Just got word that in a few months our positions may be terminated if we do not get any more business.
Worked two or three jobs for the last several years and took this position because the pay scale was such that I could survive off one now. Even after they cut our income I cut back and still made it.Â
Now there may be nothing. Years ago when I still had hope and goals fresh out of university, I probably would have been dismayed. At this point however it is no big deal at all.Â
Feels fitting somehow. Although I did hope that someone would be able to benefit by getting my job once I was gone. I feel for my team though because they are good people.  Hope it does not happen for their sakes.
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ditto across america
Promises of hope and change, openess in government, no more lobbyiststs bla bla bla
Untill America cancels NAFTA, and CAFTA, starts (Protecting the Economy) by allowing
unfair trading agreements be cancelled nothing will change.
I was at HomeDepot, searching for finish grade 1x6x8 I realized that all the wood in that section waas from Sweeden, ………….. WTF we have more trees in the USA now than when America was founded.
A friend works at a steel recycle plant, they don’t even have to process this steel just melt it. Shiploads of roll steel are arriving from Europe cheaper than this plant can make it.
The countries we let rape our economy don’t pay their workers the same money, don’t have a fucked up EPA up there ass’s etc.
This isn’t fair trade.
The USA has to TARIFF these products in order for jobs to return to America.
A T-Shirt produced for fruit of the lumb may be made in china pakistan india for .75 cents, if the shirts were made here they would cost 6 or 8 dollars a shirt just to produce.
Until the citizens raise enough hell nothing will chnage except more job loss’s.
Perhaps. But can Americans afford to buy American products? Our little lives are filled with the toys and resources of those that America uses as slaves. And every dime of “debt” that we incur robs everyone else in the world as well, since our magic green toilet paper is the “standard” for all of the international fiat currency. We have dug a hole, created a wonderland society based upon robbing the world, that we can no longer pull off. It is our turn to be a “third-world” nation. We have raped, pillaged, and burned for far too long. The world has grown weary of serving our interests and many of the rising nations will soon be in their “golden age”, like we were in the 50’s, (economically speaking). We will be left looking more like a small Mexican town of a hundred years ago. We will have to live in the same “reality” that everyone else in the world has to live with soon, all empires come to an end, ours just didn’t last that long is all.