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I Think Re-engineering Or Restructuring Or Downsizing Or Rightsizing Or Whatever You Want To Call It, It's Basically Firing, Has Gone Way Too Far. Employees, As I've Talked To Them Across The Country, Feel That They Are Not Respected, They Are Not Valued, They Are Worried About Their Jobs. They Simply Feel That The Company Is No Longer Loyal To Them. Why Should They Be Loyal To The Company, They Ask Me. Why Should I Go The Extra Mile? Why Should I Care?

If You're Going To Be A Great Guide To What's Great For Consumers, And, Indirectly, For Investors, You've Got To Be Very Careful About Who You Contract With And What You're Offering.

The Poverty Line Understates The True Amount Of Poverty Because It Measures It As Three Times The Breadbasket That A Family Needs, But It Doesn't Consider All The Other Things That Are Inflating Far, Far Faster Than Food Prices.

If Consumers Don't Have The Wherewithal To Spend Because All The Money's Going To The Top, And The People At The Top Only Spend A Very Small Fraction Of What They Earn, Then The Economy Is Almost Inevitably Destined To Slow.

There Are Party Leaders, Big Corporation, Wall Street. There Are Very Wealthy Individuals Who Kind Of Represent Where The Democratic Party, The Official Democratic Party Was And To Some Extent Still Is.