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Oscar_Lives wrote: "USENET READER" wrote in message ink.net... Tom Disque wrote: On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 08:08:57 GMT, USENET READER wrote: Tom Disque wrote: On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 02:06:01 GMT, USENET READER wrote: Oscar_Lives wrote: [snip] And don't forget all the fat lazy and corrupt union workers who strangle productivity because of stupid labor rules that require 5 shovel-leaners for every one worker. Hey **** you - if it hadn't been for those brave union workers who put their lives and jobs on the line, we wouldn't have the workplace and wage protections that we have now - 40 hour workweek, overtime protection, workpace health and safety protection. In fact, all the protections you have today are due to unions and other liberal ideas. SO unless you want to be the first on the boat to go back and work in some slave labor factory in China just for the sake of showing that the bosses are always right and good, then shut the **** up! [snip] Those brave union workers who put their lives and jobs on the line are not the same people as the fat lazy and corrupt union workers who strangle productivity because of stupid labor rules. What stupid labor rules are you referring to? Those rules are simply a contract to deliver labor to management in a specific way. Instead of management telling you what to do and how to do it and you having no say other than to quit if you don't like it, labor and management negotiates the rules by which the work gets done. It's like delivering any other service - you just don't like the fact that these workers have rights that you don't have. Are you envious or jealous? why not admit it instead of calling these workers names because you can't handle it? I simply cut 'n' pasted what you and Oscar said and pasted them together, to emphasize that you aren't talking about the same people. Did you not notice the exact same wording, or do you not read what you write? I DO think it is ridiculous to require a union electrician to plug in equipment, though. Depends on where you are plugging stuff into and what else is plugged into that circuit? I work in photography and when I go up to NYC to photograph a dancer in a Broadway show (as I did last summer), I can't just plug into any old wall outlet. I don't know what the outlet is rated for, what else is plugged in there, etc. So I get a union guy to do it. He or she is responsible for knowing the condition of the electrical capacity in the building or theater. He comes and checks out my equipment, makes sure it isn't gonna blow up their electrical outlets or in any way keep them from putting on a show. He knows if the outlet is live and if not, how to turn it on. He knowns if it is switched off for a reason - it needs to be repaired or perhaps other things are plugged into it and need to be switched on and off for the show. There are all sorts of pratical reasons why you need a union electrician to do that work - would you want to plug in some cheap-assed made in China electrical device and blow out an entire electrical panel and keep a Broadway show from starting on time? I know also that when my grandmother was n a nursing home, you couldn't plug in any electrical devices into the wall without first having them checked out by the custodial staff. You wouldn't want someone plugging in some crappy old non-grounded lamp and tripping the breakers and grandma's O2 generator goes out - would you? You are a ****ing joke. Why - because it never occured to you that there might be real practical or safety concerns behind those so-called rules you make fun of? Take your head out of Bush's ass and stop laughing at the Bush twin's jokes and look around - if it wasn't for the unions you'd be working in more of a ****ing slave-labor corporate work state than you are now! |
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Gregor wrote: USENET READER wrote: C G wrote: Some American workers are productive, others will do as little as possible to get by. Same with management. You continue to try to place the blame on one group, but that's just not the case. Sorry - labor doesn't decide what to produce and how to produce it - that is management's job. I place the blame on the crap on the market with management. It isn't management's fault when labor stages a slowdown or sabotages products. My cousin had a rattle in his American car that turned out to be a wrench left inside the door during production. Gregor Right - another one of those urban myths - a wrench in the door. Notice it isn't you that found the wrench. What brand of wrench was it anyway? Dingleberry - they don't use a regular wrench to build cars on an assembly line - they use air-powered tools. What are you gonna tell me now - that the union guys went out and bought boxes of Mac Tools to leave in the doors of cars? Actually - it is management's fault when there is a strike or a work slowdown. That is usually because management wouldn't bargain fairly with the workers. If management stops treating workers like tools that can be worked hard until they break then be replaced with illegal immigrant workers, then workers won't need to strike! |
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C G wrote: Gregor wrote: USENET READER wrote: C G wrote: Some American workers are productive, others will do as little as possible to get by. Same with management. You continue to try to place the blame on one group, but that's just not the case. Sorry - labor doesn't decide what to produce and how to produce it - that is management's job. I place the blame on the crap on the market with management. It isn't management's fault when labor stages a slowdown or sabotages products. My cousin had a rattle in his American car that turned out to be a wrench left inside the door during production. Exactly the kinds of things I was trying to get usenet to understand. Unfortunately, it seems he either can't or won't. I think he's actually just trolling. You trying to get me to understand an urban myth and anti-labor bullshit? Better marshall your facts first moron! Or better yet, show me a wrench and an affidavit! |
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C G wrote: USENET READER wrote: C G wrote: USENET READER wrote: I am starting a DYI home-improvement project and I notice that few power or hand tools are made in the USA. Even most of the Craftsman brand tools are made in the USA. Some are made in Taiwan (a democracy I have no problem doing business with) and Red China (perhaps I should call them Fascist China, a country where the factories are owned by the state and staffed with slave labor). Are you stuck in the '80s? Most Chinese companies have been privatized. And who owns these private companies? Mostly it is well-connected members of the ChiCom party - so for all intents and purposes, it is still owned by those who run the government. Still stuck in the '80s. The ownership has been changing for quite a while now, but I would not have expected you to be informed enough to know this. No actually - your head is up your ass. Can you tell me who owns the private companies if not the party elite? They just privatized these factories and now they split the profits not with the workers, but with their American investors. So you tell me how while it has changed in shape, the end result isn't really different? Seems it's your head up your own ass. China's got a thriving stock market and ownership is shifting to individuals. I wouldn't have expected you to know this, it bursts your bubble of ignorance. Bullshit - you can say that there is a stockmarket and that is supposed to mean that your average rank and file Chinese citizen can own stock? that is such bullshit - that whole thing is set up to attract foreign investment capital and to also make it easier to