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CEO Who Warned Employees They Might Get Fired If Obama Is Re-Elected Explains His Email

Oct. 10, 2012 9:15pm Mike Opelka

Yesterday TheBlaze reported on an internal company email sent by Westlake Restorts CEO David Siegel to his employees. In the now-viral email, Siegel warned employees that the company would likely face dire financial consequences if Barack Obama is elected to a second term – specifically stating that he:

“will have no choice but to reduce the size of [the] company.”

On Wednesday afternoon, Siegel joined CNBC’s “Closing Bell” to discuss the email. The unapologetic CEO explained a few things about his message to his workers:

It was not his intention for the communique to be seen outside of the company
He’s received “hundreds of email” responses and claims that “90% were positive”
Over the last four years, Siegel said that he was forced to lay off 7,000 people and said it was “unpleasant” and he does not “want to go through it again.”

When pressed by the CNBC hosts on why he felt that an Obama second term would be devastating to his company, Siegel stated:

“This is not speculation – I have lived the last four years under the Obama administration and I’ve watched my company be cut in half… We’re very profitable and I don’t want to go through another four years under the Obama administration where I have to downsize again.”

David Siegel was quite clear. He was not happy about having to layoff 7,000 people in order to keep his company profitable. He also stressed:

“This was before ObamaCare… Before raising my taxes.”

Seigel was also questioned about his personal wealth. He is known for building one of the largest private homes in the country.

CEO Explains Why He Warned Employees About Voting For Obama

Photo credit: ABC

“Versailles” is the 90,000 sq foot mansion with an impressive list of amenities:

90,000 square feet

nine kitchens

30 bathrooms

an indoor pool, ice skating rink, and two movie theaters

Last summer, ABC News called unfinished mega-mansion the “Spruce Goose of homes.”

At one point, Siegel stopped construction on the house and put it up for sale. He said this was done in order to keep his company afloat. There were no takers. During the ABC interview, Siegel told the network that business had started to come back and he and his wife were spending money. Apparently, he hopes to finally finish building his American “Versailles.”

However, he’s very concerned that a second term for the President would mean higher taxes on people like himself, and once ObamaCare is fully implemented, the costs would be devastating.

In his words, David Siegel is merely “educating his employees” before they make a choice on election day.

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Apple Bite
Posted on October 11, 2012 at 7:33am
Because Obama made so many hit the streets in his first 2 years, I see no reason why 7,000 more couldn’t follow suit. Don’t like it? Blame B.O. I lost my well paying job because of his bastardly actions.

You keep that in mind, damn Lib-Trolls. How many Americans lost their jobs because Obama threaten CEO’s with huge taxes for using a Corporate jet for business transactions. Just how many do you think lost their livelihood over his threats and comments?!

I, for one, can tell you now, he practically killed an entire city built on building those “Private Jets”. Would you like to know the story behind “THE FAILED ECONOMIC POLICIES THAT FATALLY DAMAGED THE AIR CAPITAL CITY OF THE WORLD?

An entire city was virtually ripped apart because one man thought he knew more than anyone else. You go and read about Wichita KS and how the Aviation industry that built the city, is in near ruins because of Obama.

He screwed Boeing. He screwed Hawker-Beechcraft. He screwed Learjet. He screwed Cessna. He screwed Raytheon. He screwed Bombardier. He screwed Air Bus.

And along with screwing them over, he screwed a lot of families in the meantime. If customers aren’t buying planes, there’s no need for a workforce. Incomes went to hell over the last 4 years. Families were either broken apart or have moved on. Homes left vacant. And you sit in your stank sweaty ass smelling seat and have the nerve to talk crap about what Romney is going to do?!

Go to hell and don’t come back!

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- urbanedan
  Posted on October 11, 2012 at 8:09pm
  Amen ! Apple Bite, Amen !
  
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iltws2
Posted on October 11, 2012 at 5:02am
To the Liberal Retarded here, Maybe you should look back at the less fortunate in our society and ask yourself why you are doing better than them. Why are they homeless, why do they live in poor conditions, why do they need handouts ect. This man made his money the hard way and now can enjoy the better things in life, much like you lib’s enjoy your cell phones, computers,cars,home’e or apartment’s and the like. I don’t sense you giving up all your goodies for a homeless person or even feeling that bad you have more than them. It’s just those super rich you envy. I would bet a paycheck if one of you lib’s won the lotto that you would go out and buy all the goodies you ever wanted and would not give a hoot about the poor.

