Jim wrote:
HK wrote:
wrote:
On Jun 21, 9:28 pm, HK wrote:
thunder wrote:
On Sun, 21 Jun 2009 18:36:12 -0400, HK wrote:
Such a keel you would not believe, and a barn door of a rudder:
Damn, that is one hell of a keel for such a small boat. Sweet lines.
http://www.l16.org/images/frb/Adagio_256.jpg
In its day, many thought it the most beautiful sailboat ever, in
or out
of the water.
These were production sailboats, built in southern Connecticut.
In it's day, Connecticut built quite a few sailboats. IINM, Etchells
were also built there. Probably had something to do with it's
closeness
to Long Island Sound. ;-)
And the most highly skilled workforce in the country. Before, during
and
after WW II, New England generally and Connecticut specifically was
considered the "arsenal of America," and where most machine tools were
manufacturered, and, of course, helicopters, nuclear submarines,
firearms, and ammo. No more.

They just needed a bailout to keep making unneeded stuff.
Frogwatch


Naw...we devolved from a manufacturing country to a pussypushingpaper
country.

Do you think the overhead of union operations and unrealistic worker pay
scales, rigid job descriptions, strikes, slowdowns, crazy benefit
packages, corruption, and extortion practices had anything to do with
it? The cost of all this, remember, gets passed on to the consumer. It's
no wonder that the average non union consumer thumbed his nose at the
union label. Products turned out by union worforces were often
substandard due in part to lack of pride in workmanship, dedication to
the job, and to management having to skimp on materials to cover
exorbitant union related costs.

Thank you very much, Mr. Krause for your dedicated efforts to help bring
down America.

The same is happening in the "service" industries now. Beware the fall
of the USA, 50 years from now will be very different that 5 years ago.
Obama is accelerating the downfall.