reward the party bigwigs. Their system is more fascist than free-market capitalism. They could still take it all back and leave their overseas investors hanging - what you gonna do when they do that? Sue them? You've just proven you do not know what the hell you are talking about. The average citizen DOES OWN STOCK. Give up, you obviously are clueless about this subject. The average citizen in China doesn't own stock. Do you know what the per capita or average income level is in China? There are like 1.5 billion people over there. Can you show a cite where you an prove that the average chinese citizen owns stock?? You don't know what the **** you are talking about, why don't you just shut up idiot. I know many average chinese citizens. They own stock. The ability of the average Chinese person to live cheap and save would put most Americans to shame. You know these citizens from where? You go over to China? What is the per capita income in China? You are so ****ing full of shit- it's not like they make American wages and live in poverty by choice. China is getting rich on the imbalance of trade with the USA and from US investments, not from slave-labor chinese workers buying stock. The imbalance of trade ends up enriching the ChiCom officials and their US Investors, and they end up owning more and more of US debt - they really can't do anything else with all that money! Doucheboy - why don't you come up with some numbers to prove your point - what percentage of Chinese workers own stock, what is the per capita income of those workers, and what percentage of their income do they invest in the Chinese stock market? Or do you mean Chinese people living and investing in the US market? And do I want to live in ****ing squallor in the US just to make you feel happy and superior - and to make some rich puke even richer? Sorry dingleberry - my famly came from Italy and Slovakia, and those days of anyone from my family dancing on the end of a string for the Man while living on some feudal manor and owing my soul to the Company Store are ****ing over - you hear me? You and the rest of you rich cocksuckers had better realize that your $7.00 rent a cops aren't gonna protect you from the masses when we get ****ed and rise up to come after you behind the walls of your gated community. And if you don't live behind those gates - why the **** are you standing up for those rich pukes anyway? According to the news sources I have, even though the companies are being privatized, the new owners are still the party elite and their overseas business partners. Employee or other non-management stock ownership is being held to 20% or less. So how the **** can you say that the average Chinese citizen owns stock? Prove it - show me a cite! Because I have many friends in China. I've done better than read a few news articles, I've lived there. Right - did you move to china before or after your cousin pulled the wrench out of the door of his car? What city and province did you live in and why were you there in the first place. Because where you lived - if you did live there - certainly colored your perspective of what is an average Chinese person. If you lived in a big city, you might have been living with a shitload of Chinese people, but they were far from average - they were the top of the economic pile in China. Almost everything in Harbor Freight (except for the reconditioned DeWalt tools) is from China. The stuff is garbage and usually dies after a short period of time. Grinders and drills come with extra electric motor brushes which almost always get lost by the time you need them - and you will. HF always tries to sell you an extended warranty program, and most people I know don't buy them - even though for all intents and purposes, if you buy the EW, you can bring back the tool and swap it for a new one anytime the older one doesn't work. So other than the time you lose always gong to HF to exchange tools, that does seem like a good deal. How can American companies compete with that? They can't as long as American consumers puy the cheapest product they can find. IMO, Harbor Freight should not even be in business, but as long as people keep buying the junk, they'll survive. It's a vicious cycle - people's wages don't keep up with inflation, so they either look for cheaper stuff or they have no other choice. And when a store finds it is stocked with goods no one can afford to buy, they go with cheaper stuff to stay in business. It's everyone's fault, but mostly with big business for going overseas in the first place. The problem didn't start with wages, it started with American consumers wanting the cheapest possible price, with little regard for quality. Look at shop tools. When companies like Grizzly came on the scene, people endorsed their products because they were a few bucks cheaper than someone like Delta. Part of American workers wanting cheaper goods is them not getting paid enough to afford higher quality goods. Remember that fascist Henry Ford? Instead of lowering wages, he gave his workers more, realizing that if he paid them more they could afford to buy the cars he was making. Today a Wal Mart worker - if they pay rent, make care payments on a cheap car, pay for their own medica insurance, etc - they can't afford to shop in Wal Mart to buy all their family's needs. They can do that if they go on the dole - food stamps (which some of them qualify for even if they work fulll time) and if they put off regular health care and use the emergency room for chronic health care needs. I'm not arguing against many not getting paid enough. However, for many, it's just wanting (not necessarily needing) as much stuff as possible. Even people who could afford better often choose cheap import over better quality. And when you are trying to compete with some other contractor who hires Mexican illegals, you gotta try and cut your costs as much as you can. Yes, you do. WHy not get the government to come and haul the illegals away and bust the contractor breaking the law? Thay way he won't be competing illegally with you. A conttractor who is breaking the law like that is the equivalent of someone who cuts costs by stealing stuff to sell, or buying stolen property.. Should you compete with someone who steals or buys stolen goods by doing the same thing? Or shouldn't you insist that other employers not have an unfair advantage by obeying the laws? No argument from me. If the government enforced it's immigration laws, fined or arrested employers for hiring illegals, shipped the illegals back over the border, and sealed the border up with higher walls that couldn't be cut through or climbed over. No disagreement here. For the past 4 years I've been working to help someone from another country come here legally. It ****es me off that the government makes all kinds of exceptions for illegals, and that so many people look the other way so they can take advantage of the cheap labor that illegals represent. But I was talking to two buddies of mine and then mentioned something about the construction trades which made me wonder if any more tools are going to be made in the USA? There are some, but do you and your friends try to find them? Are you willing to pay a higher price to buy them? Actually - yes I am - but it is a lot of work trying to find American made tools. One guy works as a stone mason and he is finding it harder and harder to find American made tools of his trade in the stores. The Chinese-made crap (his words) are cheaply made, don't hold up to continued professional work, rivets pop, everything rusts unless you soak it in oil (which is not good for the mortar or cement, mason's hoes break after one use, etc. That's what happens when you buy the lowest cost tool. If that's all the stores sell, you either buy it or you don't work. It's all the stores sell because years ago people voted, with their money, for