Ole Thom,

It amazes me how somebody as ancient as you are has failed
to learn how the world works. Maybe it's all the alcohol that
clouds a once-productive brain? Or, could it be the onset
of senility?

You make the absurd statement that outsourcing is occurring
because of management greed. Duh! Check out management
salaries sometimes. They get paid what they are worth and
they are worth every penny of it. Companies are not forced
to pay high salaries to managers. Companies pay high salaries
to managers because they are worth the investment. Just like
football players make huge salaries because they are worth
every penny of it. The overhead that management represents
to a company is small, indeed, compared to bloated and
unrealistic union worker wage and benefit packages. The rank
and file, by virtue of their far greater numbers, account for
the lion's share of the total labor costs.

That you parrot the liberal "greedy management" saw indicates
to me that you are a liberal and too stupid to know it. That's
sad. I hope you read Bob Crantz point about greedy workers.
Funny how myopic some folks thinking is.

Bwahahhahahahahhahahahahah! You are so naive - so stupid!
Ole Thom = Mr. Magoo.

You conveniently forget that a company, in order to survive,
must operate at a profit and this profit must be higher than
monetary investments in stocks and bonds or else the company
may as well go out of business, sell its assets and invest in
stocks and bonds of profitable companies. (i.e. non-union
companies)

Like Bob Crantz so truthfully pointed out in another post
the profit margins of most companies are not as extravagant
as you liberals seem to imagine. There are a few examples
such as Microsoft where unions are not allowed and they
are rousing success stories. But, on the other hand, some companies
run in the red, year after year, and only manage to have a banner
year from time to time or they would have gone bankrupt years ago.
The airline industry has many examples of this sad state of affairs.

The airline industry is also a good example of how labor unions
have destroyed their own niche. Their way-too-high costs for
salaries, benefit package and retirement package makes established
companies such as American and United non-competitive with
upstart airlines that have none of the above, union related expense.
Get rid of unions, allow free-market economics to take control
and we would have pilots making what they are worth, mechanics
making what they are worth, flight attendants making what they
are worth etc. We would have profitable airlines and cheaper
fares.

It is clearly and undeniably the union worker's greed and failure
to understand that his recompense must be indexed to supply and
demand that has caused the outsourcing. Labor unions are anathema
to free-market economics as is any other socialist system.

When a company looks at labor costs here because of union
worker greed and unrealistic expectations and entitlement
mentality they rightly throw up their hands and say, "That dog
won't hunt!" So, they open a factory overseas or they outsource.
Who, in his right mind, other than someone with an entitlement
mentality could blame them. After all, they are not charities.
They cannot compete in a world economy carrying on their backs
greedy and lazy union workers and the carbuncle of the corrupt
union bureaucrats.

Try to remember that, in a capitalist country, businesses are not
welfare agencies. You liberals, with your union worker entitlement
mentality, are the direct cause of outsourcing. It is ironic that
you liberals holler so loudly about something that is your own
doing. It demonstrates to all open-minded people how bereft of
logic and intelligence you fools are. Outsourcing demonstrates
that, try as you might, you cannot force companies to give you
a free ride.

Grow up! Learn a little about free-market economics. Oh, before
you get much blinder, may I suggest you read "Atlas Shrugged"
by Ayn Rand. That tome will show you the light. Don't allow
yourself to become one day older without taking steps to
educate yourself as to your utter folly. You have been
indoctrinated into the liberal party line to such an extent that
you blindly parrot their propaganda. Shame on you!

No wonder you hardly sail anymore. You're too dumb to
realize which way the wind blows.

The validity of my original treatise stands. Your feeble
attempt proving otherwise, notwithstanding.


CN


"Thom Stewart" squatted and squeezed out the following:

Neal,

Bluntly; "You're full of ****!"

This is sent to you from a non-union person; ME. I was transferred to
the NW because of my feeling for a Non-union environment. We started and
ran a non-union Refinery. ARCO

You have to be out of your "Cotton Picking Mind" to think that the
Outsourcing of our Industry is happening to escape "Greed". It is being
driven by Greed. The mentality of "Higher Profits", that is the Greed.
If you can't see that, then you are one of those people "Blind because
you refuse to See!"

Be sure that you will see unions blossoming where this greed is taking
place. Management Greed is the seed of unionism. The is what they feed
on. As they feed and grow, corruption happens.

Ole Thom