I moved to Boise, Idaho, ten years ago from New York. I kept an apartment in New York until a couple of years ago when they raised the rent to $6,000 a month... Which I suppose by London standards is cheap!
Anyway, the point of this ramble is that the largest employer in Idaho is Micron, one of the world's largest manufacturers of memory chips. I even did some ads for them until I realized that all they wanted was crap and they thought they could pay peanuts for it. So, I laughed when I read the news today that they had just announced another disastrous quarter, losing hundreds of millions of dollars. And guess what? Their stock price shot up... Why? "Cos they announced they were going to lay off thousands of workers, which is good news to Wall Street, not too cheering for the poor wankers who will soon be on the dole - Which only lasts for six months in America, after that you're on your own!
That's the great puzzle about America, most people have no job security, no health insurance, they live from pay check to pay check, can only afford to eat junk food, accept the fact that their sons and daughters are losing their lives in Iraq in a war that was started for the benefit of "Big Oil." And half of them continue to believe the sun shines out of Bush's arse. I'm amazed there hasn't been a revolution yet.
George Parker
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