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Memo: Job Security
Distribution: To All My Valued Employees
There have been some rumblings around the office about the future of this company. More specifically, your job. As you know, the changing economy presents many challenges. However, the good news is this: The economy doesn’t pose a threat to your job. What does threaten your job however, is the changing political landscape in this country.
However, let me tell you some little tidbits of fact which might help you decide what is in your best interest.
First, while it is easy to spew rhetoric that casts employers against employees, you have to understand that, for every business owner, there is a Back Story. This back story is often neglected and overshadowed by what you see and hear. Sure, you see me park my Mercedes outside. You’ve seen my big home at last year’s Christmas party. I’m sure; all these flashy icons of luxury conjure up some idealized thoughts about my life.
However, what you don’t see is the BACK STORY:
I started this company 28 years ago. I lived in a 300 square foot studio apartment for 3 years. I converted my entire apartment into an office so I could put forth 100% effort into building my company, which by the way, would eventually employ you.
My diet consisted of Ramen Pride noodles because every dollar I saved went back into this company. I drove a rusty Toyota Corolla with a defective transmission. I didn’t have time to date. 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, my friends got jobs. They worked 40 hours a week, made a modest $50K a year, and spent every dime they earned. They drove flashy cars, lived in expensive homes, and wore fancy designer clothes. Instead of hitting the Nordstrom’s for the latest hot fashion item, I was trolling through the discount store extracting any clothing item that didn’t look like fashion from the 70’s. 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 a business with a vision that eventually, some day, I too, will be able to afford these luxuries my friends supposedly had.
You physically arrive at the office at 9 AM, mentally check in at about noon, and then leave at 5 PM, I don’t. 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 the freedom. I eat, and breathe this company every minute of the day. There is no rest. There is no weekend. There is no happy hour. I attach this business to my hip every day like a 1 year old special-needs child. You, of course, only see the fruits of my labor — the nice house, the Mercedes, the vacations… you never realize the Back Story and the sacrifices I’ve made.
Now, the economy is falling apart and I, the guy that made all the right decisions and saved his money, have to bail-out all the people who didn’t. The people who overspent their paychecks suddenly feel entitled to the same luxuries that I earned and sacrificed more than a decade of my life for.
Yes, business ownership has is benefits but the price I’ve paid is steep and not without wounds. Unfortunately, the cost of running this business, and employing you, is starting to eclipse the threshold of marginal benefit and let me tell you why:
The government taxes me to death and thinks I don’t pay enough. I have State taxes, Federal taxes, Property taxes, Sales and use taxes, Payroll taxes, Workers compensation taxes, and Unemployment taxes. Taxes on taxes. I have to hire a tax man to manage all these taxes and then guess what? I have to pay taxes for employing him. Government mandates and regulates all the accounting that goes with it, which now occupies much of my time. On Oct 15th, I wrote a check to the US Treasury for $288,000 for quarterly taxes. You know what my “stimulus” check was. Zero… Nada… Zilch.
The question I have is this: Who is stimulating the economy? Me, the guy who has provided 14 people good paying jobs and serves over 2,200,000 people per year with a flourishing business or the single mother, sitting at home pregnant with her fourth child waiting for her next welfare check? Obviously, government feels the latter is the real economic stimulus of 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? That’s nuts. Who wants only 50% of their hard work rewarded? Well, I agree, which is why your job is in jeopardy.
Here is what many of you don’t understand … to stimulate the economy you need to stimulate what runs the economy. Guess what would happen if the government mandated I didn’t need to pay taxes. Instead of depositing that $288,000 into the Washington black-hole, I would have spent it, hired more employees, and generated substantial economic growth. My employees would have enjoyed the wealth of that tax cut in the form of promotions and better salaries. You can forget it now.
When you have a comatose man on the verge of death, you don’t defibrillate and shock his thumb, thinking that will bring him back to life, do you? No, you defibrillate his heart. Business is at the heart of America and always has been. To restart it, you must stimulate it, not kill it. Suddenly, the power brokers in Washington believe the poor of America are the essential drivers of the American economic engine. Nothing could be further from the truth.
