lunes, julio 02, 2007

Shame on Wynn. A Reverse Robin Hood

It’s bad enough that the IRS started taxing tips for Las Vegas’ workers, which are usually paid not-so great-wages, that now Steve Wynn has devised an ingenious scheme to raise the salary of some - without sacrificing any of the stockholders’ money - but taking it from other workers.
Supervisors or whatever they call those guys who are forever watching the pit and other gamming areas will receive a bonus of about 40% from now on and that increase is money taken from the tips or “tokes” as they’re called here, of the casino dealers.
Nice move Steve. You‘ve shown one more time where your priorities are - pleasing the purse holders and yourself - and looking magnanimous with your key personnel, without costing you a dime! So, from now on, Wynn’s dealers will have to share “their” tips with higher salaried people AND after that, give another share to Uncle Sam in taxes.
One more time, when sacrifices have to be made, they are done on the shoulders of those who make less.
To make things more unpleasant Wynn had the arrogant attitude to express publicly that there are many more out there willing to take the jobs of those who may strike, if it comes to that situation. Another sweet warning from a guy who smiles a lot and is the king of the fictitious Las Vegas life.

Ann (Ass) Coulter


I’m a liberal democrat at heart so I guess I’m in the persona non grata general list of this blond idiot. As such, and given the permission granted by her with her own words, I hope that she’s struck by lighting but lived to be 100, bold, scarred and yet more angry. There, I said it! I feel good now or at least I feel that I’m helping vindicate the myriad of people she has criticized with her big dirty mouth for years.
While this lady (And I say this with great reservation) is irrelevant, more perhaps like a circus like figure to entertain those who agree with her, Ann Coulter’s public actions are teaching all of us a lesson in what democracy is all about. In some countries she would be wearing a scarf on her face and punished by simply glancing at others on the street, in others she could have been sold to a man in marriage when she was only 14 years old and in many others she could be used as pack mule to carry food for her clan.
I’m sure she’s grateful to live here in the U.S. where anyone can write a book with enough venom to become a best seller author, get invited by greedy ratings seeking media personalities so she can disperse her unflattering thoughts to a perplexed audience, always waiting for the next irrational comment coming from her filthy mind and psychotic personality, in short, enjoying the land of the free.
There is one positive thing about her, in spite of herself I guess. I’m glad she is not my wife my sister or my daughter, but somebody else’s. Unless she comes from a family of retards, those related to her are probably wondering what went wrong with her upbringing.