Grizzly wrote:The reason I remember this so vividly is because it wasn't long after this that my old man, was "Let go" (laid off) from a job his father retired from, with full benefits. (They were company men) it later became known what had happened to him when Michael Moore published, 'Downsize This! Random Threats from an Unarmed American'. A decade later.... I was to young to understand the full repercussions this was to have on our family. I watched my father lose this job, lose his retirement, lose his pension. I watched him get hired back a year or so later at half his pay. After losing nearly everything. I literally watch a man's spirit get broken. And everything he believed in turned back on him.
There's more to it, but the domino effect this caused our family is almost to painful to talk about...
Neoliberal "trickle-down" economics is evil. The more I learn & think about it, the more evil it is, from one end to the other.