So where am I going with all this? It’s quite simple. My reaction will be swift and simple when the governments impose new taxes on me, or my company. I’ll fire you and I’ll fire your co-workers. You can then plead with the government to pay for your mortgage, your SUV, and your child’s future. Frankly, it isn’t my problem anymore. I will close this company down, move to another country, and retire. You see, I’m done. I’m done with a country that penalizes the productive and gives to the unproductive. That destroys my motivation to work and to provide jobs and it will cost me my citizenship.
If you lose your job, it won’t be at the hands of the economy; it will be at the hands of a political hurricane that swept through this country, steam-rolled the constitution, and will have changed its landscape forever. If that happens, you can find me sitting on a beach, retired, and with no employees to worry about.
Signed,
THE BOSS
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Dragineez @:
Go to the NRA website and look for a local instructor you’ll need NRA cert if you wanna handle fireams in MD.
I didnt interpt CSS original post as a defense nor acknowledgment of a Bush lied meme. Im wondering if you mis-interpted the context of his writing?
LC TerribleTroy, Imperial Centurion sez:
Troy, I know that this is the now but, in hope for the future…. fuck all that fucking infringement!
DJ Allyn, ITW sez:
Nah, just a severe fecal reciprocator. Glad to see you up and about Deej.
Princess Natasha, Uber-Whore of Zion sez:
EX-FUCKING-ACTLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And the rest of #88 hits well too. Except for the illegality of the issue. I don’t care where they’re from, so long as they’re here legally. Welfare whores? Rolling donuts and the moon.
BTW, Deej. Seems like most computers you buy, if you can afford them on a wage like mine, are somewhat less than optimal. Theoretically, you could assemble components and make a far better device. Shoot me an email.
Jaybear, Colonel of Imperial Ancient Artillery @ 93: I keep saying that, and nobody listens.
Dragineez sez:
Sight picture, breath control, trigger control. (USAF CATM, ret). You can do the nearly entire training exercise in your mind. Learn to LOCK your hand, not increase the pressure as your trigger finger moves. LOCK the grip, move the trigger independently. Align the sights, focus on the front sight, middle of the target is the middle, fuzzy or clear. The sights control where the weapon is aimed, so align the sights on the center of the blur. Fresh clear lungs, hold to prevent vertical oscillation. Smooth press, directly in line with the gun, on the trigger. Dry fire is like your kata.
LC Jon Imperial Hunter sez:
Indeed. What part of “Shall Not Be Infringed” do they not understand?
And how fucking many times was it that W said WMDs? Once. One line. One speech. ONE speech. And that’s all you ever fucking hear. Like that was the only thing he ever said in that direction. It was not. And some know we found SOME hot debris, don’t we? Hmmm? And tonnes of yellowcake, ad infinitum. Jets buried in the sand,… More? Hmmm? Fuck it.
BJ Allyn, BFA sez:
Try me.
And I could insinuate that you fuck goats. Doesn’t mean its true.
Unless you’re Muslim..then I’d ask if you married it first.
Okay here’s a message. President Bush did not lie.Ever.
Obama DID lie…frequently. His lies about Ayers are a good placer to start.
Yep.
“We don’t know”..sounds reasonable to me.
Saddam financed terrorism,
He paid suicide bombers
He housed, clothed and fed terrorists.
No…”we” don’t,”we” never did and for eight years I am yet to see incontrovertible, unequivocal proof that he deliberately and with malice forethought lied.
Prove it. Dates, times. quotes
Show me EXACTLY where he lied. I want it documented, I want you to show me each lie and your proof it is a lie.
Put up…or shut up.
Yes, Allyn, I am saying that.I am saying that exactly…I am saying that for the lack of a few guns in the hands of homeowners, more than a few goblins would be assuming room temperature.
As for the gun laws, Allyn, a few weeks ago we had a GUN BATTLE between bikies and cops in a crowded commercial mall in one of our capital cities.
The day after that there were three armed holdups all with guns. Six rapes, two carjackings..all at gunpoint.
NINETY EIGHT PERCENT of all gun crimes committed here are with illegal weapons..and to buy a gun, all you need are a few hundred dollars.
