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Originally posted by Captain Sammitch:


I wonder if horse breeders and trainers and the manufacturers of carriages had similar objections when Henry Ford was building his industry. [no no no]

It's funny you mentioned Henry Ford. What I (and history) find important about Henry Ford is not only the production line but his philosophy of actually paying employees well enough as so they could AFFORD to buy his products which in turn drives the economy (and profits) upwards and lifts the working class out of poverty and thus creates a MIDDLE CLASS. The amount his workers earned is even more important IMO than the industries they threw into obsolescense as it created the standard of living that your parents and grandparents enjoyed.


I think that corporations the land over have forgotten this simple fact in their endless quest for impressive quarterly numbers. And all the while, well paying manufacturning jobs go overseas where goods can be made at the fair wage of 10 dollars a month(!) while job growth for the most part in America is in the low paying service sector. Selling those inexpensive goods that we no longer make. It's a recipe for economic disaster.

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Originally Posted by Dave the Wonder Boy
I first got the idea to post this, after seeing one of Whomod's posts (one of those rare occasions the two of us are in agreement).
I just read this. Thanks for the acknowledgement. :) I was also pleasantly surprised to see we're pretty much on the same page on this. As a news junkie, you've undobtedly seen CNN's series "Exporting America" on Lou Dobbs' show. THAT, I think is more of what we need to see from news on a network as well as local level as I think America's economic future is more pertinet than the weather, car chases, sports or Michael Jackson or Kobe's legal troubles. [wink]
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Pig Iron, great points in your 1st post. Especially with the doing away with NAFTA bit.

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KrazyXXXDJ. I actually love Target. Or at least their Advertising company. It's incredible how much the Target target has embraced the MOD target. What with the moddish looking models in the print and TV ads, the early 60's retro furniture and the scooter giveaway! My wife even found this killer fishtail parka a few weeks ago there! It's mod culture subversiveness that can only bring a smile to my clued in face. [cool]

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Originally posted by myself

Never mind the economic damage done at home by Wal-Mart, making Medicare forms and food stamps a part of employee orientation in the place of what should be health coverage and a living wage.
And there you have it. So the great deals you find at Wal-Mart are ultimately paid by yourself anyways as you're pretty much subsidizing Wal-Mart employees emergency room visits and paying for their food stamps. In fact i'd go as far as saying Wal Mart is taking advantage of our government and our taxpayers and is helping to teeter our health care system into the abyss. But then i'm sure Wal Mart sells little plastic flags every July. Probably even made by slave labor in China too!