Why Obama's the Least Socialistic President in Modern History (And That's a Shame)

[Octafish]

9. Absolutely. My UMC pals all 'know' their ship will come in if they keep carrying water for the 1%.

It never does. In Detroit, their number has grown large over the decades. And they have all conveyed the same look of shock and horror upon losing their jobs in the various right-sizings, recessions, corporate take-overs of the companies to which they sacrificed their integrity.

An example many have forgotten: Remember how the ENRON team was so surprised to find out that Kenny Boy Lay was telling them everything was going to be all right and to keep buying stock? What a surprise it must have been to learn that they -- the ones trained to create "value" by jacking up the price wherever they could act as energy's middlemen -- had been, in turn, used.