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Anyway, I’m no economist. But wonder how people who lose their jobs can afford to buy homes & cars? And what happens if those who aren’t let- go, fear they’re next, so they don’t? This doesn’t seem like a- plan for long-term success. That’s why the government’s bailing out the auto industry & banks & driving interest rates down. Banks won’t lend or pay interest.  Yet executives take fancy –business- trips, spend thousands redecorating their offices, get huge bonuses, etc. on tax $.

While Henry Ford was anti Semitic/ pro Nazi knew it’s-good business to give his men a raise so they could buy a Model T! His great, grandson, Bill was CEO & couldn’t, despite closing -plants & firing 35K cause labor pays for management’s ineptness & the Japanese beat us @ our own “game”: thinking long- term: making compacts. Alan Mulally helped it live without TARP $, unlike gov’t.-Motors, & Chrysler.

Luckily, I don’t have to worry. I’ve got good pay & benefits. I should- be “cloned” cause they can put a man on the Moon & a robot on Mars, but they still need me to collect trash! That’s job security! Maybe I’m smarter than my successful pals: I can retire in 20 years at half pay! I I’d teach, if it didn’t cost thousands to get degrees so drug-addicted / evil / “possessed”/ sadistic / uncivilized / unloved / unwanted / violent / kids & parents can assault, curse & threaten me.  + I must spend hundreds on supplies cause the city cutback. I don’t think so. No- one bothers garbage men. We’re not crazy. We don’t go- “postal”.

Besides, education’s a paradox today: a Bachelor’s Degree equals a high school diploma 20 years ago. You need college for most jobs & people assume if you went you’re smart. Unfortunately, there are so many doctors & lawyers it’s “degree inflation”. Many people work so hard & borrow a small fortune to be one, yet can’t get a job making enough to repay their loans because paralegals & physician’s assistants earn a fraction of their salary because all a P. A needs-is a B.S. to examine patients & write scripts.

President Clintons said there are too many doctors. So Uncle Sam paid hospitals not to hire any. Now Oboma’s bent on imposing socialized health care on us & making premiums rise. Many blacks say if you criticize him you are racist. I dislike Hillary cause she wants to recognize Hamas & other Arab terrorists. The only colors I care about are Blue, Red, White, Green, Gold, Silver, & Pink (sex).

Employers begrudge you a life / are “vampires”/ want to “own” your heart / soul. They “settle for body & mind.” Companies cut workers pay, health care & pension, make them work @ home, rob ½ their pension to keep their job, then dump them to save severance pay when they hit 50 & hire a temp, p / t, or outsource for less. There are-so many unemployed, college grads, employers are picky.  The longer you are unemployed & older you are the harder it is to get a job.  Yet “big shots” get larger raises / retention bonuses every year, even if the company loses $.  What’s wrong with that?

Maybe I’m wrong, but as I see it, if we’re not world-leader in technology in the new millennium, we will be in trash pick-up! Who needs college? I’m “King of the- Hill“! I reached the “top of the garbage heap” without it! And I graduated high school with a D average!  Talk about irony!