[CitizensTruth] note from the boss: vote Republican, it's good for you

[Hal Snyder]

I have not found corroboration for the item below. However, the story  
is local to many on this list (Elmhurst); maybe someone here has more  
information.

A look at the Patten Industries website shows their principal  
business to be sales and rental of CAT equipment. The company has  
been in the Patten family for three, going on four, generations of  
Patten men.

http://www.pattenind.com/history/patten_history.htm

Hal

Regarding the question at the end of the forwarded email. As Vandana  
Shiva points out, a typical corporation is a dictatorship. Most of us  
spend the majority of our lives working under them. That is probably  
one reason this society has forgotten how to function as a democracy.

Begin forwarded message:


> Subject: Bosses warn employees to vote Republican!

> Date: Thursday, October 30, 2008, 2:52 PM

>

> Please find an attachment of an insert enclosed with the paychecks  

> of the employees of Patten Industries. The President and General  

> Manager are telling their employees to vote for Republican  

> candidates in the upcoming election. They imply that the outcome of  

> the election may force the "bankruptcy" or the "collapse" of their  

> customers. The implication is that if Republicans are not elected  

> then the employees will pay.

>

> These are lies. This an attempt to intimidate. Does the authority  

> over our paychecks grant an authority over our lives?


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