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Milt
Posted on Monday, February 01, 2010 - 02:40 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I hope you find something there Court.

Meanwhile, Rubin Brothers is hiring:

http://jobview.monster.com/Sewing-Machine-Mechanic -Job-Chicago-IL-US-85088858.aspx

Now my interest in piqued.
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Ferris_von_bueller
Posted on Monday, February 01, 2010 - 03:04 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I'm sure there are plenty of sewing machine mechanics, with experience, floating around.
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Wolfridgerider
Posted on Monday, February 01, 2010 - 03:29 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I think I'm tweaked up over how "we" do business in this country. Don't get me wrong... I've been to 29 different countries and I still think I live in the best one of the bunch.

Look at our food... hammer it with steroids and antibiotics to make if more profitable and wonder why we are fat and sick.

Debt up to our assess....

everything in the local H-D shop comes from China except the bike and it has a bunch of the parts are from across the pond.

I'm gonna go sit in my tree stand after work to try and kill some food. At least I will know where some of the meat in my freezer came from

somebody send me some cheese to go with my whine
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Orman1649
Posted on Monday, February 01, 2010 - 03:57 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Maybe if CEOs stop raping companies, they would be able to afford to have more manufacturing in the US and hire more people.
CEOs...and I'm not just talking big banks, making 10s of millions as a base salary + 5X their salary as a bonus on a bad year.

How do we get out of debt?...stop providing generation after generation with free everything. Far too many deadbeats out there. Next is to tax incomes/bonuses/stock options/every last cent over $1mil at 75+%. Look at the tax rate on the wealthy over the last 25 years and look at the growing debt.
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Ferris_von_bueller
Posted on Monday, February 01, 2010 - 04:09 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

This is why I believe a good moral foundation which is generally gained through religious indoctrination is crucial to a functioning society. Laws don't keep people honest and fair - their hearts and conscious do.
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Aptbldr
Posted on Monday, February 01, 2010 - 06:30 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Do we see USA's future in England today?
Sometimes I think so.

Textile mfg came to the US from England (see Industrial Revolution) driven by same forces that led to its departure to SE Asia: cheap labor.
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Ft_bstrd
Posted on Monday, February 01, 2010 - 06:45 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Maybe if CEOs stop raping companies, they would be able to afford to have more manufacturing in the US and hire more people.
CEOs...and I'm not just talking big banks, making 10s of millions as a base salary + 5X their salary as a bonus on a bad year.





If the last free CEO of GM took zero dollars for income in 2007 instead of the $14.7M he took, what is the annual salary increase each employee of GM would receive?

Extra credit if you can name how many digits to the right of the decimal you have to go to calculate his income as a percent of sales.


$14.7M (Wagoner's 2007 salary) as a tax payment (assuming 34% tax rate), would provide for a taxable earning if only $43.2M.

The gross sales of GM is 3448 times that amount.


The "raping" going on isn't the CEOs. It's Uncle Sam.

The Democratic Party is lying to you. The Unions DO NOT have your interests at heart.
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Court
Posted on Monday, February 01, 2010 - 07:51 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

>>>The "raping" going on isn't the CEOs. It's Uncle Sam.

The unfortunate thing is that the magnitude, relative to what most folks earn, of CEO's makes good fodder for press in tough times.

Don't get me wrong, I think there are plenty of abuses. But I find little difference in the most flagrant of them and say the union contract that requires 2 folks, each making $48/hr, with one of them required to be over 50 years old, to sit and watch a light switch.

Abuse is abuse.

It's also a problem when some of these folks are working on a commission or performance based rate and do really well.

Let me ask you a question that may hit home here . . . say a nice kid in Kansas agreed to do test riding for $xx.xx/per mile . . . and the first day he went 880 miles, 720 the next, then 825, then 840, then 795 and sent a bill for a week of motorcycle riding for $X,XXXX.xx at the end of the week.

Is that a fair amount?

Don't let a political party convince you that you can relax and they'll think for you. Their interests may not coincide with your own.
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Cyclonedon
Posted on Tuesday, February 02, 2010 - 12:58 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

The "raping" going on isn't the CEOs. It's Uncle Sam.

Jeremy & Court, why don't you two do a little research on Bob Nardelli and then make that comment!
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Ft_bstrd
Posted on Tuesday, February 02, 2010 - 01:25 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I'll take the $hittiest CEO you can find to run the largest company on the planet into the ground and it's a drop in the bucket compared to the damage the US government can do to businesses:




The largest US company is Exxonmobil. Exxon's market cap is $324B.


Once the Debt gets ramped up, we will be losing one Exxonmobil a year in interest on debt.

THAT is power. THAT is rape. I couldn't care what this CEO or that CEO does.
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Cyclonedon
Posted on Tuesday, February 02, 2010 - 02:12 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I couldn't care what this CEO or that CEO does.

you might think differently if they ran your company!
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