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DCBob Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 08:10 PM
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3. No, but its the best way to improve the bottom line...
at least temporarily and keep investors happy.
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  -Verizon to cut 13,000 jobs TexasProgresive  Jan-26-10 08:03 PM   #0 
  - Because throwing tens of thousands of people out of work is the best way to get the economy rolling.  marmar   Jan-26-10 08:04 PM   #1 
  - No, but its the best way to improve the bottom line...  DCBob   Jan-26-10 08:10 PM   #3 
  - No -- it's the best way to put the nation into "shock and awe" . ..  defendandprotect   Jan-26-10 09:22 PM   #16 
  - My son.with 20 years with the company,has been waiting for this.  virgogal   Jan-26-10 08:06 PM   #2 
  - Un American and Unpatriotic  bluestateguy   Jan-26-10 08:11 PM   #4 
  - I Actually Posted The Other Day Saying That Companies That Lay People Off....  global1   Jan-26-10 08:24 PM   #5 
  - I'm sure my creditors consider me unpatriotic...  CubicleGuy   Jan-26-10 08:32 PM   #9 
     - I'm Puzzled By Your Screen Name.....  global1   Jan-26-10 08:45 PM   #10 
     - Verizon is not running out of money; it is cutting jobs only to please shareholders  brentspeak   Jan-26-10 09:00 PM   #14 
     - Verizon's mission is to make money...  Imajika   Jan-26-10 09:22 PM   #17 
        - The topic of my post is excessive profit-margins and shareholder greed  brentspeak   Jan-27-10 12:17 AM   #24 
           - You need to define what a reasonable profit margin is.  joeglow3   Jan-27-10 08:02 AM   #28 
     - You make good points.  Quantess   Jan-26-10 09:26 PM   #18 
     - Which comes first, the chicken or the egg?  HughBeaumont   Jan-27-10 08:00 AM   #27 
  - Legislation to stop companies from being profitable?  Imajika   Jan-26-10 08:30 PM   #8 
  - And When Those Same Shareholders Can't Afford To Patronize Those Companies Or....  global1   Jan-26-10 08:53 PM   #11 
  - You may not like their business model...  Imajika   Jan-26-10 09:16 PM   #15 
  - Who Said Anything About Legislating Not To Hire/Fire People......  global1   Jan-26-10 09:42 PM   #19 
     - Okay, so business builds all that in...  Imajika   Jan-26-10 10:07 PM   #21 
     - How do you know they did not already do that?  joeglow3   Jan-27-10 08:06 AM   #29 
  - Verizon is a very deceptive company.  Dr.Phool   Jan-26-10 10:42 PM   #22 
  - complete and utter bullshit.........  bowens43   Jan-27-10 07:17 AM   #25 
     - And you would nationalize them to what end?  Imajika   Jan-27-10 08:47 AM   #31 
  - What's unpatriotic is herd-think economic ignorance being codified as law.  Psephos   Jan-26-10 08:58 PM   #13 
  - so there's gonna be a corresponding cut of it's outrageous fees to customers??? nt  msongs   Jan-26-10 08:24 PM   #6 
  - so are they (like my company) sending our jobs to India?  peacebird   Jan-26-10 08:29 PM   #7 
  - My God, the amount of money I send that company every  WestSeattle2   Jan-26-10 08:55 PM   #12 
  - Oh goody! Now we get to wait 2 hours to get a breathing person instead of 1  AwakeAtLast   Jan-26-10 09:49 PM   #20 
  - Look for smaller long distance and wireless companies.  Jennicut   Jan-26-10 10:50 PM   #23 
  - Even MORE logs on the bonfire of Friedman Disaster Corporatism.  HughBeaumont   Jan-27-10 07:55 AM   #26 
  - They could start by closing their retail stores....  Jeff In Milwaukee   Jan-27-10 08:18 AM   #30 
  - are these American or overseas jobs?  w8liftinglady   Jan-27-10 11:14 AM   #32 
 

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