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4 edits | What I can not understand What I can not understand is how so many of you are SO pro big corporations! PEOPLE NEED JOBS! Why are so many of you SO anti people? Right now, the single biggest problem facing our country is the lack of well paying jobs. For christ sakes, the USA is fast turning into a serf like third world country where 1% of the population controls 99% of the wealth! Can't happen, you say? Well look around-IT IS HAPPENING!!!!
Yet, when people who have literally given their LIFE to a company like Verizon (which made RECORD PROFITS last year by the way)-and now find Verizon responding by trying to screw them say NO!, you chastize them and support Verizon!
Let me clue you into somethng-today it's THEM, but tomorrow it could well be YOU that finds yourself on the receiving end of a pink slip!
And don't give me the CRAP that WE are the stockholders of these companies! I haven't been able to afford stock for YEARS-I'm literally living paycheck to paycheck trying to support my family. Am I better off now then ten years ago? HELL NO!!!!. I'm MUCH worse off now...and so are the majority of Americans!
Things are so bad that even some BILLIONAIRES have seen the light are are becoming alarmed at how bad things are becoming in our country (Warren Buffett, T Boone Pickens and yes even Bill Gates). How come YOU can't see the forest for the trees? Are you SO gullible that you buy the
corporate BULL$HIT hook line and sinker?
Are you so afraid that you will do and say ANYTHING that they want you to? If so, SHAME ON YOU!. It's time to stop thinking about just yourself and start thinking about your fellow man and citizen-lest you find that some day YOU'RE on the receiving end of a stick up your A$$-and there's no one left to care about YOU! | |
rob316
join:2005-10-17
Carteret, NJ | We said well said, it's time to take America back people. When Budweiser is being sold to a European company, Budweiser and American Institution now EUROPEAN. Americans have lost their pride with their jobs and themselves. Proud to be an American slogan is fading fast people stop this before it's to late. | |
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said by qworster:What I can not understand is how so many of you are SO pro big corporations! PEOPLE NEED JOBS! Why are so many of you SO anti people? Right now, the single biggest problem facing our country is the lack of well paying jobs. For christ sakes, the USA is fast turning into a serf like third world country where 1% of the population controls 99% of the wealth! Can't happen, you say? Well look around- IT IS HAPPENING!!!!Yet, when people who have literally given their LIFE to a company like Verizon (which made RECORD PROFITS last year by the way)-and now find Verizon responding by trying to screw them say NO!, you chastize them and support Verizon! Let me clue you into somethng-today it's THEM, but tomorrow it could well be YOU that finds yourself on the receiving end of a pink slip! And don't give me the CRAP that WE are the stockholders of these companies! I haven't been able to afford stock for YEARS-I'm literally living paycheck to paycheck trying to support my family. Am I better off now then ten years ago? HELL NO!!!!. I'm MUCH worse off now...and so are the majority of Americans! Things are so bad that even some BILLIONAIRES have seen the light are are becoming alarmed at how bad things are becoming in our country (Warren Buffett, T Bone Pickens and yes even Bill Gates). How come YOU can't see the forest for the trees? Are you SO gullible that you buy the corporate BULL$HIT hook line and sinker? Are you so afraid that you will do and say ANYTHING that they want you to? If so, SHAME ON YOU!. It's time to stop thinking about just yourself and start thinking about your fellow man and citizen-lest you find that some day YOU'RE on the receiving end of a stick up your A$$-and there's no one left to care about YOU! You say people need jobs, but without corporations, who would employ the people?
edit: As far as Warren Buffett, he has a political agenda, as does T BOONE (not Bone) Pickens. | |
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said by rob316: When Budweiser is being sold to a European company, Budweiser an American Institution now EUROPEAN. I don't blame InBev for making the offer to buy AB, I blame AB for selling to InBev. | |
 hobgoblinSortof AgoblinPremium
join:2001-11-25
Orchard Park, NY
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"Am I better off now then ten years ago? HELL NO!!!!. I'm MUCH worse off now...and so are the majority of Americans!"
You are a total and utter loser then.
If you have not developed your skill set and thus your earning potential in 10 years it no ones fault but your own.
My income has increased 250% in the same period.
Hob
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4 edits | said by hobgoblin:"Am I better off now then ten years ago? HELL NO!!!!. I'm MUCH worse off now...and so are the majority of Americans!" You are a total and utter loser then. If you have not developed your skill set and thus your earning potential in 10 years it no ones fault but your own. My income has increased 250% in the same period. Hob Your comment is not only rude but without merit. Due to de-regulation, many industries have CUT pay over the last ten years. Among those who likely make the same or LESS then they did ten years ago include such 'un technical' jobs an engineers, boat captains, programmers, doctors, college professors and airline pilots and mechanics!
In my profession (radio engineering), ten years ago if you worked for a major radio station in a top ten city, you were likely Chief Engineer over a staff of 3-7 people, had 1-2 stations under your purview, and had a salary of over $100K. Today you are lucky to get that salary, have less then half the help and you also overlook both Engineering and IT (which didn't exist 10 years ago) at a cluster of 3-8 stations-with a maintenance and parts budget about that when you only had two stations and no IT to deal with!
Right now in Los Angeles, I know of six highly experienced radio engineers that are out of work. Most were laid off by big companies like Clear Channel, ABC and CBS. Ten years ago, there was a SHORTAGE of qualified engineers here!
Simple supply and demand is at work here: The supply goes up and the price goes down. I heard that one of these guys just took an assistant's position at a four station cluster. Pay: 42 thousand dollars a year. When you're unemployed with a family and mortgage and are desparate, you'll take anything!
Ten years ago, the average radio engineer had an age of 45. Today the average age is 55. What does this mean? It means that in the last 10 years, VERY FEW PEOPLE have chosen radio engineering as a career. Good radio engineers are literally dying off-yet the salaries are still dropping.
Skill sets??? In the past ten years, I have had to learn all about computer hardware and software, administering servers and email, IP networks, VOIP, Installing, programming and maintaining digital business PBX systems (including voice mail), HD radio, installing and aiming satellite dishes (and installing multiple receivers), streaming, directional AM antennas (because stations won't hire consultants to do this specialized work any more), surface mount soldering & repairing surface mount circuit boards, podcasting and web publishing. I have become an expert on the FCC rules and regulations that pertain to radio and TV (because most stations are too cheap to have FCC attorneys any more). All of this I learned on my own time and AT MY OWN EXPENSE!
I also have to provide my own tools and test equipment-including spectrum and network analyzers that cost many, many thousands of dollars.
This year, the NAB (National Association of Broadcasters) convention was held in Las Vegas (as always). The major group broadcasters made their engineers all stay home. Only those who paid their own way and also took vacation time were there. This is one of the major networking and educational events that engineers have.
This weekend I heard that as a result of Clear Channel going private last week, expenses will be cut by 20% before the end of the year. This means that HUNDREDS of hard working CC employees will lose their jobs at Christmas time.
HOW DARE you call these victims of clueless bean counters and bad management losers?
The fact that you happen to be in an extreme minority, doesn't give you any rights to gloat about it or call others that feel the pain of our crappy economy losers!
TOMORROW, you could lose your job and be in the same boat as many I speak of here (fortunately, I have been able to maintain modest raises because I work for myself).
The difference between the two of us is should that happen to you, I will have empathy for your predicament-which is something you obviously will never have for anyone else! | |
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