Should I sell my 1999 10th Anniversary because my Union told me too?
01-29-2010, 12:04 PM
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You can't have it both ways. Chicken tax - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
And the union supervisor's supervisor is going to side with who exactly? His right-hand man or some whiny new guy off the street? What makes you think for one second that the entire union's mantra of "Buy American" will not be supported even more vehemently by the big boss?
FYI- Things are really quite different once you leave the insulation of academia and enter the real world. He is likely to get fired for just opening his mouth to complain about it. If not fired, then overlooked for promotion up the road. That is the real world.
FYI- Things are really quite different once you leave the insulation of academia and enter the real world. He is likely to get fired for just opening his mouth to complain about it. If not fired, then overlooked for promotion up the road. That is the real world.
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01-30-2010, 10:47 AM
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I will avoid having a hi-po car as my only vehicle like the plague from here on out. This solution keeps you from embarking on some crusade and makes practical sense too.
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01-30-2010, 01:47 PM
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Who gives a **** what people at work think about your car? I get some much **** from my school buddies about my car, but who gives a ****? We know how good they are...You're the one that has to drive it everyday not them. Go tell there redneck asses to **** themselves. Buy American my ***, that **** is made in Mexico. The miata is more American than any Gm, Chevy or Ford.
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02-01-2010, 12:52 AM
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exactly six but he needs to feel out the situation with his superiors. If the guy is serius then he should seriusly consider getting something inline with what the union wants for him. Or go get another job, its a shitty situation but its how **** works in the real world alot of times.
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02-01-2010, 09:59 AM
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So you think that money is the root of all evil? Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a tool of exchange, which can't exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal with one another must deal by trade and give value for value. Money is not the tool of the moochers, who claim your product by tears or of the looters, who take it from you by force. Money is made possible only by the men who produce. Is this what you consider evil?
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02-01-2010, 11:25 AM
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I'll see your Ayn Rand and raise you one Milton Friedman:
To return to the wage rate, how can a union enforce a high wage rate? One way is violence or the threat of violence: threatening to destroy the property of employers, or to beat them up if they employ nonunion workers or if they pay union members less than the union-specified rate; or to beat up workers, or destroy their property, if they agree to work for a lower wage. That is the reason union wage arrangements and negotiations have so often been accompanied by violence.
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02-01-2010, 11:45 AM
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Another gem from F. A. Hayek:
Public policy concerning labor unions has, in little more than a century, moved from one extreme to the other. From a state in which little the unions could do was legal if they were not prohibited altogether, we have now reached a state where they have become uniquely privileged institutions to which the general rules of law do not apply.
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02-01-2010, 12:34 PM
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No offense (I consider both parties pretty useless in the overall sense) but the notion that Democrats will help the poor and raise taxes and that Republicans will be fiscally conservative and reduce the deficit is pretty much bunk and has been for about 20 years.
Supposed liberal Clinton pretty much killed the deficit while supposed conservative Bush spent like a drunken sailor. Who saw that coming?
Obama did something realy great for the poor. He took a lot of perfectly good cars off the road that would have been in the used market and got a lot of people signed on with new loans for new cars
And now I am looking at getting fined for not having health insurance. That'll really help me out.
But its all OK. I got my Social Security statement the other day. It reassures me that I dont have to fear, SS will be solvent until 2037 under normal law. Wait, I'm 27. That does not help me. But hey, its OK, they will make changes to save it, and the little sumary assures me that I will get 1400 bucks a month if I retire at age 67. Except that by the time I am 67 (assuming I live that long) 1400 bucks will be about enough for food, maybe.
Seriously, IMHO the only viable legislative group worth a damn (or potentially worth a damn) are middle of the road democrats. And that's coming from someone raised very conservative. But I would'nt look to them to save the poor either.
/Rant
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02-01-2010, 12:51 PM
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I'm with you on W...social conservative, yes, but he should never be confused with a fiscal conservative or laissez-faire freemarketer.
Hard to credit Clinton with "cutting" the deficit down, though...he had a Republican Congress after the 1994 elections keeping him in check, and it was during one of the biggest economic booms we've seen.
Hard to credit Clinton with "cutting" the deficit down, though...he had a Republican Congress after the 1994 elections keeping him in check, and it was during one of the biggest economic booms we've seen.
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