As businesses across America struggle under the tremendous burden of Obamacare, those who voice any objection to its onerous rules risk being singled out by our president. Such is the case with Staples which, according to the trustworthy new information source Buzzfeed, has cut the hours of some employees to lessen the cost of Obamacare.
What is new is that a sitting president (apparently on a throne) cited a specific, successful company and its CEO for doing what they are supposed to do: manage their business while implementing rules forced on them by an ever-more intrusive government.
With his disastrous Obamacare sputtering, Obama went out of his way to attack and tacitly threaten Staples CEO Ron Sargent after hearing of his reasoned business decision. Beside disparaging the company, Obama went after its CEO with an irrelevant, class-envy comment: “I haven’t looked at Staples stock lately, or what the compensation of the CEO is, but I suspect they could well afford to treat their workers favorably and give them some basic financial security.” Our Dear Leader went on to say, “Shame on them.”
What does the CEO’s salary have to do with Obamacare? It was tantamount to a Mafia loan enforcer asking you where you live and what route your kids take to school. It was a creepy statement from our president.
Obama’s thinly veiled threat to the CEO of Staples is the way his Chicago-style political groups go about their business. It is pure class envy, putting a bull’s-eye on this guy’s back and on his company.