I think a lot of business leaders who make a fortune off of the capitalist, free-market system are closet-socialists.
When there is a boom, they play it, take on extra workers, pump their numbers to get the stock investments. When the bubble bursts, they use that to get rid of workers, pile up the work that needs to be done on those that they don’t get rid of, and profit off of that.
When the government so effs up an economy as is currently happening from Pres. Bush’s socialism-lite and Obammie the Commie’s communist strategy for destroying the US dollar and the US economy, I don’t think they mind. They cut their workforce back to a skeleton crew and tell their workers, “Look at the unemployment rate. If you don’t do what we demand of you, there are ten waiting in line to take your spot.”
The latest economic reports showed how high productivity has remained even though unemployment is climbing. That means only one thing: squeezing more blood from the stone.
The bad news is that even war-time productivity increases can only last for a few years. Eventually people burn out from working in overdrive all the time and the sense of sacrifice for the bad times wears off.
They are doing everything they can to make the economy look good up to the midterms.
Next year is when all of the major $hit is going to hit the fan.
Bobo will see your 10 and raise you 100 -- I think when we got as near as you're ever going to get to full employment (late Bubba-barely early Bush although the tech bubble had burst by the latter ... employment lags, you get what I mean) ie, you're 'pushing a string' at that point to get the unwilling to take the jobs available (and who couldn't get a job in 2000?).
There was a de facto collusion by the multinationals at that point to never allow that scenario to happen again. Because multinationals hate American labor. Multinationals love Chinese labor (or they did -- and a Dragon's peripheral vision ain't so great).
Who paid for Bobo's $740.6 million campaign?