More precisely, we found the protagonist of the little-known sequel Atlas Scammed, in which the inhabitants of Galt’s Gulch all lost their shirts trading bogus timeshare deals, derivative bundles of bad mortgages, and shares in pyramid schemes.
Timeshare tycoon: If Obama re-elected, "I'll have no choice but to reduce the size of this company."
So, when are we going to break out the guillotines?
There are definitely some screws loose in that household. While the wife was at Sundance for the screening of the movie the husband was suing them for defamation.
I actually had lunch with the wife by chance. Not impressed. She’s really not very pretty in my opinion. She has massive breasts. I don’t know if they are real and I didn’t care to try to find out.
This guy lives near my parents home, and we can access his property via boat, as their home is on a lake that connects to the lake that the Seigal Property is on. His *old *home I should say, which is also a massive, quasi-italian palace with a bunch of quasi-neo classical marbles everywhere in the back. Good bass fishing there though despite the gold-leafed eyesore. The original property was lost to his ex wife in a divorce suit so he began building the new, larger one as a “fuck you” to his ex. Guy is all class.
Yeah, if the rest of the Americans just put off adding the marble for a few years, we’ll be peachy.
I really don’t see why all those folks with delinquent mortgage couldn’t just get the banks to let them not pay interest for 9 months like this guy did. Buncha slackers if you ask me.
If you owe the bank one hundred thousand dollars, they own you. If you owe the bank one hundred million dollars, you own them.
They’re at it again. Now Koch Industries has srent out a similar letter, and so has ASG Software Solutions:
In 2007, I worked for a company that was acquired by ASG Software Solutions. In the weeks leading up to the acquisition, the staff was told that we would all be kept on and how ASG needed us to run the company. On the day of the acquisition, they promptly laid off 75% of the company. My workgroup went from 18 people down to 3 people.
Three cheers for the job creators!
What did you expect? Obama won the 2008 election. 
I really hate these kinds of stories, though I’m not doubting the veracity. I work in M&A, and my company really won’t get rid of the staff when we acquire a company. However, some asshole saying they won’t and then doing it anyway gives us all a bad name, and makes it hard for anyone to believe us.
In fairness, the asshole saying they aren’t going to lay anyone off is usually the guy selling, not the guy buying.
See? Fair and balanced!
How is this not blatantly illegal voter intimidation?
This has always been my experience.
I think every company that I’ve ever worked for that was bought out by some other company has started the buy-out by having someone say “Now, nothing is going to change..” and then laid half the staff off ASAP.
Honestly, I’d expect a certain number of layoffs after a merger. The combined company needs only one HR dept, one accounting dept and so forth, so there’s going to be a certain amount of redundancy to eliminate.
Freedom of speech! Why do you hate freedom so much???
The Siegel’s seem to have a gift for understated and tasteful interior decoration.
I had no idea you could spend $100,000 at Woolworths.
(Stolen from a guy describing his visit to the home of Ike and Tina Turner)
I kind of hope this catches on. Maybe I’m unique, but the only time an employer made any suggestions about how I should vote, they got a hearty fuck you, and a vote for the other guy for their trouble. In fact, I was going to vote that way anyway, but it became a pleasure rather than holding my nose.
I think it says a lot about the character and mindset of these folks that they imagine this won’t backfire.