rage rising...

Its bad enough that big companies are breaking their promises and backing out of their pensions (see Bodie’s post below). To make it worse, I heard this morning that there are many school districts in California who have been promising teachers lifetime health care, even after retirement; however they are now realizing that they can’t pay up. How is this possible? Is my outrage out of line? Where is the worker protection?

It seems like this is yet another offshoot of the American cultural thought that one is not necessarily responsible for his or her own actions. That big companies are not responsible. The government is not responsible. It’s always someone else’s fault. And who gets fucked in the long run? We do. It’s nobody’s fault but we’re stuck without our retirement. And the government and big business are rolling around in a bed of our tax dollars.

So now when we’re wading through corporate bullshit we also need to try and figure out if the company we’re working for (which we once thought was big and stable) is really going to hold up the promises made. Sweet. It really makes it easy to be optimistic, eh? (Insert sarcasm point here.)