Re: http://gethuman.com/

Posted by Mark - IN. on April 01, 2006 at 07:06:34 from (152.163.100.74):

In Reply to: Re: http://gethuman.com/ posted by DaveH IA on April 01, 2006 at 04:38:02:

Good luck with the new company, and hopefully all will turn out ok (well) with the pension.

When that judge told United Airlines a year or so ago that since they were the sole contributor to their workers pension fund that they could default, and United did, that opened the floodgates. A few months ago was a bakery somewhere in Illinois, the Chicago area that did the same thing. Can't remember its name, was a large bakery though, and stiffed its employees big time, based upon the United ruling. Now I'm waiting to see what happens to Delphi. They approached a judge asking to nullify the negotiated contract with its employees. POOF?!?! Up in smoke? A contract? I'm pretty certain that if the employees covered under that contract approached a judge first and asked the same, they'd be laughed out of his courtroom.

One of my biggest concerns is the proposed "Guest Worker" program that a poll yesterday says 79% of legal citizens agree with. All the guest worker program does is legalize the illegal workers, taking away any arguements of losing higher paying jobs to illegals for lower wages. Its nothing more than smoke and mirrors. Legal workers complain the construction jobs are going to illegals for lower wages, so Washington spins "Guest Worker" permits as the answer to illegals, and the general public says "OK, better than illegals", which only documents taking those jobs at lower wages. Beautiful. Just beautiful. That line about "Only take the jobs we don't want, and pay taxes too" is garbage, just garbage. First off, how does someone that doesn't exist contribute to FICA or pay income taxes when have no tax ID or SSN, since they don't or can't exist in the first place? How? Might pay taxes in the checkout line of the grocery store or what not, but certainly not income taxes or pay into FICA, when they can't exist to do so in the frst place. I see those guys working highway construction jobs, and building new subdivisions, and on and on and on. And when I ask those job bosses "Why do you have illegals working those jobs", their responses are "I don't want to, but I have to because I can't compete with the competition whom did first, unless I do so too". The end cost of those construction jobs or new homes didn't go down to reflect the lower labor costs, but the profit margins for the general contractor went up. Garbage, just garbage. Earlier this week I saw O'Reilly interviewing one such guy, whom said "We watch your children for you, we do your handiwork, we build your homes, ...". Build our homes? No one wants a higher paying construction job? My a$$. And now they openly admit it, while Washington still maintains "...just the jobs we don't want". Garbage, just garbage. Lying pieces of garbage.

Sooner or later when we don't have the jobs that we had, after we completely become a "service oriented" country instead of the manufacturing/industrial country that we once were, folks will catch on that there's just so many hot dogs the hot dog guy can sell the hamburger guy, and vica versa. My job takes me into countless new construction jobs, and I see huge building after huge building going up everywhere, and they all have one thing in common. They are warehouses, or regional distribution centers. NONE are manufacturing. Warehousing and distribution only. So if we aren't making it, where are the goods coming from? Our trade deficit last year was over $700 Billion. We're importing everything, exporting little or nothing. Its a global economy, and the richest nation in the world in terms of resources is bleeding to death, while Washington counts hot dog sales as a meaningful long term job, statistically, and the general public says "Ok, I'll do it". My state of Indiana doesn't lead the nation in foreclosed homes for no reason. We do it because the hamburger guy can't afford the hot dog guy's dogs, and the fact that the higher paying job went away after the mortgage guy lent the mortgage isn't his fault.

People had better wake up, and soon.

Mark

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