Posted on 02/11/2015 9:05:34 AM PST by rktman
“Unfortunately, the president appears not to have all the facts,” Mark Cautela Sr., the Public Relations Manager for Staples said in a statement to Breitbart News. “The initial story was misleading as our policy regarding part-time employees is more than a decade old. It predates the Affordable Care Act by several years.”
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Facts?
Who needs facts?
Certainly not The Won!
The Moron-in-Chief.
Maybe Obama mistakenly thought he was talking about Apple?
That's the way Odumbo rolls.
Oh yeah. Me likey big time. That was so easy that I’m surprised I didn’t snap sooner.
Just wonderin’, why he hasn’t weighed in on the shuge knight murder charges in Vegas yet. Cops acting stupid again or something. Clearly a case of self defense. Or not.
You could pretty much write that headline every day for the last six years.
Companies have been doing that for decades — reducing the number of full-time workers by hiring 2 part-time workers. That way, they got around having to pay benefits, including sick leave, vacation, and retirement.
Many companies even dumped regular employees to hire ‘temps’. Some of those ‘temps’ ended up doing the exact same job for the exact same company — except for no benefits and lower salaries.
Then along came Quill (since acquired by Staples), a mail order house which could offer substantial savings direct. They made a lot of local stationers angry because the fact that they didn't charge sales tax supposedly gave them an unfair advantage. The reality was that their shipping costs more than exceeded the sales tax in most cases and they competed on the basis of price advantage from fewer distribution channels and convenience.
Nevertheless, the North Dakota Tax Commissioner became a hero and a, later, a career U.S. Senator (leftwing, of course) because he compelled Quill and other mail order companies to collect and remit sales tax in the case Quill vs. State of North Dakota.
Quill was a dominant player in the office supply industry until Staples came around about a decade later, combined the economy of mail order with the convenience of actual store locations and then, seamlessly, launched into internet ordering as soon as that became popular about two decades ago.
Office Max and Office Depot started as "me-too" models of the same in regions where Staples didn't have a strong presence, but were never quite able to do the job as well. This acquisition was inevitable and almost all of us who sell into that channel could see it coming.
In other words Mr. President, STFU!
There are companies now firing Americans and hiring H1B visa holders
I think I see the problem here. I checked a donor database and couldn’t find any entries that indicated that Staples had contributed to the Democrat party. Nice little company you got here, boys. Be a shame if anything...happened to it...
Perhaps he just “mis-remembered” the facts. There seems to be a bit of that going around lately.
SWATTED or IRS’d into oblivion?
Obama is a complete ass-—here is what he said.
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““There is no reason for an employer who is not currently providing health care to their workers to discourage them from either getting health insurance on the job or being able to avail themselves of the Affordable Care Act,” Obama said. “I haven’t looked at Staples stock lately or what the compensation of the CEO is, but I suspect that they could well afford to treat their workers favorably and give them some basic financial security, and if they can’t, then they should be willing to allow those workers to get the Affordable Care Act without cutting wages.”
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He gets his facts from the internet,I guess,because everything on the internet is true.
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Maybe he will need to “redouble” his efforts to not “mis-remember” “going forward”. :>}
If FACTS mattered to obama or the congress; he would have been impeached long ago.
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