On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 17:09:12 -0500, DSK wrote:

John H wrote:
Gee, you would have thought the Textile and Clothing Workers Industrial Union
would have saved all those jobs. You reckon the union had anything to do with
the outsourcing of all that work?


I dooubt it strongly, since few textile plants in the South were
unionized right up to the end.

The magic words...the end.


I wonder which is better, taking a reduction in pay to $27 an hour (fictitious
number) or a reduction to $0 per hour.


You're really full of ****.

You're probably correct.

Do you think the average mill worker ever
got anywhere near $27 per hour? What do you think they *did* get, if you
have to pull fictitious numbers out of thin air?

I have no idea what they got. The point is that they are getting *nothing* now.
Of course, that's probably Bush's fault.

Do you think that American laborers should compete on an "even playing
field" ie no pollution laws, no workplace safety laws, and $1/day wages
such as prevalent in the 3rd world? The only way to compete is through
technology... and intelligent management... both of which require the
application of a little political willpower...

Of course, political willpower. Whose? Did Bush wipe out all the textile plants?
Does political willpower create the technology and intelligent management of
which you speak?

Guess we fell short.

DSK


John H

On the 'PocoLoco' out of Deale, MD,
on the beautiful Chesapeake Bay!

"Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it."
Rene Descartes