Old Rocks
Diamond Member
Good for the Republicans.
Fatboy Rush is correct this time.
It's an idiotic tax.
Toro, you do not understand the feelings of the people on the factory floor. Where I work we have laid off over 50% of our people. All but a very few of the rest are working a 32 hour week. They have seen their 401Ks decline by as much as 70%. And the ones laid off, that thought that they had enough to tide them over, mortgage, ect. are finding that they do not.
They are not talking of taxing the people at AIG that are getting these bonuses, in spite of creating this debacle, their preferance would be to hang them. I am dead serious.
Medical benefits stop the instant that the job ceases, and the cost of the COBRA is beyond the means of these people if they are to pay the mortgage. And rent is more costly than the mortgage. But the value of the property has now often declined to the point that selling is not an option, either.
There is an anger building on the factory floor. An anger directed at those that have for years claimed that the millions to tens of millions that they recieved annually was deserved because they were the drivers of the economy. Right now, they seem more akin to drunken drivers. This anger is not directed at the current adminstration at all. It is directed at those that have benefited the most from the economy while destroying that economy. These people vote, and they call their government representatives at all levels.