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To: TobagoJack who wrote (63009)	4/24/2010 4:19:14 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 218069

My model was this: Give them sausage. Bread. Beer. Porno movies. Get the capital and invest where people wanted to work. But they wanted to make cars and electronics in amusement parks. Like Volvo made that factory in Sweden. See please: Sayonara, Uddevalla? - production methods of Volvo's Uddevalla plant in Sweden Business Horizons, Nov-Dec, 1992 by Can Volvo's humanistic Uddevalla plant compete with the Japanese lean system? findarticles.com Or Californians make electronics in the the US. "What no gym? I don´t work here." "What no vegetarian canteen? I am out of here." Then capital went to Ping and Sundebao country...

To: TobagoJack who wrote (63009)	4/24/2010 5:31:07 AM
From: Snowshoe	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218069

>>The latest addition to our world-famous welfare state: a state run bar that serves hard drinks in the morning!<< Why misrepresent this? It's strictly BYOB (bring your own bottle). They're corralling the drunks in one place because it's cheaper to deal with them that way. Police departments waste large amounts of time and money dealing with drunks, and then pay generous early-retirement pensions for those police officers. Thus it makes good economic sense to foist the drunk problem off onto low-paid social worker types.