Reply #46: You paid for it yourselves?? [View All]

[sandnsea]

Back in the 70's when the textile industry was leaving the country, there was a federal retraining program. There's also one for farmers and I think loggers and fishermen as well. Did you guys get in on that or did you just foot the bill for the corporations yourselves? What are you going to do when that scanning depot discovers some other method to do business in 5 years? Pay for your own retraining again? And again and again?

Let's take one company, Remington guns. Moved to Arkansas in the early 80's and reduced salaries immediately from $14 an hour to $11 an hour. A few years later it was down to $7. By 1988 it was minimum wage. I don't know if they've left the country altogther or not, but I wouldn't be surprised. Taxes have been reduced, many are leaving the U.S. to avoid taxes altogether. Now benefits are being reduced as well. How much more do these corporations need to be profitable? It's a joke.

The investor class and the servant class, that's where we're headed.