Posted today on facebook by Joe Satriani Forever

Joe Satriani - Midnight (Live at MTV Hora Prima. 1996)

I had not seen this clip.before...so I'm sharing :-)

'How low can you go?'

did you read the letter?

i think this points out the reality of our country. those who sacrifice and work hard will reap the benefit. he specifically told his people to vote what is right for them. he then spelled out the reality and consequences of that choice. the same way my union spells it out for me. they say 'vote for this guy or you might lose your benefits or job'. i assume you have no problem with labor organizations 'helping ' its members to make the right choice. this is no different.

here in california we are being forced to choose between raising taxes or cutting school budget. they list all the things that may be cut if we don't vote for higher sales tax (a regressive tax that hurts the poor), higher income tax that applies to all. all the items listed could be considered to be vital services. they omit things like the not needed high speed rail. the rail project is very stylish however. our democrat governer is making us choose higher taxes or else. a threat.

so i would read the letter again if i were you and look at it from a different perspective. maybe put aside your class warfare mentality.

Class warfare? FAIR is the key word, not class or war. Don't project your preconceived notions onto me. YOU DON'T KNOW ME, and stop trying to pretend you do.

When you insinuate in an email to thousands of your employees that if Obama wins they will be fired...that is not a GENTLE GUIDANCE, it is blackmail.

He also says:

"The Queen of Versailles" depicts the dashing of Siegel's mansion dreams after the recession hit. But just months ago, he restarted construction on his personal Palace of Versailles (with the intention of selling it for $100 million) and told Reuters, "We're the most profitable we've ever been."

So in other words...his business tanked under the Bush administration, and rebounded and is flourishing BETTER THAN EVER under Obama. WHY would he need to fire anyone if his business is doing better than ever??? It's blackmail.

Rat Race

i re-read the letter again and it sounds exactly the same as the kind of letter i get every month from my union. they say 'we urge you to vote for your jobs, vote democrat!' he didn't say he would fire people. he simply said this president's policies are bad for his company and it may not grow in the next 4 years and it may in fact shrink.

now remember you are the one who threw that link out there with the caption 'how low can you go' . it seems to me there are 2 ways to read that letter. one is the conservative way, one is the liberal way. more and more it seems the liberal way encourages people to think of the earners, the people who work hard to attain wealth as evil or wrong or undeserving. i prefer to look at it as a success story. someone who decided to risk his fortune to build a business that employs thousands of people.

using your logic, if Siegel's business is doing better than ever under Obama's regime than why would he threaten his employees to vote the other way? more than likely, he judges what the current president's plans are for the future and determines if it will help or hurt his business. just like labor unions do, spending millions to influence electors to vote for this candidate and that proposition. in this case, the president believes in income redistribution, he has said so. he intends to raise taxes 1 trillion dollars, joe biden said so. this causes siegel's taxes to go up, the people who buy his product will buy less because they have less. then he would have to lay-off workers or pay to have them sitting idle. if it were your business, what would you do?

I am a business owner. I can guarantee you we do not influence our employee's politically.

I would not even consider it.

LMMFAO!!

Joe got his Irish on! lol!

Politifact.com

BIDEN -

True11 (18%)(11) Mostly True14 (23%)(14) Half True15 (25%)(15) Mostly False9 (15%)(9) False8 (13%)(8) Pants on Fire3 (5%)

RYAN -

Hi, joe   I'd like to know if it is planned to launch a JS Guitar like you used on radio station WDHA's Studio D. That blue is beautiful. The Pickups are Dimarzio? When you come back to Portugal?

tiki, David Siegel really is just a misunderstood regular guy. After all, he was only trying to guide them for their (HIS) own benefit, right? Is that what unions do? "Guide" their employees like that? If I ever worked for a compny like that I'd guide their lips straight to my ass. ;-)

I wonder if the job apps for these places state "If hired, we will assume possession of your soul and dignity."

GREED

CRANK IT!

Joe has gone through so many various stages of extreme fashion...I think he's been reading from the Blue Man Group Rock Concert Manuel over the years.

Ryan isn't alone in shaking his fist at health reform with one hand while extending an open palm behind closed doors.

"I don't know what's the bigger sin," says Tom Perriello, a former Democratic congressman who championed health clinics as a supporter of the Affordable Care Act. "The hypocrisy of asking for funding from a program while seeking to repeal it, or that the Republicans have been so much more committed to hurting the President than to helping people that something as uncontroversial as funding for community health centers must be requested in secret."

Well I went down across the country, and I heard some voices rang. They was talkin\' softly to each other and not a word could change a thing.

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