Um… you may want to practice some sort of deep breathing exercise. Your angry rant makes so sense at all.…Referencing the recent court decision really doesn’t help you at all. That ruling will be appealed. The article talks about requesting an en banc review which would be all 11 DC appeals court judges or the option of heading to the supreme court. Its going to be a few years before this is settled.
Early this morning, when there were only 3 comments under Tole’s ‘toon, I read DaSharkie’s admonition. I was not in any mood to respond then. And, I’m STILL NOT in the mood. I’ve seen too many of these self-righteous, insulting comments in GC before, from people who got “Theirs”!
Making a long story brief: BEFORE layoffs began at my company in 2000, I did start my own retail store, part time at first, then, as the 3rd round caught me in mid-2002, I simply went full time. For several years, each year was a little better than the previous. Until the Autumn of 2008. After that, many customers stopped coming, because of job loss, hours cut back, or just scared to spend on items which were not necessary. My customer base was devastated. Over the next two years, 13 other hobby/model train stores closed in the New England states. (I was told this in 2014 by one of my distributors!) I subsidized my store with my own savings, until June 2011. Earlier that year, I realized that the economy simply was not coming back (for small business, anyway), and would NEVER be the same. The middle class was raped.
“….Capital buy their company, raid their pension plans, load up the companies with debt and then dump them.”
Before my store, I worked in Industrial Distribution for 20 years, supplying machine tooling and other needs to manufacturers and machine shops. From 1993 till 2002, I had a front-row seat, witnessing many manufacturing operations dis-appear, through buyouts, and shipping operations abroad. The two owners, in the business for the previous 25 years, told me the same story countless times, about how they visited such-and-such company for 20 years, and that company got bought out by a raider, or larger company, who then squeezed the life out of it, then closed it up to take a good tax-write-off. For those employees who had their livelyhood erased, well, it was their fault! Many had been our customers for DECADES before I was hired. I said good-bye and good luck to many a customer (buyer, machinist, engineer) who was about to lose his job because of NAFTA (globalization), increased computerization and automation.
Well, it’s THEIR FAULT!! MY FAULT! We should have all just gone out and got another job! I mean, there are PLENTY of jobs out there, right! There must be, with hundreds of applicants applying for one position.
ME? I mooched off the govt for a year, collected unemployment and later, food assistance. After Unemployment ran out, I simply dipped into my savings. When that ran out, I put a straw into my retirement CD, and after 28 months, the drain is showing. But, I LOVE living like this! It’s a riot, the sting I pulled on the wealthy and the government!I LOVE being on this damned computer every day, applying for ALL types of jobs. And, most of all, I LOVE hearing nothing, from about 90% of the places to which I apply, and getting rejected from every company for going-on-three-years, despite the fact I have, an am still taking courses (AT MY OWN EXPENSE) in computer languages, and a few short-term contract jobs. I mean, it’s GREAT to live with no net, at my age. DaSharkie is ABSOLUTELY correct! I must give up this care-free, Bohemian life-style, quit fighting off depression, and GO TO WORK!
Thanks, DaSharkie! You really know what you are talking about, and are right to give such sound advice!
luvdafuneez almost 10 years ago
True that.
I Play One On TV almost 10 years ago
“The reason they call it the American Dream is that you have to be asleep to believe it.” —-George Carlin
tengu99 almost 10 years ago
Um… you may want to practice some sort of deep breathing exercise. Your angry rant makes so sense at all.…Referencing the recent court decision really doesn’t help you at all. That ruling will be appealed. The article talks about requesting an en banc review which would be all 11 DC appeals court judges or the option of heading to the supreme court. Its going to be a few years before this is settled.
Zen-of-Zinfandel almost 10 years ago
Victims of rent-to-own lawn furniture scams
moosemin almost 10 years ago
Early this morning, when there were only 3 comments under Tole’s ‘toon, I read DaSharkie’s admonition. I was not in any mood to respond then. And, I’m STILL NOT in the mood. I’ve seen too many of these self-righteous, insulting comments in GC before, from people who got “Theirs”!
Making a long story brief: BEFORE layoffs began at my company in 2000, I did start my own retail store, part time at first, then, as the 3rd round caught me in mid-2002, I simply went full time. For several years, each year was a little better than the previous. Until the Autumn of 2008. After that, many customers stopped coming, because of job loss, hours cut back, or just scared to spend on items which were not necessary. My customer base was devastated. Over the next two years, 13 other hobby/model train stores closed in the New England states. (I was told this in 2014 by one of my distributors!) I subsidized my store with my own savings, until June 2011. Earlier that year, I realized that the economy simply was not coming back (for small business, anyway), and would NEVER be the same. The middle class was raped.
“….Capital buy their company, raid their pension plans, load up the companies with debt and then dump them.”
Before my store, I worked in Industrial Distribution for 20 years, supplying machine tooling and other needs to manufacturers and machine shops. From 1993 till 2002, I had a front-row seat, witnessing many manufacturing operations dis-appear, through buyouts, and shipping operations abroad. The two owners, in the business for the previous 25 years, told me the same story countless times, about how they visited such-and-such company for 20 years, and that company got bought out by a raider, or larger company, who then squeezed the life out of it, then closed it up to take a good tax-write-off. For those employees who had their livelyhood erased, well, it was their fault! Many had been our customers for DECADES before I was hired. I said good-bye and good luck to many a customer (buyer, machinist, engineer) who was about to lose his job because of NAFTA (globalization), increased computerization and automation.
Well, it’s THEIR FAULT!! MY FAULT! We should have all just gone out and got another job! I mean, there are PLENTY of jobs out there, right! There must be, with hundreds of applicants applying for one position.
ME? I mooched off the govt for a year, collected unemployment and later, food assistance. After Unemployment ran out, I simply dipped into my savings. When that ran out, I put a straw into my retirement CD, and after 28 months, the drain is showing. But, I LOVE living like this! It’s a riot, the sting I pulled on the wealthy and the government!I LOVE being on this damned computer every day, applying for ALL types of jobs. And, most of all, I LOVE hearing nothing, from about 90% of the places to which I apply, and getting rejected from every company for going-on-three-years, despite the fact I have, an am still taking courses (AT MY OWN EXPENSE) in computer languages, and a few short-term contract jobs. I mean, it’s GREAT to live with no net, at my age. DaSharkie is ABSOLUTELY correct! I must give up this care-free, Bohemian life-style, quit fighting off depression, and GO TO WORK!
Thanks, DaSharkie! You really know what you are talking about, and are right to give such sound advice!