CBS - Employer Brags About Firing Obama Supporter Due To HCR and Taxes

[TomCADem]

A Doctor in Florida gained notariety for refusing to treat patients who voted for President Obama due to HCR. Now, we have someone bragging about firing a person who voted for President Obama due to HCR. I guess the message is that people should either vote Republican or do not vote at all or you will be fired by a Republican manager who will then brag about it publicly or you will be left to die by a Republican Doctor. Oddly, in both cases, they are retaliating now based on future projections. I

So, with the flurry of media coverage of such acts, I guess the message is to vote Republican or stay home on election day.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20001984-503544.html?tag=mncol;lst;3

Last Friday, someone going by the name "dermdoc" posted a thread on a message board for Texas A&M students and alumni with this topic: "Laid off my first Obama voting employee today."

"Our reimbursement rates are spiraling downward, taxes are projected to go up with Obamacare, so I did it," the person wrote. He later added: "I made this decision because I can."

"It is kind of interesting watching their face as you explain to them the economic consequences of the policies of the guy they voted for," wrote dermdoc.

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"Elections have consequences," wrote dermdoc. "If you vote for someone who raises my taxes and lowers my income, you pay the cost."

[rurallib]

1. got a feeling he's going to be sorry he bragged about that.

[Hawkeye-X]

2. Yup. Indicted, and losing license to practice due to fraud and tax evasion

Come on, dermadoc.. Even my own dermatologists thinks they'll survive.

Hawkeye-X

[TomCADem]

5. Well, If Folks Can Murder (Roeder), Fly Airplanes Into IRS Buildings and Plan Acts of Terrorism...

...Based on the propaganda and lies being spread on Fox News, why is it so hard to believe that someone in management would think that it perfectly alright to retaliate against folks who vote Democratic? Heck, you have a rise in death threats against Democratic members of Congress.

Why is it so hard to believe that someone would lay someone off, then brag about it as though they are some hero? In their warped Fox News world, they are fighting for their freedom against socialism by throwing your ass out on the pavement.

[theoldman]

3. I talked to a staunch Republican doctor today about the HCR bill.

He said that there would be negligible effect on PCPs and did not think there would be a loss of patients. He works in a hospital and expects the hospitals to get a reduction in income. This information is totally different from what I hear from Republicans who are not in the medical profession..

[Grand Taurean]

4. Tom Coburn was granted a medical license in a disfunctional red state too

just sayin'......

[ShadowLiberal]

6. This needs to be illegal, this is a return to the dark days before private voting

America already had a time when big business bosses would threaten their employees with termination to get them to vote how they wanted to, back when it wasn't a private ballot. This is basically going around the law to fire someone legally.

I know the law is the whole 'fire employees at your pleasure' and you can technically fire someone for any reason in private businesses, but laws about discrimination, how you vote, and a few other things I'm sure I'm forgetting should all be protected anyway.

I hope that bastard loses half their customers once they learn about this, and that the ACLU or someone ties up in court over this outrageous firing for so long they lose over $100,000 to legal fees they wouldn't have had otherwise.

[Go2Peace]

7. Looks like he may have been outed:Weldon E. Collins of Beaumont Texas?

by ROFLAggie April 11, 2010 9:37 PM EDT
His name is Weldon "Ed" E. Collins and his practice is in Beaumont.
Anybody live near there to check? If this does turn out to be him he should catch some serious hell from the community. What a scumbag.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20001984-503544.html?tag=mncol


Proof follows:

"I am class of '77"

from:

http://www.texags.com/main/forum.reply.asp?topic_id=1445689&page=2&forum_id=16

His major in his profile is listed as Zoology:

http://www.texags.com/main/account.publicprofile.asp?user_id=34090

Weldon E. Collins is a zoology major, class of 1977



Weldon E. Collins is a doctor of dermatology in Beaumont, Texas.

http://www.healthgrades.com/directory_search/physician/profiles/dr-md-reports/dr-weldon-collins-md-91cc27bb/office-locations

[bluestateguy]

8. You know it's tax season right now

And gosh, it would be really unfortunate if the IRS just decided to conduct an unexpected audit of this guy right now.

Yes, very unfortunate indeed.