We have loads of gun laws that do Jack and Shit.
And as for saving lives: From the gun defence blog
Dragineez sez:
cant help you there but next time you come down to VIR let me know and i’ll take you to the range.
What country doesn’t anymore? I dunno, maybe South Korea, might have to look it up.
LC cmblake6, Imperial Black Ops Technician @101 sez:
Actually, I don’t have time for email.
Sure, you could build your own “FrankenComputer” from components if you’d like. The problem I have found by doing that is that you sometimes get unintended hardware conflicts, or certain components fail faster than normal. Plus, it is debatable as to whether you actually “save” money building the machine yourself.
Is it preferable over buying a machine in one of the box stores? Most certainly. Most of that stuff is just plain junk, and is too light to make a decent boat anchor when it dies.
A better bet is to cruise over the the Dell Outlet website and check out the machines there. Stay away from the “Home and Home Office” machines and focus on the Business stuff.
The dirty little secret of the Dell Online site is that most people go to the regular Dell site and start “building” their computer. They pick the base machine, then “customize” it by adding the operating system, video card, sound card, memory, hard drive, and so on, then get as far as the checkout and get the sticker shock. The damn thing is costing about $1500! So they just quit.
But here is the thing. As they are “building” this computer, an actual “work order” is being generated to build that machine. You have started that process regardless of whether you ever intend to buy it in the end. That machine IS going to get built, boxed, tagged, and be ready for shipment.
Unfortunately, there is going to be nobody to ship it to. It becomes an “orphan” machine, and it gets moved to a warehouse for about six months where it sits on a shelf.
After that six months, it then becomes the inventory of the Dell “Outlet”. That machine that would have cost you over $1500 now shows up on the Dell Outlet inventory list for around $350 – $550. The average time it stays in the Dell Outlet inventory is about thirty minutes before some customer snaps it up.
The machines carry the same exact warranty as they would have if you had bought it from their main site.
Here is the REAL dirty secret: You might think Dell is losing big money selling a $1500 computer for $419, but the reality is they are only losing big PROFIT. Dell’s actual cost of building that machine is about $250 — less than the retail cost of the operating system they put into it.
So if you want a good, solid machine that will not give you any troubles, and won’t rip your wallet apart, check out the Dell Outlet.
There are a lot of small computer stores that buy twenty of these computers at a time and mark them up 50 percent and make a killing off of them.
BigDogg sez:
Ah, that online bravado. Do you know how silly you sound when you do that? It reminds me of that “Say it to my face” routine a couple of years ago.
I am not pointing this out to push buttons, I am saying it because in most cases, these online encounters are a lot like cruising for sex online. You think you are talking to a 19-year-old college hottie and it turns out you are talking to this guy:
The thing is, you can sit there and be as brave as you want with no consequences. Everyone knows that. I pointed that out to you a few weeks ago, and apparently you missed the irony. It’s not like either one of us is going to hop a plane drive somewhere just to throw insults at each other.
MY point here (as if I have to spell it out) is that in a normal day-to-day interface with people, the likelihood of:
a. getting involved in such third-rail conversations as politics that
b. lead to tossing around insults which
c. leads to an all-out-physical altercation
Is remote and rare. Most of the time, people just bite their tongue and move away. Or just avoids the subject altogether.
There is a reason why most people don’t talk about politics OR religion. You will ALWAYS find someone who will disagree with you — and most people just don’t want to deal with the confrontation so they talk about things that they know they WILL agree with.
You do so here — because it is safe. You can be that tough guy that you wouldn’t ordinarily be in the real world. I am not saying that you aren’t, I am saying that people are usually more restraint in their real-life encounters.
We can toss vile insults around HERE all day. We can even threaten to kill each other using the most imaginative and destructive ways we can think of. But once we hit that “Speak!” button, we can push ourselves away from the computer and go on with what our normal average lives. If we choose, we can come back later and enter the virtual world of the Rott and become all indignant again for a short period of time while we fire off our salvos.
LCBrendan @ 103 sez:
Except that you have all of Bush’s speeches. Kinda hard to get past that. Go back and look at some of those texts, count the number of times he used “Saddam” and “9/11″ in the same sentences in the same speech.
