Hoss 350
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You talkin' to me? If so, I may take you up on that some day...whatabudro said:Let me buy you a beer.
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Crumm
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I guess I am not in my right mind. We just voted to extend our current contract for two years. With the economy the way it is we felt that it would be better to keep the company profitable and in turn still have a job ten years from now. I know it is a strange way of thinking but I like my job and want them to be competitive in the market so they stay in business. Probably not many people out there think this wayHoss 350 said:
Hoss 350
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rray32539 said:
RRay, I posted my posts before having read yours. At this point, I find my posts to be redundant, since you so eloquently summed up my point. Nicely done.
It is so easy for people to instantly jump on the corporations for everything that happens, without ever searching for the true culprit. In some cases, it is the corporation. In this case, it is not.
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Hoss 350 said:
Yep I'm talkin to you, you need a beer.
Hoss 350
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Crumm, you are a rare, smart person, indeed. The question in my post was rhetorical. From the standpoint of many, it is a question that is not worth asking. Of course they are going give themselves a raise! From your standpoint, you would rather skip the raise and keep your job. But you see it from outside the box, and from the longview standpoint...Crumm said:I guess I am not in my right mind. We just voted to extend our current contract for two years. With the economy the way it is we felt that it would be better to keep the company profitable and in turn still have a job ten years from now. I know it is a strange way of thinking but I like my job and want them to be competitive in the market so they stay in business. Probably not many people out there think this way
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Mmmmmmm, Beeeeeeeerrrrrr (drool noises)....whatabudro said:Yep I'm talkin to you, you need a beer.
Hoss 350
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Just to clarify,
I have nothing against Unions. I was an IBEW member for 6 years.
I take exception with unions like UAW that cripple the American economy with their demands of exhorbitant benefits and wages. Be reasonable. Lack of such just puts us all at a disadvantage. I will never tolerate a UAW member complaining about their job being sent to Mexico, because they, and only they, are responsible for it. You can say the taxes in America are such that they are causing the American businesses to leave, but look at total expenditures for a corporation by Ford. i think you will be suprised at how little the tax burden is in comparison to the burden for all of the fringes and upkicks for the union labor.
Anway, I guess I've said enough, and I am sure so many of you hate me now it is not funny, but if you really think about it, you'll find that there is more truth to what I've said than not. I am not a bad person, just a person that thinks that no person should get more than they are worth, and that a person's worth is determined by how hard they work to earn it, not by the efforts of a union to ensure their entitlement to it. By how hard they work to earn it, I mean training, skill, education, not how hard they work at the job all day. There are people working at McDonalds that bust their butt every day, but will never get anything more than minimum wage. There is no more skill to working at McDonalds than putting a window crank in a pickup door, yet the McDonald's employee gets $6 an hour and no bennies, while the Ford employee gets $32 an hour and better bennies than most people could ever dream of.
I have nothing against Unions. I was an IBEW member for 6 years.
I take exception with unions like UAW that cripple the American economy with their demands of exhorbitant benefits and wages. Be reasonable. Lack of such just puts us all at a disadvantage. I will never tolerate a UAW member complaining about their job being sent to Mexico, because they, and only they, are responsible for it. You can say the taxes in America are such that they are causing the American businesses to leave, but look at total expenditures for a corporation by Ford. i think you will be suprised at how little the tax burden is in comparison to the burden for all of the fringes and upkicks for the union labor.
Anway, I guess I've said enough, and I am sure so many of you hate me now it is not funny, but if you really think about it, you'll find that there is more truth to what I've said than not. I am not a bad person, just a person that thinks that no person should get more than they are worth, and that a person's worth is determined by how hard they work to earn it, not by the efforts of a union to ensure their entitlement to it. By how hard they work to earn it, I mean training, skill, education, not how hard they work at the job all day. There are people working at McDonalds that bust their butt every day, but will never get anything more than minimum wage. There is no more skill to working at McDonalds than putting a window crank in a pickup door, yet the McDonald's employee gets $6 an hour and no bennies, while the Ford employee gets $32 an hour and better bennies than most people could ever dream of.
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You're a sparky? You didn't offend me, you said basically what I think, I just said it in one sentence.
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powerboatr
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Beer is on me fellas
if i ever get my lake place finished
BBQ Beans and BEER
if i ever get my lake place finished
BBQ Beans and BEER
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powerboatr said:Beer is on me fellas
if i ever get my lake place finished
BBQ Beans and BEER
If that's the menu, you'd better make sure to have PLENTY of ventilation on hand...
