I consider myself an interesting anomaly. I am 28 years old and I am currently on my third career change. In that, I have worked for a small company, large corporation, and now I work for both. My immediate employer is a small family-run business, however, my client is a multi-million dollar corporation with a marked worldwide presence. Therefore, I'm a little fish in a little pond that is being fed water from a large ocean.
That being said, I have a unique interest in the economic collapse occurring around us. I listen to candidates talk about tax breaks for large companies and then tax breaks for small companies and regardless of the outcome, it will directly effect either my employer or my client. I am one of a growing number of workers who operate through a filter which allows large companies to save hundreds of thousands of dollars on health insurance, benefits and salaries, while obtain a high quality of specialized work by contracting with smaller companies, such as my current employer. Not only do the large fish gain a cheaper work force, they know that the smaller companies they contract with are at their mercy, and in turn, get much better work performance across the board.
Which brings me to all of the Wall Street fat cats, a terminology I truly hate using, yet seems appropriate. I work for Main Street as well as Wall Street and at the end of the day, they are one in the same. Main Street and Wall Street provide the pulse for each other and they need each other in order to function or dysfunction.
I find it frustrating when politicians who move at the rate of an iceberg for virtually all legislative action some how find a way to fly into session and miraculously pound out the most significant and dangerous economic band aid of our time.
Election season + high unapproval ratings + angry voters with pitchforks = Progress.
Therefore, I find it angering, yet not surprising that we see companies like AIG spending $400,00+ on corporate retreats on the heals of this "progress." If the government is going to step in in the face of total economic collapse and Wall Street is going to bite the hand that feeds them and slap the American taxpayers in the meantime, Wall Street deserves to crash and burn. The taxpayers have already crashed and burned without a retreat.
-sb
That being said, I have a unique interest in the economic collapse occurring around us. I listen to candidates talk about tax breaks for large companies and then tax breaks for small companies and regardless of the outcome, it will directly effect either my employer or my client. I am one of a growing number of workers who operate through a filter which allows large companies to save hundreds of thousands of dollars on health insurance, benefits and salaries, while obtain a high quality of specialized work by contracting with smaller companies, such as my current employer. Not only do the large fish gain a cheaper work force, they know that the smaller companies they contract with are at their mercy, and in turn, get much better work performance across the board.
Which brings me to all of the Wall Street fat cats, a terminology I truly hate using, yet seems appropriate. I work for Main Street as well as Wall Street and at the end of the day, they are one in the same. Main Street and Wall Street provide the pulse for each other and they need each other in order to function or dysfunction.
I find it frustrating when politicians who move at the rate of an iceberg for virtually all legislative action some how find a way to fly into session and miraculously pound out the most significant and dangerous economic band aid of our time.
Election season + high unapproval ratings + angry voters with pitchforks = Progress.
Therefore, I find it angering, yet not surprising that we see companies like AIG spending $400,00+ on corporate retreats on the heals of this "progress." If the government is going to step in in the face of total economic collapse and Wall Street is going to bite the hand that feeds them and slap the American taxpayers in the meantime, Wall Street deserves to crash and burn. The taxpayers have already crashed and burned without a retreat.
-sb
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