<VV> RE: End of the line for Corvair Axle Plant - no Corvair

Mike Stillwell yenko117 at yahoo.com
Thu Jan 18 09:42:23 EST 2007


 Rest easy, China will never attack.
 If they take us over,
 who will buy all their crap?

 I didn't write it, but I like it.
 Mike 
 YS-117

--- LastHamlet <lasthamlet at yahoo.com> wrote:

>  In reply to Gary's post, and in turn Hank's post,
> which both seemed for the most part, highly
> overlooked.(IMHO)
> Plant troubles and closings are major news and
> concern. As more and more jobs head away, we create
> our own demise. 
> A farmer once told me that the "Farmers" screwed
> themselves. Initially thinking the neighbors kids
> would work for next to nothing... Plan failed, so
> they
> turned to immigrant workers... That plan has also
> failed... Now having to pay a fair wage, health
> care,
> housing, communications, and the likes of other
> industries' standards.
> So, moral of the story is, and this is in my own
> words, "Trying to save three cents on a particular
> widget, will be carried too far, will be blown out
> of
> proportion and given way to all out greed... Hence,
> our undoing."
> People always seem to forget that sweatshops are
> illegal in this Country, so technically policies
> like
> NAFTA, should be considered illegal conspiracy, as
> they make way for big companies to capitalize of
> other
> Nations, with not so humane laws to protect their
> workers... Seem fair, long as we get ours,,,
> right???
> Funny thing I am always reminded of, when it comes
> to
> things like this, is a poem that was found in a
> concentration camp that ended with these words,
> "When
> they came for me, there was no one left to speak
> up."
> Sooner or later, if will effect even the most
> isolated
> of people in high positions, cause is some cases, it
> filters from the bottom.
> Just some thoughts I wanted to add, right along with
> Gary's statements, as I feel me must get back to
> "The
> buck stops here" and accept that no matter how you
> feel, if you would not do that Gardener's job for
> his
> wage, why do you feel he should???
> With Scattered Thoughts On A Troubling Issue,
> Danny Barber
> AKA: LastHamlet
> Asking: Is This "To Be"???????
> 
> 
>
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>
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> In reply to Hank's post on the closure of the
> American
> Axel plant in
> Buffalo.
>    Yes there is a lot of doom and gloom in the area,
> has been for a 
> long
> time. But things are looking up, they are planning
> plenty of new Wal 
> Mart
> Super centers........
> 
> The auto industry is in a death spiral. The more
> jobs
> lost, the less
> prospective auto buyers there will be. People
> working
> for Wal Mart 
> wages
> generally are not buying new cars. Has the auto
> industry even thought 
> yet
> that all the jobs going out of this country are
> killing them?
> Delphi wants to pay all new workers in the $10 to
> $12
> range. think that
> will put people in the auto buyers market?
> 
> It's only going to get worse..............crime is
> on
> the upswing, 
> could
> the reason be the hopelessness of trying to make an
> honest 
> living..........
> 
> Gary Swiatowy
> 



 
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