So the stock market took a big dump today, the reason? US Consumer spending remains week. Does it really take a brain surgeon to figure out why?

Corporate CEO’s take home millions in annual salary, you would think they would pick people for the job who can think and act past three months. How many are anxious to go out and buy a new plasma TV or take the family on a vacation to Disney World when so many are out of work and so many others live in constant fear of losing the jobs they have?.

Yet when a company releases their quartely earnings report and things are down, what’s the first thing they do? Cut jobs. Why? For no other reason than it’s become the accepted method of trying to keep the stock price from dropping too far. With corporations in job cutting mode and sending more and more jobs off shore, who do they think is really going to be left to buy their products?

There will never be a true recovery until someone takes a stand, says enough is enough and refuses to play corporate lemmings. That will be the true difficult decision, the question, is there a CEO out there with the courage to do it?