Problem is, that's a commonly-repeated myth, but it's still a myth. That just isn't true.
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Do you care where your tools are manufactured?
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I been married for 36 years....not all to the woman though...
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Don't you be diss'n Teddy Kennedy's good friend. They're both working hard for our government to save you from yourself.
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As happened with Dewalt/Black&Decker talk about crap!!! I recently bought a 45 YO Delta Unisaw and love it. Sold several other newer Delta products at garage sale prices and was glad I didn't have to haul them to the landfill. The sad part is if you don't want to support China what are the alternatives?? After they snubbed our navy even in "a port from storm" which has never been done in the history of sailing ships will our dipshit gov't limit imports....naw we are too STUPID to do that!!!!!!!!!! It's the dollar folks, our gov't is selling us down the tubes.
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Yes! It's good to see there are some people that have given this some thought. Most seem to be either "let them all in" or "throw them all out" Neither works. The guest worker program would be the best of both. As you say though, it would have to be implemented in the right manor otherwise, it would turn into another "big business replacing Americans with cheap labor" situation. Always a greedy basted trying to get over.
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Come back when you've lived it. Then you will have something intelligent to say. Go pick some fruit for a while.
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I know the feeling. Good things just get better. Have a good one.
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Then change the topic Who gives a damn about Toyota!
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Horseshit.
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"Mark & Juanita" wrote
The French couldn't administer a cluster f*ck, and the British let many of those folks in starting about 40 years ago out of colonial guilt, not to work.
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Not going to disagree with either of your assessments there. However, the same problem is prevalent across Europe -- Spain, Denmark, Sweden, etc. The thing that we do have going for us is that the immigrants we have coming in at least share the same religious background, even if they don't share the same language.
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So how did the farmers get their crops in, say, 40 years ago, before there was the massive flood of illegals we have now?
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>>> These guys used to be the top of the food chain, but now are
You might want to look into the reasons that Matthew Perry visited Japan.
So how is keeping the prices of tools in the US higher than for the rest of the world helping American industry to grow? If our prices are the highest in the world we aren't going to be selling much on the world market and face it, the US domestic market doesn't have a huge amount of growth potential for durable goods.
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Good enough friend for the waitress sandwich...
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ENOUGH!!!!!!!! BACK TO WOODWORKING FOR PETE'S SAKE.
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One could always skip this thread...
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It's a myth only for those who are not in the position of trying to find workers...
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What do you think Chris and Ted were doing with the waitress?
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Combination -- mostly the itinerants were still around, just there weren't the other 10-20 M of so besides in the case of the seasonal picking and so on. Earlier ('30s and so on), there were the Okies and similar of Steinbeck fame...
The difference now is the US demographics are far different and welfare programs mean the unemployed don't starve so they don't/won't work at all in large numbers...
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