cheap imports. It also happened because in many cases, the American products were overpriced junk. Why was the American stuff overpriced junk - was it the rank and file worker who decided to come to work and make crap regardless of what the bosses told them to make, or was it management who had them build the crap because there wasn't anything else available? Some of it was the workers, some was the management. Sorry - most of it was management trying to do stuff on the cheap and then cutting their own throats. American workers are some of the most productive workers in the world, if their managerment gets their heads out of their asses! Some American workers are productive, others will do as little as possible to get by. Same with management. You continue to try to place the blame on one group, but that's just not the case. Sorry - labor doesn't decide what to produce and how to produce it - that is management's job. I place the blame on the crap on the market with management. Management decides what to build, labor decides whether they will do it well or not. Some choose to be sloppy. And who should put quality control on the assembly line to catch that shit? Management should have but didn't. Sure - when the Japanese made better stuff for the same money, you bought the better stuff. You didn't want to throw your money away - you got more value for your money. Then when American goods caught up in quality, the Japanese moved there factories to Thailand or other cheaper countries, and then eventually Amerfcan companies couldn't compete on the price of the goods and also on the return on investments. So don't go blaming the consumers only - greedy investors who want 40% return on investments are to blame too! I didn't blame consumers only, but I think they are more to blame than business and investors. You seem to be trying to blame investors and business only. Nope - sorry - in the USA the consumers have been getting the shaft for years. How do you blame someone who has lost their job, or who has not gotten a pay raise for years, or in fact has had to take less money, from having to make the difficult choice to buy some cheaper goods in order to pay for medicine, a visit to the docs, etc. After all - the cheaper goods wouldn't have been there for the consumer to buy had the business owners not made them first. Again, you are trying to blame the business instead of the individual. There are many factors at work, not just the business trying to sell cheap products. Many people have chosen cheap, low quality, not for the reasons you state, but just because it's cheaper and they can have more toys than if they had bought a better quality item. Many didn't have a choice. And MANY, MANY, MANY more DO HAVE A CHOICE, and choose cheap. Sorry - very very very very very few people actually have a choice on what to buy these days - they aren't the buyers for the stores and don't have a say on what goes on the shelves. Do you think that customers tell Wal-Mart what to put on the shelves to sell? **** no - Wal-Mart tells vendors what they will buy an item for, and in fact tells them to move the production over to China in order to make it cheaper. GE did that too with many of the vendors who supplied parts for GE consumer products. When a company like Wal-Mart moves close to one in four of a growing number of products sold in the country, the customer has damn little to say about where things are made, expecially when the loss of those jobs forces people to buy cheaper stuff to make their money last longer. It's a race to the bottom. |
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"USENET READER" wrote in message ink.net... You don't know what the **** you are talking about, why don't you just shut up idiot. I know many average chinese citizens. They own stock. The ability of the average Chinese person to live cheap and save would put most Americans to shame. You know these citizens from where? You go over to China? What is the per capita income in China? You are so ****ing full of shit- it's not like they make American wages and live in poverty by choice. A repressed demofag, aren't you a joy! China is getting rich on the imbalance of trade with the USA and from US investments, not from slave-labor chinese workers buying stock. The imbalance of trade ends up enriching the ChiCom officials and their US Investors, and they end up owning more and more of US debt - they really can't do anything else with all that money! Doucheboy - why don't you come up with some numbers to prove your point - what percentage of Chinese workers own stock, what is the per capita income of those workers, and what percentage of their income do they invest in the Chinese stock market? Or do you mean Chinese people living and investing in the US market? Personal attacks a point don't make. And do I want to live in ****ing squallor in the US just to make you feel happy and superior - and to make some rich puke even richer? I doubt you live in squalor, fag boy. Sorry dingleberry - my famly came from Italy and Slovakia, and those days of anyone from my family dancing on the end of a string for the Man while living on some feudal manor and owing my soul to the Company Store are ****ing over - you hear me? You and the rest of you rich cocksuckers had better realize that your $7.00 rent a cops aren't gonna protect you from the masses when we get ****ed and rise up to come after you behind the walls of your gated community. And if you don't live behind those gates - why the **** are you standing up for those rich pukes anyway? No, but say hello to my Colt .45 According to the news sources I have, even though the companies are being privatized, the new owners are still the party elite and their overseas business partners. Employee or other non-management stock ownership is being held to 20% or less. So how the **** can you say that the average Chinese citizen owns stock? Prove it - show me a cite! Because I have many friends in China. I've done better than read a few news articles, I've lived there. Right - did you move to china before or after your cousin pulled the wrench out of the door of his car? What city and province did you live in and why were you there in the first place. Because where you lived - if you did live there - certainly colored your perspective of what is an average Chinese person. If you lived in a big city, you might have been living with a shitload of Chinese people, but they were far from average - they were the top of the economic pile in China. What's with the class division, fag boy? Are you not only repressed, but poor, too. Damn, that's what you get for believing the communist lies your faggot friends were telling you. Be careful, they only want to **** you in the ass, but then, I'm not telling you anything you don't already know, eh, fag boy? Management decides what to build, labor decides whether they will do it well or not. Some choose to be sloppy. And who should put quality control on the assembly line to catch that shit? Management should have but didn't. Sure, point the finger at everyone but yourself. Ever hear of accountability? No? I guess not, because you want to blame God for making you a fag. Instead of taking responsibility for yourself., you want everyone else to be responsible for you. Too bad, fag boy! And MANY, MANY, MANY more DO HAVE A CHOICE, and choose cheap. Sorry - very very very very very few people actually have a choice on what to buy these days - they aren't the buyers for the stores and don't have a say on what goes on the shelves. Do you think that customers tell Wal-Mart what to put on the shelves to sell? **** no - Wal-Mart tells vendors what they will buy an item for, and in fact tells them to move the production over to China in order to make it cheaper. GE did that too with many of the vendors who supplied parts for GE consumer products. When a company like Wal-Mart moves close to one in four of a growing number of products sold in the country, the customer has damn little to say about where things are made, expecially when the loss of those jobs forces people to buy cheaper stuff to make their money last longer. It's a race to the bottom. Sorry, but, Wal-Mart gives their customers what they want, whether you like or not, fag boy! Quit worrying about everybody else, and get a life. Neill |
