Woody218
Veteran
Location: Bismarck, ND
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| 1978 the economy was smokin with Carter in office
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Are you kidding? You cannot be serious. You call 21% interest rates smokin'? I think YOU'VE been smokin' something... yeah, the economy was smokin' allright, from the friction generated by the steep decline it was in. Carter sat on his hands and consulted his daughter, Amy, who was 12 years old at the time. Why not, she probably had better ideas about how to run things than he did.
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| You better think who you want sitting in the seat of that crane setting that bridge iron, a skilled union employee or someone hired off the street.
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Just because someone is off the street, it doesn't make them any less qualified. I'll bet YOU were off the street when they hired you, right? And, just because someone belongs to a union, it doesn't make them any more qualified. As a matter of fact, I'll bet that most of the crane wrecks on a construction site have been when a skilled union employee was sitting in the seat...
Let's look at a few facts concerning labor unions. The union decides that they're going on strike for more wages. Even if you don't want to strike, you want to continue to provide for your family, if you don't go out, someone will beat your face in with a bat. So, now we're on strike. The company you work for decides to meet the extortion demands, and so now it's back to work. The company has stockholders to answer to, and it's not going to be pretty at the stockholder's meeting unless the company can show a rate of return, so what has to happen? The prices charged by the company for their product or service has to go up. Multiply this scenario by hundreds of companies. Pretty soon, the union is telling the workers that their standard of living is going down, so they need to go on strike again, because all these companies with union workers have had to raise their prices to maintain the bottom line for the stockholders. It's a vicious circle, the end result being that union workers have priced themselves out of a lot of jobs in the USA. From GM's point of view, I'm sure they would rather have the jobs remain here in the USA, but if they can hire a Mexican worker for $10.00 a day, it's going to be better for THEIR STOCKHOLDERS than paying someone in Detroit $25.00 an hour to do the same job. And isn't it the stock market that all the liberals have been whining about? You cannot have it both ways.
Labor unions continue to support liberals, and liberal politicians are anti-business. If liberals have done the unions so great, why does organized labor continue to shrink? I know the standard, canned union liberal response, it's all those damned Republican's fault! (yeah, right!!!)
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Nice one (you started it).
