Spoiled Rich People

     So I’ve been noticing a trend here, as have most people with a tad bit of common sense.

     

     Rich people are blaming Obama for their own actions.

     I know, shocking considering that’s been going on for four years already. Let me narrow that down to the recent days following Obama’s reelection. I’m sure you’ve seen the Facebook meme about John the Snot-excuse me, Schnatter, owner of Papa John’s. You know, the one where he’s saying he’s going to cut back employees’ hours so he doesn’t have to give them healthcare? (Even better is his quote about how he’d love to give all his employees healthcare, this just isn’t the right way- no matter only a third of his employees are insured as it is.)

     Yeah, that’s not just him. A few franchise owners of Denny’s and Dairy Queen are hopping on that bandwagon, along with the CEO of Applebee’s New York, the parent company of Red Lobster and Olive Garden, and even a few small businesses to name just a few.

     One guy even fired employees so he’d remain under the fifty employee cap to avoid paying for healthcare, going so far as making sure he fired people who voted for Obama. Does that sound illegal to you? Hint: it is.

     One thing these people have in common? Gigantic salaries. The Walton family of Walmart is pulling the same crap. Basically, it’s multimillionaires and billionaires who are telling their workers that the poverty wages they pay them are too much. It’s people who own several luxury homes, a car for each week, and their own golf courses in their backyard who are saying they can’t afford to give their employees healthcare.

     Another thing these greedy bastards have in common is that they’re literally saying Obama made them do it.

     No, I’m not buying the shit in your stores, and I’m certainly not buying that shit. YOU decided to lay off hardworking, desperate employees in a recession right before the holidays. YOU decided not to take a tiny pay cut to your grotesquely overinflated salary in order to ensure the people who made, and are making you, those millions don’t have to worry every time their kid falls at the public playground.

     YOU are so butthurt by a President realizing the value of the middle class that you are willing to plunge families further into poverty THE FREAKING MONTH BEFORE CHRISTMAS just to sabotage him. YOU are so afraid of your employees realizing how terribly you treat them that they’ll finally say “Enough of this shit” and strike.

     Congratulations: YOU ARE WHAT’S WRONG WITH THIS COUNTRY.

     You don’t want to take responsibility for your own actions. Understandable considering how Congress has coddled you like a spoiled child. But you aren’t, are you? No, you are an adult and it’s time to act like one.

     To quote the amazing Elizabeth Warren, “There is nobody in this country who got rich on their own. Nobody… You built a factory and it turned into something terrific or a great idea - God bless! Keep a hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along.”

     Your employees are the ones who run your company, maintain it, and quite literally make your money for you. I’m not saying it’s bad to be rich- I hope to be someday myself. I’m saying it’s bad to dehumanize and devalue the very people you rely on.

     That’s going to bite you in the ass someday, and there won’t be any healthcare for you either when it starts to fester.