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- damon_k
  Posted on October 11, 2012 at 5:41am
  What this man is feeling is in abundance throughout this country. Did anyone hear any of Steve Wynn’s comments or Jamie Dimon’s? It is shocking what is going on and we are at a tipping point and these business leaders know it. Read more commentary at: http://smallcraftadvisorychronicles.blogspot.com/
  
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- Mil-Dot
  Posted on October 11, 2012 at 10:55am
  I do not believe in giving anybody ANYTHING. Not a fricking dime. If you give somebody something, your destroy that person. I was talking to a black co-worker about the govt giving young women money for having babies and he got all offensive about it. Like it isn’t happening. What a fool. If you stop enticing women to have babies out of wedlock this country would be alot better off and you would have far fewer incidents of the low-life unemployed “boyfreinds” beating the children to death because they won’t stop crying. It is in the news everyday, but , you cannot tell that to a black man. They think you are just picking on young black females when in reality it is all of them-white girls included. This is just one example of what you get when you give deadbeats other people’s money.
  
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girlnurse
Posted on October 11, 2012 at 3:21am
People bust butts to build a business so eventually they will be financially successful. Nobody i goin to work hard like that to give it all back to the government. They hav to give too much back now as it is! Communism doesn’t work. Never will. Its nice to see a man like this speak the truth.

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- starman70
  Posted on October 11, 2012 at 10:38am
  Right you are!!! Just look at the living conditions in Russia under Stalin or China under Mao. The very people who those totalarian dictatorships, the Prolotariat, the common people, were the ones who suffered indignities. Overcrowed apartments, one bathroom for an entire floor, empty grocery shelves in the state run stores, Hospital wards with at least 50 beds (2or 3 wards per floor) and only a couple of nurses to attend patients, limited if any access to a doctor, most people walking to work (If they had a job at all) in sub zero temperatures in winter, highly restricted travel for the working people and the list goes on.
  
  THIS IS WHAT OBAMA WANTS FOR YOU, THE CITIZENS OF THIS COUNTRY! He and his Communist associates from Frank Davis to Sail Alinsky, this is where he gets his inspiration.
  
  Why so many in this country can’t see this, is beyond me!
  
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- Mil-Dot
  Posted on October 11, 2012 at 10:44am
  Don’t ever think that there are no progs around. They are like cockroaches-always there in the shadows ready to exploit an opportunity. One of his prog “workers” ratted him out to Obama and his goons. No doubt. If I ever owned a business, and I sensed that a worker was a prog, I would find a way to get rid of them.
  
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- rolla020980
  Posted on October 11, 2012 at 1:11pm
  Starman…
  Funny story, I used China as an example when asking a co-worker if he would like to live in a communist state. His response:
  “China is a bad example of communism”. He then proceeded to tell me that a communist US would be some sort of utopia.
  
  I told him that China is the largest Communist country in the world and then asked him why China was a bad example. His response:
  “Because they just take everything and make it the government’s property instead of making it the people’s property”.
  
  I tried to tell him that “the people’s” in communist means “the government’s”, but it was like talking to a brick wall. The worst part about a liberal is common sense is not common to them.
  
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Ragnars Repos
Posted on October 11, 2012 at 2:49am
I like his home and I like what he wrote to his employees.

Bravo, Mr. Siegel!

And Bravo! to Mr. Wynn as well for his overt self-defense.

I wish more businessmen would speak up in their own defense. You’d think they would do it more often as their heads are on the chopping block well before the rest of us, if the the collectivists keep ascending, that is.

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- Mil-Dot
  Posted on October 11, 2012 at 11:05am
  Mark my words. He WILL be targeted by the Obama prog goons and the IRS.
  
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coizinho
Posted on October 11, 2012 at 2:32am
He send a letters to the employees and let them know maybe they going to get fired. Obama pay BIG COMPANIES with tax pays money to not let the employees know they going to loose the jobs after election, not before, because Obama must win.

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Robert999
Posted on October 11, 2012 at 12:45am
Imagine a wagon train crossing the plains in the 1840s. The leaders are the wagon master, the hunters and the guides. They direct the trail the wagon train will follow and give orders to the people on the train to make sure they go the right way and stay alive. They get the best cuts of the meat because they are the leaders and hunters. They probably get the prettiest girls too.

