On 11/11/2012 14:02, Lee Lofaso -> John Massey wrote:   
    LL> Hello John,   
      
    LL>>> President Obama saved the auto industry,   
      
    JM>> He saved the auto workers UNION   
      
    LL> If a company goes belly-up, there are no longer any   
    LL> employees, hence no more union to represent them.   
      
    LL>>> kept the economy as a whole from tanking,   
      
    JM>> Horse shit   
      
    LL> We had another Great Depresseion?  When did that happen?   
    LL> Certainly not on Obama's watch...   
      
    LL>> and offed Osama bin Laden.   
      
    JM>> The Seals offed Bin Laden   
      
    LL> Thanks to President Obama giving them the order.   
    LL> Quite unlike your chickenhawk pResident who let ObL   
    LL> get away at Tora Bora...   
      
    LL>>> Every nigger on the street knows they have a friend in Obama.   
    LL>>> You don't believe me?   
      
    JM>> NO   
      
    LL> Except for Herman Cain.   
      
    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,   
      
    JM>> If the person they voted for is anti-capitalism and will directly   
    JM>> hurt the business why keep them?   
      
    LL> Why should an employer give a rat's ass what the politics of   
    LL> an employee might or might not be?  As long as an employee does   
    LL> quality work that should be all that matters.  As well as all   
    LL> an employer should care about.   
      
    LL>>> In Louisiana, employers do not have to give a reason in order to   
    LL> fire   
    LL>>> an employee.  However, that is not the issue.  I am not   
    LL> questioning an   
    LL>>> employer's "right" to fire an employee.  What I am saying is that   
    LL> it is   
    LL>>> extremely stupid for an employer to fire an employee on the basis of   
    LL>>> who that employee voted for or intended to vote for.   
      
    JM>> And I say it is a valid reason because it shows poor judgment on   
    JM>> their part.  In fact it shows down outright stupidity.   
      
    LL> It shows extremely poor judgment on an employer's part to dismiss   
    LL> employees on the basis of what their politics might or might not be.   
      
    LL>>> Voting is a Constitutional right,   
      
    JM>> The Supreme Court says you do not have a Constitutional right   
    JM>> to vote for President.   
      
    LL> The U.S. Constitution says voting is a right, not a privilege.   
    LL> Regardless of what rightwing nutjobs might say or want.  As you   
    LL> know, people vote for electors, not directly for President.   
    LL> This is all spelled out in the U.S. Constitution.  You should   
    LL> read it sometime.   
      
    LL>>> But hey.  I guess that is the only way Republicans think they can   
    LL>>> win.  Suppress the vote.   
      
    JM>> You mean like Democrats suppress the military vote?   
      
    LL> Karl Rove and his cronies certainly tried their best to suppress   
    LL> the vote.  But it didn't work quite as well as they intended...   
      
    LL>> But one thing I cannot do is fix stupid.   
      
    JM>> That' s clear or you would have fixed yourself.   
      
    LL> Why would I want to fix perfection?   
      
    JM>>> So you think it's stupid to try and save the jobs of 49 others by   
    JM>>> letting 5 people go?   
      
    LL>>> I was being nice.  Rather than stupid, I find it downright racist.   
    LL>>> As would most, if not all, decent people.   
      
    JM>> Calling someone or something racist no longer means anything.   
      
    LL> Kanye West called GWB a racist.  Not me.  In any event, you might   
    LL> not find such words as meaning anything.  However, GWB said he was   
    LL> greatly offended that Kanye West called him a racist, emphatically   
    LL> stating "I'm not a racist!"  Of course, all those black folks who   
    LL> had lost their homes and belongings in New Orleans did not believe   
    LL> him.  Any guesses why?   
      
    JM>> You leftist have seen to that.   
      
    LL> I'm not a leftist.  I'm a patriot.  What are you?   
      
   smarter than you.   
      
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