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  • $10 an Hour Pay Gap = Billions of Extra Dollars a Year  [View article]
    You go to hell, you are the one without a clue. As far as being industry friendly, you can't beat the Southern states.

    The people here know more about hard work than any place in this nation.

    At least we still know what the word PRIDE means, which is why we are getting all the industry now. Unions suck, always have. The end result is Detroits present state.

    The South is rising again, and the North is just pissed because they have pissed all their opportunities way by their greedy nature.


    On Dec 14 08:48 AM drummerboy wrote:

    > what your analysis fails to mention the reason why these foreign
    > companies always seek to be in the southern states of this country
    > is because labor, and the cost of living is so much cheaper.look
    > at the history in this country, and the old adage, the south is gonna
    > do it again. you may still be in the dark ages with the mentality
    > that labor is cheap, or should be cheap,hence the reason why the
    > civil war was fought. show me one of these foreign car companies
    > that establish themselves in a geographical area that is anywhere
    > north kentucky. you won't! these car companies that come to this
    > country know more about history and demographics in order to get
    > the most bang for their buck. remember,it's the south who have NEVER
    > had respect for the labor force, chaingangs,civil war,slave labor.
    > come one folks, he who blames labor for any type of ruination in
    > this country is a fool.blame a working man for working.thats insane.whats
    > even more insane is the notion that its a union's fault. wake up
    > america. he who has never belonged, or has never gotten their finger
    > nails dirty will never understand.time to keep the eye on the real
    > ball is now. southern politicians who want to protect the notion
    > that labor is only worth 20k a yr., lawyers and insurance companies
    > as well. get a clue
    Dec 14 09:54 am |Rating: +3 -4 |Link to Comment
  • Proposed Homeowner Bailout Plans are Loaded With Problems  [View article]
    The Ant and the Grasshopper

    OLD VERSION: The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long,
    building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.

    The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays
    the summer away. Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed.

    The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.

    MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible for yourself!

    ---------------------- ---------------------

    Obama, Nancy and Reid Version VERSION:

    The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his
    house and laying up supplies for the winter.

    The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays
    the summer away.

    Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and
    demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed
    while others are cold and starving.

    CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering
    grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a
    table filled with food. America is stunned by the sharp contrast.

    How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper
    is allowed to suffer so?

    Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper, and everybody
    cries when they sing, 'It's Not Easy Being Green.'

    Jesse Jackson stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where
    the news stations film the group singing, 'We shall overcome.' Jesse
    then has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper's sake.

    Nancy Pelosi & John Kerry exclaim in an interview with Larry King that
    the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call
    for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.

    Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity & Anti-Grasshopper Act
    retroactive to the beginning of the summer.

    The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green
    bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is
    confiscated by the government.

    Hillary gets her old law firm to represent the grasshopper in a
    defamation suit against the ant, and the case is tried before a panel of
    federal judges that Bill Clinton appointed from a list of single-parent
    welfare recipients.

    The ant loses the case.

    The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of
    the ant's food while the government house he is in, which just happens
    to be the ant's old house, crumbles around him because he doesn't
    maintain it.

    The ant has disappeared in the snow.

    The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident and the house,
    now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the once
    peaceful neighborhood.

    MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote in 2008
    Oct 23 22:55 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
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