Twentieth Century Motor Company?

There's some info you can bite into boys. zzD is right in line with everything I've observed in my 60 years. That first point is so common in privately held companies that it's almost a disease. These folks started a small company where they did everything from purchasing to emptying the garbage and because it was a needed product or service they prospered. But at the end of their working years they just can't stand to see someone else running things. They are control freaks - that's what made them successful. Their solution is to just close the doors. I have three close friends who now live in FL who were the centerfold models for this path.

It's their business and more power to them if they decide to pull the plug when there is a lot of life left to them to enjoy. Unfortunately, those employees who were not prepared for the change suffer, but they had the same opportunity as their boss.

The second item, Unions, I don't even want to get started about. They are nothing short of extortion artists.

Here is a link to global inflation rates
http://www.businessinsider.com/world-inf...

The fact that WalMart made this ad makes perfect sense to me. WalMart is non-union and it was the unions that drove many of our jobs away.
I will tell you a fact...WalMart is the largest employer in my town...period! Without it, many, many more people would be on Food Stamps and Welfare.
They may not be perfect, but they're successful and they ARE helping the local economy.

Dehumanizing is the act of waiting for a handout check from government masters. The idea you are "owed" the check that is paid for by a person who choses to work at a job, earning their pay by their skill and incidentally, paying taxes that pay for your "check".

Please explain why you feel you are owed a check for not producing? That's what I don't get.

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Exactly my concern Herb. I want jobs made for workers in this country who want to work. That's also WHY I'm torn over this. Workers here seem to expect to be paid like the CEO for doing work on par with the janitor. There's nothing wrong with janitors, we need those to, but they aren't going to be paid the same scale as the CEO.

In AS, there came a time when the lines of workers were very, very long for people applying for jobs as janitors, sweeper and greasers, but nobody could be found who would or could step up and take a position of responsibility or a creative position. The skills had been trained out of the workforce. As I see it, today's high school graduates leave school ONLY fit to do one of a very few jobs - they can go to work at WalMart or it's cousins, they can enter the military if they have the ability, they can work for MacDonalds, or they go on to college.

Todays colleges and universities are packed with kids who don't have a clue how to make a living. Because it's not taught. In 2005 I completed two degrees at a good private university in the midwest. As I was retired, my efforts were a journey of personal growth, not a effort to prepare for a job market. But I had plenty of opportunity to talk to the kids about what their future goals for employment. Frankly, I was shocked to find that the vast majority were planning to work for these same min. wage positions that were available to them before they spent $100k on school.

As I got to know them better I also found out that most of these untethered souls were in school because Mom and Dad had worked and saved so that their kids could attend a good school. In short, they were in school to put off going to work.

That was just a fraction of the waste I saw. There was also the intent of the school. In almost every department of that school, they were teaching people to be teachers, not grade school or high school teachers, they were training university professors. The field did not matter, the goal was to replicate themselves.

I was studying Art and in this school, in the entire Fine Arts dept. there were 28 who graduated with me. Of that 28 there was a painting magor who got a job as a helper in a gallery for minimum wage, a girl who got a job at WalMart as a cake decorator, and I went into business for my self a couple years before graduating by opening my own studio and gallery. Those were the "successes" of the university. They made a huge deal of my studio in all their press for a couple years, but aside from the basic skills that were taught in the first year, the university had little to do with it. Nation wide there are fewer than two dozen art professors hired each year and most of these positions go to experienced professors.

When I was in high school a few decades back, a boy graduating would have taken auto mechanics, welding, mechanical drawing, machine shop and wood working - at least one class in each area. And IF they found one that appealed to them they could take 3 or 4 more classes in order to develop some level of competence in the field. When they would graduate they could get a starting job in that industry because they could DO something. They could enter an apprenticeship to further their education and their pay would be based on their value to their employer.

Today they leave school having no value at all. And they line up at the government feeding trough for housing, food stamps, transportation and more often than not, more tax dollar paid for re-education.

Very sad.

Doesn't Walmart represent a new more profitable way of ding things? How may do they employ? More efficient delivery of goods and services. I know let's raise the pay the 15/hr week high school student... that will fix it.