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What I think should be discussed is how the vast majority of Americans work, and work hard, and continue to be sold out by the hypocritical, greedy corporate leaders who, encouraged by Republican labor policies (or lack thereof), worsen their working conditions, slash their benefits and their wages while increasing their own compensation packages. How are American workers rewarded?
I think there is a point being missed here..... I think part of this civic responsibility that has eroded includes employers building businesses for their community. Employees are not victims of "greedy" employers. If it is a problem.... get a different emplyer. It is way more complex...... but I think the article is refering to a personal responsibility for EVERYONE.
why do these threads ALWAYS revert to Gov't vs. Free Martket? I do not think that this is the breadth of the article.
The progressive ideologues spread their indoctrinating ideology throughout our school systems creating selfish, lazy people looking for handouts from the nanny state.
I think this quote from the article hits the above point PERFECTLY.
"The cultural upheavals of the era spurred deep changes in institutions that traditionally transmitted the work ethic—especially the schools. University education departments began to tell future grammar school teachers that they should replace the traditional teacher-centered curriculum, aimed at producing educated citizens who embraced a common American ethic, with a new, child-centered approach that treats every pupil’s “personal development” as different and special. "
I think there is a point being missed here..... I think part of this civic responsibility that has eroded includes employers building businesses for their community. Employees are not victims of "greedy" employers. If it is a problem.... get a different emplyer. It is way more complex...... but I think the article is refering to a personal responsibility for EVERYONE.
Have you seen the unemployment numbers lately? They are admitting to a recession, but we are in the midst of a depression. How are people going to find different employers when lots of them can't find one to begin with?
I agree with the earlier post that said that progressives have pounded this into the heads of schoolchildren for a number of years which increases the number who don't do a job for love of the job.
An example, of what I say is the public school teachers of today. In my early years we weren't paid very good but most of us did it for love of the job. My wife who is just now 60 says that the younger the teachers are the less likely they do the job for love of the job, but most of them do it for money and refuse to do anything that they don't get paid for. Kids were always so much more important to me, than money.
Interesting. I see the opposite in the medical community. It is a job that gets harder every year--more paperwork, longer hours, less time with patients...I recently worked with a national medical student association and the overwhelming attribute among members was that today's young docs, especially those entering generalist medicine, are really in it to help people--not for the money or glory.
Right you are. I saw earlier on this thread someone railing against the progressives and what they believe (what a freaking broken record that is played here ad nauseum). What I think should be discussed is how the vast majority of Americans work, and work hard, and continue to be sold out by the hypocritical, greedy corporate leaders who, encouraged by Republican labor policies (or lack thereof), worsen their working conditions, slash their benefits and their wages while increasing their own compensation packages. How are American workers rewarded? Their jobs are outsourced to places like India or given to H1B visa holders.
What about that great old Republican phrase, "personal responsibility"? What responsibility have these corporate robber barons shown to the workers who kill themselves for their bottom line?
Its funny how the left values the American worker who works the longest hours and who are the hardest working in the world.
as opposed to the rights disdain for the the American worker who they think is lazy and worthless but defends the CEO"S who runs the company into the ground.
Its funny how the left values the American worker who works the longest hours and who are the hardest working in the world.
as opposed to the rights disdain for the the American worker who they think is lazy and worthless but defends the CEO"S who runs the company into the ground.
Very telling indeed.
you know why the left advocates long working hours? So they can steal more of your money in the form of taxes.
Have you seen the unemployment numbers lately? They are admitting to a recession, but we are in the midst of a depression. How are people going to find different employers when lots of them can't find one to begin with?
The article covers this in my opinion. Talks about growth goals of the 80's and the beginning of reducing head count for efficiency, etc...
There was a time where when you joined a company.... you expected to be there for a long as you wanted. We are talking 40-50 years ago. these days no longer exist and there are a lot of reasons noted in the article.
"The corporate restructurings of the 1980s, prompted by a new generation of risk-taking entrepreneurs and takeover artists who used aggressive financial instruments with provocative names like “junk bonds” to buy and then make over big companies that failed to remake themselves, reordered corporate America, shaking it out of its 1970s complacency. But the plant closings, downsizings, and restructurings of the 1980s also stoked anxiety among workers, as the old ideal of lifetime employment at one paternalistic company gave way to a job-hopping career in a constantly changing business landscape."
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