It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
In fact as far as I'm aware the UK is the only european nation that outright bans guns for civilians.This is why people ban guns. Gun supporters don't know what guns are.Shotguns I'll give you (provided you're allowed 12 and larger gauges... because I mean... come on...) but not .22s.
It's such disgusting opportunism. As a free market country, we should all stop buying from papa john's and let him know he isn't wanted unless he changes his practice. Money is the only thing that matters, hit them where it hurts.
Papa Johns is just a drop in the bucket vs the amount of companies that are going to be the same exact thing. Walmart already does this, so does Krogers and several other large companies. I'm not saying I agree with it but it's their business and they will do what they want or feel they have to.
The thing is that it wasn't profitable to employ them before the election. But they didn't want to fire them before knowing whether Romney would win or not (because it would've been even worse to re-hire them if Romney had won). If Romney had won, it would've been profitable to keep them. He didn't win, so they had to fire them.
If the company would've known that Romney was going to lose, they would've fired these people earlier.
So then what? Papa would go out of business and all of his workers would be layed off, causing more unemployment and putting more burden on the tax payers? Less governmental regulation has always been better for a strong economy which is what we need right now. I wish republicans weren't so critical on social issues that need to be fixed in this country >.<
I didn't know you had access to their financials. He blames Obama's reelection for the need to lay people off even though there has been no change in policy at this time.
His company's problems aren't due to Obama, they're due to the fact that he can't compete with natural gas.
The faster Murray goes out of business the better.
Well there you have a problem because other CEO's, like the insurance company ones, do want you to spend money on health care. Obamacare started as a shift to a system more like Switzerlands. However lobbyists representing, you guessed it, industries and their CEO's changed all sorts of things. So if you want to bitch about having to pay into the health care pot. You should probably look at the CEO you're golfing with first, when you want to start blaming things.
Sir Robin, the Not-Quite-So-Brave-As-Sir-Lancelot.
Who had nearly fought the Dragon of Angnor.
Who had almost stood up to the vicious Chicken of Bristol.
And who had personally wet himself, at the Battle of Badon Hill.
Wait what? If we can't influence him by not buying his crap, what is holding together the greatness of the free market economy? The only answer is some kind of law that stops people from doing this type of thing. How would less regulations fix this? It would merely be pandering to a vocal minority and changing government. Exactly the problem with state corporatism.
Sigh, I wish my fellow Democrats would understand the distinction between corporate income and personal income. Just because a business owner has obscene amounts of property does not mean that the business is doing well. If a business owner were to put funds back into the business, the business would become indebted to him OR he would be buying more of his company's equity. In either event, the company would be doing significantly better. In addition, successful business men are SUPPOSE to show off their wealth as a way to attract investors. Who are you more likely to invest in? A guy with a castle or a guy with an apartment?
I am all for raising taxes and for Obamacare but I have no doubt that it will initially hurt the economy. Do I think some business owners are overreacting? Yeah, I think a lot of them are not looking at the facts of what Obamacare actually requires. They fail to factor in the increased productivity from a healthy and happy working force. They fail to factor in the decrease in sick leave of their employees. Do I think those things add up tot he cost of Obamacare? Not initially.
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that's basically extortion using the middle and lower class.
Papa john's is essentially saying "if you don't change federal government policy according to my personal desires, the lower classes are going to pay for it by losing their jobs, i.e. their entire livelihood."
No will to adapt, and too much power concentrated in the top ranks.
The reason he didn't lay them off earlier was because he speculated that Romney might've won and changed policy. The "sure" bet would've been to just lay everyone off. But instead he chose to pay some (pay wages for some extra months until election results were in) for the option to see what happens.
And hiring decisions etc are all more or less speculation. You never know what the future brings.