Again, my key critical question is, why do the corporatist', and henceforth, republicans hate Americans?

As more proof of my assertion that they do hate Americans, after being in employ with my last employer for ten months I was terminated for missing too much time. I was the rehired after they concluded that some of the time I missed was in care of my child under FMLA.

After which I was put on every schedule imaginable, making it unduly difficult for me to balance my and my child's life. These schedules continued for the rest of my employ with this food manufacturer until, after the unfortunate death of my mother, I decided I could not continue this dysfunctional yo-yo lifestyle for my son.

You see, it was my mother that kept me in employ by continually telling me that it will be okay that we will get through this. Therefore, upon her death I realized that this is not right, it is not okay, and we will not get through this.

My son is ten now! He spent the better part of his main character building years, age 7 to 10, being shifted around from home to home so I could work all of these non traditional shifts. He still is seeking his own identity. Something that children from traditional secure families begin to emulate from their secure surroundings (i.e., father, mother, brother, sister, neighbors), a sense of who they are and where they belong.

My son's sense of belonging only relates to a sense that he doesn't belong. Shifted everywhere, like a tattered suitcase bought at a church bazaar, he has a lowered sense of self esteem and tends to be more susceptible to the outward pressures of peers. Only to realize that these peers are not truly acceptable of him because they view him of not being "like them" anyway.

In conclusion, this all adds to my reactionary, albeit rhetorical, question that I stated so long ago at the beginning of this post. Why do corporatist' and republicans hate Americans?

The National Association of Manufacturers working hard to made this first-world nation into just another third world country.
Judging from the list of countries that we're down there with, they're succeeding.

I think that people aren't looking at this from both sides. 80% of Americans are opposed to the immigration bill that was written by Ted Kennedy and vocalized by Howard Dean. Does this mean that the Democratic Party hates America as well?

I am torn from this bc I deal with it from both sides. My wife received a generous compensation of 4 mos off from work when our son was born, and it was fantastic. But I get to see if from the other side in my position at work. It costs are company, which is very small, 10s of 1000s of $s. Before, you could take off from work, but you weren't paid, so our company just lost your production. Now we lose your production and we lose money to pay you. We're not an Apple or Google that has billions to throw around.

I sympathize with daviddual bc I know how hard it can be- I just wish we could stop the name calling and come up with solutions. Corporations are in business to make money, and by making money, pay their employees. With all the government regulations, it's getting harder and harder to do that, especially for small businesses which create 2 out of every 3 new jobs.

This the same Dept of Labor when asked how to reduce overtime cost told employers to reduce employee pay and cut hours so the extra hours could be paid at the base rate, or just require that the employees just work how ever many hours for thier salary. The same Dept of Labor that said anyone making the astronomical sum of 23,000 dollars a year is high level executive with the firm and there fore not authorized overtime compensation. Remeber our job as the working poor is only to make the rich, richer and produce enough offspring to replace ourselves,after we die and hopefully not run up a lot of retirement costs. Get em in the ground before 62 after 25-30+ years of service.

This the same Dept of Labor when asked how to reduce overtime cost told employers to reduce employee pay and cut hours so the extra hours could be paid at the base rate, or just require that the employees just work how ever many hours for thier salary. The same Dept of Labor that said anyone making the astronomical sum of 23,000 dollars a year is high level executive with the firm and there for not authorized overtime compensation. Remeber our job as the working poor is only to make the rich, richer and produce enough offspring to replace ourselves,after we die and hopefully not run up a lot of retirement costs. Get em in the ground before 62 after 25-30+ years of service.