agenda.”
So it’s socialism that allows him to sit on a golden throne and build a 90,000 square foot house form profits he made on timeshares? And all this time we poor ignorant sheeple thought you called that captialism….
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! That’s good- and I thought this couldn’t get any funnier!!!!!!
Jm
October 9th, 2012
11:02 pm
Democrats are so dumb
When you give away money,there are tons of schmucks looking for a handout that don’t deserve it
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/09/us-usa-solar-investigation-idUSBRE8980YL20121009
Jm
October 9th, 2012
11:03 pm
Fred,
Kam is fine
He dishes it out, and he can take it
barking frog
October 9th, 2012
11:05 pm
Not defending the guy but
i don’t think the email is
illegal. An actual firing
could be questioned but
FL is an at will state.
However the letter is at
best unethical.
SuesC
October 9th, 2012
11:05 pm
Just wwwwwww!
bman
October 9th, 2012
11:05 pm
Romney is now leading in polls? I didn’t see that coming…