Today is not funny or ironic. Today is simply angry. More people losing their jobs in Florida. Atlantis is home, for good. She is old and needs to stay on the ground. Her teams are losing their jobs, more unemployment here in America.
I know I have a very simple way of looking at things. I understand that I ignore the details of many subjects but this is black and white to me. Corporate America is ruining this nation. How does the government keep missing this?
This is how it always goes:
A corporation begins to suffer financially from competition, bad management, natural disaster or simply shoddy goods and services. Investors drop said company's stock when the profit margins don't allow dividend payments or grow investors portfolios. To improve the bottom line the corporation cuts costs. The biggest cost is paying employees and providing benefits. People lose their jobs, the company bounces back and becomes profitable. Good for them, people still don't have jobs.
Unions in manufacturing ruined that segment of industry in this nation. Yeah, I hear the union members belching. Heresthedeal, when you over stayed your usefulness, you got greedy. All your jobs went to Asia where they are thrilled to make a dollar a day. That left us a nation of consumers and sellers of products produced elsewhere and providers of service. That started the spiral.
Then the mergers began. Huge companies ate smaller ones and behold they had two people for every position. People lost their jobs. Then came the, oops, "we have been running our business on fraudulent financial information and our doors are closed now" businesses. Thank you, people lost their jobs.
Add the government agencies that destroyed the housing market and you have a perfect storm of failure.
We are headed for Third World status because the Red government and the Blue government only care about what color you wear. It's like gangs. The Crypts and The Bloods, The GOP and The Dems. They don't cross territoy. They don't deal. They just call you out for a beat down on camera and climb higher in the gang. They make me want to pull my hair.
The rich in this country are just fine, thank you. Just look at the NFL situation. If that doesn't say it all then I don't know what does. The rich don't want to pay more taxes because they already pay so much. Yes, they do. It is because they HAVE so much.
The people who live off the government are motivated to keep living that way because they get more support then. "You had another baby! Is that number 6?. Okay, your aid to dependent children just went up". That's how they get a raise. At least that's how it was when I had a husband whose customers were mainly poor and lived on government aid. They would come into the store and pick out what they wanted, "as soon as the baby comes". I am talking about televisions and washers, not cribs and diapers.
Corporate America stands before Congress and tells them how sorry they are they don't know how to run their business but really, "we are too big to fail". The government gives them tax loopholes and bail out money. They Corporations fire people and move jobs to a country with cheaper labor. The rich get richer, the middle class gets poorer. The poor live off the government.
This story doesn't end well. There is revolution involved. Not the American kind, the French kind. The beheading of the greedy and leeches kind. The, "keep taxing the peasants so the upper class can have more caviar", kind.
I will not make a good Hobo. I will not do well in a tent city. I am in the class that keeps getting bitch slapped by my government. I am of the ilk that will go to D.C. and march, when it's cooler, and ruffle feathers. The government works for me. The government works for you. I think it's time we remind them of that. Nothing says, "pissed off", like hundreds of thousands of people on the mall, in the park across from the White House, at the Lincoln Memorial, chanting...."OFF WITH THEIR HEADS". or maybe, "YOU'RE FIRED".
Donald Trump didn't get that copy write did he?
Grrrrrrrrrrr,
Lillybell Blues
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