"X ` Man" wrote in message
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On 10/23/11 10:09 PM, Eisboch wrote:


"X ` Man" wrote in message
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Corporations not only "did it first," they are still doing it and to a
greater degree than all the unions have since the beginning of time.
Of course, you boys don't know what the word "thug" means. The word
derives from Hindi, and it includes "cheats" and "swindlers" in its
first definitions.

Halliburton - thugs.

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Gee. Just think of a world without big, bad corporations.
There would be no need for unions .....
because there would be no jobs.

No jobs .... no taxes ....
no taxes .... no entitlements ...
no Social Security ..... no Health Insurance .... no health care ....
no anything.

Big, bad corporations.

The origins of the union movement date back to the Middle Ages and the
craft guilds, which were mostly based in small towns and were unrelated
to the guilds in nearby or faraway towns. The predecessors of the guilds
go back a thousand years before that.

We let the cows out of the barn when we sort of gave up on anti-trust
regulations and allowed big corporations/banks, et cetera, to become
what many of them are today, consciousless entities that suck up and
discard all manner of resources, human and material, no matter the
social consequences.

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We don't live in the Middle Ages. We don't even live in the 1950's -
1960's ages.

My only objection to your endless bashing of business is the broad brush
with which you paint.
There are 1000's of businesses , big and small, that respect and value
their employees and treat
them fairly. Many wish they could offer more.

The challenge in most today is the rising costs of doing business led by
health insurance
premiums and benefit packages that are no longer financially supported in
shrinking markets due to overseas
competition. The biggest challenge many have is the ability to *stay* in
business.

I'll get clobbered for saying this in this newsgroup, but I understand what
Mitt Romney means when he
says that a Corporation is a "person". I always subscribed to that when I
owned a serious business.
A Corporation is the personification of the whole group who benefit by it's
existence. This includes
employees, management and stockholders, private or public. As a manager of
a business it behooves
you to protect it, nurture it and grow it in a healthy way because it
benefits all involved. If the business
succeeds, so do all that are involved, including it's customer base.

Yes, there are some that are abusing management power for personal gain.
But to include all businesses
as the "enemy" that your posts tend to imply is simply not accurate.