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Headline should be US firms CEOs, want the tax payer to fix this too.

Its hard work cutting budgets and outsourcing whatever possible to the jamaican bobsled team. So now the govt has to hire, train, feed and stable yet another army to protect these helpless overfed crybabies.

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When I went to college decades ago, we always studied case studies on what not to do. This company did this and almost went out of business. Don't do this. When bailouts happen, the end result of an action is obscured, literally subsidized and I'm afraid people don't take it as seriously.

Funny though, having gone through the Y2K fix, I'm aggravated that systems are now again storing dates in the 2 digit format.

Given that most people don't know that the Y2K bug was real, I feel that this is a category of bug that will plague us forever. And it's already happening more often than once per century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem

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