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Whirlpool Unveils Plans to Slash Workforce by 10% (another company closing an American plant)
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| 10/28/2011
| Reuters
Posted on 10/28/2011 4:43:31 AM PDT by tobyhill
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posted on
10/28/2011 4:43:32 AM PDT
by
tobyhill
To: tobyhill
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Death to America. Death to capitalism.
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posted on
10/28/2011 4:46:26 AM PDT
by
Diogenesis
("Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. " Pres. Ronald Reagan)
To: Diogenesis
Thanks for the free trade agreements, GOP house. Good jobs program.
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posted on
10/28/2011 4:49:06 AM PDT
by
org.whodat
(Just another heartless American, hated by Perry and his fellow demorats.)
To: org.whodat
Cains looking better every day
To: tobyhill
that is how to improve your profit margin - get mean and lean. Hopefully the 10% are all union employees, the ones who put a drag on production.
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posted on
10/28/2011 4:51:15 AM PDT
by
elpadre
(AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-Qaeda" and its allies.)
To: tobyhill
What is disgusting me is my search for new appliances and looking at features, energy use and value. GE is coming out on top.
Upright Freezer - bought GE
Water softener - bought GE
Refrigerator - Dithering (GE is on top of the list)
Sucks.
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posted on
10/28/2011 5:01:25 AM PDT
by
listenhillary
(Look your representatives in the eye and ask if they intend to pay off the debt. They will look away)
To: org.whodat
Thanks for the free trade agreements, GOP house. Yeah, because forcing American companies to stay here will always work out great. How about we fix what makes us uncompetitive instead of punishing Americans.
By the way. How do you explain the collapse of American heavy industry in the seventies that created the Rust Belt? That was twenty years before free trade. Could there maybe be some other causes?
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posted on
10/28/2011 5:05:26 AM PDT
by
BfloGuy
(Even the opponents of Socialism are dominated by socialist ideas.)
To: tobyhill
Import tariffs would de-incentivise the dismantling of American industry, by removing the cost advantage which drives the import tsunami.
The imports, drive away American jobs. And technology. And industry. And money.
Ergo: 10% unemployment. No money for defense. No space program. And no American computer industry anymore.
Even Apple outsourced production to communist China.
All of the trends are negative for America, because we have no trade policy.
To: elpadre
Destroying US industry is not “getting mean and lean”.
Destroying US industry is getting beat.
To: Cringing Negativism Network
Massive deregulation (real deregulation, not the BS they passed on to the electric utility industry a few years ago) and tax cuts would do more to help industry in the US than a trade war.
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posted on
10/28/2011 5:11:59 AM PDT
by
meyer
(We will not sit down and shut up.)
To: Cringing Negativism Network
Amen.
Of course, there is a large contingent who think that losing American jobs is somehow good for America.
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posted on
10/28/2011 5:13:43 AM PDT
by
Wolfie
To: meyer
To: listenhillary
Watch out for GE refrigerators. Clogging of the drain that handles the defrost water in the freezer is a chronic problem. I know a guy who works for GE, and he affirms my experience. Other than that, mine’s been great.
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posted on
10/28/2011 5:21:46 AM PDT
by
Jack of all Trades
(Hold your face to the light, even though for the moment you do not see.)
To: listenhillary
I still have a 1982 Zenith TV and a 1938 Frigidare.
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posted on
10/28/2011 5:23:06 AM PDT
by
Nowhere Man
("People should not fear their government, their government should fear the people." - V for Vendetta)
To: Cringing Negativism Network
Import tariffs would de-incentivise the dismantling of American industryTariffs would
- punish Americans who want to buy the product they prefer.
- enlarge Government (all that tariff money would go to the Fed).
- turn protected industries into parasitic welfare entities that now have no pressure to compete.
Tariffs are a socialist's wet-dream: a stealth-consumption tax that also increases the pool of voters dependent on Government.
Better yet for the Left - tariffs are thought of as 'patriotic' by those voters who don't understand the difference between welfare and industry, slavery and freedom.
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posted on
10/28/2011 5:24:36 AM PDT
by
agere_contra
("Debt is the foundation of destruction" : Sarah Palin.)
To: BfloGuy
First some of them tried moving south, I think.
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posted on
10/28/2011 5:27:38 AM PDT
by
riri
To: Wolfie
How does the transformation of actual jobs into protected sinecures - while increasing the burden on American citizens and enlarging American government - work out as a plus for America?
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posted on
10/28/2011 5:29:30 AM PDT
by
agere_contra
("Debt is the foundation of destruction" : Sarah Palin.)
To: agere_contra
Thanks for your concern for America.
You don’t actually live here, do you?
To: tobyhill
There are two major impediments to American competitiveness with durable goods:
1) The highest corporate tax rate in the world
2) The most destructive, constricting set of EPA regulations in the world
3) A minor impediment is the union costs and restrictions but these can be overcome by moving to a right to work state {unless you are Boeing}.
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posted on
10/28/2011 5:35:46 AM PDT
by
USS Alaska
(Nuke the Terrorists Savages)
To: Cringing Negativism Network
I think you are trying to pull the horse with a cart. Instead of using tariffs which would result in other countries making their own tariffs, we need to remove the obstacles that force the companies to manufacture overseas. Taxes and regulation is what is killing US manufacturing. Other countries know that and make it easy for companies to do business. Free trade is not the problem, over taxation and regulation are the problem.
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