I agree with everything you've stated. Your eyes and senses are not deceiving you. And yes, it's an outrage. The worst part is, these actions we've been forced to stomach are hardly cyclical or circumstantial as the industry mavens would have you believe. They've become systemic and widespread, and based more on maintaining the insanely disproportionate division of profits these companies reap than anything else. The differential in pay and perks between the top and bottom rungs of most corporations today would make the top execs of the past blush! [Only shhhhh, you're not supposed to know that].
Interestingly, the same cannot be said for most of the heads of enterprise in Europe, where scales of this sort have yet to hit the astronomical levels of greed and audacity that American-come-multi-national execs regularly ensconce (give it time though; this stuff tends to be contagious). Western workers would hardly be clinging to > validity and increasingly insecure futures if these same hot shot executives would only be content with million dollar salaries, as opposed to pilfering companies to the tune of sheik-like aggrandizements.
Naturally they claim they're worth every penny, as they keep plenty of foreign slave labor busy. As it is, they've probably transferred more western work and wealth to Asia - and Communist China - than even the home grown tycoons over there provide their minions. But that's how the latest variant of "trickle down" economics works [disregard any broken pipes overhead]. Our tax dollars help provide an ideal playground for these heads of industry, and they in turn sidestep paying reciprocal tribute in whatever manner they deem fit. Except of course for all the spiffy, foreign-made gadgetry they import to keep the *yet unemployed* bedazzled and amused.
Where they - along with their willing proxies in the federal government - really excel is putting the most qualified, deserving and experienced behind various 8-balls, then lapping one layer after another of socialist, one-world cream to serve as dumbing down potions. You're made to feel guilty that you're not helping to save every needy soul and would-be (and even illegal!) immigrant living outside of the western world, even if it's at your own expense. In the meantime, these corporate wunderkind continue to turn millions into billions - much of which is shoveled into private vaults - while their gallery of believers clap on in metronomic wonder.
But really I should be biting my damn tongue, as it's clearly become unfashionable (a sign of the uncultured mind) to speak bluntly and call a spade a spade anymore. Those in industry AND government who want to remake this country - and yours - into socialist, one-world quicksand remind us at every turn that EVERYBODY stands to win, if we all would disregard the patent realities - and plethora of contradictions - before our not-to-be-trusted eyes. Only you know the bit by now: brace yourself and get in line behind an endless stream of foreigners who *somehow* are granted privileged positions in the line.
