Scribe-ls

My nerves rattle every time I hear about big businesses cutting wages or laying off staff because profits are not at projected levels.  Wait a rotten, stinking minute.  You're making a profit, that should be enough.  It's not like small business, where the profit is what mom-n-pop live on; the executives and other fat cats are living mighty well, thank you very much, before profit is even arrived at! 

If you're making enough to pay any kind of dividend after setting aside for future needs, what's the beef?  Investors rankling for more money than they're getting?  What, exactly, is wrong with a sane 3 to 5%?  Oh, yeah, that's right, chubby dividends boost trading; we're talkin' fast money, pal.  Garbage.  Easy come, easy go.  Speed kills.  Let's put our feet back on the dirt and do right.  Retain jobs and retain an economy before China, Mexico and the Middle East buy the whole country cheaply.  Otherwise, we'll be thinking these were the good old days as we struggle in a new culture.