Three Little Piggies

Alec Baldwin called his daughter a “little pig” and now she’s scarred for life says no less an authority than Dr. Phil.

There is definitely something in the environment that is causing chromosome breakage and making adult people behave like retarded imbeciles.

You got any idea what people used to call me, and still do? What do I care, unless the guy happens to be holding a baseball bat or a machete?

If Alec Baldwin had cut off the kid’s child support, then people might have a case against him. Anyway, this whole Little Pig thing is the fault of the child’s vindictive mother, Kim Basinger, who released the tape to the press, and Baldwin himself who, instead of laughing the whole thing off, actually went along with the gag to the extent that it’s wrecking his career.

An employment expert in The Wall Street Journal recently advised bosses to reward young people with freakin’ balloons and gold stars just for showing up for work on time. We used to get that in the first grade, not on Wall Street. One employer, definitely of the old school, wrote in that instead of calling in the party planner, he would prefer to call in the outsourcing consultant. Amen to that.

I’m not advocating a return to Dickensian cruelty, but I think people need to develop thicker skins. Most of the world still operates under the old system of thoughtless brutality, and Americans need to be able to handle unwarranted stress when it shows its ugly head, as it invariably does. Young persons who are being soft-soaped all their lives are going to unravel at the seams the first time an unmanageable situation arises.

I want to criticize Hillary Clinton for not seizing the opportunity to attack Wal Mart Stores during last night’s Democratic debate. OK, Wal Mart treats workers like animals (see above) and doesn’t offer decent benefits to employees. Clinton got that right. But the most insidious thing about Wal Mart is that it forces domestic suppliers to outsource their production to China.

If your company is selling vacuum cleaners to Wal Mart, they insist that you start producing in China so that they can buy from you at a cheaper price. The result is industrial managers and workers in America losing jobs.

I can’t say for sure, but knowing companies like I do, there’s a distinct possibility of Wal Mart being involved in a sweetheart relationship with Chinese manufacturers to kick back profits the manufacturers make from American businesses that Wal Mart steers to them. They probably would call it a consultancy fee.

That might be stretching things too far, to make that kind of assertion without positive proof. But Hillary Clinton, having no knowledge of industrial practices other than what she reads in the papers, is missing the main problem about Wal Mart, that it forces American companies to outsource production if they want to keep Wal Mart as a customer. 200motels

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