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"USENET READER" wrote in message ink.net... Gregor wrote: Right - another one of those urban myths - a wrench in the door. Notice it isn't you that found the wrench. What brand of wrench was it anyway? Dingleberry - they don't use a regular wrench to build cars on an assembly line - they use air-powered tools. What are you gonna tell me now - that the union guys went out and bought boxes of Mac Tools to leave in the doors of cars? Actually - it is management's fault when there is a strike or a work slowdown. That is usually because management wouldn't bargain fairly with the workers. If management stops treating workers like tools that can be worked hard until they break then be replaced with illegal immigrant workers, then workers won't need to strike! Right, it's always somebody else's fault. I'm beginning to detect a distinct theme in you dialogue. You're one ****ed off, repressed demofag, aren't you" Thanks for sharing with the group. You're the best laugh I've had all day! Neill |
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C G wrote: Gregor wrote: USENET READER wrote: C G wrote: Some American workers are productive, others will do as little as possible to get by. Same with management. You continue to try to place the blame on one group, but that's just not the case. Sorry - labor doesn't decide what to produce and how to produce it - that is management's job. I place the blame on the crap on the market with management. It isn't management's fault when labor stages a slowdown or sabotages products. My cousin had a rattle in his American car that turned out to be a wrench left inside the door during production. Exactly the kinds of things I was trying to get usenet to understand. Unfortunately, it seems he either can't or won't. I think he's actually just trolling. You trying to get me to understand an urban myth and anti-labor bullshit? Better marshall your facts first moron! Or better yet, show me a wrench and an affidavit! Yup, as I suspected, you're just trolling. Later troll. |
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C G wrote: USENET READER wrote: C G wrote: USENET READER wrote: I am starting a DYI home-improvement project and I notice that few power or hand tools are made in the USA. Even most of the Craftsman brand tools are made in the USA. Some are made in Taiwan (a democracy I have no problem doing business with) and Red China (perhaps I should call them Fascist China, a country where the factories are owned by the state and staffed with slave labor). Are you stuck in the '80s? Most Chinese companies have been privatized. And who owns these private companies? Mostly it is well-connected members of the ChiCom party - so for all intents and purposes, it is still owned by those who run the government. Still stuck in the '80s. The ownership has been changing for quite a while now, but I would not have expected you to be informed enough to know this. No actually - your head is up your ass. Can you tell me who owns the private companies if not the party elite? They just privatized these factories and now they split the profits not with the workers, but with their American investors. So you tell me how while it has changed in shape, the end result isn't really different? Seems it's your head up your own ass. China's got a thriving stock market and ownership is shifting to individuals. I wouldn't have expected you to know this, it bursts your bubble of ignorance. Bullshit - you can say that there is a stockmarket and that is supposed to mean that your average rank and file Chinese citizen can own stock? that is such bullshit - that whole thing is set up to attract foreign investment capital and to also make it easier to reward the party bigwigs. Their system is more fascist than free-market capitalism. They could still take it all back and leave their overseas investors hanging - what you gonna do when they do that? Sue them? You've just proven you do not know what the hell you are talking about. The average citizen DOES OWN STOCK. Give up, you obviously are clueless about this subject. The average citizen in China doesn't own stock. Do you know what the per capita or average income level is in China? There are like 1.5 billion people over there. Can you show a cite where you an prove that the average chinese citizen owns stock?? You don't know what the **** you are talking about, why don't you just shut up idiot. I know many average chinese citizens. They own stock. The ability of the average Chinese person to live cheap and save would put most Americans to shame. You know these citizens from where? You go over to China? I know them from China, twit. You're an idiot who writes before reading. I did go over to China, more times than I can remember. I lived there for several years. I have friends from many different income levels and from many different places including cities and the country side. You obviously know nothing about China other than a few things you read in the paper. As you've now shown, even your reading skills are limited. I'm done talking to you. Go troll somehwere else. |
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You got him pegged. Just another queer who is mad at God for making him
that way, and who thinks that his salvation lies in sucking up to the socialist democrats. "Neill" wrote in message . com... "USENET READER" wrote in message ink.net... You don't know what the **** you are talking about, why don't you just shut up idiot. I know many average chinese citizens. They own stock. The ability of the average Chinese person to live cheap and save would put most Americans to shame. You know these citizens from where? You go over to China? What is the per capita income in China? You are so ****ing full of shit- it's not like they make American wages and live in poverty by choice. A repressed demofag, aren't you a joy! China is getting rich on the imbalance of trade with the USA and from US investments, not from slave-labor chinese workers buying stock. The imbalance of trade ends up enriching the ChiCom officials and their US Investors, and they end up owning more and more of US debt - they really can't do anything else with all that money! Doucheboy - why don't you come up with some numbers to prove your point - what percentage of Chinese workers own stock, what is the per capita income of those workers, and what percentage of their income do they invest in the Chinese stock market? Or do you mean Chinese people living and investing in the US market? Personal attacks a point don't make. And do I want to live in ****ing squallor in the US just to make you feel happy and superior - and to make some rich puke even richer? I doubt you live in squalor, fag boy. Sorry dingleberry - my famly came from Italy and Slovakia, and those days of anyone from my family dancing on the end of a string for the Man while living on some feudal manor and owing my soul to the Company Store are ****ing over - you hear me? You and the rest of you rich cocksuckers had better realize that your $7.00 rent a cops aren't gonna protect you from the masses when we get ****ed and rise up to come after you behind the walls of your gated community. And if you don't live behind those gates - why the **** are you standing up for those rich pukes anyway? No, but say hello to my Colt .45 According to the news sources I have, even though the companies are being