[Atomsk]

PeteK:

If you have an alternative in mind, let's hear it, but if your entire answer is ANWR, forget it. Even if all of Alaska were open to drilling, the increase in production would only equal 5% of what the Persain Gulf produces. If you know where we can get the extra 95%, let us know.

Also, this obsession with stock price is one of the biggest problems in business today. The stock is not the company. Employee job satisfaction, bringing quality products to market, stewardship of the corporate identity, all these should figure higher in managment's list of priorities.

TC:

Minimum wage "Mall Wart" jobs, mostly, and many of those are going away. My local supermarket recently replaced several registers with self-service checkout lanes. An employee told me that they then laid off several cachiers.

If the entire US labor force is replaced by forigners, illegal aliens, and machines, what will happen to the consumer economy?

The last time business tried to eliminate the consumer class, the result was The Great Depression.