I'm by no means a class warrior, but riddle me this: Just whose fault is it that a company and its employees are sufferering because of that company's bad business decisions?
I'm by no means a class warrior, but riddle me this: Just whose fault is it that a company and its employees are sufferering because of that company's bad business decisions?
Maybe you didn't read my post? I said nothing at all about Kodak or any other company. I was referring to the big picture of American jobs, and especially New York jobs - if there remains such a thing being created other than New York government jobs or welfare.
Companies which make habitually bad business decisions deserve go out of business, and usually will. But there are other reasons to go out of business than "bad" business decisions; overwhelming government regulations, confiscatory tax structures, impossible environmental laws, greedy and bloodsucking labor unions, criminality and graft, a decayed infrastucture, lack of demand, failure to modernise, the death of a supplier base,... just to name a few.
(from your later message)...Yep. Too much government will kill the business environment, one way or the other (Left/Right).
Yes, too much government can kill the business environment and New York State is a poster child of that very phenomenon. There are other reasons, too, including lousy management and labor unions. But, government taxation, over-regulation and law are something the government (we the people?) supposedly control. Too often, a successful business climate is the lowest priority of all for government. It (we) is too often busy feathering the nests of other special interests and seeing business as merely a handy cash cow to milk.
You can't continue to beat the goose that lays the golden egg and expect it to stick around if it has a viable option, whether it is a business or a taxpayer.