Posted on 05/26/2005 6:27:37 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
Yup, sure hope you take your own advice.
Any luck backing up that made up fact about incomes yet?
Any luck finding the real inflation number? Is it really 90%?
I guess reading is still a skill you can't capture. I already answered you, you'll have the book, page and publisher after I get home. Till then just keep reading this and hope it sinks in.
Yes, you are focusing on what was most of America a couple of generations ago or so.
Most people rented and lived with multiple people to a home.
Most if they had a clunker of a car were grateful.
I think there needs to be a law passed that all government union jobs may not exceed in wage the paycheck and benefits of similar jobs in the private sector.
You'd see the government wage jobs be cut in half by that, and IMO they should be.
Why is WalMart a target, and how is it "we the people" have to pay double wage value with benefits to government workers and unions.
If not for the government cash cow, unions would already be dead now.
Let me know about that inflation book too.
Well said and absolutely correct about public unions and the excessive benefits taxpayers have to pay for public employees.
WalMart give pretty high wages for the industry they are employing people in.
If anything, the poverty pimps that have kept WalMarts out of ghettos would be the biggest criminals. Because of poverty politics, WalMart is out and $5 gallon milk stays in.
It's also felt at the docks with the longshoreman's union where a 4 hour a day job gets a $170,000 a year pay out.
well, yes unfortunately the unions, even though in their inception, the cause was necessary, although now they're notably overpaid and underworked employees. I grew up in a very blue-collar, union-friendly town, and all the guys couldn't wait to graduate, not so they could go to college, but so they could get a union factory job, making total bank and do nothing, with an inability to get fired for doing so. Add in a pension and hey, you have yourself a tidy little nest egg for doing marginal labor and forcing the wage margin up so high that nothing else could match it.
Thanks, but you don't have to defend me. Cleanup is needed on aisle marked with post numbered 752 and aisle with post numbered 763. Notice how they get off on my pain, just like fans get off on peoples' troubles on Oprah and similar shows?
Wal Mart doesn't sell a cleaner strong enough to clean that kind of dirt up.
I worked with lots of people like that. Women were usually the worst, but after having been on FR for awhile, there aren't many gentlemen in the bunch. There are a few in the memory book in my mind that were nice and would never be gleeful over someone else's agony, but they are counted in the minority.
Catch up with ya later. I got my spunk back but it cost me. They don't like that. They like you down so they can kick you in the stomach and pour salt in your wounds. In the case of the male of the species, they get emasculated, not literally but figuratively.
Third domestic dispute in my neck of the woods in as many weeks. Nobody killed this time, but a crazed 19-year-old ran into four squad cars in a two-state chase across a scenic bridge. Shot out all the tires of his car so he took off on foot. Foot chase and he's incarcerated for now. Soon we will know if he makes bail. Some mother's son who may have loved him as much as I love my son.
Nothing unusual. It's happening all over the country and people wonder why.
That's BS put forth by retail unions. Fact is ... there are tow motor operators at WalMart distribution centers around the country that are millionaires ... thanks to WalMart stock option plans.
More so- IF these EMPLOYEES didn't have ANY job at WALMART, then WHAT would be the total WELFARE $$$$$$ we would be dumping into their households to keep them raising another generation of the same??????
The unions are just pissed that they cannot break into Wal Mart and drive them up in prices and out of business.
Someone needs to remind the UNIONS of what happened in the 30's to Kohler plumbing products. I recall that old man Kohler closed the factory for almost 3 years because the "union organizers" were trying to muscle into the place. Kohler was already paying more than ANY OTHER foundry in the region.
When the plant opened up again after all those months, everyone was happy to have a job. The unions have to realize just who is the dinosaur here. Besides, just how many products are sold in Wal-Mart that are produced all or in part by union shops? If Wal-Mart shuts down, how many union jobs will be lost and gone forever?
There are still people in South Bend Indiana who are waiting for Studebaker to re-open.........
I think you ought to do that, only cover more of the country if you can. Use this thread as a backdrop, kind of interweaving, flashback style. Don't quote more than you are allowed or you will be in copyright violation.
As for myself, I need to publish my book of WWII letters. Might give our troops some inspiration. I sincerely regret that I didn't include them in my list of people I stick up for too many posts back. God bless our troops.
Later maybe we should talk more about how they suffer on the home front in their service of our country. It puts a strain on the best of marriages, and they get in trouble financially. During 'Nam, one of my husband's fellow soldiers got into financial difficulties and jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge. I saw what some of the others went through and how they were treated as trash and exploited with rent deposits by the locals. About a chapter's worth. They (the troops and their wives) never complained or stuck up for themselves. There was much sadness when one got shipped off to 'Nam and the wife went back home to wait it out and/or file for divorce.
Ah, I wondered when I would hear "that sucking sound". Well, it must be a whisper since Mexicans are still swarming to get into the United States. If they had a healthy economy down there, there would be no reason for them to want to come here.
There must be a need for enough services, products, goods, etc. in this world to employ most everybody if we could just get the world settled down and at peace and get rid of corruption in governments.
You would think so. I hate unions. I don't know why anyone would want to belong to one. A union can't do anything for you that you can't do for yourself except take your money away from you.
They did, they just call the plant Hummer now.
LOL I'm sure Aliska wouldn't like to hear that my friend makes a decent pay check and receives benefits to boot. :^)
I admire you. You have really worked hard and have made your own way in life just like my father and my late husband. You are an excellent role model for your children.
Go ahead and rant. You deserve it! ;)
Very true.
If Walmart annonced it was closing tomorrow, do you think all those "high paying jobs" would suddenly reappear? Not as long as Kmart, Costco, Target etc still were in business selling goods. These people never will learn that high priced labor and huge benefits drove manufacturing out of the country, not Walmart.
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