Why is it that every time you can’t counter something you have to come out with silly statements like that? Is that all you have? You notice that I don’t come out and insult someone like that until they have done it to me. I would much rather talk the merits of an issue than have to talk about your sexual preoccupations.
LCBrendan sez:
Actually, we DO know. The question was whether Saddam had something to do with 9/11 and every credible investigation has said NO.
Yes he did. He wasn’t the greatest guy in the world, and he certainly wasn’t the worst. But if you want to use that criteria as a reason to go invade another sovereign country, then maybe we should have gone into Saudi Arabia first. After all, Saddam was small potatoes compared to what the Saudis still continue to support and finance. And they are considered to be one of our biggest allies in the region.
We’ve been pointing each one of his lies out for YEARS. In detail. With official reports and investigations to back it up. You just stick your shit-stained fingers in your ears and go “la la la la la” and then say we proved nothing.
I could rub your nose in a pile of dog shit and you would tell me it is pudding, even though everyone else smells the stench on your face.
You are part of a very tiny and shrinking minority now. Most people have opened their eyes and have seen the lies. We are experiencing the results of those lies right now. And yet people like you are scrambling to try and shift the blame off to someone who has only been in office for 45 days.
Then you are truly a naive man. As I pointed out here, we have more LEGALLY owned guns that there hands to hold them here in the US. (that isn’t counting those guns that are illegally possessed by your described goblins) Yet having all of those guns did nothing to stop any of these shootings here in just the past week. In fact, many of these perps were in legal possession of their weapons at the time of the shootings.
Now I ask you, where were all of these other guns out there that would have magically stopped these incidents?
The reality is, that having more guns around and available doesn’t actually stop any of this shit. If anything, the shooting incidents will increase precisely because of the availability of the weapons.
The same goes with any weapon. If a gun isn’t around, a rock, a knife, — even a picture of Rosie O’Donnell.
It is just common sense.
That would be a slow day in most of our cities here. They would start laying off cops around here if the crime rate was that low. And need I remind you again — we have all of the guns.
ONE HUNDRED PERCENT of all crimes involving guns are committed by the illegal use of said gun. It doesn’t matter whether the perpetrator had legally purchased and possessed that weapon prior to that crime. The split second he used that weapon to commit a crime made the use of that weapon illegal.
But sit down for a moment — I wouldn’t want you to faint: I actually agree with you the banning of guns to the majority of people who happen to be law-abiding citizens is wrong and I don’t support it.
I DO think there should be SOME sane control of who shouldn’t legally possess firearms. (criminals, certain mental instability, etc.) I also don’t have a problem with registration and licensing of firearms — if for no other reason than to establish ownership should those weapons be stolen, misplaced, or used in the commission of a crime. But other than that, a law-abiding citizen should be able to own, possess, carry, and caress as many firearms as they want or can afford without having to justify them.
I also think that if you use a gun for illegal activity of any kind, (regardless of whether you legally or illegally possess it at the time of the crime) then in addition to whatever penalty you would have gotten for hte commission of that crime, you would receive a minimum-mandatory sentence of thirty years. Either that would severely cut down the use of guns in the commission of a crime, or it would at least get the perp off the streets for a very long time once they are caught. (of course it still doesn’t stop those people who are bent on killing a bunch of people before they kill themselves — but then I doubt that nothing will)
We have loads of guns available that do Jack and Shit. It isn’t gun control that is the issue. It isn’t the lack of guns available either.
DJ Allyn, ITW sez:
No more silly than you do describing how big you are (6′7″, if I recall) … trying to prove how intimidating you think you are. What I’ve seen indicates that you’re a pussy, and a big one at that.
DJ Allyn, ITW @106:
IRT The Dell outlet, agreed, it is good advice for anyone looking for a decent machine at a fair price.
I am on my 3rd outlet laptop the First a Dell Precision M60, I used it for a year it was flawless and I decided I wanted a new machine with more HDD Space, so I sold it, to my boss, he’s still using it some 4 years later.
Next was another Dell Precision M60 which after a while I got bored with it and decided I wanted an XPS platform….I sold that one, and bought my XPS M1710.
