Posted on 11/14/2012 10:37:56 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Stryker Corporation has announced that it will close its facility in Orchard Park, New York, eliminating 96 jobs next month. It will also counter the medical device tax in Obamacare by eliminating 5% of their global workforce, an estimated 1,170 positions.
Jon Stryker is heir to the Stryker Corporation, one of the largest medical device and equipment manufacturers in the world. Stryker’s grandfather was the surgeon who invented the mobile hospital bed. The company now sells $8.3 billion worth of hospital beds, artificial joints, medical cameras, and medical software every year.
Stryker, a member of the Forbes 400 list, was one of the top five donors to the Obama campaign. Having donated $2 million to the Priorities USA Action super PAC, Stryker also gave $66,000 in contributions to Obama and the Democrat Party.
Prior to the 2012 election, Stryker contributed millions to help Democrat candidates in his home state of Michigan. He also gave nearly $250 million to groups supporting gay rights, transgenderism, and the conservation of apes. In January, his Arcus Foundation donated $23 million to Kalamazoo College for an endowment to fund a center for social justice leadership.
Stryker's corporation is part of an industry that has been a big loser at the hands of Obamacare. Having refused to get on board with the White House and the Senate Finance Committee when the law was being crafted in 2009, the medical device industry was punished with an excise tax of 2.3% of their revenues, regardless of whether they make a profit...
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Hahahahahahahahahahahaha!
What?
The ship is sinking and the guy who drove it into the iceberg is now blaming me.
How else am I supposed to react?
How many jobs would the millions of dollars he pissed away on politics have created?
I don’t give a sh*t about obama voters if they were starving and unemployed, but those employees who lost their jobs...this ass clown Stryker should be the one unemployed.
This all seems insane to most of us, but let's just think like a liberal who wants to collapse the system and invision those people without jobs as being set free!!!
There..do we all feel better now?
Over 60,000 laid off since the polls closed.
That’s over a thousand people set free in 57 states. Yeehaw!
add 96 ping
If only JON STRYKER would lose his job!
Fantastic!
Really, does anyone think Jon Stryker cares about his employees? He has a ton of money sitting in banks and off shore for when he shutters the doors completely.
Union seeks halt to casino job cuts
INDIANAPOLIS | A union representing some of the 80 workers laid off last month by Gary’s Majestic Star casinos wants the Indiana Gaming Commission to stop casino companies from cutting jobs.
Carly Karmel, spokeswoman for Chicago-based Unite Here Local 1, which represents housekeepers, servers, bartenders and cooks, said up to 10 of their 27 laid-off members will attend Thursday’s gaming board meeting in Indianapolis asking “for regulations to stop out-of-state companies from tossing Indiana workers out of their jobs.”
HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA.............!
Got ‘em.
Grand total since the election: 60,927 as of this morning.
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