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To: jveritas

Crawl back under your rock. Its a great piece. It handles the issues well and head on. The problem you have with it is likely precisely that. I've been displaced from my prior good employment into the new and better version of America Bush is constructing for the Corporations and his financial buddies. That newer better concept is, in reality, working two jobs 80 hours a week to make less than half of what I used to and am so tired I don't have the energy to protest, much less the time. I'm not the only one by far. My home town is awash with similarly situated people. And the job scene isn't just bad monitarily. Benefits and basic gimme's are going out the window hand over fist. I have never worked a job where a break or a lunch was considered extra.
I'm now working three jobs where there is no such thing as
a lunch break per se. The concept of a break, in general, has become that you take it where you can find it and only to the extent that there isn't work to do. There is always work to do. So, you could go 12 hours without a break and because they aren't involved in "interstate commerce", there is no recourse. Breaks are something that I've had defined plainly at every job I've worked for 19 years. Now, they suddenly are disappearing. That's the law of supply and demand at work when you dump millions of illegals into a market to break the back of the average worker. Corporate America doesn't like supply and demand unless it's working solely in their favor. The glut of cheap workers is solving that problem for them. Once they helped create the glut of workers, your bargaining power and mine went out the window.
That leaves business in a position to tell you how it's gonna be. Period.

Full time positions don't exist now. Corporations don't have to bargain with employees now and have redifined the terms to mean "30" hours a week instead of 40. Benefits are so expensive that they provide access to them instead of providing them. And that access is so costly as to be worthless. Everyone who voted for Cafta violated their oath of office and probably what little they have that would pass as a conscience. The raw unfiltered truth is, both parties have betrayed the US outright. And it's time for both to go.. by whatever means necessary in a constitutional system.


432 posted on 08/13/2005 10:16:57 AM PDT by Havoc (Reagan was right and so was McKinley. Down with free trade. Hang the traitors high)
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To: Havoc

Go back to DUmmie land Commie.


441 posted on 08/13/2005 9:07:13 PM PDT by jveritas (The left cannot win a national election ever again and never will the Buchananites and 3rd parties)
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To: Havoc
I've been displaced from my prior good employment into the new and better version of America Bush is constructing for the Corporations and his financial buddies. That newer better concept is, in reality, working two jobs 80 hours a week to make less than half of what I used to

And by the time they are done, you'll need to be 86 years old to collect anything you put into social security, if anything is left by them.

I should have gone into a government job 30 years ago. Top pay, most secure jobs, best benefits, and pensions most of us only dream of.

442 posted on 08/13/2005 9:14:39 PM PDT by Black Tooth
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