Should companies be told to downsize to survive just like middleclass Americans are doing..

hell ya!

Not at all! Happy days are here again

And as Companies downsize more and more American loose their jobs, and eventually run out of unemployment payments.. and then become homeless. This is because most Americans have not true capital with which to start up a mom and pop or family shop business... nor do many of them really have the skills without a year or two's study to develop them.

Great numbers of the Middle Class will enter the Poverty Class, I think this is what so many simply are not getting or ignoring. The Poverty Class has been ignored for so long that very few of the Middle Class have any idea how far down the Poverty Class is at its bottom most teir - completely homeless having only the clothes on your back, foodless a good deal of the time... dying of freezing to death or dying of heat stroke, or dying of some disease that a mere $10 would have cured. These are the bottom of the Poverty Class... many of the New members of the Poverty Class will fall right through all the teirs of the Poverty class straight to the bottom most part of it.

This is how the Poverty Class is "downsized".

well DUH!!!

of course they are going to HAVE TOO...

as will govt...

GOVERNMENT NEEDS TO SHRINK

they don't have to be 'told'. their accounting departments are making them do it.

Except at AIG

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