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Polish plumber puts a spanner in the works
Radio Polonia ^ | 31.05.05 | Peter Gentle

Posted on 06/02/2005 11:07:43 AM PDT by lizol

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1 posted on 06/02/2005 11:07:44 AM PDT by lizol
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the Polish plumber has come to be a figure to be feared in France. He is working harder, for longer and cheaper than many of his western European counterparts.

The Poles have saved Europe... again. Who would have thought it, 25 years ago?

2 posted on 06/02/2005 11:11:10 AM PDT by Aquinasfan (Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
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To: lizol

Well a Polish electrician brought down the Soviet Empire.


3 posted on 06/02/2005 11:11:48 AM PDT by dfwgator (Flush Newsweek!)
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To: vox_PL; Barney Gumble; IdahoNative; tomahawk; AdmSmith; Da_Shrimp; Atlantic Bridge; SaltyJoe; ...
Eastern European ping list


FRmail me to be added or removed from this Eastern European ping list

4 posted on 06/02/2005 11:11:55 AM PDT by lizol
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....and fiddles with your ball-cock, then think again.

no ones ever done that for me...........at least not a plumber......

5 posted on 06/02/2005 11:13:27 AM PDT by Red Badger (Want to be surprised? Goooooooogle your own name.............)
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To: dfwgator
Yeah! :-)))

I didn't think about it this way, but this is a great association.
6 posted on 06/02/2005 11:14:00 AM PDT by lizol
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To: lizol

turning the shutoff valve off wouldn't even occur to these power mad lunatics - to use their plumbing analogy.


7 posted on 06/02/2005 11:15:49 AM PDT by camle (keep your mind open and somebody will fill it full of something for you.)
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To: lizol; Pokey78

Wow, I thought I was reading Mark Steyn for a moment. Nice article!


8 posted on 06/02/2005 11:15:57 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (NEWSWEEK LIED, PEOPLE DIED)
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To: lizol
If you thought that a plumber was just someone who, at enormous cost, comes to your home and bleeds your radiator and fiddles with your ball-cock,

You gotta find a better way of translating that. :-)

9 posted on 06/02/2005 11:17:09 AM PDT by Tribune7
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The Polish plumber will fix your tap, for sure, but then he charges you less than the normal price!

Sounds like my Trinidadian bicycle mechanic. His shop is the main reason I support open immigration.

10 posted on 06/02/2005 11:19:55 AM PDT by Squawk 8888 (End dependence on foreign oil- put a Slowpoke in your basement)
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To: Red Badger
You have to be wearing that spicy litle outfit when he shows up.
11 posted on 06/02/2005 11:19:55 AM PDT by LexBaird ("Democracy can withstand anything but democrats" --Jubal Harshaw (RA Heinlein))
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To: NonValueAdded; lizol

yup , thanks lizol , made me smile here in NYC[illegals to the left and right,forward and behind , WHOOooa]


12 posted on 06/02/2005 11:20:37 AM PDT by Dad yer funny
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To: Aquinasfan

How much would a Chinese plumber charge ??


13 posted on 06/02/2005 11:23:03 AM PDT by traumer
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Somebody threw a spanner and they threw him in the hole


14 posted on 06/02/2005 11:37:27 AM PDT by A.A. Cunningham
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To: traumer

wanna guage of how cheap the illegals from Central America are?? NYC Chinatown greenmarkets have them!!


15 posted on 06/02/2005 11:40:38 AM PDT by Dad yer funny
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To: lizol

If I was starting a company, given a choice between hiring Western Europeans and Eastern Europeans (Hungarian, Poles, etc.) I would go for the Eastern Europeans any day. My experience with them is that they work hard, and have more capitalistic tendencies than the socialistic countries to the west. Who would have thought it.


16 posted on 06/02/2005 11:49:59 AM PDT by rlmorel
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I am a plumber in Missouri with no advertising. I work alone. I am putting my wife through radiological tech school. To show you what a great country this is, this is what my business voice mail says....

"You have reached ...my name ....who does plumbing and drain work. My hours start in the morning with my last appointment being at 4:00 p.m. I don't do nights, weekends or holidays. I don't serve Kansas or midtown. I support our President Bush. If you are going to bash him, I won't work for you. But that doesn't mean I don't love you.

Now I put that message on almost six months before the last election. I will keep it there until the next election. I did it out of defiance but it was the best business decision I ever made. It got rid of all the riff- raff customers with all the bad jobs. The type who won't be there when they say they will be. The type who doesn't pay their bills etc. Life is must too short to work for democrats.

17 posted on 06/02/2005 11:59:21 AM PDT by badpacifist (American media...Petty is their nature , tragic their effect.)
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To: lizol
Excellent article, right on the mark. However, dangling participles in English can be amusing. At first I thought that it was the Polish plumber himself who was experiencing "10 % unemployment and almost zero growth."
18 posted on 06/02/2005 12:25:14 PM PDT by Malesherbes
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To: onyx

ping-a-ling


19 posted on 06/02/2005 12:25:31 PM PDT by Dad yer funny
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Oooh, a "pingaling" today.
So the Poles like the French vote, huh?


20 posted on 06/02/2005 12:30:14 PM PDT by onyx (Pope John Paul II - May 18, 1920 - April 2, 2005 = SANTO SUBITO!)
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