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his own words all consist of four letters and, if printed all on one page, wouldn't cover the bottom of a bird cage. it's just as well, they wouldn't be fit for the task anyway.

are you in the habit of picking only selected words of a post to string together? no, don't bother responding to that. i already know that the answer to that question lies in the liberal meme of half-truths and skewed perceptions. it is a ceo's responsibilities that give him value and afford...

he might very well have been referring to your out, possibly a baseball reference concerning your last time at bat, and simply failed to complete his thought.:bigjoint:

no, management isn't filled with "special people", but they are the ones who make it possible for those "average joes" to earn a living. for any enterprise to get off the ground there must be a sizable investment of capital. to keep it running there must be someone to organize and manage its...

only if your clothes are invisible as well

there has always been a double standard within modern liberalism and, to a certain extent, i don't really mind it. those who claim they are capable of maintaining a society without centralized control should hold themselves to a higher standard than those who depend on the state. every excuse...

in the past few years i watched my business cut in half by this economy. many of my long time clients, folks i'd been doing jobs for, both large and small, for years were losing their jobs and, often, their homes. while i could make back some of my momentum by altering my business model a bit...

making excuses for union thuggery seems to be a full time job. while i'm by no means "in the know" concerning this affair, this isn't a matter of hiring out-of-towners. they contracted with a company that uses the operating engineer's union instead of the longshoremen and the poor idiots are...

get a clue, buy a vowel, do whatever it takes to garner some small inkling of what a free marketplace really is. once the state begins making demands of it, expanded home ownership in this case, it ceases to be free. it is under the control of the state and those demands. its reactions are to...

take a class on reading comprehension. cheap labor had no part in the housing collapse and no one is saying it did. the accessibility of illegal immigrant labor contributed to both the falling construction wages and the unemployment of millions of american workers, but it was the demand for...

i give everyone credit for having at least two active braincells, whether they deserve it or not. we've been doing this to ourselves for longer than any of us have been alive. we are the victims of our own success and we always seem surprised when, believing our own hype, those in power take...

no, the fall came long before today's dilemma. the bursting housing bubble and the collapse that instigated our current woes are only an echo of the mentality that has led us to this point. it's an entitlement mentality that demands more returns for less investment, whether that investment is...

no, i must not know what i'm talking about. i only came out of california's construction industry, an industry that has seen the rise and eventual fall caused by such exorbitant demands. i watched first as the price of labor skyrocketed and then, as management sought out less expensive labor...

there are plenty of unions out there that advocate for their members in a rational and responsible manner. there are also many that have been leveraging their position for years, using a position made dominant by often uneven labor regulations, and now find themselves with full halls and no one...

that would be a safe bet, but there's no telling what demands the ilwu may have been making. they have been at the forefront of union greed and corruption for quite some time.

management simply went with another union. greed got the better of them and now they're pissed at the results.

not really loaded, but very short-sighted. ten years? this nation has been on a slow slide for a hell of a lot longer than that. as the powers of the state have grown, the rights of the individual have receded into the distance. both republicans and democrats have gobbled up every morsel...

buzz words and sock puppets? is this really the best you can do? did you even bother to get the message that this is a matter of union in-fighting and not union-breaking? the one and two line responses from the left fringe of the forum are wearing thin. no substance, no weight, nothing but...

i just read the pages between the post i quoted above and this page and i have to say i'm rather surprised that y'all have the mental capacity to find your keyboards. i'm sometimes tempted to believe i've wandered into a grade school chatroom. at the very least you've managed to cause me a...