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Posted on 09/14/2009 1:19:43 PM PDT by FourtySeven
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To: kittymyrib
What...no “look for the union label”? Kinda liked the jingle they had back when.
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posted on
09/14/2009 1:35:32 PM PDT
by
Conservative4Ever
(Man the pitchforks and torches.......let the revolution begin)
To: kittymyrib
Ironically, most of the South is more economically prosperous than it was 30 years ago. Why else do you think the Yankees are moving down there en masse. They weren't doing so in the "Mill Town" days.
BTW: Those mills used to all be in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, until the French Canadians started unionizing.
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posted on
09/14/2009 1:35:43 PM PDT
by
Clemenza
(Remember our Korean War Veterans)
To: texmexis best
Almost none. My wife was a linthead for 15 years. All the plants were closed in the late 1980’s and early 90’s in NC. JP Stevens, Burlington, Cone all gone. The White Oak plant in Greensboro is about the only one left now.
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posted on
09/14/2009 1:36:23 PM PDT
by
AppyPappy
(If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
To: FourtySeven
Lot of lefties die of brain cancer - Sutton, Kennedy, Johnnie Cochran. Wonder if there is some sort of genetic component there.
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posted on
09/14/2009 1:36:47 PM PDT
by
noblejones
(Obama rules!)
To: FourtySeven
I saw this woman being interviewed on TV one time. I believe she was then working as a motel maid. She came across as very unpleasant, and my memory tells me she was critical of Sally Fields portrayal of her as Sally just wasn’t as “tough” as she was.
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posted on
09/14/2009 1:37:00 PM PDT
by
Robwin
To: GonzoGOP; autumnraine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi_Fibre_Arrangement
“During early 2005, textile and clothing exports from China to the West grew by 100% or more in many items, leading the US and EU to cite China’s WTO accession agreement allowing them to restrict the rate of growth to 7.5% per year until 2008. In June, China agreed with the EU to limit the rate to 10% for 3 years. No such agreement was reached with the US, which imposed its own import growth quotas of 7.5% instead.”
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posted on
09/14/2009 1:38:47 PM PDT
by
Pelham
(Obammunism, for that smooth-talking happy -face communist blend.)
To: Pelham
Yup. White Americans need not apply.
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posted on
09/14/2009 1:39:59 PM PDT
by
Frantzie
(Lou Dobbs & Glenn Beck- American Heroes! Bill O'Reilly = Liar)
To: Clemenza
The Yankees are moving down and turning states like NC and SC into So. NJ.
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posted on
09/14/2009 1:43:17 PM PDT
by
Frantzie
(Lou Dobbs & Glenn Beck- American Heroes! Bill O'Reilly = Liar)
To: Frantzie
Yep. 15 years ago those same morons were bragging about moving to Florida because it was “paradise.” Florida got fudged up so now they are going to “da Caro-LINE-ahs.”
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posted on
09/14/2009 1:46:37 PM PDT
by
Clemenza
(Remember our Korean War Veterans)
To: Little Pig
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posted on
09/14/2009 1:47:54 PM PDT
by
DemforBush
(Somebody wake me when sanity has returned to the nation.)
To: Pelham
I’m trying to understand your point here? That China got a lot of textile industry? That’s true, but the ones in Georgia went to Mexico and Brazil.
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posted on
09/14/2009 1:50:36 PM PDT
by
autumnraine
(You can't fix stupid, but you can vote it out!)
To: Robwin
Sally just wasnt as tough as she was. But people love Sally. They really, really love her.
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posted on
09/14/2009 1:55:34 PM PDT
by
ArmstedFragg
(hoaxy dopey changey)
To: GonzoGOP
That's why I wondered how hard it got hit. I know it took a big hit in the 80s, but all from anecdotal evidence. I've never seen any numbers. IOW did China shut us down, or did we just hold steady and they picked up the growth in the market.Foreign textiles were cheaper even with the trasportations costs. Well, I think you can make an argument that unions made wages artificially high, so that domestic textile plants could not compete with the foreign ones.
So what do you do? Let those cheaper textiles into your country or impose tariffs so that they are not cheaper? In the 18th century the conservatives said impose tariffs on cheaper foreign goods to protect your domestic manufacturers. The liberals said do away with tariffs and let the cheaper foreign goods in to compete with domestics markets.
Today in the 21st century the positions are reversed. The liberals say impose tariffs and conservatives say do away with tariffs and let the cheaper goods in.
Well, politics is always changing.
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posted on
09/14/2009 1:57:35 PM PDT
by
stripes1776
("That if gold rust, what shall iron do?" --Chaucer)
To: Conservative4Ever
What...no look for the union label? Kinda liked the jingle they had back when.
Wasn't that Algore's lullaby song when he was a baby!
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posted on
09/14/2009 1:58:25 PM PDT
by
dancusa
(Smile liberals. Welcome to the todays community organizing. We aren't going away or shutting up.)
To: kittymyrib
Just one of the fruits of “free trade.”
“Free trade”, the strip-mining of the American Middle Class lifestyle.
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posted on
09/14/2009 1:59:38 PM PDT
by
Shermy
(Space For Rent)
To: Pelham
Did a little research on my own. Couldn't find numbers for 1974, but found these from the buerau of labor and statistics.
Year # of Employees % Change from 1950
1950 1,200,000 NA
1990 700,000 42%
2008 595,000 50%
2016 382,000 68%
As expected a great triumph for the unions.
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posted on
09/14/2009 2:00:14 PM PDT
by
GonzoGOP
(There are millions of paranoid people in the world, and they are all out to get me.)
To: dancusa
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posted on
09/14/2009 2:02:37 PM PDT
by
Conservative4Ever
(Man the pitchforks and torches.......let the revolution begin)
To: texmexis best
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posted on
09/14/2009 2:03:43 PM PDT
by
Tribune7
(I am Jim Thompson!)
To: texmexis best
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posted on
09/14/2009 2:03:48 PM PDT
by
Tribune7
(I am Jim Thompson!)
To: GonzoGOP
It’s globalization. Even non-union plants aren’t able to compete with the absolute advantage developing countries have in labor costs.
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posted on
09/14/2009 2:05:30 PM PDT
by
Pelham
(Obammunism, for that smooth-talking happy -face communist blend.)
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