Comments on: Invacare plays hardball… http://www.footnoted.com/pr-spin/invacare-plays-hardball/ Michelle Leder's guide to what's hiding in SEC filings Sat, 04 Sep 2010 18:34:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Tracie from Ohio http://www.footnoted.com/pr-spin/invacare-plays-hardball/comment-page-1/#comment-11051 Tracie from Ohio Tue, 12 Jan 2010 12:43:33 +0000 http://www.footnoted.com/?p=4466#comment-11051 Hardball? You betcha! When your livelihood is threatened, all-out war is to be expected. These companies who've been sucking off the government teet for so long, unlike those lousy welfare queens driving caddies, are beyond shame. To threaten to walk, aka take jobs overseas if they don't get their way, is childish, ungrateful, and even unpatriotic. Now, I am no fascist, but I've read some history and I know that the land those companies are built upon was won by a government force in massacre after massacre. The evil government is only evil when it's not bending to your will, I guess. And how many low-interest loans and various other government handouts were given to these companies when they were just starting out? And, now, like an ungrateful teenager, they've "forgotten" all that's been done for them and are aghast at any suggestion of change. Hardball? You betcha! When your livelihood is threatened, all-out war is to be expected. These companies who’ve been sucking off the government teet for so long, unlike those lousy welfare queens driving caddies, are beyond shame. To threaten to walk, aka take jobs overseas if they don’t get their way, is childish, ungrateful, and even unpatriotic.

Now, I am no fascist, but I’ve read some history and I know that the land those companies are built upon was won by a government force in massacre after massacre. The evil government is only evil when it’s not bending to your will, I guess. And how many low-interest loans and various other government handouts were given to these companies when they were just starting out? And, now, like an ungrateful teenager, they’ve “forgotten” all that’s been done for them and are aghast at any suggestion of change.

]]> By: Adrian http://www.footnoted.com/pr-spin/invacare-plays-hardball/comment-page-1/#comment-11041 Adrian Mon, 11 Jan 2010 18:56:33 +0000 http://www.footnoted.com/?p=4466#comment-11041 Oh, and I'm sure that they also froze executive pay and put bonuses on hold. Oh, and I’m sure that they also froze executive pay and put bonuses on hold.

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