[dirtboy]

That's how you know when you have won with dirtboy... he takes his ball and goes home. By the way... great job!

So, you too agree that a 1.8 percent increase in salary, coupled to a 2.2 percent inflation rate, is a good thing, eh? But I expected as much from someone like you.

[carton253]

I don't give a rat's a** what you expect from me...

Southack's post 600 is right on target. It is the substance of the debate.

Sorry, but you got beat far and square. Now, be a man, and accept defeat graciously... LOL!

[eccl1212]

I see your points.
I see your detractors.

the points make more sense.
you can go home... because you win... at least in my book.

Bush seems to have a cognitive dissonance in this area of free trade, vs. the american worker. And it plays out here on free republic. It all boils down to a moral question, "is it my profit at any cost, or is it my fellow americans at any cost?"

september 11 SHOULD have taught us that people are more important than profit. but alas, some folks mourn the loss of the square footage, more than they do the vaporized dust and blood of the souls that were lost... after all, those buildings were profit centers.

puke.