Carrollton-based company issues layoff warning for 459 Dallas employees

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  1. DonGlock26

    DonGlock26 New Member Past Donor

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    More Obamanomic financial success. Get us to it. We will see lay-offs on a daily basis for at least the next four years.
     
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    It's really sad how these conservative business owners are punishing their workers because Obama won.
     
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    doesn't seem it to me. It seems more like they don't have enough work to justify the staff; thus, layoffs

    That's OK, that's 459 more people who will now be unshackled to go pursue art, or leisure, or whatever they wish.
     
  4. Junior_Beauchamp

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    That's right dude. How dare those business owners who risk their money, invest their time and lives into building a business that employs as many people as they can to think they have the right to lay off anyone just because Obama's policies make it more expensive to run their business and employ people. Shame on them, after all, they didn't really build their business, Obama's goobermint did.
     
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    This is true. The millionaires didn't get the Flip Flopper in office so they're taking it out on their employees. It's right wing terrorism.

    Oh sorry....... I'm supposed to call them "job creators"..... a Republican invented Messiah-like title for the greedy 1%ers.
     
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    If the president could provide a better economic environment, the economy would never get bad.

    These conservative business owners who lay people off just because Obama won are in denial about how little real effect Romney would have had if elected.
     
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    The house of cards continues to fall apart. Amazing how all these layoffs were postponed until after the election. I guess liberals just needed the illusion that things were getting better. They have nothing to lose, now.
     
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    Every week in a growing economy, 375,000 or so people are laid off. It's part of the constant "creative destruction" of a free market economy.

    Y'all are getting really lame if you're reduced to this.
     
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    What policies were enacted in the last week that made this business suddenly to expensive to run with its current workforce?
     
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    Is that what you really think or do you even care?

    I don't think conservative business owners are going to lay off or fire workers unless business is so bad that they have no other choice.


    But unfortunately Obama voters do not need jobs or a good economy.

    All they need is Obama and the welfare state to take care of them.
     
  11. Lee S

    Lee S Moderator Staff Member Past Donor

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    No one is saying this President can provide a better economic environment. I am not even sure Obama would want to improve the economic climate, even if he could. However, this President does have a remarkable knack of making the economic environment a whole lot worse. Obama's re-election sent a signal to all businessmen that the economy will get worse, mainly because of two tremendously terrible bills, Dodd Frank and the Affordable Care Act. Business owners have to be pragmatic. There are compliance costs that need to be dealt with and business owners need cash on hand (because Dodd Frank made credit next to impossible to small businesses) to deal with these costs. It is only prudent to hope for the best but prepare for the worse.

    So business owners didn't create the problem. They are simply doing what is sensible and logical. Don't blame businesses. Layoffs are merely the symptom. The disease is a complete lack of confidence in the President and two awful bills that are looming on the horizon.
     
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    This is really just too easy. It isn't so much that something was enacted, it is more that two very bad bills are not going to be repealed. Furthermore, the compliance period for the laughably named Affordable Care Act begins in 2013 and businesses had better reduce staff prior to January 1st, 2013. Furthermore, health insurance carriers are going to have to monetize in order to afford the give-aways required by the Affordable Care Act. Our health insurance carrier has told us to expect premium increases between $250 to $300 per month. If you cannot afford those increases and you are going to have to lay off workers anyway, it makes a whole lot of sense to shed employees now. Laying people off between CHristmas and New Years is seen by many as being particularly heartless.

    Although, with the economic realities coming at us, it is better to lay off a few so the rest can save their jobs.
     
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    That is only assuming that laying off workers now decreases marginal cost more than it does profit. If your marginal profit is going to be same now after laying off workers as it is the day before Obamacare takes effect, then there is no reason to fire people until the very last minute.

    But then again, I don't expect most business owners to actually know anything about economics.
     
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    No, business owners live in the real world, making real world decisions, and not some Keynsian world of economic make believe.
     
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    Read the fricking article. The layoffs are a direct result of the cancellation of a client contract.

    Now what makes you think the contract was cancelled due to Obama. Maybe the client decided to do their own collections of delinquent mortgages. Maybe they found another company that could do it better. Maybe they have fewer delinquent mortgages because the economy is getting better. Who the heck knows. Only are partisian idiot blames every layoff in the country on Obama. Like no businesses layed people off between 2001-2006 when republicans controlled everything. This thread is idiotic.
     
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    This election has proven that the worse Obama makes the economy the better it is for him personally.

    Because a bad economy makes Obama voters more dependent on Obama and the welfare state to take care of them.
     
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    I'm not a Keynesian. And what I said in my post is pure math. Firing people reduces costs, but it also decreases output and therefore profit. If by cutting your workforce now, you will only make profit equal to if you kept them on until the last minute when your costs are going to increase, then it is more logical to operate at full output until the last moment.
     
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    "The last moment" being up until the outstanding Reagan economy takes its last breath and Obama's socialist remake takes over completely.
     
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    Which Reagan economy would that be?

    Would it be the one where taxes were raised 6 times and who's lowest tax level was still higher than ours?

    Or would it be the one where the government spent more money that every single Presidency prior to that point?
     
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    It is simple economics, they can’t afford their workers. All due to Obama and the dems.
     
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    Wait untell the taxes kick in next year. Holy.... then talk about layoffs.
     
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    Proof please....that it's a "conservative business owner."
     
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    And by definition, the last minute is 11:59PM, December 31st, 2012.
     
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    Is that what we are calling Obama's economic malaise now? Hahahaha!!
     

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