Posted on 10/10/2009 5:00:52 PM PDT by Graybeard58
Haven't you got the memo?
It's a "W"-shaped recession. /sarc>
Full Disclosure: Let's see how many people confuse us now that we're posting to each other on the same thread...
Cheers!
giant sucking sound (/perot)
I used to buy GE every time and then my last dryer only lasted 5 years and it wasn’t worth repairing. My front load GE (which I noticed was made in China) had bearings start going out at about 14 months.
I was dissing Roper with the repairman and he actually said they are the better made since they use some the older more reliable manufacturing methods. So I now have a Roper dryer and it was the cheapest thing at Lowes.
Don't worry about the union folks. They will find safe haven at GM or Chrysler.
But no matter how much it affects all of us, we must be sure that we do nothing to interfere with anybody’s freedom to make an extra buck. What are we anyway, a bunch of socialists? I for one will sleep better tonite knowing that the investors in Whirlpool will recognize more income, and that their executives will get a commission. I will try to find one of said investors, and beg them to trickle down on me!
parsy, who is pretending to be a good little Republican
I have a question. A few weeks ago, there were articles about how Mexico has so much drug violence, corruption, etc. that the government was on the verge of collapse, and tourists were being discouraged from going there. If it is so dangerous, why would companies move there?
Yep, lets blame it on the unions. How dare they expect a decent wage and benefits? Where do they think they are anyway, Germany or something, where they are so unionized that the whole country is starving and broke and nobody has nothing and where all that stuff about being the worlds largest exporter is just socialist propaganda.
parsy, who says dude, quit swallowing the party line. Spit the hook out.
More of the sucking sound that everyone laughed at Perot for predicting...
What perfect timing, just when we needed another 0.2% to get us over the official 10% mark nationally.
Thanks Whirlpool.
To make a few extra bucks and because their competition is probably there already and who wants to pay Americans anyway. Investors though, will still want to live here, because you know Mexico has all that crime and poverty and their roads suck, etc.
parsy, who says this is just one more brick in the wall
Hopefully our Whirlpool Fridge will last a good long while. Might as well buy a LG or Samsung model next time.
Does this mean Americans have to go to Mexico to get jobs?
The average American’s utility bill is higher than wages in Mexico. Tariffs and higher taxes on companies exporting jobs will run them out of this country and we can get back to making our own stuff again. The stuff you are b*tching about is why our quality of life has been better than most.
parsy, who thinks you are a communist agitator (well not really, but I wanted to start calling names first for a change)
Why would anyone want to pay $10/hr to an American to do the kind of trained monkey work that costs $1 or less anywhere else in this big world?
The days of dropping out of the 10th grade and working in the local mill for a lifetime is long gone. Lazy, stupid, and greedy ain’t selling anymore, unless it’s a government union job.
Americans had better reinvigorate their work ethic, learn valuable skills, and get rid of their entitlement mentality. Instead of complaining about the competition, we should be coming up with a way to beat them. Here’s a clue: We ain’t gonna beat them with uneducated laborers; there’s a few billion already in line for that job.
1100 union workers unemployed is just that much less money donated to the true enemies of America - Obama and the Democrats.
Screw them.
More importantly, why would you pay $30/hour to an American who refuses to let you automate your assembly line? That’s the real question. And I am very certain that the true hourly pay of the union workers was closer to $30 than your $10.
No, they’d still find it advantageous to move. Maybe not to Mexico, but definitely out of Indiana.
Why? U-N-I-O-N-S.
Drug violence, corruption, murder.
Union thug violence, corruption, murder.
The only thing that’s different is the name on the front.
I often confuse myself.
You can still have fun as you grow older.
I’m referring to the kind of folks around here who don’t have a sock mill to park their butts in while they grow fat and old. None of them were union. That probably kept the mills around here open a decade longer.
We can still compete in manufacturing, but only with innovation and automation. Whenever you hear someone cry, “Nothing is made in America anymore,” they really mean there aren’t as many unskilled labor jobs for dropouts and dummies. If people really want things to be made in America, it’s going to be made by efficient machines; designed, installed, and maintained by intelligent, educated people.
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