Retail with the high end graphics card, memory, and other assorted goodies would have been close to 4k, I got it on the outlet for 1800.00.
All three of these machines have been perfect and I’ve never had a bit of trouble with them.
That offer’s still good, BTW, you liberal hippy pussy FUCK. Anytime you’re ready.
(Yeah, I saw that BS about 6′7″, 265 with size 14s too. Assuming you’re not lying out your potheaded ass about that, I now have the template to beat the shit out of you. So c’mon. Try us, chickenshit.)
Then you should have no problems whatsoever in giving me an exact and unequivocal answer. I said prove it…not tell me “we all know”..if they have been pointed out, then you show me one example
ONE.
ONE lie that he told in all “of his speeches”…show me, Allyn. You made the statement, now you back it up with facts.
Where, when, who, and the exact text that proves him a liar.
Proof.
Yet the fact Obambi lied is nothing more than the truth. His ties to Reszko, his relationship with Wright, Ayers..well well, looks like the liberal meme re Pres. Bush’s use of signing statements was more liberal dementia.
Obama to use signing statements
And this
There it is, Allyn.
President Chickenshit, never served a day in his life, a cut and run poltroon, a liar, a socialist and a fool who can’t even organise his own administration without jamming both feet in his mouth.
Hope…change….
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
Just another venal, lying, posing Chicago politician who is in a job way WAY above his pay grade.
“Poor luck”?
For the first time in history….the clothes have no Emperor.
BigDogg sez:
Again, you missed the irony, didn’t you? Maybe you should go back and read that thread a little closer (and apparently slower) and maybe that little light will come on in your head…
Darth Venomous sez:
Oh boy. Do we have to go through this silly thing again? Did you MISS the part where I ridiculed the whole idea of people who pretend to be tough online but in reality turn out to be the older version of the kid who hid out in the Audio Visual class in high school to keep from being picked on by all of the popular kids.
Perhaps you too should go back and read that thread a little closer. Sheese!
LCBrendan sez:
Okay, here is ONE example. I hope you don’t mind the Christian Science Monitor.
There are several forms of lying. One is to come out and actually LIE (“I did not have sex with that woman”). Another is to lie by omission. And then there is the lie by insinuation that there actually was a connection between Saddam and 9/11. This was Bush’s form in this case.
Bush wasn’t the only one pushing this insinuation.
Then there were the many lies about WMDs and all of the “proof”, the Saddam’s active nuclear program. (even though most of the experts including those who had direct knowledge completely disagreed) Instead, the Bush Administration “fixed” the evidence…
Now this is where you start sticking your fingers in your ears or spouting off your tired out fake debunks.
EVERYONE who knew ANYTHING about Reszko and Ayers have completely debunked the Right’s assertions that any real relationship existed between Obama and either of these two men. As far as his relationship with Wright, Wright was the Pastor of his church.
First your link is broken. Here is one that works.
Presidents using signing statements wasn’t the issue. Signing statements have been around for a long time, and virtually every president since James Monroe.
The ISSUE was that Bush did over 1200 signing statements — TWICE that of all the other Presidents combined — for the purpose of subverting the intent of Congress.
Most Presidents — Obama included in this one case — used the signing statement to object to certain provisions that he — and his Attorney General — felt was unconstitutional. Bush did his signing statements to simply ignore the law he didn’t like, not because they were actually “unconstitutional”. The criticism was that none of the statements Bush signed even came close to a Constitutional objection.
Do you see the difference here?
LCBrendan sez:
Besides, what’s it to you? Do you see me asking about YOUR government?
We are still waiting for proof that Bush actually served out his stint in the National Guard. So far, even with reward money offered, there has been NOBODY to come forward and say they ever saw Bush in Alabama.
No, in this case, a “poor choice”. He had no support for his nomination.
Most of the other nominees that quit probably could have survived the nomination process and been confirmed — but it was THEY who chose not to make them the story.
Heads should roll
She got that last part WAY wrong.
Right now, the White House is starting to look like the complete and utter embodiment of the Peter Principle, starting from the empty suit in the Oval to that bullshit artist Rahm, and his spinmeisters.