Then there are the families on the wagons. They follow the directions of the wagon master and his men because they understand they know the best way to go. They don’t begrudge them the best cuts of meat or pretty girls because they are the most valuable. And at the bottom are the oxen and mules pulling the wagons. They are given what is needed to keep them working, but no more.

That is the model for our economic society. At the top are the leaders, the capitalists, who direct us, keep us safe and provide us what we need to live. The people on the wagons are the middle class who follow their leaders because they know that is how they will survive and prosper and get where they want.

At the bottom are the workers, who are like the oxen and mules. If they work hard, they will survive too and get enough to live. But if they don’t work or don’t obey their masters, they will be punished, or even killed and eaten (though I don’t think we should eat workers).

Anyway, that’s the way I see it.

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- CoyoteDKM
  Posted on October 11, 2012 at 1:16am
  Your example leaves out one huge thing. In America, we can change classes. We can go from being the “oxen” in your example to being the leaders. But that is being attacked. Its being taken away. People sense that. And then the con-men who are taking that ability away always throw up a red herring “class warfare” argument. That argument rests on the assumption that we cannot change between classes, which is false but changing even as I speak! And it is the ones who use the false class warfare argument as a distraction who are taking that ability away.
  
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- Robert999
  Posted on October 11, 2012 at 1:53am
  Yes, you’re right, but I was running out of words. In fact, I didn’t put in everything I wanted. The fact is the big problem in America today isn’t with people moving up or down in class, but with class warfare the Commies are trying to instigate. Of course, social mobility is less today than before, but that’s the way things happen sometimes. Especially today when we are competing with China and other low wage countries.
  
  People just need to realize that in most cases the reason some people have more and a lot of people have less is because some people are just more capable than others and not resent that and be thankful for what they have instead of wanting class warfare and revolution. We should be thankful and respectful to the capitalists who run our economy and our government.
  
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- CoyoteDKM
  Posted on October 11, 2012 at 2:07am
  The class warfare argument is completely invalid unless they leave out the fact that people can move between classes. When they don’t ignore that inconvenient fact, their entire argument falls apart. Your example is not valid either, because it also leaves that fact out, and in an insulting way compares poor people to “oxen” and “cattle”. I’m not sure if you’re trying to be sneaky and doing it on purpose to make conservatives look bad by imitating one in a mocking way, or if you really think that way. But I notice that you left the same thing out of your “examples” that all the class warfare liars leave out, too.
  
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- Ragnars Repos
  Posted on October 11, 2012 at 2:55am
  @Robert999 Methinks you’re full of it, comrade.
  
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- Mil-Dot
  Posted on October 11, 2012 at 11:31am
  Coyote,
  The so called “poor” are the leeches in society. They sit around crying in their beer about how others have more than they do. If you want more out of life you have to work for it. I am not sure what you were getting at in your argument but the bottom line is, like the guy said the most capable people will live better than the less capable and if you “kill off” all of the job makers, we all go down. That is what he was saying. And your crap about “we can all move between classes” is true, but so what? The fact is that we have too many people wanting to claim the earnings of others via govt.
  
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- Robert999
  Posted on October 11, 2012 at 7:25pm
  You shouldn’t call someone a Commie just because they don’t say something exactly the way you want. I already admitted I left a lot out of the analogy. There aren’t any farmers or doctors or lawyers or teachers either. I couldn’t put in every role in the society and economy. Everything could not be included because of limited words and time. Besides, the point would be lost because it would be too lengthy. It would no longer be an analogy.
  
  The point I was trying to make is that the entrepreneurs and capitalists are at the head of society and the economy because they lead and direct us in the direction of prosperity and getting America where we want to go. And that we should accept that as right and good. That they deserve more because they contribute more because of their skill and ability. Attacking them and causing class warfare will destroy America just as attacking the wagon master would mean the wagon train would be lost.
  
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Metallicat
Posted on October 11, 2012 at 12:36am
I was on a soccer team as a kid and every year we made it to the championship game but lost. and every year we watched the championship team walk away with the trophy. The year our team finally beat the usual champions and won the championship they implemented a new rule where instead of only the championship team receiving trophies,all who particpated in the league received trophies as well. Identical to the championship trophy except the placard. Suddenly that trophy we worked so hard as a team to get after years of toil,was worthless and meaning less,when those who didnt work as hard were rewarded the same as the champions of our league. the reward no longer felt worth the work and I stopped playing soccer. this is the future of Obamas America, whats the point of doing the hard work if the government rewards those who dont do the hardwork equally? redistribution of wealth makes us all losers when rewarded for doing less.

