Just wondering if everybody should just accept pay and health insurance cuts due to the economy [View All]

[CreekDog]

i guess the argument goes like this:

auto workers are lucky to even have jobs, pay and benefit cuts are the least they can expect.

government workers across the board are weathering the recession better than many so cuts and reductions are the right thing to do(except tens of thousands of low-seniority teachers who weren't making much anyway and have been laid-off, and CA and other state employees who thanks to pay cuts or furloughs have been hit with as much as 15% pay cuts.

private sector employees who haven't experienced bad times really should feel some pain too...if you are middle class and have been spared, your pay should be cut, you should lose some benefits --it's only fair.

all this is needed to restore profitability to the economy...or is profitability already occurring without all these changes? well, okay, granted, these things aren't necessary to restore profitability and productivity --it's just that if you all take these reductions (private sector) those in management will be able to report this to stockholders and they will get bonuses when the stock goes up a buck or whatever. and this will benefit all of us --eventually. i mean, this is how the economy works.

you that help the country produce this and that for your employer, but at a modest cost --you are lucky to be employed.

you that are at the top and paid hundreds of times more, your company is lucky to have you --accept no reductions.

that's the way it works.

let's see where this leads us.

suck it up America. :crazy:




(do i need this -----------> :sarcasm: )