Does Disney love its employees?

There are millions-- probably billions-- of people behind the scenes of Disney and its theme parks, movies, toy production, entertainment television, and other business investments. From the people in the Cinderella costumes at Disney World, to the lone janitor that sweeps up the office at HQ, Disney has a lot of people on payroll. However, rarely have I ever stop to think about how Disney treats these people.

Disney puts on such an innocent face for the media and all of the billions of consumers out there, but of course they're dealing some shady business cards. The Orlando Weekly printed a story on Disney's importing of immigrants to replace 250 of its workers with cheaper labor.

Two quick things about this scandal:

1. It's un-American (and possibly very American all at the same time). The American people, especially the extremely conservative people complain about nothing more than immigrants taking our jobs here in America. Every politician campaigns that they will bring more jobs for the people. It's literally one of the biggest issues within our society. So for Disney-- with its conservative American values-- to go against that is just ironic. But then again, big businesses and corporations have been finding loopholes to either export jobs or import cheap laborers since forever. It's practically a right of passage for Disney to join the group. And, the same politicians fighting to create jobs for the American people are the ones overlooking these loopholes. So much irony today.

2. Why does Disney need cheap labor? I'm sure they don't pay their employees that high of a salary to begin with. So for them to bring in immigrants to have even cheaper labor just seems unnecessary. Disney is  worth roughly $165 billion depending on how you look at it. The fact that it fired 250 workers in order to be able to pay new workers less money is just rude. It genuinely makes me lose respect for Disney.

How can you have SO much money and still feel the need to give people the short end of the stick?

My conclusion here is this:

1. America needs to close it's loopholes. I don't know much about the technicalities of business and economics, but someone does, and this needs to be stopped.
2. Disney needs to stop being cheap. You're swimming in money and always will be. Or at least until people find out that you're giving jobs away, because we all know Americans don't like the sound of that.
3. I'm not really sure where I was going with this, but please enjoy this picture of baby Ursula. Innocent on the outside-- evil on the inside-- kind of like Disney.