Tonight I just watched an episode of Cold Case on TV called "Sabotage" (2008, Season 5, Episode 12). While I didn't consider this particular episode one of their better efforts, it did pertain to many of the woes we're experiencing today.
The opening scene has two co-workers, a young man and woman, in an electronics retail store called BIG BOX in circa 1999. They were playing a game to see who can find something that wasn't made China. A few minutes later the male co-worker walks into the back of the store where a bomb goes off, and he is killed.
It turns out that the bomb had been planted by a serial bomber, who had earlier lost his job as a mechanical engineer (along with 25 other of his co-workers) and whose jobs had been outsourced to China.
Later the man (the serial bomber, before he had become the serial bomber) ended up working a low-paying job trying to support his wife and child. The child was sick, and he and his wife had lost their healthcare coverage --- and his daughter dies from a pre-existing condition. Later his wife divorces him and he eventually loses his home --- and he later discovers that even the block that he once grew up on as a kid had become an urban ruin.
Basically (without giving away too many details of the show) he had blamed all his losses, troubles, sorrows and woes on outsourcing --- then became very angry and bitter --- and went on a bombing spree.
Near the end of the show (during one of those flashback moments) it shows what had first set the serial bomber into action. He had been trying to return a defective item to the BIG BOX electronic store (where the male employee had refereed to the defective item as "crap") and the serial bomber was told that, because it was after 30 days, he would have to send the item back to the original manufacturer for a refund (who of course, is in China). The serial bomber had complained that it would cost more to ship than it would for his refund.
Almost ironically, after seeing this show, I came across an article by the Center for Public Policy about loopholes that insurance companies had lobbied for in ObamaCare®.
It said: "The bad news, especially for those who work in low paying jobs at places like chain restaurants, retailers and nursing homes, is that many of the consumer protections that apply to policies bought through the exchanges will not apply to them. Some of the biggest insurers (including Cigna, United Health Group and Aetna) bought companies several years ago that specializes in so-called 'limited-benefit' plans, where the insurance companies that sell them never have to pay out much in claims."
And in another article by the Center for Public Policy (that I had read earlier) it says Aetna may hike insurance premiums on these "limited benefit" plans by more than 100 percent --- and that while many Aetna employees were lucky to get two percent raises last year, the CEO of Aetna had his compensation nearly quadrupled...to $47 million.
That episode of Cold Case was before the economic crash and before Obama was president and before there was ObamaCare®. Will we see some very desperate, angry and bitter serial bombers in the future due to continued outsourcing and corporate greed?