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16735 messages, Last post on Dec 03, 2009 at 5:49 AM
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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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Replying to: marsha7 (Aug 13, 2008 6:02 pm) If we continue on this path, the folks in China will continue to buy autos (they were number two last year in buying autos, just under America) and bid the price up at the pump. Price is the rationing mechanism for gas at the pump. So therefore we will lose that great savings at Walmart, at the gas pump. Now this is how supply and demand work.
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Replying to: steve_ (Aug 12, 2008 8:53 pm) They all left earlier this evening, headed for Detroit, in a big bus caravan. I had to work but I'm not sure I'd want to be sitting on one of those busses for the 1,100+ mile 24-hour RT, especially knowing how wound up many of those people will be. I'm sure there will be plenty of beer and cigarette smoke available. I was surprised by the high turnout of people, although I doubt it will make any difference in Cerberus' decision to idle the minivan plant in October or cut a shift from the neighboring truck plant next month. I expect the truck plant will be idled next year since they say the company cannot make money by operating a plant with just one shift. Anyway, I received my Boeing job proposal packet today via FedEx overnight delivery. I have until Monday to tell them yes or no. I think I already know what I will say. 
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