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Re: bonus points [tedebear] by gagrice
Aug 14, 2008 (6:14 am)
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Replying to: tedebear (Aug 13, 2008 8:28 pm)

Maybe you can take a leave of absence from your UAW job until they offer the buyout. Take the good job in hand and hope to make out with Chrysler. Good luck.
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Re: Job Applicant [dallasdude1] by grbeck
Aug 14, 2008 (11:37 am)
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Replying to: dallasdude1 (Aug 13, 2008 6:09 pm)

dallasdude: First of all, Obama beat out the republican candidate Keyes, a pro-labor GOP seasoned veteran. However, he was no match for Obama in a verbal joust. This time he will be debating an unarmed man.
 
Senator Obama is good when he stays on script. Not so much when he has to deviate from the script. Senator McCain is the opposite. On script, he is boring. Get him off script, and he is much better and more passionate. Why do you think Senator McCain is so eager for those town hall meetings, and Senator Obama is resisting them?
 
dallasdude: 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.
 
In the real world, degrees count for less than real-world experience. So far, I'm seeing an old-school Chicago politician who is attracting attention because of his racial background, relative youth and good looks. Get past the surface and look at his platform, and he's about as "new" and exciting as a 2008 Impala is compared to a 2000 Impala. Unless you consider higher taxes, more social programs and bailouts for companies that customers are rejecting with their hard-earned dollars to be "new" and exciting. Considering our history over the last 50 or so years, I sure don't.
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Re: steve host and others [dallasdude1] by grbeck
Aug 14, 2008 (11:43 am)
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Replying to: dallasdude1 (Aug 13, 2008 6:48 pm)

dallasdude: Sears was the number one retailer. Now we have Walmart and part time employees.dallasdude: Those employees (on average) use $2000 a year each in social services paid for with tax revenues, because their wages make them indigents.
 
They use those programs because the eligibility requirements have been steadily adjusted UPWARDS over the years. I see this all the time in my job. Recently, Governor Rendell attempted to introduce a program for low-cost health insurance that would have been available to families making almost $80,000 per year. Even in the Philadelphia region (the state's highest cost region), that is still a good income for a family of four.
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Re: Job Applicant [dallasdude1] by grbeck
Aug 14, 2008 (11:48 am)
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Replying to: dallasdude1 (Aug 13, 2008 6:32 pm)

dallasdude: Was Nixon vice president under DDE? His own father in-law (DDE) wouldn't endorse him? Or was his daughter married to an Eisenhower?
 
Nixon was Dwight Eisenhower's vice president. His daughter, Julie, married Dwight Eisenhower's grandson. They are still married today, and live in suburban Philadelphia, if I recall correctly.
 
I recall that Dwight Eisenhower did endorse him for president in 1960, although Eisenhower really wasn't all that fond of him.
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Re: Job Applicant [grbeck] by steve_ HOST
Aug 14, 2008 (11:51 am)
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Replying to: grbeck (Aug 14, 2008 11:37 am)

I think some of y'all are looking for the The Race to the White House discussion.
 
Any UAW interest or are we done in here (again)?
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Back to UAW by imidazol97
Aug 14, 2008 (5:09 pm)
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Transfer rights for IUE/CWA union at Moraine plant
 
I'm always on topic so I'll get it going again.
 
The local Moraine truck plant likely to be closing has stalled on contract talks with workers. They want rights to transfer to UAW plants as the truck plant slows down over the next two years
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Re: rocky [kay14] by gagrice
Aug 14, 2008 (5:13 pm)
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I was brought up under sociolism and came to the states just over 20 years ago.
 
What is your opinion on the Swedish system of government? We have very strong UAW members here that think the Swedish system is superior to the USA.
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Re: Back to UAW [imidazol97] by gagrice
Aug 14, 2008 (5:26 pm)
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Replying to: imidazol97 (Aug 14, 2008 5:09 pm)

Do you really think that GM will negotiate that close to closing the plant? They are better off dealing with the long term members and early retirement.

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