Newsgroups: alt.activism
Subject: Re: Slick Willy & the Fortune 500
From: bpharmon@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu
Date: 12 Jan 93 15:29:07 -0500
Organization: Miami University Academic Computer Service"

In article <mPF9wB3w165w@nyxfer.uucp>, ww@nyxfer.UUCP writes:

> 
> Have they heard about the message to save jobs? They have proceeded
> as though this does not concern them whatsoever. They have laid off
> tens of thousands of workers and plan to eliminate the jobs of
> thousands more.

	Look, IBM is laying off so many workers not because their some wicked,
evil company, but because they're losing money hand over fist.  Companies like
Compaq, Hewlett Packard, etc. are making clones at a significantly lower cost. 
and Macintosh computers are causing IBM to lose out too.  Del and digital are
now taking away much of IBM's mainframe business as well.
	IBM is eliminating jobs because they're hemmoraging all over the
marketplace, not because they're "evil"
	TO prevent losing jobs, IBM has to get on its feet.  Clinton talking to
IBM won't necessarily do squat for that.

> 
> But IBM is not alone. The same cruel practice has been employed by
> General Motors as well. The number of GM workers who have lost
> their jobs is roughly equivalent to IBM. Furthermore, GM has also
> acted as though all this talk about saving jobs does not concern
> it.
> 

	GM is yet another company that is losing money.  They make far more
cars than they can sell, so they have to dump excess capacity.  This results in
layoffs.  
	It's not a matter of big companies ignoring pleas for more jobs, its
the large companies' inability to sell their products to consumers.



> 
> How must this issue be addressed? By the president-elect himself.
> 

	Wrong.  It needs to be adressed by all of us.  We didn't elect Bill
Clinton just to solve all our problems for us.


> 
> There is an appropriate strategy available to Clinton that does not
> by any means go beyond the constitutional limits of the president.
> He could issue an executive order directed to the entire Fortune
> 500 industrial-technological apparatus of the U.S. It could tell
> them that 1) they are ordered to cease and desist from any further
> layoffs; 2) that they must present a plan for the recall of
> laid-off employees, and 3) that the Clinton administration will
> invoke its authority to call a special session of Congress with an
> agenda exclusively confined to one item: how to absorb the
> unemployed back into industry and make the necessary appropriations
> for such an endeavor.
> 

Dreamland.

> 
> Like trained animals, this horde of experts knows when to keep
> silent and when to start barking at their masters. Why are they
> barking so loud now, sometimes calling for the resignation of the
> top executives? It is to force them to accelerate the process of
> downsizing and dismantling the plants and equipment in the interest
> of super-profits. The attacks are not directed at the capitalist
> corporations themselves, but only at the executives. The objective
> is to goad them into the unsavory business of cutting loose not
> only the ordinary workers but also managers, all in the name of
> strengthening the profit motive, the bottom line.
> 
Conjecture.  You really need to back this stuff up and be more specific.


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