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- urbanedan
  Posted on October 11, 2012 at 8:27pm
  Amen Metallicat ! a brilliant analogy ! If Obama wins the USA will be destroyed and our financial
  system will collaspe within 10 years.
  
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conservativewoman
Posted on October 11, 2012 at 12:28am
Hey, I’ve got a whole family of workers employed at my house, because I decided to remodel my home. The father, mother, son, and nephew are all making some money because I am spending money! That is how it works! Now my neighbor wants to hire them next. I hope more people build mansions like this man. It keeps people employed.

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- loriann12
  Posted on October 11, 2012 at 6:51am
  I hope you mean that you hope the economy picks up and more business men are ABLE to hire people to build mansions, not just do it for the sake of hiring people. I know that the ones who are against him building this mansion, don’t realize that when he stopped for a while, in order to not lay off his own workers, basically had to lay off the workers who were working on his house. But you gotta pick, I’m sure he was more loyal to the ones in his company.
  
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Metallicat
Posted on October 11, 2012 at 12:09am
I think there was a day when Marybeth dreamed of living in a house like that as well. she thought the only path to it was thru a rich man who she wasnt attractive or interesting enough to get,and grew old and bitter, and now would deny anyone else that dream.

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- Karenshepherd
  Posted on October 11, 2012 at 9:30am
  How is her having a huge house denying anyone else the opportunity? There are many people employed that enjoy their wages because of this construction, and, anyone with a great idea that meets a need can get financing, work their butts off (like all new business owners must do) and acquire their own “riches.” Enough of this class warfare.
  
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Robert999
Posted on October 10, 2012 at 11:31pm
When the Titanic went down, they saved hardly any of the steerage passengers. Most of those saved were the first class, the wealthy, because everyone in those days knew they were the most important part of society and the economy. Today, we have forgotten what our forefathers knew, that the top of the economy are the most valuable members of our society. I hope Romney, Ryan and a Republican majority can teach Americans that lesson again.

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- Detroit paperboy
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 11:46pm
  I thought the malt liquor dinkin FOODSTAMPERS were the most important segment of our economy…….and unemployment checks were the best way to stimulate the economy……hmmm
  
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- woodyee
  Posted on October 11, 2012 at 12:30am
  Reminds me of the days when high school girls sought out the jocks and “A” students.
  
  If you want a girl in todays’ high schools (California), spray paint your name on an outhouse wall…
  
  I think we should try and steer our young women into dating the “go-getters” and “A” students…
  
  …be less trouble that way.
  
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- Ragnars Repos
  Posted on October 11, 2012 at 3:02am
  “Today, we have forgotten what our forefathers knew, that the top of the economy are the most valuable members of our society.”
  
  I hope no one here is buying this soft-sell commie drivel.
  
  Try again, ROBERT999, your subversive is showing.
  
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Mar97ilyn
Posted on October 10, 2012 at 11:18pm
This man is where each and every one of us would love to be. He is apparently a courageous and honest man. Glad we still have free speech for CEOs too. Let us help him keep his new home and business with our election choices this coming election. We are all exactly where we are due to decisions made. Apparently his decisions were good ones and he should keep the resulting wealth. He already pays enough taxes, just as each one of the rest of us working people already do. We just need to get more people working to get more taxes in the coffer. We could take everything the rich have in this nation and it would be a drop in the bucket to what is needed to get us back on track. It is going to take the sheer numbers of the population of the USA working again to get the money needed to pay off the debt made in the last 4 years. When will everyone realize this???

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- urbanedan
  Posted on October 11, 2012 at 8:33pm
  For half the country Mar97lyn unfortunately never !
  
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woodyee
Posted on October 10, 2012 at 10:34pm
Mike Opelka, you write as if I should be concerned about how much of HIS OWN MONEY a private citizen spends, earnings from HIS OWN business. Here’s a news tip, Mike –

How about writing a feature-length story on the 1.4 BILLION Taxpayer Dollars the Obama’s spend on themselves every year??? (Taxpayer? Why, that’s you and me, Mike.) Here – I struggled a whole 60 seconds to come up with a story for you, Mike. Try a little research and save the drama for your mama…

(Oh my GAWWWWD! He’s got a 90ksqft house! Ahhhhh! He’s the reason our world is falling apart – Ahhhh! He owns his own business – Ahhhhhh! He employs thousands – Ahhhhh!)

