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Old 11-28-2008, 08:58 PM   #6
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That is exactly what's wrong. The manufacturing jobs we've let go in this country are jobs that we can never get back.
Right now as we speak, I'm in jeopardy of losing my job next year because our parent company feels it's in our best interest to ship all of our equipment and manufacturing capabilities overseas. This company sent us e-mails before the presidential elections urging us to vote Democrat. Their fear was that there would be higher taxes imposed by the Republican Party on goods maunfactured by "US" companies outside of the US. In that e-mail they boast how 70% of their profits came from overseas manufacturing and they wanted to increase that percentage rate in the next few years. I'm supposed to believe that it's in my best interest to go along with a 30% US based work force reduction (of which I'll most likely be a part of) to make them more profitable.

The future ain't what it used to be. --Yogi Berra
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