privatized, the new owners are still the party elite and their overseas business partners. Employee or other non-management stock ownership is being held to 20% or less. So how the **** can you say that the average Chinese citizen owns stock? Prove it - show me a cite! Because I have many friends in China. I've done better than read a few news articles, I've lived there. Right - did you move to china before or after your cousin pulled the wrench out of the door of his car? What city and province did you live in and why were you there in the first place. Because where you lived - if you did live there - certainly colored your perspective of what is an average Chinese person. If you lived in a big city, you might have been living with a shitload of Chinese people, but they were far from average - they were the top of the economic pile in China. What's with the class division, fag boy? Are you not only repressed, but poor, too. Damn, that's what you get for believing the communist lies your faggot friends were telling you. Be careful, they only want to **** you in the ass, but then, I'm not telling you anything you don't already know, eh, fag boy? Management decides what to build, labor decides whether they will do it well or not. Some choose to be sloppy. And who should put quality control on the assembly line to catch that shit? Management should have but didn't. Sure, point the finger at everyone but yourself. Ever hear of accountability? No? I guess not, because you want to blame God for making you a fag. Instead of taking responsibility for yourself., you want everyone else to be responsible for you. Too bad, fag boy! And MANY, MANY, MANY more DO HAVE A CHOICE, and choose cheap. Sorry - very very very very very few people actually have a choice on what to buy these days - they aren't the buyers for the stores and don't have a say on what goes on the shelves. Do you think that customers tell Wal-Mart what to put on the shelves to sell? **** no - Wal-Mart tells vendors what they will buy an item for, and in fact tells them to move the production over to China in order to make it cheaper. GE did that too with many of the vendors who supplied parts for GE consumer products. When a company like Wal-Mart moves close to one in four of a growing number of products sold in the country, the customer has damn little to say about where things are made, expecially when the loss of those jobs forces people to buy cheaper stuff to make their money last longer. It's a race to the bottom. Sorry, but, Wal-Mart gives their customers what they want, whether you like or not, fag boy! Quit worrying about everybody else, and get a life. Neill |
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Neill wrote: "USENET READER" wrote in message ink.net... You don't know what the **** you are talking about, why don't you just shut up idiot. I know many average chinese citizens. They own stock. The ability of the average Chinese person to live cheap and save would put most Americans to shame. You know these citizens from where? You go over to China? What is the per capita income in China? You are so ****ing full of shit- it's not like they make American wages and live in poverty by choice. A repressed demofag, aren't you a joy! Talking about personal attacks? You don't have any information or cites to back up your claims, so you call someone a fag. What kind of a fart-shiffing, crypto-fascists Bush lover are you? China is getting rich on the imbalance of trade with the USA and from US investments, not from slave-labor chinese workers buying stock. The imbalance of trade ends up enriching the ChiCom officials and their US Investors, and they end up owning more and more of US debt - they really can't do anything else with all that money! Doucheboy - why don't you come up with some numbers to prove your point - what percentage of Chinese workers own stock, what is the per capita income of those workers, and what percentage of their income do they invest in the Chinese stock market? Or do you mean Chinese people living and investing in the US market? Personal attacks a point don't make. Dickhead. And do I want to live in ****ing squallor in the US just to make you feel happy and superior - and to make some rich puke even richer? I doubt you live in squalor, fag boy. Sorry dingleberry - my famly came from Italy and Slovakia, and those days of anyone from my family dancing on the end of a string for the Man while living on some feudal manor and owing my soul to the Company Store are ****ing over - you hear me? You and the rest of you rich cocksuckers had better realize that your $7.00 rent a cops aren't gonna protect you from the masses when we get ****ed and rise up to come after you behind the walls of your gated community. And if you don't live behind those gates - why the **** are you standing up for those rich pukes anyway? No, but say hello to my Colt .45 According to the news sources I have, even though the companies are being privatized, the new owners are still the party elite and their overseas business partners. Employee or other non-management stock ownership is being held to 20% or less. So how the **** can you say that the average Chinese citizen owns stock? Prove it - show me a cite! Because I have many friends in China. I've done better than read a few news articles, I've lived there. Right - did you move to china before or after your cousin pulled the wrench out of the door of his car? What city and province did you live in and why were you there in the first place. Because where you lived - if you did live there - certainly colored your perspective of what is an average Chinese person. If you lived in a big city, you might have been living with a shitload of Chinese people, but they were far from average - they were the top of the economic pile in China. What's with the class division, fag boy? Are you not only repressed, but poor, too. Damn, that's what you get for believing the communist lies your faggot friends were telling you. Be careful, they only want to **** you in the ass, but then, I'm not telling you anything you don't already know, eh, fag boy? When asked for a cite, all you can do is cal me a fag - that means you don't have a ****ing clue. I on the other hand can show cites that Chinese labor doesn't own stock and that companies like Wal Mart actually hurt American workers more than they help them: From http://cecd.aers.psu.edu/pubs/PovertyResearchWM.pdf Wal-Mart and County-Wide Poverty October 18, 2004 AERS STAFF PAPER No. 371 Conclusion After carefully and comprehensively accounting for other local determinants of poverty, we find that the presence of Wal-Mart unequivocally raised family poverty rates in US counties during the 1990s relative to places that had no such stores. This was true not only as a consequence of existing stores in a county in 1987, but it was also an independent outcome of the location of new stores between 1987 and 1998. The question whether the cost of relatively higher poverty in a county is offset by the benefits of lower prices and wider choices available to consumers associated with a Wal-Mart store cannot be answered here. However, if Wal-Mart does contribute to a higher poverty rate, then it is not bearing the full economic and social costs of its business practices. Instead, Wal-Mart transfers income from the working poor and from taxpayers though welfare-programs directed at the poor to stockholders and the heirs of the Wal-Mart fortune, as well as to consumers. These transfers are in addition to the public infrastructure subsidies often provided by local communities. Regardless of the distributional effects, the Wal-Mart business model appears to extract cumulative rents that exceed those earned by owners of other corporations, including Microsoft. From http://edworkforce.house.gov/democra...MARTREPORT.pdf EVERYDAY LOW WAGES: THE HIDDEN PRICE WE