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- If we ever do seriously embark on a renewable energy program there will be millions of jobs here at home. Of course Big Oil has to go before that can happen and therefore the current regime of RepubliCrats must be voted out of office. We need a whole new government.
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- As the dollar weakens those close to the edge are forced into poverty because real wages have declined under Bush/Chaney.
In America we sell injustice to the rich and force it on the poor. - Reply to this comment
- I know, They should have swept these ugly figures under the rug until after the election.
After all, this story is negativly biased against the party responsible for these economic times.
Posted by mytoosense at 11:05 AM : Oct 15, 2008
I''ll bet you posted about Bush lowering the price of gas before the election. - Reply to this comment
- If the big businesses would stay here and manufacture the goods we use here in the USA we would have people who could afford to raise their children. The rich just keep getting richer and the rest of the country just gets left behind. I graduated from High school with honors and went to college. I could not afford the cost of college and have decided to take a few classes a year toward my degree in teaching. I make $19,891 per year and have four children. I left their addicted to perscription pain killers father after four years of failed intervention. Are you people going to say that I do not have the right make more money than I do?
Posted by rcleveland42 at 10:53 AM : Oct 15, 2008
You have 4 kids before you got a degree & married a drug addict--you are where you''re at based on YOUR decisions. Quit acting like it''s anyone else''s fault. - Reply to this comment
- 3 weeks before the election & they publish this....
hmmmmmmmmmmm...................
Posted by easeup
I know, They should have swept these ugly figures under the rug until after the election.
After all, this story is negativly biased against the party responsible for these economic times. - Reply to this comment
- rcleveland42
Can John and Sarah count on your vote in November?
If not for economic policy reasons, for moral and religious reasons?
Go Obama. - Reply to this comment
- If the big businesses would stay here and manufacture the goods we use here in the USA we would have people who could afford to raise their children. The rich just keep getting richer and the rest of the country just gets left behind. I graduated from High school with honors and went to college. I could not afford the cost of college and have decided to take a few classes a year toward my degree in teaching. I make $19,891 per year and have four children. I left their addicted to perscription pain killers father after four years of failed intervention. Are you people going to say that I do not have the right make more money than I do?
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- If I were a small business owner who sold a product or a service, I would not be happy about this story.
Less money earned by American consumers is less money spent.
Second Point on a different subject:
The American car companies ought to do a study to see how many vehicle sales they lose when they lay off one of their auto workers.
Lets see, the worker, the worker''s spouse, their disenchanted kids, perhaps as a sign of support, the layed off workers parents and siblings and their kids.
The American auto industries current troubles may be, in part, seeds it sowed by pisssing off it''s workers years ago. - Reply to this comment
- Wow what are raging idoit. Obviously you didn''''t pass 3 grade geogrpahy. If you check the list again, you will find several states not located in the South. (MT, OK, TX, NM, AZ). Second you didn''''t pass history class either. Half of these states were not even states to be part states to be part of the Union when the USA was refered as such.
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Posted by gdub35 at 09:52 AM : Oct 15, 2008
Raging idiot?
The union I was talking about was not the union of the U.S, but the labor unions.
Now who is the idiot? Idiot!
You must be taking lessons from james on how to be a moron,,, - Reply to this comment
- could argue unions all day...but to sum it up....its the 21st century now union workers.....the gravy train is over....6th grade education not going to hack it anymore in todays world....sorry, but there it is.
Posted by jamesm12341 at 09:46 AM : Oct 15, 2008
In Ohio, the turnpike workers make $20/hr, which translates to over $40 grand a year--more I''m sure with their overtime & holiday pay.
Do you know what they do? They take money & make CHANGE! McDonald''s is a harder job! The funny thing is, a few years ago they actually threatened to strike. That would have crippled the turnpike, because no one could possibly have filled-in and made change.
What a joke. - Reply to this comment
- And one reason that GM is in trouble is, not because of the union, but because they designed and made cars and trucks that nobody wanted.
And I believe their designers were not union!
Go figure!! - Reply to this comment
- "find it interesting that all the states that are cited in this article, with the exception of Idaho, are southern states. Which are historically non-union states."
Wow what are raging idoit. Obviously you didn''t pass 3 grade geogrpahy. If you check the list again, you will find several states not located in the South. (MT, OK, TX, NM, AZ). Second you didn''t pass history class either. Half of these states were not even states to be part states to be part of the Union when the USA was refered as such. - Reply to this comment
- 6th grade education not going to hack it anymore in todays world....sorry, but there it is.
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Posted by jamesm12341 at 09:46 AM : Oct 15, 2008
Ah yes,,you''ll be sorry when you are making $5.00 per hour. And all your illegal buddies made it all possible.
Hope you are happy there nappy.... - Reply to this comment
- hopefully auto workers are training to do something else now. or will they be like pollroller and slim1h2o and just wait for ax to fall and be "surprised"
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Posted by jamesm12341 at 09:38 AM : Oct 15, 2008
Reading comprehension problems, there tweedledum?
I''m retired, and also I''m crossed train for a multitude of careers, if I choose to go back to work at anytime. - Reply to this comment
- yea, i love the 6th grade educated union workers making 30 bucks an hour , walking picket lines and complaining.
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Posted by jamesm12341 at 09:20 AM : Oct 15, 2008
Clearly, it is you whom has the 6th grade education.
Not to mention, your obsessive love for the down fall of the U.S. by the way of the illegal immigrant invaders. - Reply to this comment
- We really dont need krapp like that anymore.
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Posted by DaVicar1 at 09:22 AM : Oct 15, 2008
I didn''t say all unions are good. But apparently, we still need unions, as effident as these companies that would sell out their own kind, and hire illegal immigrants.
So the premise of unions, I think, would hold these companies accountable for such hirings.
Thus, hold the earning power of legal Americans where it should be.
Everyone knows that hiring illegals dwindles our earning power, or erodes Americans pay.
Americans have been left for dead, by these greedy corperations, plain and simple. - Reply to this comment
- 3 weeks before the election & they publish this....
hmmmmmmmmmmm................... - Reply to this comment
- i bet if american workers built a better product for a realistic (non union) wage....jobs would not have been sent overseas....its called business......seems to me that you chose the wrong one....thus my suggestion of retraining for different one
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Posted by jamesm12341 at 09:13 AM : Oct 15, 2008
Unions are needed more than ever now. Why? Well because they hold companies accountable, and maintain wages.
And if you can''t see that, then you are blinded by the republican propaganda from washington''s blind leadership of bush. - Reply to this comment
- I am sure God will tell Bush ,2 more wars & no taxes for the rich forever is the best for the old USA now.The trickle down will be [as Rummy says ]WONDERFUL!!
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- yep, thats winners do.....losers sit back and blame others. which one are you?
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Posted by jamesm12341 at 09:09 AM : Oct 15, 2008
I''m retired tweedle dee, thats which one.
It used to be, that you worked at one job, and you could retire from that job. But thanks in large part to the republicans, and their union busting policies, you can forget all that now-a-days. - Reply to this comment
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