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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (206786)	12/3/2001 8:27:04 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 769670

Tom: Tom: Companies create or maintain jobs based upon... what they can afford. When no one buys the company's services or goods, it can't afford any employees. In small companies I believer there is a real desire to not lay off friends, co workers. First, small companies may not wish to lay off friends or coworkers, but they may have no choice if they have no business. Corporations would never show any such altruism. Kenneth Lay sold his Enron shares in August when it became evident to him Enron was tanking. He has no personal liability because Enron's a corporation, and no moral liability because he's amoral. As a taxpayers, we have a vested interest in where our tax dollars go. I'd much rather see them benefiting me than becoming multimillion dollar bonuses for IBM's upper echelon, who if they were doing a good job wouldn't need to suck off of taxpayers. Investment tax credits and writeoffs stimulate buying that inventory Credits and writeoffs for corporations! How do those corporation perks induce people to buy? Companies can't survive without consumers When there's more demand for goods, companies hire more employees who pay the taxes that go to benefit all. Those taxes should not be looked upon as a disincentive-to-perform windfall for irresponsible corporate leaders who count on the govt to bail them, e.g., United Airlines, and I just bet...Enron. "Take not from the mouth of Labor the bread it has earned."...and give it to IBM Thomas Jefferson, Inaugural Address, March 4, 1801