Foldcraft lays off 25 workers on Faribault Daily News

By: secretsquirrel on 11/6/09
Personally, I think it's because people cannot afford to eat three Big Macs, 2 large fries, a double combo chocolate malt and a (small diet) sodapop three times a day. They only eat such meals twice a day.
So, consumers are slimming down. Smaller hind ends require less space, hence the reduction in needed cluster seating.

On the political side:
Obama didn't cause this, Obama will not solve this. That does not mean that some of the things that President Obama has done or proposed make a heck of a lot of sense to me or that I agree with all he's done. I completely disagree with him on some keys points. Like spending us into the poor house in an ill advised attempt to perform CPR on a dead patient. let capitalism run it's course: The weak die, the strong eat the weak, the strong get stronger.
Personally, I think the stimulus package was never intended to turn anything around, it was meant as a stall for politicians to figure out to straighten this mess out. Instead, they bicker and argue, snipe and growl and stump for their own agendas. All of those people sitting there with more power than any nation on Earth and they still waste out time and tax dollars by their political vanity instead of finding solutions.
Yet, with McCain as an option, there was little choice. We needed a president that would actually LIVE long enough to do something. My big problem with McCain was that he looked like he might fall over dead any day and I sure as hell did not want to wake up to find Palin sitting in the oval office.
But, whatever happens in the next year will be the result of many people doing many things to try to get us afloat again.
This problem has been brewing since the early eighties and our own greed and denial got us here. Not ONE president. Not ONE republican or democrat.
People touted Barrack Obama's election as some sort of social milestone that America was finally ready to embrace color.... hate to break anyone's bubble but we never had a viable black candidate for president prior to his arrival on the national scene. There were the usual boobs, malcontents and men who could not support their qualification for candidacy on anything more than guilt, racism and lies. The old 'You OWE me' campaign approach. It didn't work for them.
As for hope and change... I would take either but am not holding my breath for both.
To those at Foldcraft, my sympathies to you and yours particularly at this time of year.
I cannot help anyone directly but I make regular contributions to the food shelf, Salvation Army, Toys for Tots and other charities I feel confident in.
That's all any of us can do while we wait to see whether they can turn things around fast enough to keep companies in a position to recall workers and get this nation rolling again.
Keep your heads up.