The End of American Welfare: Corporations Are Forced to Cut Off the Spigot of Corporate-funded Socialism

Give me your life and I will take care of you in your old age. So was the promise given to American employees after World War II. As Europe was enacting socialism and social programs so that no one would ever want again, the same desire permeated an America scarred and traumatized after the Great Depression. There was a great difference in the approach to this desire. Europe sought to fix these desires with government funded and proposed projects. In America, victorious after the war and conflicted about her role in the world, she found her resources diverted elsewhere in the world which left these welfare desires on the one segment of America that could best pay for them and who need the most out of people, corporations.

The plan was perfect in execution and if it weren't for the 1980's economic bust it would have worked for a good many years more than it has. The attitude was that if the employee gave his life to the company when he ceased to work and enjoyed his leisure latter years the company he had given life and limb to would take care of him. Sounds just like European socialism with work attached to it. It went along well with the new social security system as well and it appeared that America, the richest most powerful nation on the face of the planet also could take care of its own.