ALL PAY FOR WAL-MART A REPORT BY THE DEMOCRATIC STAFF OF THE COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND THE WORKFORCE U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES REPRESENTATIVE GEORGE MILLER (D-CA), SENIOR DEMOCRAT FEBRUARY 16, 2004 Wal-Mart maintains an extensive global network of 10,000 suppliers.74 Whether American, Bangladeshi, Chinese, or Honduran, Wal-Mart plays these producers against one another in search of lower and lower prices. American suppliers have been forced to relocate their businesses overseas to maintain Wal-Mart contracts.75 Overseas manufacturers are forced to engage in cutthroat competition that further erodes wages and working conditions of what often already are sweatshops. To keep up with the pressure to produce ever cheaper goods, factories force employees to work overtime or work for weeks without a day off. A Bangladeshi factory worker told the Los Angeles Times that employees at her factory worked from 8 a.m. to 3 a.m. for 10 and 15 day stretches just to meet Wal-Mart price demands. And still, Wal-Martsgeneral manager for Bangladesh complained of his countrys factories, telling the Los Angeles Times, I think they need to improve. When I entered a factory in China, it seemed they are very fast.76 While low-wage jobs displace higher-paid manufacturing jobs in the United States, undercutting living standards at home, living standards abroad are not reaping the benefits one might expect. Reports indicate that Wal-Marts bargaining power is able to maintain low wages and poor working conditions among its foreign suppliers. The Washington Post has explained: As capital scours the globe for cheaper and more malleable workers, and as poor countries seek multinational companies to provide jobs, lift production, and open export markets, Wal-Mart and China have forged themselves into the ultimate joint venture, their symbiosis influencing the terms of labor and consumption the world over.77 Thanks to a ban on independent trade unions and a lack of other basic human rights, China offers Wal-Mart a highly-disciplined and cheap workforce. A Chinese labor official who asked to remain anonymous for fear of punishment told the Washington Post that Wal-Mart pressures the factory to cut its price, and the factory responds with longer hours or lower pay. And the workers have no options.78 One employee of a Chinese supplier described the difficulties of surviving on $75 per month. She could rarely afford to buy meat, and her family largely subsisted on vegetables. Over four years, she had not received a single salary increase.79 Wal-Mart has countered that it insists that its suppliers enforce labor standards and comply with Chinese law. One-hundred Wal-Mart auditors inspect Chinese plants, and the company has suspended contracts with about 400 suppliers, mainly for violating overtime limits. An additional 72 factories were permanently blacklisted in 2003 for violating child labor standards. Still, critics point out that the Wal-Mart does not regularly inspect smaller factories that use middlemen to sell to the company. Nor does it inspect the factories of subcontractors. A Chinese labor organizer explained that the inspections are ineffective, since Wal-Mart usually notifies the factories in advance. The factories often prepare by cleaning up, creating fake time sheets and briefing workers on what to say.80 The factories themselves complain that, because Wal-Mart demands such low prices, they have slim profit margins if any. A manager of one Chinese supplier told the Washington Post, In the beginning, we made money But when Wal-Mart started to launch nationwide distribution, they pressured us for a special price below our cost. Now, were losing money on every box, while Wal-Mart is making more money.81 Obviously, one way to regain a profit for such suppliers would be to begin cutting back on labor costs. Finally, as testament to Wal-Marts stalwart anti-union policy, none of its 31 stores in China are unionized, despite the fact that the Communist Party-controlled official union has told the company that it would not help workers fight for higher pay.82 Oddly enough, Article 10 of Chinas Trade Union Law requires that any establishment with 25 or more workers must have a union. Wal-Mart, however, claims that it has received assurances from the central government that it need not allow unions in any of its stores.83 As one reporter has explained, The explanation for the apparent contradiction may be that the governments desire for foreigninvestment and jobs trumps any concern for workers rights. That wouldnt be surprising in the Chinese environment, where strikes are forbidden and the official labor grouping actively supports the governments efforts to block the rise of independent unions.84 With China, any company in search of pliant and cheap labor has found a perfect mix of cooperative government officials and workers made submissive through fear. How the **** can anyone who hasn't had a wage increase in years and can't afford to put food on the table and works from 8 AM until 3 AM afford to buy stock? When do they find the time to run down to the stock broker's office to make their purchase? Or do they do it on line? Management decides what to build, labor decides whether they will do it well or not. Some choose to be sloppy. And who should put quality control on the assembly line to catch that shit? Management should have but didn't. Sure, point the finger at everyone but yourself. Ever hear of accountability? No? I guess not, because you want to blame God for making you a fag. Instead of taking responsibility for yourself., you want everyone else to be responsible for you. Too bad, fag boy! Again - what an asshole - when given an example of something that you can't refute, you call me a fag. Clearly the loser in this thread is you - you can't even make a logical arguent to support your claims and cannot offer cites in support of your claims. And MANY, MANY, MANY more DO HAVE A CHOICE, and choose cheap. Sorry - very very very very very few people actually have a choice on what to buy these days - they aren't the buyers for the stores and don't have a say on what goes on the shelves. Do you think that customers tell Wal-Mart what to put on the shelves to sell? **** no - Wal-Mart tells vendors what they will buy an item for, and in fact tells them to move the production over to China in order to make it cheaper. GE did that too with many of the vendors who supplied parts for GE consumer products. When a company like Wal-Mart moves close to one in four of a growing number of products sold in the country, the customer has damn little to say about where things are made, expecially when the loss of those jobs forces people to buy cheaper stuff to make their money last longer. It's a race to the bottom. Sorry, but, Wal-Mart gives their customers what they want, whether you like or not, fag boy! Quit worrying about everybody else, and get a life. Do people know that when they shop at Wal-Mart, they are shopping themselves out of jobs? Quit selling out your birthright and your country you ****ing fascist asshole - and get ready for the time when we put your ass against the wall and shoot you with the rest of the pukes. You want a blindfold, or not? Menthol or regular? From http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/77/walmart.html The Wal-Mart You Don't Know The giant retailer's low prices often come with a high cost. Wal-Mart's relentless pressure can crush the companies it does business with and force them to send jobs overseas. Are we shopping our way straight to the unemployment line? Therein lies the basic conundrum of doing business with the world's largest retailer. By selling a gallon of kosher dills for less than most grocers sell a quart, Wal-Mart may have provided a ser-vice for its customers. But what did it do for Vlasic? The