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Originally posted by beezzer
reply to post by Cuervo
Cuervo, always the greatest respect, but when did personal wealth become public access?
Why does it matter how much money I have or you have or someone else has?
It's like asking how many forks someone has in their house! They can only eat by using one! Any more than that and it's fork hoarding! A fork monopoly! Fork gluttony!
It's none of anyone's business how many forks someone has!
Originally posted by ThirdEyeofHorus
The Occupy group literally hates corporations even though they were using all the stuff corporations make
I cannot help but think the First Nations might have a different definition of "the beauty of the original vision."
Originally posted by anneb
All this inroad into socialism, corporate facism and communism has destroyed the beauty of the original vision.
Originally posted by Metallicus
As a business owner I take all the risk and deal with all the red tape. I had an employee that got a bad attitude after he found out how much I made on a particular job. He was making $32.50 an hour and should have been grateful, but instead he started telling my clients how I was 'ripping them off'. He was so angry because all I did was 'answer emails and phone calls' and didn't do the actual work...according to him. Well his jobs don't just materialize out of thin air and he also isn't privy to the loses I take when a job doesn't go well.
Business owners take all the risk and should be rewarded for creating jobs and opportunity. If you don't see that then you are just being obtuse. Needless to say I fired this person with cause since he was bad mouthing the company and trying to drive away customers. He now makes $10 an hour in construction. I am sure his new bosses just sit around doing nothing making no profit while construction projects just appear.edit on 2013/4/16 by Metallicus because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by neoholographic
These people own businesses they're not liberals worried about a political agenda.
Obamacare is about rationing healthcare and mandating more people into the system. They then expect business to comply with this albatross out of the goodness of their hearts.
It's not going to happen because businesses not only have to compete with other companies in America but other companies in the Global Economy.
Originally posted by beezzer
reply to post by Cuervo
No. That still doesn't justify wealth redistribution!
Dang it! That doesn't justify theft!
Originally posted by tothetenthpower
Originally posted by JohnnyCanuck
reply to post by DarthMuerte
Nice to see how corporate greed always gets a free pass from some folks.
Yeah it's a bit funny that some blame the legislation, as opposed to the greedy business who doesn't want to put a dent in their 30% profit margin..
Amazing what some people think is ok huh?
~Tenth
Originally posted by Gazrok
reply to post by TauCetixeta
Profit margins are already paper thin for movie theaters.
Quarterly profits for Regal were at 5.6% Just how else exactly could they solve the problem posed by ObamaCare, other than cutting expenses, and business 101 will tell you, manpower is the most bang for your buck cut you can make. In this case, it's to bypass the requirement...for companies that don't routinely offer healthcare.
Most of the money that a theatre takes in from ticket sales goes back to the movie studio. The studio leases a movie to your local theater for a set period of time. In the first couple of weeks the film shows in the theatre, the theatre itself only gets to keep about 20% – 25% of the green. That means, if you showed up to watch Bridget Jones’ Diary on opening night, then of the $12 you put out for a ticket, the movie theatre only got to keep between $2.40 and $3.00 of it. That’s not a lot of money, especially when you think about how much bigger and elaborate theatres are these days. It’s not cheap running one of these places. It can get even worse. This percentage will vary from movie to movie depending on the specifics of the individual leasing deal. For instance, 2 movie theatre managers told me that for Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, the studio took 100% of the box office take for the first week of release. Can you imagine that? They had to over staff and have above normal capacity flood into their theatres… and they got to keep $0.00 from the ticket sales. That almost seems criminal.
Originally posted by TheWrightWing
Collapse is the idea. Obamacare is textbook Cloward/Piven.
I can't wait for Obama to order Directive 10-289, after all, this is a clear violation of the Fair Share act.