[Destro]

profit is profit. Why are we having this conversation? Jobs are gone from a brand that was able to be manufactured in the USA for a 150 years. It is leaving this nation behind and taking its jobs with it. The Levis Strauss company will still be in business-making more money per jean then they do now thanks to cheap labor and it will still be able to fund whatever gay parade it so damn pleased maybe even more so now that it can make more profit per jean.

[Bonaparte]

I don't think you understand their position, Destro. They are too deep in debt and can't move enough product. They have less than a year to turn all this around or they are toast. Bob Haas has even been lying about his profits in a futile effort to keep the wolves from his door.

[Bonaparte]

Let me put it this way, D -- Last year (2002), Levi Strauss saw profits of only $25 million. The year previous to that (2001), Levi Strauss saw profits of $151 million. And if you draw a line on a graph, a line that runs from the profits point in 1997 (on the left) to the pathetic profits point in 2002 (on the right), you will see something like this:

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[Bonaparte]

Here's another recent article for you about Levi Strauss's massive tax evasion and what they had to pay IRS to get them off their back. Note the last sentence:

...Levi's income and revenue has been dropping steadily since the mid-1990s.