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$6.7 billion threat: FedEx warns lawmakers over union legislation
Memphis Commercial Appeal ^ | 3/27/9 | Wayne Risher

Posted on 03/27/2009 8:12:29 AM PDT by SmithL

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1 posted on 03/27/2009 8:12:29 AM PDT by SmithL
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Here’s a company that’s ripe to be declared ‘in trouble/too big to fail’, and taken over by Geithner....


2 posted on 03/27/2009 8:14:11 AM PDT by Uncle Ike (At some point, government has to be the next bubble to burst. (H/T Freeper This_far))
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I was think along those lines myself.


3 posted on 03/27/2009 8:15:33 AM PDT by WorkerbeeCitizen (The only time I want a Republican reaching across the aisle is to smack a liberal.)
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To: Uncle Ike

You don’t think that would be a too-obvious socialist/communist move for O? ... Oh wait, it is obama we’re talking about...


4 posted on 03/27/2009 8:17:10 AM PDT by CodeMasterPhilzar (I'll keep my money, my guns, and my freedom. You can keep the "change.")
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To: SmithL

Atlas Urinates On ubama


5 posted on 03/27/2009 8:17:22 AM PDT by Vision Thing
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To: WorkerbeeCitizen

I bet the clock is allready ticking...

Govt take over and instant union


6 posted on 03/27/2009 8:17:25 AM PDT by Crim
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To: SmithL
"It's FedEx political hardball at its finest," said analyst Donald Broughton of Avondale Partners in St. Louis.

Well, considering that with Democrats in office FedEx is already in a hardball game whether they want to be or not, they might as well start playing.

7 posted on 03/27/2009 8:18:40 AM PDT by mvpel (Michael Pelletier)
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To: SmithL

Good for FEDEX.

Screw Hussein and the ‘rats.


8 posted on 03/27/2009 8:19:42 AM PDT by Recovering_Democrat (I'm SO glad I no longer belong to the party of Dependence on Government!)
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To: SmithL
Let's support FedEx. What fools these government employees (Obama, Geitner, etc) are!
9 posted on 03/27/2009 8:23:20 AM PDT by mckenzie7 (TOTUS = PONZI)
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To: Uncle Ike; All

I wonder when the “The Mess-I-Ahhh” will bail me out. My family, like many others, is “to small to succeed”.
Of course, I would rather have him get his government hand off of my wallet. I could make it on my own if him and all the other leeches were voted out.


10 posted on 03/27/2009 8:24:07 AM PDT by GOYAKLA (My Tee shirt for 2009-2012:" I voted FRED don't you wish you did")
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Wonder how Washington's two liberal Senators Murray and Cantwell will vote on this. On one side they have their party to vote with, and the other side has Boeing the largest privately owned lobbyist in the State who would be hurt terribly by this lost order.
11 posted on 03/27/2009 8:26:30 AM PDT by NavyCanDo (Party Like Its 1773)
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Here’s a great deal. The post office is in trouble and the government wants to make it harder for FedEx to do business. Great stuff!


12 posted on 03/27/2009 8:26:33 AM PDT by nufsed (Release the birth certificate, passport and school records.)
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-- Well, considering that with Democrats in office FedEx is already in a hardball game whether they want to be or not, they might as well start playing. --

Business and politics are hardball games all around, regardless of which political party is claiming to steer the awesome destructive power of the government.

13 posted on 03/27/2009 8:26:53 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: GOYAKLA

Unionization is responsible for many job losses, businesses shutting down or going bankrupt and outsourcing in our country!


14 posted on 03/27/2009 8:27:07 AM PDT by Ev Reeman
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To: GOYAKLA

Unionization is responsible for many job losses, businesses shutting down or going bankrupt and outsourcing in our country!


15 posted on 03/27/2009 8:27:16 AM PDT by Ev Reeman
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To: Uncle Ike
Here’s a company that’s ripe to be declared ‘in trouble/too big to fail’, and taken over by Geithner....
______________________________

Has the G-punk ever run a business?
He's the white 0bomo....
Never run as much as a lemonade stand

Timmy would last ten minutes at Federal Express in a high executive position there

16 posted on 03/27/2009 8:29:38 AM PDT by dennisw (0bomo the subprime president)
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“Unionization is responsible for many job losses, businesses shutting down or going bankrupt and outsourcing in our country!”

Unions are bad, but can’t touch what corporate greed has done.


17 posted on 03/27/2009 8:29:48 AM PDT by DonaldC
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Unions are bad, but can’t touch what corporate greed has done.
Examples?
18 posted on 03/27/2009 8:38:45 AM PDT by wjcsux (Germany, 1933. America, 2009. History repeats itself again.)
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To: SmithL
Businesses start to fire back at the gov't. Will be interesting to see who wins.

I put my money on FedEx and Boeing. While the gov't has the ability to change the rules, companies always have the ability to take their ball and go home...if that happens everyone loses. Most of all, the politicans - no fat campaign contributions, PO'd constituents, and so on.

Money talks, BS walks. And American companies have the money.

19 posted on 03/27/2009 8:39:36 AM PDT by wbill
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While I detest Unions in any form, and have invested a good deal of time and effort in pushing for the defeat of card check, I’m not quite sure I agree with Mr. Smith’s approach. The question must be asked: When the day comes when FedEx actually needs aircraft, and believe me that day will come very soon, to whom will they turn to fill the order? The only logical answer, since Boeing will be out of the question, is Airbus. With that being said you must ask yourself the question, would you rather have FedEx purchasing from union infested Boeing or Euro-trash Airbus? Personally I would rather them purchase from an American company. Threatening Unions with such an action has its merits but when push comes to shove you have to consider the alternatives. FedEx might be better served fighting the Railway Labor Act, which poses a direct threat to their business model, instead of threatening American workers. While I agree with the sentiment behind Mr. Smith’s threat, I’m not so sure about its practicality.

I ship UPS personally.... better service. One of the most stable companies out there, bar none!.


20 posted on 03/27/2009 8:56:54 AM PDT by AngryCapitalist (NOW is the time to stand and fight!)
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