The applebee’s franchise in New York that is owned by the Apple-Metro Inc, group has insisted that if Obamacare gets put into law, they will slash employee hours to make everyone part time to side step the mandate. So not only do they want to pay people below minimum wage under the guise that ‘tips’ make up for the rest in a struggling economy, they also don’t want to help their employees get affordable healthcare. You know, because waitresses and cooks are so easily replaceable.
Applebee’s in these locations are affected: Staten Island, Queens, Bronx, Westchester County, Manhattan, Rockland County
Does NOT want to provide affordable healthcare for it’s employees despite returning millions in profit for 2012. 100 restaurants in 11 states. With thousands of employees that they want to cut to less than 30 hours a week. People already struggling to survive by working at Taco Bell and KFC. Avoid these locations
One of the first and loudest to speak out against Obamacare before it was even fully created promising to cut hours and deliberately hurt employees in retaliation.
Jimmy Johns mostly caters to college students in college towns and doesn’t see a need to provide them with full time employment or healthcare. So they won’t.
Chevron has been sued by just about everyone with settlements that usually land in the double digit BILLIONS, which it fights to pay, but eventually does years later, after a good portion of the people it’s poisoned has died. And they are still going strong as ever. That’s how much money they have, which only hints at how much legislative power they have in our country. From my own personal experiences with them and a legal battle to boot, they’ve damaged lands and killed hundreds of people, in a multitude of countries. Yet they are treated like the backbone of America. Don’t buy it. Any of it.
When Ecuadorians sued Chevron for destroying their lands, polluting their water and air, and riddling their communities with disease because of their toxic dumpage, Chevron respond by suing the residents, individually, of those areas because their property taxes were too high
Ecuador’s Side
Why NOT Chevron?
Animation of what happened to cause the explosion in Richmond CA on August 6, 2012
And again, they try and silence the outspoken ones
North Carolina’s 74th Governor, Pat McCrory, has barely been in office for 7 months and has already gone back on every promise he made to his voters, reminding them again why they haven’t elected a Republican Governor in over 30 years. Hopefully his attack on the Constitution will be enough to cure North Carolina of making that mistake again.
Americans for Prosperity is one of those fun groups that tries to tell the poor how the government is trying to keep them poor by raising the minimum wage, making sure everyone has a right to affordable healthcare, can work in an environment free of discrimination and harassment, regulating banks, and ensuring a society that is safe from morons running around with loaded semi automatic or assault weaponry. Which is just plain douchery. Anytime you see the phrase ‘free market’, just remember that when Russian capitalism got so corrupt they actually favored Leninism to ‘free’ them from the ‘free market’.
It’s always so interesting to hear the right wing blather on about how poor people are only poor because they choose to be lazy and not better themselves, but don’t want those same poor people that can’t pay their electric bills or feed their children, to somehow magically fund school all on their own.
James Reynolds Jr took several pages from his mother Rose Perkins and his father James Reynolds Sr’s books. He’s CEO of the Breast Cancer Society. In 2011 he reported over $13 million to the IRS but declared that only 2.4% of that ever got to a patient. His fund raising math must be as bad as his fathers…
James Reynolds, Sr is President of the Cancer Fund of America. He pays himself a salary of $230,000 a year and admits that less than 3% of what gets donated to him actually goes to patients with cancer, and then it’s mostly stuffed animals and moon pies. He also admits to spending 80% of all donations on “fundraising”. If he’s spending 80% on fundraising and less than 3% of those funds get to the people he’s raising the money for, he really sucks at this job! He taught ex-wife Rose Perkins and son James Reynolds Jr.
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