IMO JD is a propriatory company, they make certian things and sell them worldwide. If demand falls JD must move in ways that preserve the company. Yes JD is a huge corp with lots of money, so is Boeing, however, that does not mean they must guarentee anyone a job and last years profit is no guarentee of future profits.
I grew up around Boeing and they hired and fired folks all the time; also layed off large amounts of workers periodically, mostly the lazy ones perhaps. Boeing, like JD also moved some of their manufacturing around the country and even out of the country, same as JD.
If we want perminant work status for any job then your asking for a demise of free enterprise in this country. Before I became an engineer, I worked in the electrical trade, took my 5 year apprenticeship then worked out of the union. Mt Dad told me Son, you will always have a job, he was right. We often got layed off after a project, then signed up for another callout to a new company and project. The difference is, JD is like one contractor with some sub-contractors thrown in making their tractors, here or anywhere else in the world so if wanting to work in that type enviornment, layoffs come with little choice of going to another tractor maker in your howmtown, state or otherwise. In my case, we signed up at the union hall for other work or, could go out of town or to a different state and find work, the beauty of a union that is in every state, unlike JD or Boeing for example.
JD employees a lot of workers and has for years, they are a stock holder corp, they have responsibilities to employees, their welfare, but also to their investors who put one heck of a lot of money in the pot to make tractors and provide jobs, they are entitled to a return on investment if the company make good that year. JD has to juggle all of this to a successful end each year, not an easy task. In the end JD like Boeing, can't be all things to all people, it's free enterprise and we should all work to preserve it over the alternitive systems around the world. What I see as sad, is the continuing inflation the average household must endure, mine included. Cities and Counties raising our taxes to unaffordable heights, $5. gasoline and the push for a green sociaty that will be unsustainable. Many who are young, borrow money they can't or won't pay back just so they can go to a college teaching them nothing but hate then can't get a job much better than Starbucks or starring at some computer screen.
