Hello John,   
      
    JM>> The bastard got barely 50% so he got NO overwhelming mandate to do   
    JM>> anything.   
      
    LL>> President Barack Obama did GREAT in the popular vote, being the first   
    LL>> Democrat re-elected President since FDR with at least 50% of the vote.   
    LL>> And his margin of victory in the electoral college was almost as large   
    LL>> as it was four years ago.  I would classify President Barack Obama's   
    LL>> re-election as being a clear mandate to lead this country for another   
    LL>> four years,   
      
   JM>Lead for 4 "more" years is imposable as he has not lead one single   
   JM>day so far.   
      
   President Obama saved the auto industry, kept the economy as a   
   whole from tanking, and offed Osama bin Laden.  And that was just   
   for starters.   
      
    JM>> It's The Democrats that have played the Race card , the wealth envy   
    JM>> card, and flat out lying card and immigration card.   
      
    LL>> I understand conservatives are jealous, wanting to be black.  Or at   
    LL>> least latino/latina.  But hey.  It's not the end of the world.  Just   
    LL>> get some charcoal, mash it up, mix it with water, and apply to face.   
    LL>> Or burnt cork.  But be careful about the hair...   
      
    JM>> The stock market is down, companies are already laying off people   
    JM>> and that is only after one day. If you think for one minute things   
    JM>> are going to get better then you are in for a huge surprise.   
      
    LL>> I told you, man.  With Obama everything is gonna be free.   
      
   JM>If you believe that you are a fool.   
      
   Every nigger on the street knows they have a friend in Obama.   
   You don't believe me?  Just look at the results from election day,   
   especially those results from Washington, DC -   
      
            Barack Obama 91%   
            Mitt Romney   7%   
      
   I am sure that Obama's numbers would have been higher had every   
   black voter been able to read and write...   
      
    JM>> People like me are shutting down. I plan on paying NO taxes for   
    JM>> the next four years.   
      
    LL>> Everybody pays taxes. Sales tax doesn't count.   
      
   Please do not misquote my words, as I did not write "Sales tax   
   doesn't count."   
      
    JM>> I have already informed the two BO supporters that worked for   
    JM>> me that they are history.lations   
      
    LL>> Firing employees because of who they voted for is the most   
    LL>> stupidest reason (if one can call such a thing a reason) an   
    LL>> employer could do.  Why would an employer care who an employee   
    LL>> voted for, or intends to vote for?  Unless that employer is a   
    LL>> political candidate and that employee is a (paid) staff member,   
    LL>> it makes no difference what political views an employee might   
    LL>> have.  And based on the comments you have made in this forum,   
    LL>> you are not, and have never been, a political candidate running   
    LL>> for public office.   
      
   JM>If the politics of the employe involves voting for a candidate that   
   JM>will cost my company money do to new regulations ( check out the new   
   JM>calculation formula for how  "full Time"  is figured)  then I have   
   JM>the right to fire them.   
      
   In Louisiana, employers do not have to give a reason in order to fire   
   an employee.  However, that is not the issue.  I am not questioning an   
   employer's "right" to fire an employee.  What I am saying is that it is   
   extremely stupid for an employer to fire an employee on the basis of   
   who that employee voted for or intended to vote for.   
      
   When a voter walks into the voting booth, the curtains are drawn.   
   Nobody knows who the voter intends to vote for, or who that voter   
   has voted for.  And that is the way it should be.   
      
   Voting is a Constitutional right, not a privilege.  Denying people   
   the right to vote for candidates of their choice (such as making   
   threats to fire employees who do not vote or intend to vote for the   
   candidates an employer likes) is an abridgement of that basic   
   Constitional right.  It is even worse for employer to actually fire   
   employees on that basis.   
      
   But hey.  I guess that is the only way Republicans think they can   
   win.  Suppress the vote.  By any means necessary.  Worked great for   
   Southerners before the Civil War, as well as afterwards during the   
   decades of segregation/Jim Crow laws.   
      
    JM>> A friend has fired 5 Bo supporters and told 6 part timers that   
    JM>> their hours have been cut to a max of 25 a week to keep them from   
    JM>> being classed as "full time" under the new guidelines.   
      
    LL>> Your friend apparently has the same stupid mentality.  I can do   
    LL>> many things.  But one thing I cannot do is fix stupid.   
      
   JM>So you think it's stupid to try and save the jobs of 49 others by   
   JM>letting 5 people go?   
      
   I was being nice.  Rather than stupid, I find it downright racist.   
   As would most, if not all, decent people.  Just change a few words   
   of this well-known song and you will (or should) soon recognize the   
   racism present and inherent in today's version of the Republican   
   Party (and its Tea Party stepchild) -   
      
                   NO IRISH NEED APPLY   
                   Lyrics by J.F. Poole   
                  -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-   
      
   I'm a decent boy just landed from the town of Ballyfad,   
   I want a situation, and I want it very bad.   
   I have seen employment advertised--" "Tis just the thing," says I.   
   But the dirty spalpeen ended with "No Irish need apply."   
      
   Refrain:   
   Some do count it a misfortune to be christened Pat or Dan,   
   But to me it is an honor to be born an Irishman.   
      
   "Whoa," says I, "but that's an insult,   
   though to get the place I'll try."   
   So I went to see this blackguard   
   with his "No Irish need apply."   
      
   Refrain:   
   Some do count it a misfortune to be christened Pat or Dan,   
   But to me it is an honor to be born an Irishman.   
      
   --Lee   
      
   --- MesNews/1.06.00.00-gb   
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