Lance's talk on Thursday was pretty good, until he expressed so much sympathy for those poor, deprived government workers on paid vacation because of the shutdown. His comments on this were out of line and irresponsible. Lance, do you realize that these poor, sympathetic government employees will get full back pay? Do you realize that they earn far more than most private-sector employees? Do you realize that they have spectacular benefits and a great retirement plan that YOUR OWN employees will never have?
It worries me that Lance would make political statements like this. What good can possibly come of it? How does it help the shareholders? His comments have alienated at least half of his workforce (and probably much more than half), and half of his shareholders.
And this from a man who is laying off hundreds of good, loyal, hard-working Americans. Americans who are doing real work, who are actually building America, not living off of our taxes.
I heard rumors last fall that Lance may resign and go into politics. Well if he does, at least now we know what side he'll be on.