Stray Thought, Reaganomics Dept. 0

I listen to a lot of Old Time Radio (“old time” in this context means mostly 1940s and early 1950s, not “old time” to me, but, then, I’m old), mostly because it’s fun (see the links in the sidebar).

It reminds one of the days when writers were able to tell a coherent, concise story with a beginning, middle, and end, in half an hour. (This would appear to be a lost art–not just the “beginning, middle, and end” part, but also the “coherent” part).

One of the shows I sometimes indulge in is “Casey, Crime Photographer,” which under various permutations of that name, aired for a decade.

Somewhere in the introduction, the announcer would always say,

The Anchor Hocking Glass Corporation and its 10,000 employees bring you . . . .

You cannot imagine those words today, for, to today’s employers, employees are not partners in production.

Today’s employees are the enemy, to be vanquished, despoiled, and impoverished.

Especially impoverished, so that Wall Street bonus babies can get their bonuses for “cutting costs.”

Just ask Walmart, whose business model is based on exporting jobs to China and abusing employees.