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Angel is on page 148 of 384

Reading through the Wal-Mart chapter. Sure, we all know Wally World's evil ways and how they exploit workers, but for locals, you get the tale of Mike, who worked for the Wal-Mart in Canton, TX, and how after an accident, the company actually squeezed him so in the end he had to get the state (and thus us taxpayers) to pay for his medical care. Disgusted yet?

— Sep 15, 2010 04:31pm

The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker

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Angel is on page 136 of 384

How do you know the economy is up shit's creek? When the CEO of Wal-Mart actually complains that Bush's tax cuts went to the rich. The man is a regular donor to the GOP PAC. Now think why would he say that?

— Sep 15, 2010 04:21pm

Angel is on page 126 of 384

Did you know FedEx Ground treats a large number of its delivery drivers as "independent contractors" (even requiring those drivers to buy their own trucks)? Again, another fine example of a cheating company, and of bad, callous behavior tolerated for the sake of profit. And this is just one company. The way freelancers are used these days is just a cheat to avoid having actual workers. Reminds me of adjunct work.

— Sep 15, 2010 03:58pm

Angel is on page 117 of 384

"'Employers broke the old deal because they didn't want long-term commitments,' said Peter Cappelli of the Wharton School. 'But increasingly they don't want employees at all." I would love to see them try to run their precious corporations without workers.

— Sep 15, 2010 03:52pm

Angel is on page 103 of 384

"As we have seen, managers fire people to make budget, pressure workers to work without pay, cheat workers by manipulating data on computers, and punish people for taking fully justified days off. These are not isolated incidents but a way of life for millions of American workers." This is disgusting to say the least, but it is business as usual in this country. And then we wonder.

— Sep 15, 2010 03:31pm

Angel is on page 98 of 384

Finished history post WW2, where the move went from valuing the workers to pretty much seeing them as disposable for the sake of profit. The corporations were not losing money per se, they just chose to screw the workers for a couple stock points. And in the meantime, what they did was reduce the workers and their buying power, which the companies needed, leading to the current mess.

— Sep 12, 2010 10:55am

Angel is on page 42 of 384

FDR said in 1938: "There is still today a frontier that remains unconquered--an America unreclaimed. This is the the great, the nationwide frontier of insecurity, of human want and fear." Those words are still relevant, and it seems the nation is rushing to go back to those dark ages.

— Sep 10, 2010 02:49pm

Angel is on page 41 of 384

"The conventional wisdom is that the United States is a land of boundless opportunity and mobility, but some studies show that mobility in America is actually declining and that the United States has less mobility than Canada, Scandinavia, Germany, and France." Of course, a lot of Americans would say, "but those are socialist nations, blah blah."

— Sep 10, 2010 02:16pm

Angel is on page 40 of 384

Kathy's story about how Landis Co. mistreated her and the other workers is simply disgusting, an example of how corporations nowadays pretty much do not give a damn about their workers. Shameful, but in this country's right wing, acceptable behavior since they don't give a damn about workers either. Moving along.

— Sep 10, 2010 02:02pm

Angel is on page 9 of 384

"Very simply, corporations, along with their CEOs, are seizing a bigger piece of the nation's economic pie for themselves, leaving the nation's workers and their families diminished." Or, when the CEOs say they need to cut back wages or anything else to be competitive, it is a load of bovine excrement.

— Sep 10, 2010 06:20am

Angel is on page 5 of 384

"Economic studies show that income inequality in the United States is so great that it more closely resembles the inequality of a third world country than that of an advanced industrial nation." Yet a lot of people in the U.S. are more than happy to keep on doing the same failed policies and practices that got us into the mess. It's the old "I got mine Jack."

— Sep 09, 2010 12:57pm