Loyalty

Once upon a time, perhaps only in my imagination, not only did employees have loyalty towards their companies, but those companies had loyalty toward their employees as well. Now, it seems that long-time employees are terminated, let go, fired, if they miss too much work due to crippling health issues. You can get hit by a train and find out that you don't have a job once the government mandated "don't fire that guy" period is over, even if you have been a valued, productive employee for decades. So what can we do about it? The Obama administration has announced that they will be asking Congress to legalize serfdom. Republican leaders, in a rare show of bipartisanship, vowed to support the action, reasoning that most of them would be the new lords of the manor.