It has been sad for me to see how over the years employees have come to be viewed as liabilities instead of assets. Employers are not thinking of the costs of training and of later replacing experience and expertise gathered with time on the job. Of course benefits are expensive, which is why it is employers (except for those in the health insurance industry of course) who whould really be getting behind the single-payer health care movement, if common sense ruled the day.
The other thing is that employees in the aggregate are your customers, folks...if they don't have jobs, they don't purchase your products.
Try cutting dividends, top exec salaries and perqs, etc.--cite the economic emergency. If you have to, go to pay cuts. But don't lay off as a knee-jerk response to slow sales. We are all interconnected in our economic system and layoffs contribute to the movement towards the deflationary spiral we don't want to be in. Wake up!
Wish our news media were still interested in informing instead of entertaining...and were truly "fair and balanced" enough to present very important but little-known views on what the hell is going on!
"We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately" -- Benjamin Franklin
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