Koch Industries, other CEOs warn employees of layoffs if Obama is reelected (good for them!)

Yahoo! The Ticket ^ | 10/14/12 | Dylan Stableford

[markomalley]

Koch Industries, the Wichita, Kan.-based company run by the billionaire Koch brothers, sent a voter information packet to 45,000 employees of its Georgia Pacific subsidiary earlier this month.

In it was a letter, dated Oct. 1, from Koch Industries president Dave Robertson implicitly warning that "many of our more than 50,000 U.S. employees and contractors may suffer the consequences" of voting for President Obama and other Democrats in the 2012 elections, a list of conservative candidates the company's political action committee endorses and a pair of editorials: one, by David Koch, supporting Mitt Romney, and the other, by Charles Koch, condemning Obama.

"While we are typically told before each Presidential election that it is important and historic, I believe the upcoming election will determine what kind of America future generations will inherit," Robertson's letter--first published by InTheseTimes.com--begins. "If we elect candidates who want to spend hundreds of billions in borrowed money on costly new subsidies for a few favored cronies, put unprecedented regulatory burdens on businesses, prevent or delay important new construction projects, and excessively hinder free trade, then many of our more than 50,000 U.S. employees and contractors may suffer the consequences, including higher gasoline prices, runaway inflation, and other ills. This is true regardless of what your political affiliation might be."

[GOPJ]

Business owners aren't going to get an endless number of chances to help save their businesses, this economy, and possibly the country. More of them need to step up and tell the truth.

[Terry Mross]

They’re voting for obama because their WWI parents, uncles and aunts voted democrat.

[rcrngroup]

I love this. It’s time for doers in this country to let the takers know that they are not going to subsidize their Socialism. Obamaphone my @$$.

I agree! I love it! I hope more & more companies & CEO's have the balls & courage to tell it like it is, and to forwarn their employees that if 0dumb0sh_t gets re-elected, their employment will be severely at risk. Maybe even a few of the liberals might be motivated to at least vote with their pocketbook & salary & employment in mind.

[rcrngroup]

The last blind date I went on in Minnesota did not go well. The witch (a schoolteacher who imbibed the union Kool-Aid) found that one of my major clients was Flint Hills Resources - The Evil Koch Brothers (c). She hissed and spat like I had held a crucifix before her. She almost got to the point of projectile vomit and head spin round and round.

I hope you dumped her off on the side of road and let her hitch hiked home.

[nickcarraway]

This is the guy who thinks taxes should be raised, and every social program should be expanded. It's pretty worrisome that this guy . He will expect Romney to tax and spend us into the dark ages.