This economic crisis serves as an object lesson. Respect the working class!

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Next time, instead of basing the economy on trickle-down economics where the rich feed upon the working class, perhaps it's wiser to develop an economy that respects the largest segment of our population, and which works to enrich them.

If the working class had not had to put up with constantly losing their jobs overseas and a perpetual employer's market where every single job posted gets 10,000 resumes competing for it... we wouldn't be in this mess.

Practically speaking, when workers are calling the shots, guess what? Workers spend money and money being spent keeps businesses afloat and the economy circulating properly.

We are now seeing the benefits of the perpetual employer's market - they're culling the working class herd like crazy and the working class is retaliating by cutting back severely on spending... which means employers are going out of business. And we're not just talking about mom and pop stores. Mervyn's is gone, and even Wal Mart has posted a fourth quarter profit shortfall - is this a precursor to Wal Mart's collapse? Nah. Wish it was, though.

BTW when you go out of business, do you get to collect unemployment? :D
 
what is being "rich" mean?

Next time, instead of basing the economy on trickle-down economics where the rich feed upon the working class, perhaps it's wiser to develop an economy that respects the largest segment of our population, and which works to enrich them.

If the working class had not had to put up with constantly losing their jobs overseas and a perpetual employer's market where every single job posted gets 10,000 resumes competing for it... we wouldn't be in this mess.

Practically speaking, when workers are calling the shots, guess what? Workers spend money and money being spent keeps businesses afloat and the economy circulating properly.

We are now seeing the benefits of the perpetual employer's market - they're culling the working class herd like crazy and the working class is retaliating by cutting back severely on spending... which means employers are going out of business. And we're not just talking about mom and pop stores. Mervyn's is gone, and even Wal Mart has posted a fourth quarter profit shortfall - is this a precursor to Wal Mart's collapse? Nah. Wish it was, though.

BTW when you go out of business, do you get to collect unemployment? :D
 
I understand how you feel. My factory is closed for extended furlough right now and I have to seek income elsewhere. It was three weeks, then it became six. The kind of thing that makes you want to play Soul Asylum's Misery on your boss's answering machine and wonder if you'll remember your quality control procedures when you return.
 
Nope. I don't see any cars burning in the streets or bankers hanging from lamp posts.

Until it happens the working class will be regarded as just another commodity, like oil, not needed so much in the current downturn. All the people who were frugal and and worked hard all their lives will see their fruits plucked and put in someone else's pockets, harvested when the governments turn on their printing presses.

Business as usual in the great lie we call democracy.
 
Fa falling tide sinks all boats,

but the Mega-yatchs are all in deeper water.

The poor executives at AIG probably are down to thier last 10 million.

Sad.;)
 
Nope. I don't see any cars burning in the streets or bankers hanging from lamp posts.

Until it happens the working class will be regarded as just another commodity, like oil, not needed so much in the current downturn. All the people who were frugal and and worked hard all their lives will see their fruits plucked and put in someone else's pockets, harvested when the governments turn on their printing presses.

Business as usual in the great lie we call democracy.
Okay, I'm with you on that. Personally I'd like to see bankers and offshorers alike swinging from real trees, not lamp posts. It makes it more... authentic. :D
 
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