At Langley, sometimes I'll ride around in someone's car whose father was a veteran. Whenever we're around asshole drivers or cops, I'll cynically go, "what? I'm a veteran CIA agent! You wouldn't do this to a veteran would you?!" And it gets a laugh out of him.

It simply takes a weirdo to want to tend to a lot of employees. Even given the project is noble and useful, making payroll is a responsibility and it weighs heavily. You're not going into personal debt when you take a payroll loan, by the way. You're not fucking your own life up with risk. Remember, their worst fear is losing their capital and having to work like you. Whether you fire everyone and stop being in business or everyone has to leave because you have to do bankruptcy and the business gets dissolved is an inconsequential difference (bankruptcy might be a giga loss that means you don't pay taxes for a decade or something).

Beyond that they just hate liberals and I mean . Ask them about spearheading union organization to make sure their employees get as much as they possibly can via collective bargaining.