pickle maker had spent decades convincing customers that they should pay a premium for its brand. Now Wal-Mart was practically giving them away. And the fevered buying spree that resulted distorted every aspect of Vlasic's operations, from farm field to factory to financial statement. Indeed, as Vlasic discovered, the real story of Wal-Mart, the story that never gets told, is the story of the pressure the biggest retailer relentlessly applies to its suppliers in the name of bringing us "every day low prices." It's the story of what that pressure does to the companies Wal-Mart does business with, to U.S. manufacturing, and to the economy as a whole. That story can be found floating in a gallon jar of pickles at Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart wields its power for just one purpose: to bring the lowest possible prices to its customers. At Wal-Mart, that goal is never reached. The retailer has a clear policy for suppliers: On basic products that don't change, the price Wal-Mart will pay, and will charge shoppers, must drop year after year. But what almost no one outside the world of Wal-Mart and its 21,000 suppliers knows is the high cost of those low prices. Wal-Mart has the power to squeeze profit-killing concessions from vendors. To survive in the face of its pricing demands, makers of everything from bras to bicycles to blue jeans have had to lay off employees and close U.S. plants in favor of outsourcing products from overseas. One way to think of Wal-Mart is as a vast pipeline that gives non-U.S. companies direct access to the American market. "One of the things that limits or slows the growth of imports is the cost of establishing connections and networks," says Paul Krugman, the Princeton University economist. "Wal-Mart is so big and so centralized that it can all at once hook Chinese and other suppliers into its digital system. So--wham!--you have a large switch to overseas sourcing in a period quicker than under the old rules of retailing." Steve Dobbins has been bearing the brunt of that switch. He's president and CEO of Carolina Mills, a 75-year-old North Carolina company that supplies thread, yarn, and textile finishing to apparel makers--half of which supply Wal-Mart. Carolina Mills grew steadily until 2000. But in the past three years, as its customers have gone either overseas or out of business, it has shrunk from 17 factories to 7, and from 2,600 employees to 1,200. Dobbins's customers have begun to face imported clothing sold so cheaply to Wal-Mart that they could not compete even if they paid their workers nothing. "People ask, 'How can it be bad for things to come into the U.S. cheaply? How can it be bad to have a bargain at Wal-Mart?' Sure, it's held inflation down, and it's great to have bargains," says Dobbins. "But you can't buy anything if you're not employed. We are shopping ourselves out of jobs." |
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You sure you aren't Oscar Wilde? You and that other loser who sniff
Dubya's farts for inspiration have no other refuge when you can't argue logically than to call someone a fag, even though I am a very straight photographer who shoots pics of naked women and get more pussy in a month - and hot model pussy - than either of you two fat drunken slobs get in your wildest wet dreams! Oscar_Lives wrote: You got him pegged. Just another queer who is mad at God for making him that way, and who thinks that his salvation lies in sucking up to the socialist democrats. "Neill" wrote in message . com... "USENET READER" wrote in message hlink.net... You don't know what the **** you are talking about, why don't you just shut up idiot. I know many average chinese citizens. They own stock. The ability of the average Chinese person to live cheap and save would put most Americans to shame. You know these citizens from where? You go over to China? What is the per capita income in China? You are so ****ing full of shit- it's not like they make American wages and live in poverty by choice. A repressed demofag, aren't you a joy! China is getting rich on the imbalance of trade with the USA and from US investments, not from slave-labor chinese workers buying stock. The imbalance of trade ends up enriching the ChiCom officials and their US Investors, and they end up owning more and more of US debt - they really can't do anything else with all that money! Doucheboy - why don't you come up with some numbers to prove your point - what percentage of Chinese workers own stock, what is the per capita income of those workers, and what percentage of their income do they invest in the Chinese stock market? Or do you mean Chinese people living and investing in the US market? Personal attacks a point don't make. And do I want to live in ****ing squallor in the US just to make you feel happy and superior - and to make some rich puke even richer? I doubt you live in squalor, fag boy. Sorry dingleberry - my famly came from Italy and Slovakia, and those days of anyone from my family dancing on the end of a string for the Man while living on some feudal manor and owing my soul to the Company Store are ****ing over - you hear me? You and the rest of you rich cocksuckers had better realize that your $7.00 rent a cops aren't gonna protect you from the masses when we get ****ed and rise up to come after you behind the walls of your gated community. And if you don't live behind those gates - why the **** are you standing up for those rich pukes anyway? No, but say hello to my Colt .45 According to the news sources I have, even though the companies are being privatized, the new owners are still the party elite and their overseas business partners. Employee or other non-management stock ownership is being held to 20% or less. So how the **** can you say that the average Chinese citizen owns stock? Prove it - show me a cite! Because I have many friends in China. I've done better than read a few news articles, I've lived there. Right - did you move to china before or after your cousin pulled the wrench out of the door of his car? What city and province did you live in and why were you there in the first place. Because where you lived - if you did live there - certainly colored your perspective of what is an average Chinese person. If you lived in a big city, you might have been living with a shitload of Chinese people, but they were far from average - they were the top of the economic pile in China. What's with the class division, fag boy? Are you not only repressed, but poor, too. Damn, that's what you get for believing the communist lies your faggot friends were telling you. Be careful, they only want to **** you in the ass, but then, I'm not telling you anything you don't already know, eh, fag boy? Management decides what to build, labor decides whether they will do it well or not. Some choose to be sloppy. And who should put quality control on the assembly line to catch that shit? Management should have but didn't. Sure, point the finger at everyone but yourself. Ever hear of accountability? No? I guess not, because you want to blame God for making you a fag. Instead of taking responsibility for yourself., you want everyone else to be responsible for you. Too bad, fag boy! And MANY, MANY, MANY more DO HAVE A CHOICE, and choose cheap. Sorry - very very very very very few people actually have a choice on what to buy these days - they aren't the buyers for the stores and don't have a say on what goes on the shelves. Do you think that customers tell Wal-Mart what to put on the shelves to sell? **** no - Wal-Mart tells vendors what they will buy an item for, and in fact tells them to move the production over to China in order to make it cheaper. GE did that too with many of the vendors who supplied parts for GE consumer products. When a company like Wal-Mart moves close to one in four of a growing number of products sold in the country, the customer has damn little to say about where things are made, expecially when the loss of those jobs forces people to buy cheaper stuff to make their money last longer. It's a race to the bottom. Sorry, but, Wal-Mart gives their customers what they want, whether you like or not, fag boy! Quit worrying about everybody else, and get a life. Neill |
