In an interview with BuzzFeed on Tuesday, President Obama attacked office supply chain Staples over accusations that the company was cutting back on worker hours to avoid the ObamaCare health insurance coverage mandate for their employees: "...when I hear large corporations that make billions of dollars in profits trying to blame our interest in providing health insurance as an excuse for cutting back workers' wages, shame on them."
On Wednesday, Staples spokesman Kirk Saville pushed back hard: "The initial story was misleading as our policy regarding hours for part-time employees is more than a decade old. It's unfortunate that the president is attacking a company that provides more than 85,000 jobs and is a major taxpayer."
So far, the broadcast networks have ignored the war of words over the negative impact of ObamaCare.
Perhaps Obama was still holding a grudge against Staples founder Tom Stemberg, who in a 2012 op/ed endorsed Mitt Romney:
Now that he's campaigning for president, Mitt's brand of leadership could not come at a more critical time.
We are well into the fourth year of Barack Obama's presidency. The country has little to show for all the promises of "hope" and "change" that he made on the campaign trail.
What we do have is unemployment over 8 percent for 39 months, the longest stretch since the Great Depression.
What we do have are proposals to raise taxes further, to borrow more money, to spend more money, and to make the federal government grow even larger than it already is.
