If Obama Wins, You May Lose Your Job- CEO emails 7,000 employees: Defeat Obama or else
October 10, 2012
On Monday he sent an e-mail to all 7,000 employees of privately-held Westgate Resorts, many of them in the battleground state of Florida, warning them their jobs are at risk if the president is re-elected.
“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,” he said in the e-mail. (Track economy under Obama)
“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,” he says in the nearly 1,400-word e-mail. “Rather than grow this company I will be forced to cut back. This means fewer jobs, less benefits and certainly less opportunity for everyone.”
Siegel doesn’t mention Romney’s name anywhere in the e-mail, and he writes he “certainly wouldn’t interfere with your right to vote for whomever you choose.” And he insisted Tuesday that he wasn’t threatening to fire employees if Obama is re-elected. But he proudly stands behind the e-mail.
“I wanted the employees to know what the situation is, and not listen to campaign commercials but hear it from the horse’s mouth,” he told CNNMoney.
Siegel actually has been hiring in recent years.
He said Westgate had 12,000 employees and $1 billion in annual revenue four years ago, before the financial meltdown caused credit markets to freeze up. “We were fat, dumb and happy,” he said.
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Siegel based his e-mail on an anti-Obama letter that was widely circulated before the 2008 election, but he said he made many changes, adding many of his own views and personal history. He is particularly angry by what he sees as unfair attacks on the nation’s wealthiest by the Obama administration, which is seeking to raise taxes on top earners.
“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,” he wrote. “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…We are being taxed to death and the government thinks we don’t pay enough.’
He acknowledged his 90,000-square foot home now under construction in the letter. The home is the subject of a critical documentary, “The Queen of Versailles.”
Siegel said he was forced to stop work on the home four years ago because he had to pour all his money back into the company during the lean years, but that he’s ready to start work on the home again — assuming Obama is defeated.
“If the wrong people stay in power, I’ll have to stop it again,” he told CNNMoney. “I don’t see a good future.”
I find it interresting that Mr. Siegel claims he had to stop work on his house and pour all of his money back into his company four years ago. Four years ago Obama wasn’t even elected yet!
It’s ashame Mr Siegel has fallen on hard times, that worthless prick. I bet he doesn’t know today what a screwdriver and shovel are. When you get on my level and have to live in a Mobil Home, then you’ll be on hard times. Somebody send him an 18 wheeler full of Kleenex. He cries way too much.
CEO’s make ten times what they used to make- so they are not sacrificing – they should make less if they care enough about their employees and the economy rebounding…They have all gotten greedy and there doesn’t seem to be any end to that unfortunately.
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If Obama Wins, You May Lose Your Job- CEO emails 7,000 employees