Comments on: Weak Backlash https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/09/04/weak-backlash/ Mon, 05 Sep 2011 03:29:07 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Francisco Bacopa https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/09/04/weak-backlash/#comment-11172 Mon, 05 Sep 2011 03:29:07 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=42#comment-11172 A good sign. But what we really need is to release the huge cash reserves major corporations are holding onto right now. Until about a year ago I worked for a major corporation, I had to make sure every new hire had their payroll tax holiday paperwork filled out. This is a totally cool targeted corporate tax cut. You hire someone who has been unemployed for a while, you don’t have to pay the employer share of the payroll taxes for a few months. Yet at the same time all I heard was cut labor hours, cut labor hours. Our inventory count was totally screwed because we didn’t have the hours to provide an employee familiar with our products to assist the inventory counters in certain key sections. The inventory people screwed up and I had to spend an extra 20 hours (salaried, so no overtime) fixing it to save my boss’s ass. Then they try to fire my boss because of fraudulent counts. The count adjustments I made were totally accurate, but as soon as there was trouble, my boss said I made the adjustments without his authority and I was fired.

Luckily I was allowed to collect unemployment. I have done some temp work on store remodel design and have a few cash off the books tutoring gigs, so I have survived. But we need this corporate cash reserve to start flowing and making jobs. That’s why I support Bachmann as the Republican nominee. Maybe she’ll scare the corporations enough to make them dump their cash into job creation so that a safe contender like Obama gets re-elected.

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