Posted on 09/11/2004 3:01:29 PM PDT by Willie Green
Too bad. I've been buying Oneida for 17 years. Let's face it if you have any kind of factory job in this country no matter what your supervisor says you should be preparing to do something else.
WG how much does the Left pay you. You're only contributiuon to this forum is the printing of jobs layoffs. Did you do that during the 90s??
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Only since Conservative America refused to make pat buchanan emperor.
Hey! Don't be dissin' chopsticks.
Wow. You're soooo smart. And funny, too!
You ought to head up to Oneida and share your sense of humor with the community. I'm sure they'd appreciate it even more than we do here at FR.
Even Lefty's have to face reality once in a while. Maybe these folks can all get cocooned Academia jobs?
I thought Hillary's listening tour took care of all the manufacturing problems in upstate New York.
Maybe a good job in IT. Uh..., nevermind.
Grocery market jobs are by the way being outsourced to immigrant labor who will be happy to work for less than seasoned American workers making $18.00 per hour. This is what the unions are doing to us.
I cannot speak for Mr. Green but I don't think he is doing these posts to undermine Bush or prop up Kerry.These changes to the job market are structural and are not the"fault"of Bush,Clinton or any one man.
The sad reality is that the stock answer many people give to these job losses is that laid off workers should go back to school and learn a new skill in line with the demands of the 21st Century and that is all well and good EXCEPT for the fact that there are large segments of the American population that are functionally illiterate and can no way handle the technical and complex skills required of these new careers.
So then perhaps we should fix the dysfunctional public education apparatus in America and halt this downward spiral?Good luck on THAT one,baby!
Riverman
I'm surprised that neither the article nor any other posters have mentioned the fact that Oneida silverware was established as the money-making enterprise of a famous commune, the Oneida Society. This community, established in the mid 19th century, practiced a form of group marriage.
I suppose you can stick a fork in'em now!
This is a good thing. The labor and capital can now be allocated to something worthwhile.
He's in a deep depression then. If two people lose their jobs making paper clips in Lawton, OK he tells us about it. We have a national unemployment rate of 5.4%. There is a lot of affluence out there. Some people aren't making it, but most are.
In my neck of the woods, people are buying huge houses, big SUVs, plasma tvs and living better than 99% of the rest of the world.
Willie is a depressed guy looking for hardship and stoking anxiety. He should run the Kerry campaign.
I peaked out from behind my blinders, and I noticed that too.
I wish people would only post happy stuff.
Yep... the one of the famous (or infamous) Utopian communities of the 1800s.
Wow, first L.E. Smith Glass, now Oneida flatware. Very sad. I have Oneida's Louisiana pattern.
Of course the govrenment letting in so many illegal and even legal immigrants is a de facto subsidy to employers, but I guess thats ok because it keeps the economy going on a quarter to quarter basis.
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