Here – http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2210323/Obama-family-costs-taxpayers-1-4BILLION-year.html

Here – http://www.athenstalks.com/taxpayers-spent-14-billion-obama-family-last-year

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- Robert999
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 11:35pm
  I bet Bush didn’t cost that much.
  
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Dougral Supports Israel
Posted on October 10, 2012 at 10:33pm
I don’t care how much money Siegel makes or how many bathrooms are in his home. To achieve the wealth he has, he has to pay many people to work and produce the wealth that ends up in his coffers. In reality he probably gets only a small percentage of it, 5% if he’s lucky. Do we kill the 95% golden goose that goes to others because we are jealous of Siegel’s commodes? Obama would say “yes, Siegel doesn’t need it and someone else should get it”. Of course if too much wealth is taken from Siegel then he doesn’t produce it and the 95% evaporates. Such is Obamanomics.

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- Wolfgang the Gray
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 10:55pm
  Not only that, but just think of how many people were employed working on that mansion. Anyone that earns their paycheck (politicians have yet to do that lately), they should be able to spend it on anything they want, from a huge mansion to a solid gold twinkie holder for their kid.
  
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BlackCrow
Posted on October 10, 2012 at 10:27pm
They have been warned. Vote for Communists and everyone will suffer with the exception of the party elite. It was that way in the Soviet Union, China, Cuba and every other country where this failed system of economics has ever been instituted. The only thing communism has done is redistribute the misery and murder millions upon millions. Yet people like MarryBeth would wish this on the people of this country in order to make up for her own lack of ambition. Take your Obama phone and call someone who cares.

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- CutThePuppetStrings
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 10:39pm
  Democrats, Spocials, Communists, Marxist = Hatred, Resentment, Envy, Murder thanks to Karl Marx
  See: Why Marxism? speech to FEE organization by professor Thompson at http://www.youtube.com
  
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denkat56
Posted on October 10, 2012 at 10:22pm
there is no reaso n for apologies. especialy if its the truth.

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soybomb315_II
Posted on October 10, 2012 at 10:19pm
Romney is going to save us from the inevitable collapse?

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- Dougral Supports Israel
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 10:37pm
  Only the determination of the American people can save us now. The first step is to vote out the progressives. Then the hard work begins. We the people must decide that taking care of ourselves is better than plundering someone else’s money, that money earned is 10 times better than money stolen, that a meager dollar earned is more satisfying than a fortune taken from our neighbor. Then we will be free again.
  
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- girlnurse
  Posted on October 11, 2012 at 3:16am
  Mitt says he is Progressive
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=DwGQDXgzzVk
  
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Its4you
Posted on October 10, 2012 at 10:16pm
Once upon a time we had luxury boat business in the US until the government decided to “get the rich” with a luxury tax now those businesses are in other countries. We need the “rich” to play and stay because they create opportunities for the rest of us. In a free market system there is nothing that stops you from becoming one of the “rich” yourself, but if the government picks winners and losers it won’t be up to you on whether you can become a member of the “rich” and you only get to be “rich” so long as you tow the party line.

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THXll38
Posted on October 10, 2012 at 10:13pm
Typical libs complaining about someones home and assets. They must have forgot all the employees that he hired to build the home, and had to let them go as well. The problem with a modern day liberal is that they have class envy. The problem with this, is most of them are rich to begin with. I would think it is safe to say that the panel on that video are not strapped for cash. I hope this class envy approach blows up in their face. Every day I go to work, I drive through the Bonnie Brae neighborhood (Denver CO) and see democrat signs in front of multimillion dollar homes — WTF man?

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PontiusPirate
Posted on October 10, 2012 at 9:53pm
I feel so sorry for this man, if Obama is elected he won’t be able to afford his 90,000 sq ft super mansion, and will be forced to live in a regular sized mansion, what a tragedy. Nobama!

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- Anonymous T. Irrelevant
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 10:12pm
  Not sure why he would need 9 kitchens and 30 bathrooms, but it’s his money to do with as he pleases. I have no contempt for self-made millionaires.
  
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- Rob in Katy
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 11:19pm
  Liberals will look at this man’s house and say, “No one should be able to live like this!”
  Conservatives will say, “Everyone should be able to live like this!”
  
  Well, I guess we now know where Pirate stands.
  
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- PontiusPirate
  Posted on October 11, 2012 at 1:09am
  I don’t care how you leave, but don’t whine that you have to cut jobs when you have a multimillion dollar estate, I know where his priorities are.
  
