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Replying to: dallasdude1 (Aug 15, 2008 6:50 pm) |
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Replying to: gagrice (Aug 14, 2008 8:06 pm) There was a movie that came out a year or so ago called "The High Cost of Low Prices" that definitely painted WalMart in a bad light. Now keep in mind it was a MOVIE, which means take it with a grain of salt. However, one thing I do remember is that they were saying full-time employees usually only worked 32 hours per week, and it took something like 2 years to qualify for health insurance. Even then, the premiums were so high most people couldn't afford it. Supposedly, WalMart actually tells their employees how to get gov't assistance for health needs. But then, on "Penn & Teller's Bull****", they did an episode on WalMart and the bad myths surrounding it, and said most of it was, well, Bull****. So I'm guessing the truth is somewhere in the middle. Probably varies from location to location, too. Now in bigger suburban areas, I don't think WalMart has so much pull. For instance, if they piss me off, I can just go to Target, Kohls, K-Mart/Sears, etc. But out in smaller locales, like the midwest, I hear they tend to throw their weight around and take advantage of things. While I can just go to the Target up the street from WalMart, in some of those more isolated areas, the nearest competitor could be 30 miles or more away. Or heck, the nearest competitor could be ANOTHER WalMart! |
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Replying to: andre1969 (Aug 15, 2008 7:18 pm) I like New Balance a lot. Both for the fact that they still employ Americans but also because they have standards for their overseas factories so they never had an embarrassment with child labor and such like Nike. They also make an excellent shoe and don't pay athletes a fortune to wear them. No doubt in my mind that cheap imported shoes aren't as well made as when they made them here. You won't notice the comfort difference in a shirt. You will in a shoe.
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Replying to: fezo (Aug 15, 2008 8:03 pm) I remember they seemed uncomfortable as hell at first, until they finally broke in, and then they were one of the most comfy shoes I'd ever had. Really lightweight. My Granddad bought a pair of New Balance once. I tried not to let that tarnish the image of the brand...my 90+ year old Granddad walking around in them! Anyway, the soles actually split on him! But then, things like that tended to happen to Granddad, it seems. This is the one who bought a '75 Dodge Dart and had it become one of the worst cars they ever owned! 
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Good friends of our got married in customized Carhartts. Both of them. Union made. They both drove Detroit iron too, but I never heard them make a reference to the UAW (or any other union). The UAW makes other stuff besides cars btw. Hockey sticks, and cappuccino machines for example. UAW Made. September 1-6, 2008 is Union Label Week. Go buy a Viper and celebrate.
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Replying to: tedebear (Aug 12, 2008 4:50 pm) You are a veteran by UAW standards. Most of the people with your number of years that were making the good money have taken the buy-out because the future doesn't look very good. I respect and support your decision to go with Boeing, and wish you nothing but the best pal !!!  -Rocky |
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Replying to: imidazol97 (Aug 12, 2008 5:49 pm) I agree the choices we have aren't great but un less you want 4 more years of Bush, economics do you really have a choice ??? McCain's, stance on free-trade with further destroy manufactoring here in the U.S. and limit the job choices of our youth. I never thought in a million years I'd have trouble getting a good job but my god pal, I'm approaching 300 mark of sent resumes and applications (honestly !!) since I've moved back to Michigan, and my only job offer outside of selling credit/debit card machines for business's for some California, company I've told no now 3 times well was a job offer driving hi-lo for Steelcase, a large officer furniture company here in Grand Rapids, for $9.00 an/hr. I go thursday for some testing to be a customer service rep for a energy company called Consumer's Energy, and that will only pay $10.64 and hour and if I was bilingual, I could make $2.00 an hour more. So yeah, I would vote for Mickey Mouse, at this juncture if he were running against McCain !!!!  Name me one thing McCain, has done for working people with all his years in the Senate ????? How have working people benefited ???? -Rocky |
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Replying to: gagrice (Aug 12, 2008 9:31 pm) gagrice, I wouldn't consider Boxer, Pelosi, most liberals. Just because they are from California, a state with the largest population and office get the most recognition doesn't make them the majority !!!  Just remember the unemployment was higher in the 90s. It was ??? Not here in Michigan !!!!  -Rocky
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Replying to: dallasdude1 (Aug 13, 2008 6:48 pm) -Rocky |
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Replying to: kay14 (Aug 14, 2008 5:52 pm) I respect your POV, and agree with you pal !!! The biggest difference between the U.S. and Sweden..... is Sweden, doesn't have the sheer amount of illegal alien and immigration issues like the U.S. that sucks the system dry which goes back to your "take all you can mind set". They didn't put anything into the pot of money, but because I'm a certain race I'm entitled to it. It really chapped my ass a few years back when both legal and illegal aliens hit the street to march and riot over money and rights they or their family never sacrificed to get or deserve but feel entitled too !!!! If an american did that in Mexico, they would been showed a noose and a trap door !!! The bottom line is manufactoring in this country will be pretty much dead. It won't matter if you are union or non-union because I was reading the other day how advanced the infrastucture in China and India, has became. India, will do the high-tech work and China, will do the low skilled jobs. We as a nation will become a serf n' elite society The Golden Eutopia Of The Capitalist !!!  -Rocky |
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