Obama to Call for Major Road, Rail and Runway Spending

[mookiemookie]

Originally Posted by Ducimus

And where did I say I was supporting unions? I only stated my dad was in the Steel Workers union. Still, at least unions try to keep jobs here at home. CEO's and similar executives would sell the entire country off to china if it meant a larger salary, lavish life styles, and golden parachutes for themselves. They are scumbags of the lowest form, growing fat while trodding, and ****ting upon the backs of other. There really isn't anything you can say that would change my mind.

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[Ducimus]

Originally Posted by mookiemookie

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Hah. The truth is, im both angry and scared. Scuttlebutt at my work from someone that has their ear close to the ground is that Myself, and about 9 other people are probably not going to be around very much longer after the first of the new year. Our CEO is looking to "cut costs", that means cutting heads. If he wanted to cut costs, he could cut back on his travelling with "investors" that im told is breaking the company financially. Instead, i hear he wants to cut heads, and really doesn't care about anybody. The fact that he's distanced himself from everyone only proves this. It really sucks how you can give a company a decade of dedication, only to have your job cut by some total stranger who walks into the "captain's chair" so to speak, who doesn't have a fraction of the time into the company that you do. The worst part of it is in a few years he'll probably move on to his next abomination. of course by then' hes reaped his rich's and screwed everyone over in the process.

Not only that, but the job market REALLY sucks right now. I've barely started to look at my options, but man, its depressing. What was really depressing is that Even getting into the AF is compedative now. People are starting to look at the miliary more as job option apparenly. Im way past re enlistment age, so once my job is gone, i'm not sure what i'll do.

But, its therapeutic to vent, and here is the only place I can. There's really nothing else I can do about things. I talk a bunch of ****, but really im just scared, and crying on a messageboard about it.

*sigh* As the saying goes, "It's good to be the king". The rich get richer, the poor get poorer. Middle class is declining, everythigns made in china, etc etc. The American dream is so far from my grasp. I never asked for much in life. A job i could count on that would put a roof over my head that I could call my own, food on my plate, and the occasional vacation. And even that, is slipping further and further from my grasp.

It sucks.

[AVGWarhawk]

Duci, employer employee loyality has not been around on any grand scale for well over 20 years. As soon as companies started looking at 401K for retirements and pension plans abolished employees became nothing but a number to the HR department as well as management. Incentives to get the fat bonus was more important than employee loyality. So, I agree whole heartedly with your assessment of the current state of affairs in the working world. I too worked for a company for 11 years. Dropped me like a bad habit because a new regional manager came onboard. He wanted to cut everyone out of my terminal. Including me. His manager said I stay and eveyone else was sent packing. I survived about another 12 months but the writing was on the walls. Trained people and moved an entire trucking terminal to a new 100 door facility. Got my walking papers after that. However, it was a blessing. I love were I work now. I'm well taken care of.

[Gerald]

Obama to Outline Goals in Speech.President Obama is prepared to announce his opposition to extending tax cuts for the wealthy during an economic speech in Cleveland Wednesday, but White House officials told Fox News not to expect the president to draw a line in the sand.


http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010...sion-tax-cuts/







Note:Published September 08, 2010