Small Business Owner Fires His Workers Because Obama Was Elected

From AlterNet:

The owner, who refused to disclose his name or company information, told a local radio station that in the lead-up to the election he did his best to “educate” his employees about the “consequences” of Obama’s reelection. But when the sitting President won despite the owner’s skewed civics lessons, he preemptively fired nearly a fifth of his staff. 

 

“I explained to them a month ago that if Obama gets in office that the regulations for Obamacare are gonna hurt our business, and I’m gonna have to make provisions to make sure I have enough money to cover the payroll taxes, the additional health care I’m gonna have to do, and I explained that to them and I said you do what you feel like in your heart you need to do, but I’m just letting you know as a warning this is things I have to think of as a business owner,” he told radio host Kevin Wall on 100.5 KXNT. 

 

More here.

So, of course, the economic picture hasn't changed one bit in the forty eight hours since Obama won reelection--I mean, okay sure, the stock market plunged four hundred points in two days, but that's obviously coming from the same psychology this idiot businessman is showing.  And it's not nearly so clear cut that small businesses will take any kind of layoff-inducing hit that this guy is describing as a result of Obamacare.  No, this guy's just being a dick, and is willing to fuck himself over by arbitrarily reducing his labor force in order to be a dick.

I mean, the smart play, if he's right about Obamacare, is to continue doing business the way he always has until the provisions he fears kick in two years from now.  But no, he wants to make his point, and is totally willing to play with people's lives in order to do it.  And he's not the only one.

Of course, if we had adopted a single-payer model for health care, instead of this Obama monstrosity, these asshole companies wouldn't be doing this.  But the point is that they don't have to be doing this for two years, if they have to be doing it at all.  That they are doing it now is just spiteful, vengeful, pointless politics.  Fuck your workers because you don't like how the election turned out.

And people wonder why I so distrust capitalists.

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