Vic Smith wrote:
On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 20:30:57 -0400, HK wrote:

That's right...everyone should put their faith in their corporate
employer, who, without unions, can buttfu*k you mercilessly while the
Bush Admin cheers and lets your jobs be exported to China.

Yeah, the same guys who whined the most about unions - IT, Engineers
and middle management- are being replaced by foreigners.
When I took an early retirement offer last year I was running a crew
of Indian H1-B's.
Good guys, and sharp, but not American. More than half the floor
was Indians. If one of my kids or yours were to come home from Iraq
and apply for IT work at this Fortune 100 company, their resumes would
be tossed in the circular file. They were only hiring Indians.
Smaller salaries, no bennies.
I think what made me take the offer was seeing the American flag
flying proudly over the front lobby. The place just disgusted me on
that score alone. And I used to the really feel at home there.
BTW, though not State Farm, you can guess. Check out major insurance
company exec compensation packages to see who's pocket that $206
premium increase went into. And officers are only the tip of the
iceberg.
You know, Hillary and Bill are just as good as Bush when it comes to
kissing corporate ass and weakening America. Unions saw their
greatest decline and Wall Street whores rose to prominence under
Clinton.

--Vic


All major corporations want these days is the cheapest possible
workforce, and if that means exporting jobs to China or India, so be it.
The righties think this is "good" for our economy, but it will do us in
sooner rather than later.

The only hope is to elect a president and congress in 2008 who will do
something to stem the flow of jobs. Those are more likely to be
democrats than republicans. It has gotten much worse for workers under
bush, and the Dems will be more receptive to non-corporate pressure.

The "array" of candidates being offered to repubs is so bad, you almost
have to feel sorry for the eventual GOP nominee. Once Guiliani's true
nature is revealed, that he is a short-tempered Napolean, he'll cook his
own goose. And Romney? The flip-flopper of all time. Some of the Repubs
are looking to Fred Thompson to save them. I hope he is the nominee,
because he will be easier to beat than Guiliani.

In 2008, the voters will demand a POTUS and congress who will end Bush's
abortion in Iraq. The Repubs to a man will not break with Bush on that
issue. They're all going to be dead meat in the eyes of the voters.