Reply #1: They still haven't figured it out, that they killed the goose

[Warpy]

that laid the golden eggs by offshoring good jobs and leaving us with nothing but the McJobs and now they're trying to outsource as many of those as they can.

People know their jobs aren't safe and there is no way they're going to take more debt on, the only way they can possibly pay for big ticket items from cars to washing machines to houses to college educations.

This economy won't improve until the fools in their ivory towers have this simple fact brought home to them: no bailout in the world is going to save any company that is out of customers.