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- Arphaxad
  Posted on October 11, 2012 at 2:02am
  He will get the house he worked to build, it is only the workers that will be sorry if Obama is given 4 more years to trash our economy.
  
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- RIGHT_WHERE_IT_HURTS
  Posted on October 11, 2012 at 6:43am
  When the PERMANENT gallows is built and left wherever it’s erected, we can’t forget about our ‘good friends’ in the MEDIA, now can we?
  
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SunTzuYou
Posted on October 10, 2012 at 9:53pm
At least Siegel is being honest compared to BO, he is warning his employees, BO is doing the opposite in Virginia for all those defense workers that are going to get canned. Also, at least he was paying for his own house (and no doubt his corporate jet), BO gets the White House and puts Air Force One on the nation’s credit card. Thank you Mr. Seigel for creating jobs and providing value to your willing customers, another comparison to BO who is throwing a wet blanket on the economy and making us slaves.

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Chromo200
Posted on October 10, 2012 at 9:50pm
Did he pay prevailing wages? Did he treat them properly and with dignity? Yes to both

He is telling people ahead of time that he will have to reduce the workforce so people can look for a job before their lives crumbles. And building that big house, well it is his money unless one believes in income redistribution where every one in that company get the same salary .. from CEO to Janitor.

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KevINtampa
Posted on October 10, 2012 at 9:49pm
The company I work for has it’s head quarters elsewhere in the states, not in Florida. On Monday I saw surveyors taking measurements around our local premises here, I’ve seen that before and it’s never a good sign. Me thinks the for sale signs will be going up soon, it’s my guess the sale of our building is a 4th quarter 2012 project and anticipate 1st quarter 2013 pink slips to be going out to our Tampa Bay branch. Hopefully they don’t come before the holidays.

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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 10:33pm
  sucks man. good luck
  
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red_white_blue2
Posted on October 10, 2012 at 9:37pm
Good Job–Speak out now before it’s too late. OH, PS: Anyone that is reading this that works with me, or doesn’t work with me…this could be you too! Think about it!

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Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on October 10, 2012 at 9:23pm
Hey, honesty is the best policy.

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- Leadthemtothelight
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 9:31pm
  If Obama is re elected the pink slips will definately go out in numbers.
  
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Maxim Crux
Posted on October 10, 2012 at 9:21pm
Someone else had food on their table because of his success…namely the builder, the plumbers, the electricians, the interior decorators…and everyone else who paid taxes to support free phones for people that employ no one.

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- marybethelizabeth
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 9:27pm
  Money spent on gold doorknobs employs one craftsman
  Money spent on regular doorknobs employs many more.
  
  The free market only works if their are many decision makers and not just a few.
  
  Mitt “I Built IT” Romney will do as much to sustain the oligarchy as President Obama is doing.
  
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- Wool-Free Vision
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 9:57pm
  “Money spent on gold doorknobs employs one craftsman
  Money spent on regular doorknobs employs many more.”
  
  You are too stupid to “get” capitalism. You are too entrenched in your position to recognize logic. You are a typical liberal fool. The quoted statement is absolute proof of your abject stupidity.
  
  If you are dumb because you have a low I.Q., then I apologize for being so blunt and insulting because you just aren’t capable of understanding.
  
  I suspect, though, based on your ability to connect to the internet and log into this website to post, that you are intelligent enough to know better but are just too damned stubbornly and willfully ignorant to acknowledge obvious truth. If my suspicion is correct, then you are a despicable and deceitful “useful idiot” and deserve all the insults I can dish out.
  
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- Anonymous T. Irrelevant
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 9:57pm
  @MBEB
  The free market is demand-driven and businesses are not chosen to win, as your boy-king likes to do. It doesn’t matter what the doorknob is made of, it takes just as many people to make it. Knucklehead.
  
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- Fatheroftwo
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 10:00pm
  MaryBE::
  What about all those people to mine the Gold and refine the Gold not to mention the people that make the molds to cast the Gold doorknobs?? Me thinks your blinders are on!!!
  
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- woodyee
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 10:17pm
  @Marybeth – What are you doing here? didn’t i ask you to send out my dry cleaning and take the dog for a walk?! Sheesh, ever since she registered as a Democrat, I can’t get any work out of her…
  
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- woodyee
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 10:37pm
  …oh, and Marybeth, quit insulting my friends, or you’ll be walking to that hen house full of yentas you call “the beauty shop”…
  
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