[Gondring]

Hmmmmm....cutting staff in advance....in anticipation of the Obama government making layoffs more expensive for companies?

Nope. Cutting staff because the need isn't there, because demand has fallen so low.

[Born In America]

Cutting staff because the need isn't there, because demand has fallen so low.

Hold it right there. You are identifying a free market principle. Those principles do not apply in the future market controlled by the central planning committees of the incoming administration....