[quote=moneymaker]”If I were a rich man” I would show off my wealth with well maintained grass. Isn’t that how the whole grass thing started anyway? During feudal times a land owner would plant grass instead of food plants just to show that he didn’t need to.
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Grass was an analogy to give a concrete example of a similar situation. Not sure why you wandered into your like of grass and why grass came into existence?

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When times are tough for a company then I totally understand it, it is just not a good thing to lay off people to maximize profits in my opinion.
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I have no idea why a company would keep an employee they don’t currently need and don’t expect to need in the future. Companies are not charities.

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Replacing unions with contract labor and legal workers with illegal is just taking us one more step closer to “soylent green”.[/quote]

That’s a totally different situation. Your original statement did not discuss hiring contract labor or illegal immigrants to replace laid off employees. The conversation just drifted.