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Roofing company billionaire dies after falling through roof at his home
Canadian Press ^ | 12/21/07

Posted on 12/21/2007 12:29:21 PM PST by LibWhacker

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To: LibWhacker

Looks like it was new construction. In oredr to fall through, the deck matl’s have to be shoddy. Wonder what that was?


21 posted on 12/21/2007 1:12:28 PM PST by spunkets ("Freedom is about authority", Rudy Giuliani, gun grabber)
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To: org.whodat
His business was supplying roofing materials to roofing companies...

Just because he got very rich doesn’t mean he hired illegals to do it...

Geeze...

22 posted on 12/21/2007 1:12:46 PM PST by DB
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To: LetsRok

Nope, he just sold the supplies to the owner of the companies that hire the illegal workers, he himself is a very honorable man who worked hard to get what he has got.


23 posted on 12/21/2007 1:12:59 PM PST by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: spunkets

OSB is commonly used these days. It performs pretty poorly when wet.


24 posted on 12/21/2007 1:14:00 PM PST by DB
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To: Abathar

No one ever MADE an illegal take a job.


25 posted on 12/21/2007 1:17:37 PM PST by basil (Support the Second Amendment--buy another gun today!)
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To: basil

Nope, but that would be like the owner of Home Depot being responsible for making money off illegal immigrants, and that isn’t right.


26 posted on 12/21/2007 1:21:59 PM PST by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: DB
Geeze...

The man was a roofing contractor for twenty years before he started Abc, and he started it so he could get a better supply chain for his roofing business. Geeze!

27 posted on 12/21/2007 1:27:26 PM PST by org.whodat (What's the difference between a Democrat and a republican????)
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To: DB

I remember when ABC bought the old Globe Building Materials plant in St. Paul. They also had a felt plant in Wisconsin that continues to run today...


28 posted on 12/21/2007 1:27:57 PM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (ENERGY CRISIS made in Washington D. C.)
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To: org.whodat
Why dis someone that was successful with absolutely no evidence??? Just because they were successful???

It is possible to run an honest business and be successful.

That’s the “Geeze!”

29 posted on 12/21/2007 1:33:15 PM PST by DB
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To: org.whodat

He didn’t do roofing Moron, he sold roofing materials.

Go back to DU where you belong.


30 posted on 12/21/2007 1:47:34 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Turning the general election into a second Democrat primary is not a winning strategy.)
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To: org.whodat; DB
"The man was a roofing contractor for twenty years before he started Abc"

A good friend that I went to Highschool with owns the largest roofing business in the SF Bay Area, and doesn't have a single illegal on his work force.

31 posted on 12/21/2007 1:51:41 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Turning the general election into a second Democrat primary is not a winning strategy.)
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To: org.whodat
I worked sub-contract, contract labor, for years. Owned my own trucks, tools, insurance, even workers comp for the employees. Wasn’t roofing, but I never hired illegals.
32 posted on 12/21/2007 2:08:57 PM PST by SouthTexas (Have a Merry and Blessed Christmas.)
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To: LibWhacker

Now that’s irony.

RIP though...very tragic.


33 posted on 12/21/2007 2:14:39 PM PST by G8 Diplomat (Creatures are divided into 6 kingdoms: Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Monera, Protista, & Saudi Arabia)
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To: coydog

I’d bet that is the case. People with money are nuts not to have trust funds set up.


34 posted on 12/21/2007 4:04:41 PM PST by jwh_Denver (Free Republic: All Huck, All The Time.)
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To: LetsRok
What are they saying? Did he make his billions on the backs of illegal mexican roofers working for $10/hr with no benefits?

What are you saying?

35 posted on 12/21/2007 5:54:10 PM PST by elkfersupper
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