Y’ dont get it, do ya Deej? Obama is a sick joke, an appeaser, a Communist, a liar…way out of his depth and utterly and absolutely incompetent.
His massive gaffe over Britain is just icing on the cake..for the last eight years Pres. Bush hosted hundreds of delegations with aplomb and style and grace..Obama in ONE DAY did more to damage relations with one of its most trusted and valued allies…if he had hired a man solely to totally piss off and upset the Prime Minister, that man could NEVER have improved on what Obama did singlehanded.
He did NOTHING to deal with a staffer who bluntly said PUBLICALLY
If the State Department doesn’t support the views expressed, it should disown them immediately.
..and as yet, the State Dept has not disowned those comments.
BHO screwed that up as well
Barack HUSSEIN Obama is a complete and utter fuckup, and this is only the start…we have four years of this idiocy to go. But by then, of course, I know he wont be in the Oval Office…..because I know full well how this will end.
In Obama’s impeachment, with one memorable descriptor in the encyclopaedias.
“Most incompetent and corrupt administration in US history”.
Don’t be too hard on us. After all, we can’t be expected to know that you’ve changed your comment that originally read…
to …
…now, can we?
“Change Has Arrived on
Track FiveComment #126″Mike M, I do believe that qualifies as “Catch of the Century”!
In fact, for that and that alone (puts on Management™ hat), I hereby bequeath the title “Imperial Fact-Checker of Yo’ Ugly Ass” on thee.
Rise and be so knighted.
Game, set and fucking match, Allyn.
BigDogg is spot-on. You are a big pussy. BWAH-HAHAHAHAHA….!!!~1!!ONE!!!
hey DJ, about “Joe” lying,
So What.
it doesn’t matter if someone lies to you to get you to admit the TRUTH
quit blaming the guy that caused Obama to show his true colors (RED).
it makes you whiner
Allyn
You are either not listening, or you are lying to me. I said show me one example where he deliberately and with malice aforethought lied.
Not insinuated. Not omission. That’s opinion,not fact. I said PROVE IT. So far all you’ve done is show me what people think he said, not what he said.
Opinions are like assholes..everyone has one. Including you..only yours speaks english.
Still waiting for you to prove he deliberately lied. I’ll be waiting a long time, because there is no proof, he did not lie, and all this is, is your opinion and your interpretation.
You cant prove it and you never will.
Admit it.
Prove it.
Oh, for FUCK’S SAKE ,ALLYN.
Oh??
Obama launched his campaign out of whose apartment?
And this
Oops.
And you know this…how? How the hell do you know what he was thinking??
Again, opinion. What he did was 100% legal. I dont give a rat fuck if you dont like it.
Yes. I’d like to see them. Isnt Obambi the one who campaigned on “transparency”? And if they are not required as you say, then Pres. Bush is not required to tell anyone jack or shit about his service in the Guard.
He was honourably discharged. That’s all you need to know.
Oh and Allyn, it’s gotten down to this, but now I am asking. Since you have seen fit to trash his time in uniform, I’ll ask the question.
WHERE’D YOU SERVE?
We could, however, compare Obama’s military service with President Bush’s…oh wait….
A whole raft of piss poor choices.
He’s incompetent
If one really wanted the truth the place for blame for the liberation of Iraq (put that to the vote in Iraq, they seem rather pleased) is squarely with the UN, by omission the naysayers accept the first gulf war and the details of Saddams surrender and as he clear;y time after time gave 2 fingers to the deal the UN should have gone back before Bush2 had to, like when the atomic and chemical/biological weapons had not been spirited to the neighbours (or do you believe the nice scientists quietly disposed of it all and hoodwinked their kind leader and his 2 nice sons?) the real sinners here are the MSM who are just a mouthpiece for the fascist forces and the large expensive organisation who are unable to achieve more than get thier troops laid by underage kids in exchange for the very aid they were supposed to give free and to swap Saddams oil for large lumps of cash yes coffin anus and wankey moon Im talking about you! Where are the so called Liberal panty wetters crying about Darfur??
I believe there are NO Liberals left, just fascists wearing dead mens clothes.