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To: SilentZ who wrote (436166)	11/21/2008 6:31:57 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1573850

Fuck that. Since when is working in a factory "slacking off?" These towns base their entire existence on these factories. The people work hard, and are never going to strike it rich, but in exchange for giving their entire lives to their company, mostly doing manual labor, they expect not to lose their "little pink houses" for the last 10 or 20 years of their lives after they stop working. Anyone who has ever worked in a factory knows to be grateful that there are people who are willing to do the work. And yet, they will begrudge them their 50K while looking the other way at all the golden parachutes floating around.

To: SilentZ who wrote (436166)	11/21/2008 6:37:24 PM
From: bentway	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573850

"Fuck that. Since when is working in a factory "slacking off?" I doubt Ten has ever developed even one blister on his chubby, pink hands - let alone just kept on working. He's an elitist. In high school, two summers I worked building boats in a factory.

To: SilentZ who wrote (436166)	11/21/2008 7:22:40 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573850

Z, > Since when is working in a factory "slacking off?" I was talking about studying hard in school, but I doubt you care. You probably think education is also an entitlement, just like $56K/year for unskilled labor. Everything else in your post is just more entitlement crap. Maybe one of these days, you'll actually figure out what created the "middle class" and how unions these days are FAR different than the unions of the Industrial Revolution. Until then, have fun deciding which companies are "too big to fail." You always reserve the right to deny the results of rewarding mediocrity, just like the way you deny everything else that doesn't fit into your socialist world ... Tenchusatsu

To: SilentZ who wrote (436166)	11/21/2008 7:37:32 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573850

Are you thinking that no factory should ever close? The economy is dynamic, new things arise and the old goes down. In addition, companies make bad decisions or fail to keep up with market and technological changes. If you don't let anything fail, you'll end up with an economy filled with uneconomic obsolete outdated industries propped up by the government. You can choose to let dinosaurs fail even though everytime one goes down, people get hurt or you can choose to have economic stagnation, no or little growth, where everyone scrapes along in relative poverty. I've worked in cyclical industries and have been at mines that have been closed. I've lived in towns where factories shut down. The alternative would have been to maintain uneconomic obsolete facilities forever. Thats not a solution. No one has a right to expect to work at the local factory and know that it will be there all their lives and all their kids lives and their grandkids lives ..... Society can't afford to make commitments like that - we literally can't afford it.