If you’re a frequent visitor to my rants, you will know my position on the US banking system. Should you need examples of this, you can read this, this, or this article to get an idea where I’m coming from.That said, it comes to no surprise at all to me that Bank of America is currently at the center of the worker demands involving “Rebublic Windows and Doors”. I would link to their website, but the URL just returns “permission denied” when you go there. The NY Times ran a story on Sunday about this, describing the situation and from what I can tell this is an event where workers are finally getting on their hind feet and saying “enough is enough”.I believe very strongly that many Americans are too used to just putting up with things, rather than demanding justice and fairness, this is especially true int he work place. I mean you have to realize that the people in this Nation are so used to just not paying attention to anything, that they don’t seem to realize that all across the board, the whool is being pulled over their eyes. In France, people will go on the street and demonstrate vigorously if the government raises the weekly limit on the hours they work. They will literally demonstrate because of a single hour more a week! To see what we’re putting up with here is just astonishing, and quite frankly I sometimes think people are just medicated on a massive scale, nothing else explains the trance people seem to be in.
What supposedly happened in Chicago, was that after Bank of America had received a Government bailout, it cut off funding for all kinds of companies that were dependent on them, one of them being Republic Windows and Doors. The company in return was supposedly forced to close it’s doors at short notice, leaving hundres of workers asking what happened to their protection from this kind of event, their severence packages, and of course their retirement plans. The great part about this story, and there’s really nothing good about it, is the fact that the workers are doing a sit-in. They are demanding that the company addresses their demands and their being backed by the worker’s union in that area.
The part that must piss anyone off is of course the fact that while the Bank received a bail out, these workers are being shafted. If I were naive and believed we were somewhat of society that has an interest in looking out for their population, I would think that these workers, as so many would somehow be assisted. Unfortunately the reality that we find ourselves in currently is that we have shifted from being a country that manufactures things, to a society that simply services things. In the past eight years our government and those before, and have been instrumental in ensuring the certain death of the American Dream, assuming there ever was one.
All in all I can just say that more peole need to stand up and fight, speak their mind and stop putting up with the exploitment of the American people. To me, no terrorist could ever reak the havoc various financial institutions have, from Enron over to AIG they’re packing their coffers full of Gold and walking off unscathed.
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