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Replying to: kipk (Aug 13, 2008 5:58 am) I bet they don't last as long nowadays, either. I bought a Levi's denim jacket back in 11th grade. Must have been late 1986 or early 1987. I remember even back then it was 50 bucks. That sucker lasted, though. Eventually the elbows wore out, and I cut the sleeves off and made a vest out of it. I think I still have it packed away somewhere. It was getting a bit frayed around the collar too, but that just gave it a "vintage" look. |
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if Julius Caesar invented Caesar salad dressing, does that mean that Ronald Reagan or George W.Bush (or George H.Bush, for that matter)invented Ranch dressing. I know, tee-hee.  tedebear, so the Boeing job is local there in St.Louis? The UAW members ought to be thinking re-training round about now if they haven't already been thinkin' along those lines. 
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Replying to: iluvmysephia1 (Aug 13, 2008 7:24 am) I thought that Bush was responsible for those baked beans that the Irish setter is always trying to leak the recipe to. Ronald Reagan, he was an actor. I don't think he invented anything. If he did, he probably wouldn't remember... 
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Replying to: marsha7 (Aug 13, 2008 4:49 am) We always cut the lawyers extra slack. But you can glance at the discussion title now and then as a memory trick to remind yourself that you are in the CarSpace UAW topic, and not, say, chatting up the judge's clerk or picking up your starched ties.
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Replying to: tedebear (Aug 12, 2008 4:50 pm) Take the BOEING job!!! McDD / BOEING's general working conditions cannot be beat. Boeing has the most amazing education support system, - get your bachelor's degree, all costs paid 100%, AND receive 100 shares of Boeing stock!!! I might add that no import car will ever be found in my garage, no matter where I work. The UAW helped me get to where I am today. You will have to drive some rather exclusive rig, 'cause all that mundane transportation is bolted together in Mexico or elsewhere. My '91 lincoln conti was slapped together in Mexico... 
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You must cut kipk: I think I remember reading a few years ago that Levi Strauss finally closed their last remaining USA plant and moved it all to China or Mexico...to bring Levi on topic, I must question that age old mantra, was it worth paying Americans, say, $20-30 per hour and still sell the jacket for $80...it seems to be a question that always pops up, that the wages of the workers sent the product overseas, as I do not think the price of cotton would have done it...and the fact that Levi did it within, I believe, in the last 5 years means that they TRIED to do it with American labor, but I am assuming that the cost was simply too high, or they could not sell the jacket for $125 to recoup the cost of USA labor...which is why, I think, we do not have a textile industry here, as the cost of the US made clothing would be more than the average American will pay, so they must meet their market and drop labor costs, or at least that is what I am thinking... Every one talks about the WORKER making a reasonable wage, but nobody looks at the demand side to see if the public will pay the price for the US workers wages...if the $80 jacket becomes $125, then fewer jackets will be sold and the industry will shrink simply due to lower demand at the higher price... andre: my wife used to work at a bank where they called it all PTO, Paid Time Off...you could bak only so many days a year, not all of them, and they didn't care whether you called it sick time, vacation time, bereavment time, personal days or whatever...say you got 21 days a year, and you could bank 10...that was it and it seemed reasonable at the time... |
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Replying to: imidazol97 (Aug 12, 2008 5:49 pm) Then you bring up Chicago as the only place that election fraud occurs. Florida comes to mind, Texas and the Duke of Duval county. You can't be thinking that Nixon and his dirty tricks was robbed in Chicago? Might I remind you that Obama is a professor at the University of Chicago (Americas number one MBA school with countless Nobel prize professors) and is light years ahead of the status quo and or anything the entire GOP has to offer in intellect.
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Replying to: tedebear (Aug 12, 2008 7:26 pm) I thought that this was the worse scandal (Watergate) in history. However, Bush/Cheney/Rove have managed to change my mind. In any case how do you think Clinton/Monica will be explained to children in history lessons? Also the UAW has a wonderful summer family scholarship program for the membership. Great vacation spot, good food, awesome rooms, and the greatest people. Plus the UAW picks-up the tab. During the rest of the year they educate different groups with in the UAW. Such as the editors/union newspaper folks this week. Chaplin's of locals another week and so forth.
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Replying to: marsha7 (Aug 13, 2008 6:02 pm) Point I was trying to make is that whether shopping Wal*Mart or elsewhere the chances, of buying American made goods, are getting slimmer.  Kip |
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