Aside from the Rep/Dem aspect, your outlook and mine on how to run a business are identical. The workers and customers make the company. If you take care of the customers and employees, the business almost cannot fail. If the business does well, the shareholders will do well. It's a Bible principle "do unto others as you would have them do unto you". It works. Putting the interests of the other parties to the transaction ahead of their own (while not allowing themselves to be cheated) their own interests are taken care of. For the non-religious: "What goes around comes around".
I sell employee benefits and see companies froma different side. It is without fail the companies that treat their employees well are usually always prosperous and do well even in bad times. Their employees just do that extra 10% because they WANT to.
Companies that treat their employees as expendible and like cattle(basically like crap) are always grasping...though staying on. I have insurance with the owner of one company thta treats his employees like crap. The turnover is unbeleiveable and you can sense employees are there just until something better comes along.
I've been in the business for 25 years and have seen this countless times. Every report I've seen also backs up what I'm saying.