Slavery was the ultimate lowering of overhead, GfinS... I got 3 son-in'laws working as slaves for corporations that recognize the "perfect storm" to bust yer employees asses and they are doing that to all 3 of P-Vine's son... And thety are not alone... The working class/middle class is gettin' a good ol' fashioned "Cool Hand Luke" ass whuppin' right now from Boss Hog...

Now as to ya'lls economic theory that the government doesn't have to bailout, yes ***bailout***, our economy??? Are you out of yer mind??? If an economy goes down the crapper and rather than having 9.5% unemployment to Great Depression levels and yer president and you just sit there and watch it happen without injecting capital back into the machine then you shouldn't be in charge...

Alot of this stuff is well beyond ya'lls "Welfare Cadillac" frame-of-mind, which BTW the Repubs have preached goin' back 40 years, and is just common sense running of a country... It is no secret that what broke the Great Depression was the government having to spend to pay for WW II... That economic model works... Call it socialism... Call it communism... Call it whatever you want... If the working class either won't (or in mnay cases, can't) spend and you have a 4 decade long problem in trade balance then there's only one other way to get capital into the mix to get growth...

I mean no offense, ya'll, but do ya'll understand basic economics???

Now remember that "growth" is where jobs come from...

And profits, too, which oughtta make ya'll happy seein' that lotta ya'll is "supply siders"...

So where it maybe popular in ya'lls circles to think that the mean ol' gov-mint is out to take yer stuff and give it to, ahhhh, poor folks, that just ain't right thinkin'...

(No, Boberdz... That is "right thinkin"...)

Well, it's some terribly misguided thinkin'... Google up "federal government budget" and just check ou what happened to the "War on Poverty"... This a a cruelly put forth piece of right winged PR propaganda...

The mean ol' gov'ment called that war off in 1996... Poverty rate been going up ever since...

(Hey, Boberdz... Thems jus' lazy peoples that don't wanta work...)

Oh, really??? Hold a job fair in any major city in the country and "thems jus' lazy peoples" be lined up at 4:00 in the mornin' waitin' to get in....

But I am beginning to see why so many folks are pissed off at us folks who have bothered to get a little edg-cation... I mean, we know lots of stuff and can formulate opinions based on a wide knowledge base as opposed to lotta ya'lls that run on bumper-sticker emotional beliefs... The scarey thing is that they are "beliefs"... I mean, with an absence of knowledge or the ability to find solutions to problems, I guess "beliefs" is next best???

I mean, history is littered with wars and failed countries because people lost their abilities to think in favor of emoting...

B~

BTW, "bailout" is a bumper-sticker emotive buzz word...