I'm with you, Rap... It used to be that companies did that... Then, rather than take a loan for a new project, they dipped into escrow accounts that were there for pensions of their employees... Next thing ya know that found that they could cry poor-mouthand the unions would renegotiate... The UAW has given and given for the last 30 years... It even had to agree to take over the health care of it's own workers... This would have been unheard of when my dad worked for Ford... Ford kept it promises back then and stashed away the cash it needed to do that...

That bisiness model started to crack when Ronald Reagan decided in the early 80's that the it wasn't the governemnt's responsibility to see to it that corporation kept their promises and thus... the new n' improved (my butt) business model where businesses went unregulated... That is what we have today and that's why it's going to be very difficult to fix it... This crap didn't begin in 2000... It began in 1982...

Blaming workers for it is like blaming the victim of a crime... We've had 30 years of anti-union garbage thrown at US by Boss Hog while B.H. was driving his business and the economy into the dirt... Time to put the blame where it is due...

I agree, Rap, that if the old model had never been scrapped that we would be in a much better place and that corporations wouldn't have to borrow to meet payroll... It's kinda like the emperor has been standing naked in front of US for 30 years and no one has been willing to admit it...

B~