TheWriteJerry @ October 9, 2007 # 2 Comments
According to a survey conducted by a business-beholden think tank, CEOs around the world do not - I repeat, do not - rank profit as their number one concern.
And we are supposed to believe this bald-faced lie. Because despite any CEO’s survey check mark, the primary goal of any business is to make money. Otherwise […]
TheWriteJerry @ August 22, 2007 # No Comment Yet
So there I was, a victim of The Sweep…
Trapped in a room with 12 other unemployed people and one “Labor Service Representative,” I had just been told that to keep my unemployment insurance checks coming in, I would have to attend some workshops - workshops that strangely sounded like the Department of Labor’s way of […]
TheWriteJerry @ August 21, 2007 # 2 Comments
I have never before applied for unemployment. I have never before been laid off. Unfortunately, after nearly nine years in the same job, I found myself having one done to me and me deciding to do the other. And yet, even though I’m a first-timer in the system, I today found myself caught up in […]
TheWriteJerry @ August 9, 2007 # 3 Comments
Hillary Clinton wants you to pay my mortgage.
Well, okay, not my mortgage specifically. I don’t qualify for her proposed $1-billion taxpayer bailout of homeowners in default of their mortgage. Mainly because I am not in default of my mortgage. I read the fine print on my mortgage contract. And I made sure I could […]
