On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 17:29:59 -0800, jps wrote:

On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 13:20:13 -0500, BAR wrote:

jps wrote:
On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:04:00 -0800 (PST),
wrote:

On Jan 23, 11:21 pm, jps wrote:
On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 23:12:42 -0500, BAR wrote:
jps wrote:
Earning a living wage is down the drain. It's a rush to find the
cheapest labor, cheapest materials, least expensive transportation.
When you go to the store do you buy the 50 cent cup of coffee or do you
buy the $5 cup of coffee. The $5 cup of coffee provides the employees
with a living wage?
When I go to the store, I look for what made in America. If it's not
twice as much I buy it.

Money, mouth.
Pfffttt.. right... What was the last American made product you bought
in lieu of a foreign product? Or are you just making it up.... uh,
forget it... snerk

You're a ****ing idiot.

I was in a Sears and Home Depot the other day looking for tools for
our assembly bench and saw nothing but **** from China and Taiwan.

I went to a small tool reseller the following day and bought tools
made in America and Germany.

Money, mouth, asshole.

Since when is Germany in the USA?

They didn't have an American version of the electronics style philips
head I was looking for. The guy told me he didn't have any American
made and finding something could take weeks. I didn't have weeks. I
went for a backup choice, from a country that worships technical
precision and pays workers fair wages.

Capiche?

Yes, jps, Germany is a 'worker's paradise'. You liberals should maybe
check some of your facts before putting down the USA.

"More German adults and children are living in poverty – that is,
living in a household with less than half the median income – today
than in 1985. For the total population the income poverty rate
increased from 6% to 11% while for children it increased from 7% to
16%. There was no increase among older people: their poverty rate
remained stable at around 7% (for those aged 66-74) and 11% (those
aged 75 and over)."

And...

"Government redistribution through household taxes and benefits has
reduced income inequality and poverty but not enough to stop the
rapidly increasing gap between rich and poor. Transfers are less
targeted to lower income groups than in other countries."

Gosh, government wealth redistribution didn't work either. Damn, what
a shame.

http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/45/25/41525346.pdf

Capiche????