"Dave" wrote in message
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On Tue, 15 May 2007 19:28:28 -0400, katy said:


Hey...not fair! We're from Michigan and no one paid us to stay there and
not work!

Guess you didn't belong to the right union.

Amen to that. A Michigan friend, who shall remain nameless, is employed by
GM. He spends his days in what he and others in his union refer to as
"Daddy Daycare." His job has been phased out by robotic machinery, but his
employment is protected by the UAW contract with GM. He therefore whiles
his long days watching TV, reading, sleeping, eating, etc., but always on
the factory property in a provided facility. There are about 150 others in
Daddy Daycare with him, and he refers to it as man-made Hell. He hates it,
and would rather work. Despite his protestation, he maintains his nearly
$40 per hour (wages plus benefits, perks, etc.). In railroad parlance, this
was called "featherbedding." It, in all likelihood, is also why GM and
other American carmakers are failing to compete effectively, at least in
part, with Toyota and the other offshore car companies.

Max

"Jonathan Ganz" wrote in message
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Dave wrote:
On 15 May 2007 15:39:34 -0700, lid (Jonathan Ganz) said:

Tried that with welfare mothers. Pretty soon all the teenage girls were
staying home and making babies.

All of them? Wow. I didn't know that.

That's called "hyperbole," Jon. You can look it up.

I thought you were doing what you usually do... over-generalizing.

You'd never do a thing like that, now would you?

Max

"katy" wrote in message
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Dave wrote:
On Tue, 15 May 2007 19:28:28 -0400, katy said:


Hey...not fair! We're from Michigan and no one paid us to stay there and
not work!


Guess you didn't belong to the right union.

Guess we didn't belong to any union!

A shame. You'd probably be retired now and living well. The union types on
A-dock tend to all have rather nice boats.

Max

Joe,

Stop making up these silly stories. No one believe them anyway.

Bart

In article . net,
Maxprop wrote:

"Jonathan Ganz" wrote in message
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In article ,
Dave wrote:
On 15 May 2007 15:39:34 -0700, lid (Jonathan Ganz) said:

Tried that with welfare mothers. Pretty soon all the teenage girls were
staying home and making babies.

All of them? Wow. I didn't know that.

That's called "hyperbole," Jon. You can look it up.

I thought you were doing what you usually do... over-generalizing.

You'd never do a thing like that, now would you?

ABSOLUTELY NEVER. NO WAY. REALLY. g
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Capt. JG @@
www.sailnow.com

"Dave" wrote in message
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On Tue, 15 May 2007 14:01:16 -0400, katy

wrote:

I think I would rather the bus, myself....having a limo
pull up makes
for all kinds of conjectures plus sets one apart from the
general
public.

This is New York, Katy. Different world.

Many places have Dial-a-Ride but from my experience in
the elder
care business, it is not reliable in most places and
sometimes people
get stranded for hours waiting for their ride to show up.

I suppose it's true that any time you get gummint involved
things are
likely to be screwed up. But the profit motive can do
wondrous things
if properly used.

Why don't you just take an earlier bus?

Scotty

unions are a major contributor to the down fall of this
country.


"Maxprop" wrote in message
ink.net...

"Dave" wrote in message
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On Tue, 15 May 2007 19:28:28 -0400, katy
said:


Hey...not fair! We're from Michigan and no one paid us
to stay there and
not work!

Guess you didn't belong to the right union.

Amen to that. A Michigan friend, who shall remain
nameless, is employed by
GM. He spends his days in what he and others in his union
refer to as
"Daddy Daycare." His job has been phased out by robotic
machinery, but his
employment is protected by the UAW contract with GM. He
therefore whiles
his long days watching TV, reading, sleeping, eating,
etc., but always on
the factory property in a provided facility. There are
about 150 others in
Daddy Daycare with him, and he refers to it as man-made
Hell. He hates it,
and would rather work. Despite his protestation, he
maintains his nearly
$40 per hour (wages plus benefits, perks, etc.). In
railroad parlance, this
was called "featherbedding." It, in all likelihood, is
also why GM and
other American carmakers are failing to compete
effectively, at least in
part, with Toyota and the other offshore car companies.

Max

"Joe" wrote in message
oups.com..
..
Disabled sailor to try again after being thrown from boat

By Will Carson


HELPING HANDS: Geoff is pulled from the Solent after
hitting the wave.
Picture by onEdition
A HAMPSHIRE yachtsman has spoken of his "personal
heartbreak" at
having to call off his bid to become the first disabled
person to sail
singlehanded round Great Britain when he was thrown from
his boat.

Quadriplegic sailor Geoff Holt set sail from Hamble on the
first leg
of the record-breaking 1,600-mile voyage yesterday.

But disaster struck when waves generated by the dozens of
spectator
and press boats caused his 15ft trimaran to become
overpowered and he
was thrown into the Solent.

To make matters worse, the 40-year-old's lifejacket didn't
inflate
properly, and he lay face down in the water unable to turn
himself
over.

he has now changed his name to Bob.

Scotty wrote:
unions are a major contributor to the down fall of this
country.


I second that....

"Dave" wrote in message
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On Wed, 16 May 2007 19:01:18 -0400, "Scotty"

said:

Why don't you just take an earlier bus?

How does that help? The work time is lost whether early or
late.


everyone knows that the handicapped are lazy, they won't be
up that early.

SV