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"Mike Hunter" <mikehunt2@mailcity.com> wrote in message
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> Have Americans ever consider how many of those other American workers buy
> the things produced by their employer?. Do they think the import brands
> will still assemble cars in the US when they too can build them in China
> for much less? Your job can be the next to go offshore unless of course
> you work at WalMart of McDonalds.
>
> Five years ago I was amazed to see all of the foreign cars in the parking
> lots of a nearby plant that made gas and brake lines for automobiles.
> Last year it shut down and discharged over 1,000 people. Just down the
> street from that plant is one that makes the 'glitter' used in car paints,
> that employs over 600 people. It may shut down as well, if it losses its
> Ford contract. ;)
How many of those "foreign" cars were actually cars built in the US? Many if
not most of them. And not all Fords, GM and Chrysler cars are built in North
America.
Jeff
>
> mike hunt
>
>
> <jismquiff@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:1138142710.343858.136720@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
>> The mammoth troubles facing GM, Ford and their auto parts makers are
>> merely a symptom of the global leveling of manufacturing that has been
>> underway for some years.
>>
>> Stop and think. We're told this week that the average annual wage for
>> a Ford family production line worker is an astounding $65,000! Where
>> else in the world can an uneducated, ignorant, untalented, unskilled
>> slob who tightens bolts make anything approaching that figure?
>> Especially when working for a company that can't move its inventory of
>> unwanted products!
>>
>> At least in Germany, where auto workers' pay is nearly comparable to
>> their U.S. counterparts, those employees possess technical skills plus
>> a minimum high-school education.
>>
>> Of course, in South Korea, such workers make about 20 percent of the
>> $65, 000 the American schlubs '"earn." But the Koreans at least
>> possess real skills and a real education. And in China, $650 a year
>> is real good.
>>
>> So get used to less, beer-bellied Amer'cun slobs! The good old days
>> are never coming again - except for those with education and genuine
>> 21st century skills! Globalism is eatin' your lunch!
>>
>> Really no surprise.
>>
>
>
On 25 Jan 2006 08:48:04 -0800, "Learning Richard"
<learningrichard@gmail.com> wrote:
>We could swing that without an extra dime of expense if we cut down on
>things like YOUR (Republican) elected officials accepting bribes and
>payoffs from corrupt lobbyists.
They are all corrupt! It doesn't matter which party they are
affiliated with. From the start of the term to the end its all about
getting re-elected. If you think otherwise then you have a rather
large set of blinders over your eyes.
In article <SBydnU0hX5NQBUreUSdV9g@ptd.net>,
"Mike Hunter" <mikehunt2@mailcity.com> wrote:
> The American auto makers still sell more vehicles than all of the import
> brands combined.
>
>
> mike hunt
Yeah? Well, I shot a deer this year and it ran about 30 yards before it
fell over.
The American auto industry is dead: it just hasn't stopped running yet.
I have some hope that it can be reborn from its own ashes.
>
>
> "Sean Elkins" <sean_elkins@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:sean_elkins-7E1872.21072124012006@news.iglou.com...
> > In article <dr6glk$kfs$3@blackhelicopter.databasix.com>,
> > Gary L. Burnore <gburnore@databasix.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 18:00:22 -0500, "Crusader" <white@xyz.com> top
> >> posted like an ignorant ****ing moron and wrote:
> >>
> >> >Isn`t Ford known as Fix Or Repair Daily?
> >> >That`s what they get.
> >>
> >> They? The workers get canned because the management gave them crappy
> >> cars to build? Heh.
> >
> > It's not that simple: if someone hands you a crappy design to build, at
> > least you can show enough self-respect to assemble
> > it correctly and tighten all of the bolts.
> >
> > There's plenty of blame to spread around here: management and workers
> > both had a hand in killing the American auto industry.
In article <1138197244.456346.93500@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
"Learning Richard" <learningrichard@gmail.com> wrote:
> 65,000 a year should be minimum wage in the usa. That would be $32.50
> an hour.
>
> taken a look at your electric bill lately?
You know Richard, there are times when I read some of your posts and
almost see a glimmer of rationality in them----> then you go and reset
yourself to zero by posting something as complete insane as this.
Mark wrote:
> > 65,000 a year should be minimum wage in the usa.
>
> Richard once again demonstrates his deep knowledge of basic economics.
That's right. Racists like you would rather shoot-to-kill those on the
minimum wage than actually give them enough money to save a little
instead of living paycheck-to-paycheck while they are forced to put
their children in substandard schools and pay for cheap childcare which
only propagates the poverty you want to kill them over.
Better board up buddy, the po' folks are gonna get ya.
dizzy wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 20:26:12 -0500, Franky Furter wrote:
>
> > Hmmmm...isnt $65k about the average wage in America nowadays?
>
> No surprise that a top poster would say something as stupid as that. The
> average wage is close to $40k.
true.
>
> > If you are
> > making under $50k with 3 kids you are at the poverty level.
>
> Wrong again.
not true. Try raising even one kid on 50k. Almost impossible without
those dreaded entitlement programs.
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