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Replying to: rockylee (Jan 29, 2008 1:19 pm) We got 15,000 new Saudi college students in 2006. The Saudi government has requested visas for 21,000 more college students to be enrolled in our colleges this year. Can your children compete against Saudi riches just to pay tuition? Rocky, the demise of the UAW is miniscule in the BIG picture. We have illegal and legal students clamoring to get into our universities. Next it will be a huge influx of students from China and India and who knows where. The billions we waste on entitlement programs could be used as scholarships to our brightest students. We would rather spend $250 billion rebuilding that hell hole in New Orleans. Thousands of students from Saudi Arabia are enrolling on college campuses across the United States this semester. The program will quintuple the number of Saudi students and scholars here by the academic year's end. And big, public universities from Florida to the Kansas plains are in a fierce competition for their tuition dollars. The kingdom's royal family — which is paying full scholarships for most of the 15,000 students — says the program will help stem unrest at home by schooling the country's brightest in the American tradition. The U.S. State Department sees the exchange as a way to build ties with future Saudi leaders and young scholars at a time of unsteady relations with the Muslim world. Administrators at Kansas State University, an agricultural school surrounded by miles of prairie grass, say the scholarships are a bonanza for public education. "The Saudi scholarship program has definitely heightened our interest in that part of the world," said Kenneth Holland, associate provost for international programs. "Not only are the students fully funded, but they're also paying out-of-state tuition." |
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Replying to: lemko (Jan 29, 2008 4:53 pm) I just had a bowl of Breyer's ice cream. Was it made in China? I do believe our attorney friend was advocating the boycotting of Chinese made goods. I know my wife does it religiously. I know I got chewed out for buying a bag of fresh garlic that was a product of China. |
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Replying to: gagrice (Jan 29, 2008 5:16 pm) According to Breyer's website, the only facility outside of the US is in Ontario. We have manufacturing plants in the following locations: Clearwater, FL Framingham, MA Hagerstown, MD Henderson, NV Huntington, IN Sikeston, MO St. Albans, VT Waterbury, VT Simcoe, Ontario Our Corporate Office is located in Green Bay, WI. Who knows where all of the incrediant's come from, but I don't think you have to worry about giving up your favorite treat anytime soon.
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Replying to: dieselone (Jan 29, 2008 5:22 pm) Framingham, MA Hagerstown, MD Henderson, NV Huntington, IN Sikeston, MO St. Albans, VT Waterbury, VT Simcoe, Ontario Our Corporate Office is located in Green Bay, WI. Only one of those is in the South. Haven't they recognized the expertise and cheap labor available there. What's the real reason they haven't built a plant in Missippi, Louisiana, Alabama?... I don't even consider FL the South. While visiting my sister in Boca it was more like the North translated hundreds of miles, and like Cuba creeping north.
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Replying to: dieselone (Jan 29, 2008 5:22 pm) Now if Rocky and his friends in MI will only buy things made in USA we can get this ball rolling. |
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Replying to: imidazol97 (Jan 29, 2008 5:25 pm) Maybe it's because up in Green Bay they only have to run the freezers for about 3 mos. a year. LOL |
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Replying to: marsha7 (Jan 29, 2008 2:41 pm)  We are obviously in the minority but perhaps enough of us will be able to pass our message along to future generations and they can truely be "the greatest generation" as they try to repair the damages done by previous generation to this country.  -Rocky P.S. I do not shop at Wal~Mart, and it's not my union buddy's that are buying their shoddy toxic crap !!! That would be your pseudo-capitalist, free marketeer, buddy's. 
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Replying to: rockylee (Jan 29, 2008 6:46 pm) Wrong "o" big time Rocky. The amount I have invested into Social Security should pay me way more than that check I get each month. If I had just put the money in a savings account I would reap a way bigger monthly benefit without ever touching the principle. You can thank your idol JFK for robbing the SS fund and dumping it into the general fund. Then Congress acts like they are doing the recipients a big favor each month. Social Security is a joke as a retirement fund. Those of US that worked all our adult lives paying into that black hole are being cheated by the US Government. You will be cheated even worse if you work 45 years and expect to collect. I am thankful for having a good Union retirement that pays over twice as much per month as SS. And as far as the National debt. FDR ran up a bigger percentage of our GDP as debt than any Presidents since. So I inherited a big National debt just as you are and our children and Grandchildren will. The ONLY President to pay back ONE penny of the National debt was Ike. So those Presidents that like to claim a balanced budget did nothing to lower our debt. |
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Replying to: lemko (Jan 29, 2008 4:53 pm) Thanks, lemko !!!  Shoot, if all the merchandise sold at Sears, Sports Authority, Circuit City and others was made here, virtually NO AMERICANS who wanted to work would be out of a job. There would be a lot less social ills like poverty, crime, drug abuse, alcoholism, child abuse, etc. as well. Come to Philadelphia which was once called "The Workshop of the World!" Postindustrial Philly is now refered to as "Killadelphia." I'm sure there would be a lot less thugs shooting people if they had viable jobs like there once were at Disston Saw, Dodge Steel, Botany 500, Stetson Hat, Baldwin Locomotive, The Budd Company, Philco, Merck, General Electric, Breyer's Ice Cream, Whitman Chocolate, etc. EXACTLY !!! Replace the drugs, and guns, with a good paying industrial/factory job !!! History shows that good jobs kills high crime rates and improves the standard of living for everyone. Those would be thugs would be paying taxes, buying cars, homes, have health care, and would send their kids to good schools which in turn improves the education of the kids, which leads to at least some of those kids going on to college and becoming professionals. It's like some people hate and have zero respect for factory workers. Look at how many white collar jobs those regular joes and janes support. Engineers, Executives, Human Resources, Middle & Lower Management, etc, etc, to name a few. So yeah, those company's lemko, mentioned are just a few of the "great jobs" in Philly, has lost to un free market !!!  -Rocky
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