carlitosway: I DID say 'we' and clearly put myself into the mix of the 'whole' American public. I did not bash any 1 person. I did not say 'no one works hard'. I said our parents and grandparents worked harder. I said WE are making ourselves worse off by our laziness. That is meant as a large generality...I obviously do not know you per se'. I stand by my statement...we do not work as hard as our parents and grandparents did...again a generality. Ask most people over 60 if they agree. If you in fact have not come across anyone who takes the system for granted or expects something for nothing, then I sincerely wish I could know the people you know.

Another 75-100 employees are going to experience some CHANGE, although it is probably not what they had HOPED for.

“You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by the way he eats jelly beans.”
-Ronald Reagan

napalm and marissa .I don't know about you but I have worked over 40 years of my life and was a single parent and i broke a sweat at my 8 to 10 hour job and another 8 hours at home so when you make statements like you did in here I hope you are talking about yourself as I have worked with many who have went home dragging just as i did.

Napalm I don't think your brain is close to breaking a sweat! I have worked in factories and have gone home drenched in sweat and my clothes filthy.

I'm really not sure how the same old "things were better in the old days" rant (uh, see Ecclesiastes for a good one) has anything to do with a plant being idled by recession. I mean, we also had an economic boom the several years before that, and another boom back in the 1990s. Did we suddenly become lazy beginning in December 2007?

Marissa
I like how you think. Allot of blue collars out there are not going to get a nice wage without graduating though.. When they do and go to college there dreams will be further shattered by the saturated market which has way to many applicants and not enough jobs. Hope they can get used to hearing 8. not 28. best of luck

Napalm...were you listening in on my conversation last night? Dead on! We are getting lazier and lazier. We play video games and instead of walking our rear ends out to get the paper, like our parents and grandparents did, we hop online. Like I am doing now. We modify our homes so washers and dryers are on the main floor, so we don't have to walk downstairs (I understand some of us need those conveinences)...we eat out all the time instead of learning how to make food at home. We expect the public to teach our children, but get mad when someone suggests little Timmy was rude. Come on America...get off your butt! We get paid good salaries to do much less work (white or blue collar, doesn't matter) than people did just 15 years ago. Our parents and grandparents would have been embarassed to be on public assistance, some of us think it is a way of life. We are so smart we are ruining a great country.
Before you all bash me...I said 'we'.

Are you suggesting the good ol'e days of sweatshops? I have worked in several companies where the workers left after their 8-12 hour shifts totally exhausted, so maybe you could clarify it a bit more.

napalm wrote:I dont think you can go into a single factory or any place today and see a person even remotely close to breaking a sweat.
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Are you kidding me? Do you know what the inside of a factury even looks like?

People who dont break a sweat in a factory are lazy? Have you been in one lately? Unlike 50 years ago we have more automated systems running the manufacturing process now. Would you call modern railroad employees lazy because nobody is shoveling coal into a firebox?

I wonder if paper sales are down because of unemployment (less paychecks being printed)?