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look around you. That prediction is a little hindsighted (is that not a contradiction in terms?)
>>I foresee a future that has ZERO job security, no unions, no affordable medical care, no public schools, crumbling infrastructure,and people juggling several jobs, just to put food on the table and a roof over their heads..>>
Itinerate IT analyst (code/tomato picker, is there a difference?) RIF'd one way or the other since 1984: RIF'd just after the dental claim got paid, RIF'd after taking sick dad to doctors (no sibs), RIFd on mergers, RIFd on downsizing, RIF'd on offshore outsourcing, RIF'd after multiple corp. domestic contract reorg's, RIFd after election results, RIF'd after request for additional training. What union? I'm gonna smash all those corporate coffee cups in the cupboard as therapy!! The public elementary school in the neighborhood closed due to "toxic" environmental health concerns (Did EPA just get around to checking, or was that situation present when mine attended?), and the kids are near the bottom of testing scores while our "smart" politicos kick the school funding issues around, ad nauseum. One job down to 50% of FT hours and after RIF, one low-wage, no bene job out of town, no less. It would be easy to say that 9/11 changed everything, but it's not so - THINGS have been changed for at least two decades. Can you say purposeful application of discrimination laws meant to "select out" rather than protect meet fascist profiteers and their "special interest" abettors. But, hey, it could always be worse than being "selected" and "manipulated" by the corporate whores and bullies into attending the most recent Great Smoke&Freeze-Em-Out Rodeo 2003/04.
To top it all, the State says one must care for one's elderly parent,(you know, take care of the one that never earned his HS diploma and wouldn't shell out for the kid's college, but took twice yearly two week Vegas vacations with those big corporate bonuses from the single 40+ year-employer and who now has excellent retiree benes cause he's such a nice old guy who worked hard(er-?).
But wait, says corporate America, we can scam more $$ out of the system and return it to the energy CEOs, if we RIF this one Info tech slave! WOW, hot damn, six financially screwed American citizens spanning three generations for the price of a single IT RIF -
It's just plain sick, and I'd be willing to bet this isn't just a tinfoid, coincidental, serendipitous, isolated incident! I'm sorry, but this was planned at every turn, best I can tell, by 41' then honed by Marvin the Martian Ray-gun's "trickling," and pausing a bit for the VooDoo commercials. Methinks, anthrax wasn't the only thing they've been field-testing - methinks they've begun to use their privacy-invading datamining capabilities to levitate our wallets and beam up their contents--sort of a BFEE Star War hypershield!
Oops, sorry about the rant, I still have trouble reframing all this crap into a good thing so that as it gets worse, it really gets better...a bit like, "a fever's a cure if it doesn't kill ya." Want to flip for it?
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