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My son in law moved from Toronto to Dallas nearly 6 years ago to take a pretty good job as a network maintenance guy. After 3 years , the company was bought out and his division closed down. He's been without work for nearly 3 years.
My daughter went back to work, as a trainee for Walmart, the plague of NorthAmerica. For more than a year she has worked 60 hour weeks as an assistant manager, meaning she gets no overtime and gets paid for 48 hours work. The turnover in her store is 150% and she does all the hiring and training. This store basically lives off the fact that it caused all small businesses in the local area to close down, and may be the only "game in town" for work. Walmart is destroying much of middle Amerian life and nobody in Washington seems to care. They take pot shots at guys like Billy Gates, but the rest is simply corporate payola and the changing of life as we used to know it in North America.
What's next?
Looks like a club here: Maybe what's next is we all go out, have a beer and shake up the town. <grin>
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