BlueStreak:
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Why not? I hate it, but I'd think YOU would be jumping for joy.
Private industry finds ways to fuck their employees to raise cash all of the time. Everything from BS "incentive" programs, that are really just devised to escape giving COLA raises to all employees, to just straight up eliminating benefits at will, to slowly passing the burden of payment for benefits back to the employee, to finding inventive ways to "allow" employees to work off the clock. And don't tell me they don't do it, because that's the biggest goddamned lie there is. And I don't believe it is ALWAYS justified either. That's a damn lie too.
So, if government starts acting more like private industry, I'd say that you have gotten what you want; Workers are getting fucked to make things easier for the employer.
So shut up and be happy.
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Employers CAN do all that crappola. I don't jump for joy about it. I've had to go thru Chapt 13 at a Silicon Valley startup and lay off 6 of best friends and colleagues. I take making a business healthy as deadly serious because people's lives are involved. Can't tell you the number of times I was asked to defer salary for a couple weeks so that my team could get paid. My boss ate stock certificates for 6 months because he believed in the venture.
Reality is Dave, when the sheets don't produce profit, it gets too risky to ride the hairy edge of disaster. You need to have a safety margin for tomorrow and looking ahead. And unfortunately, employees are easier to retrieve than reliable customers or stockholders.
But here's the outrage for me. We are largely in this crisis (that was seen coming for 30 years) because Congress stole over $6TRILL from workers paychecks by charging them too much for a "trust fund" premium for MC/SS. Promised to pay it back when it was needed. NOW THAT IT"S NEEDED, we have a treasury sec who's dipping into ANOTHER trust fund to cover that debt. It shows that there is no humility or repentance about the theft. That the American public will allow the charade to continue and NOBODY is ever gonna get punished.
Indian Trust Fund, Highway Trust Fund, Social Security Trust Fund. NONE of these have any meaning because of the incompetence and the arrogance of our Fed govt. It's time to Tea Party or find something equivalent to change the status quo... These bozos sit on the butts after a year or so in Wash DC and become part of the crime syndicate. Trust them with my HEALTHCARE. HELL NO!! Not when these perps are now cutting THOUSANDS of exemptions to ObamaCare for their friends and sponsors. And Nancy Pelosi admitted that she had no idea what might be in her famous bill before it passed.
Can you smell the abysmal FAILURE in any of that???
Toss 'em all.. Every election...