A number of businesses, including some large chain restaurants like Applebee's, have decided to punish their employees' decision to vote for Obama in this past election. Reports have emerged that "a business owner in Williamson, Georgia told C-Span that he laid off three employees ("who voted for Obama") and cut his remaining employees' hours from 30 to 25 per week due to his fear of Obamacare" (gawker.com). According to the Huffington Post, "the CEO of Papa John's Pizza said that due to Obamacare, it's 'likely that some franchise owners would reduce employees' hours in order to avoid having to cover them.'" Similarly, "Applebee's owner Tankel wouldn't go so far as saying he would lay off current employees or cut their hours to keep them part-time rather than pay for their health care, but he did hint that those were distinct possibilities." It is our responsibility as consumers to boycott these businesses. Using an extreme interpretation of marginal productivity theory, these CEOs are arguing that unless citizens cave in to their every demand, unless we vote the way they want us to vote, unless we agree to work for pitiful wages, unless we agree to work for them without requiring that they provide us and our children with healthcare coverage, unless we do all these things they will proceed to punish us like little children for our "unreasonable" behavior. We should not capitulate to this undemocratic blackmail. We must boycott their businesses in order to show them that ordinary consumers are the real agents of economic growth. Businesses and the economy at large cannot succeed when there is low aggregate demand. Businesses cannot succeed when people working for dismal wages can barely afford to eat out, when people have to worry all the time about medical bankruptcies, when people are laid off because their employer did not like the way they voted. They must be disabused of the false impression that they are single handedly the job creators upon which our economy depends. They must learn that it is the symbiotic relationship between an aggregate group of financially secure consumer citizens and businesses who depend on them that leads to economic prosperity. We have to get this point across by boycotting their place of business, no matter how much we love the products they sell. This is an ideological battle that we cannot afford to lose! Thank you in advance for your support, Mich Nyawalo

Papa John's CEO John Schnatter Says Company Will Reduce Workers' Hours In Response To Obamacare. He does not have to worry about his health care plan at his income level. It's time Papa John's CEO did the right thing and provide health care to the people that are helping him make his fortune. Take a stand for the workers and boycott Papa John's unless they stop mistreating their workers by decreasing their hours.

The 2012 election will be remembered as one whereby facts were tossed to the wind. As an American my most treasured right is the right to cast a vote and if we depend on the media to assist us in making such an important decision and the media “KNOWINGLY” promotes people who “KNOWINGLY” spread lies, rumors and innuendos it’s time for a change. At the pace we are going can you imagine what the election of 2016 will be like? It’s time for NBC to break all ties to both Donald Trump and Trump Enterprises.

This election was the most atrocious attempt at power grabbing ever attempted in the United States. Citizen's United can only be changed at the Federal level

I am a concerned citizen that is tired of the millionaire and billionaire CEO's complaining about giving back to the people that helped them get there. Give back to them in the way of wages and benefits.

KPOJ, Oregon's progressive talk radio, was suddenly shut down by Clear Channel without notice over the weekend. Clear Channel is owned by Bain Capital. KPOJ was the only station with a signal strong enough to hear Thom Hartman, Carl Wolfson, and shows like Ring of Fire. The station fired Portlander Carl Wolfson without notice. The radio format turned instantly to sports. Please tell Clear Channel that you will not stand for suppressing alternative viewpoints, and to reinstate the progressive format immediately.

Papa John's Pizza is cutting back on employee hours to avoid paying insurance benefits citing "Obamacare" as the problem. Papa John’s CEO John Schnatter a Mitt Romney supporter said he plans on passing the costs of health care reform to his business onto his workers.

Papa John's CEO John Schnatter has announced he will avoid the costs of Obamacare for his workers by cutting their hours. But yet, every week of the NFL season, they are giving away 120,000 FREE PIZZAS to Papa Rewards members.

Papa John's has announced that they will cut employees hours to less than 30/week to avoid having to cover them under the Affordable Care Act. I am going to boycott them until this policy is changed, and I think you should too.

I was told by an elderly white man in Raleigh North Carolina "We didn't realize how much we needed people of other ethnicities until they stopped buying our products and boycotted us, only then did we realize we had to change our prejudiced ways of thinking." I am hoping you will join me in boycotting all FOX News and Fox Affiliates and their sponsors, all their shows and programs. I believe it is the only way they will stop their hate speak (though it is their right) and biased reporting. Thank you.

We must gather signatures and present them to Congress. All those who pledged to Grover Norquist and ATR's "Taxpayer Protection Pledge" must be ousted. They have vowed to honor that same pledge over and above the welfare of America and the American people. They have betrayed their sacred trust as elected officials, and should be removed from office. They have sworn to serve the People, but are actually serving GROVER NORQUIST, and are his puppets. Norquist is wantonly crippling the Government of this country by forbidding tax increases of any sort--even for the top 1%. He has corrupted our Government.

I have been gauged by Oasis Energy (private business). PEOPLE BEWARE. Ask important questions such as a copy of disclosure(s) BEFORE you agree/sign contracts with these particular companies. When telemarketing or knocking at your door, they solicitate tempting rates.They need to be upfront as far as penalties when switching to another supplier offering a better rate. Oasis Energy 12.84 pKwh vs. IGS 6.50 pKwh.