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C G wrote: USENET READER wrote: C G wrote: USENET READER wrote: C G wrote: USENET READER wrote: I am starting a DYI home-improvement project and I notice that few power or hand tools are made in the USA. Even most of the Craftsman brand tools are made in the USA. Some are made in Taiwan (a democracy I have no problem doing business with) and Red China (perhaps I should call them Fascist China, a country where the factories are owned by the state and staffed with slave labor). Are you stuck in the '80s? Most Chinese companies have been privatized. And who owns these private companies? Mostly it is well-connected members of the ChiCom party - so for all intents and purposes, it is still owned by those who run the government. Still stuck in the '80s. The ownership has been changing for quite a while now, but I would not have expected you to be informed enough to know this. No actually - your head is up your ass. Can you tell me who owns the private companies if not the party elite? They just privatized these factories and now they split the profits not with the workers, but with their American investors. So you tell me how while it has changed in shape, the end result isn't really different? Seems it's your head up your own ass. China's got a thriving stock market and ownership is shifting to individuals. I wouldn't have expected you to know this, it bursts your bubble of ignorance. Bullshit - you can say that there is a stockmarket and that is supposed to mean that your average rank and file Chinese citizen can own stock? that is such bullshit - that whole thing is set up to attract foreign investment capital and to also make it easier to reward the party bigwigs. Their system is more fascist than free-market capitalism. They could still take it all back and leave their overseas investors hanging - what you gonna do when they do that? Sue them? You've just proven you do not know what the hell you are talking about. The average citizen DOES OWN STOCK. Give up, you obviously are clueless about this subject. The average citizen in China doesn't own stock. Do you know what the per capita or average income level is in China? There are like 1.5 billion people over there. Can you show a cite where you an prove that the average chinese citizen owns stock?? You don't know what the **** you are talking about, why don't you just shut up idiot. I know many average chinese citizens. They own stock. The ability of the average Chinese person to live cheap and save would put most Americans to shame. You know these citizens from where? You go over to China? I know them from China, twit. You're an idiot who writes before reading. I did go over to China, more times than I can remember. I lived there for several years. I have friends from many different income levels and from many different places including cities and the country side. You obviously know nothing about China other than a few things you read in the paper. As you've now shown, even your reading skills are limited. I'm done talking to you. Go troll somehwere else. You went over to China more times than you can remember? Where did you lve in China? If the Red Chinese let you over there, they didn't let you run all over the country and see all the poverty and the people who had no democratic freedom. If they can buy stocks, they can only buy the stocks the commie *******s want them to buy. You make Red China sound like a bastion of freedom, democracy and capitalism. Maybe you should talk to some Tibetans - they just love the Red Chinese. Maybe you should just go the **** back there and live - r starve. I don't care - either way you are a ****ing moron who can't make a logical argument and can't cite any facts to back up your claim. |
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C G wrote: USENET READER wrote: C G wrote: Gregor wrote: USENET READER wrote: C G wrote: Some American workers are productive, others will do as little as possible to get by. Same with management. You continue to try to place the blame on one group, but that's just not the case. Sorry - labor doesn't decide what to produce and how to produce it - that is management's job. I place the blame on the crap on the market with management. It isn't management's fault when labor stages a slowdown or sabotages products. My cousin had a rattle in his American car that turned out to be a wrench left inside the door during production. Exactly the kinds of things I was trying to get usenet to understand. Unfortunately, it seems he either can't or won't. I think he's actually just trolling. You trying to get me to understand an urban myth and anti-labor bullshit? Better marshall your facts first moron! Or better yet, show me a wrench and an affidavit! Yup, as I suspected, you're just trolling. Later troll. What - when I ask one of your asshole friends to back up his claim that his cousin found a wrench in his car door, you claim that I am trolling? What the **** are you talking about? Cars are built with air tools, not hand tools - so how the **** would a hand tool get stuck in a car door? You sir are a ****ing moron! |
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USENET READER wrote:
What - when I ask one of your [expletive deleted] friends to back up his claim that his cousin found a wrench in his car door, you claim that I am trolling? What the [expletive deleted] are you talking about? Cars are built with air tools, not hand tools - so how the **** would a hand tool get stuck in a car door? Sabotage, perhaps. I can't show you the wrench, but I certainly believe my cousin over your filthy mouth. The whole family had heard him complain for months that there was a rattle in his new car. He'd taken it back to the dealer for the third time when they told him they'd found a wrench in rear driver's side door. His next step would have been turning it back in under the lemon law. Whether the dealer made up the story, I can't tell you. But he never had another problem with that car before he traded it in, for another Ford. Gregor You sir are a ****ing moron! |
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USENET READER wrote:
C G wrote: USENET READER wrote: C G wrote: Gregor wrote: USENET READER wrote: C G wrote: Some American workers are productive, others will do as little as possible to get by. Same with management. You continue to try to place the blame on one group, but that's just not the case. Sorry - labor doesn't decide what to produce and how to produce it - that is management's job. I place the blame on the crap on the market with management. It isn't management's fault when labor stages a slowdown or sabotages products. My cousin had a rattle in his American car that turned out to be a wrench left inside the door during production. Exactly the kinds of things I was trying to get usenet to understand. Unfortunately, it seems he either can't or won't. I think he's actually just trolling. You trying to get me to understand an urban myth and anti-labor bullshit? Better marshall your facts first moron! Or better yet, show me a wrench and an affidavit! Yup, as I suspected, you're just trolling. Later troll. What - when I ask one of your asshole friends to back up his claim that his cousin found a wrench in his car door, you claim that I am trolling? What the **** are you talking about? Cars are built with air tools, not hand tools - so how the **** would a hand tool get stuck in a car door? Shagua!!! |
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