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mahatmakanejeeves (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-03-09 03:57 PM Original message |
Mercedes picks Alabama |
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Craftsman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-03-09 03:59 PM Response to Original message |
1. Das Good!!!! |
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Arctic Dave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-03-09 04:00 PM Response to Original message |
2. Now the tough part, will people will be able to afford them. |
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NightWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-03-09 04:01 PM Response to Original message |
3. are we becoming a 3rd world country when Europeans offshore their jobs to here? |
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tularetom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-03-09 04:03 PM Response to Original message |
4. By 2014 nobody in the US will have a job |
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Brickbat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-03-09 04:04 PM Response to Original message |
5. It sucks when jobs are outsourced here. And when they're "insourced" to the south, that just sucks |
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misanthrope (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-03-09 05:08 PM Response to Reply #5 |
23. Exactly... |
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Brickbat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-03-09 05:23 PM Response to Reply #23 |
25. What's all the more amazing is the throwing of tax breaks and incentives at these companies to get |
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misanthrope (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-03-09 10:21 PM Response to Reply #25 |
32. Tell me about it... |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-03-09 04:13 PM Response to Original message |
6. Makes me wonder how much it's gonna cost the taxpayers |
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DainBramaged (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-03-09 04:30 PM Response to Reply #6 |
16. And you wonder what is waiting for the lawmakers and their relatives |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-03-09 04:16 PM Response to Original message |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-03-09 04:18 PM Response to Reply #7 |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-03-09 04:20 PM Response to Reply #8 |
9. Sorry. I'm not buying a Benz made by scab "sons of the soil"... |
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Harry Monroe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-03-09 04:23 PM Response to Reply #9 |
13. Why not just call a "scab" a "scab" and be done with it. |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-03-09 04:27 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. You're right. I apologize. |
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Brickbat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-03-09 04:32 PM Response to Reply #9 |
18. LMAO. |
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Retired AF Dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-03-09 05:51 PM Response to Reply #8 |
27. +1 |
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Kalyke (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-03-09 04:21 PM Response to Reply #7 |
10. First, I would never own a foreign car (even one somewhat made |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-03-09 04:23 PM Response to Reply #10 |
12. I come from hillbilly stock (as do many Michiganders). I know of what I speak. |
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Kalyke (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-03-09 04:35 PM Response to Reply #12 |
20. See... redneck would be appropriate. |
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Harry Monroe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-03-09 04:31 PM Response to Reply #10 |
17. :"Kinfolk said, 'Jed move away from there!'. Said 'Californey is the place you ought to be.. |
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Freddie Stubbs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-03-09 04:29 PM Response to Reply #7 |
15. Doesn't there have to be a strike for some one to be a scab? |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-03-09 04:32 PM Response to Reply #15 |
19. Ummm, no. |
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annabanana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-03-09 04:23 PM Response to Original message |
11. "protect jobs in Germany over the long term ". . |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-03-09 06:14 PM Response to Reply #11 |
30. Aren't we "stealing" their jobs? |
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Blue_Tires (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-03-09 04:48 PM Response to Original message |
21. in case someone wants to see the view from the other side: |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-03-09 05:00 PM Response to Original message |
22. Alabamans should be careful about getting too cozy with Benz; the company RAPED Chrysler... |
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Xithras (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-03-09 05:20 PM Response to Reply #22 |
24. Oh bull. |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-03-09 05:45 PM Response to Reply #24 |
26. Revisionist nonsense. Benz sold the acquisition to the US gov't as a "merger of equals" |
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Xithras (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-03-09 06:00 PM Response to Reply #26 |
28. That was marketing mumbo jumbo to make Americans feel better about being bought by the Germans. |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-03-09 06:11 PM Response to Reply #28 |
29. Nope again. Daimler paid $37 BILLION US dollars for Chrysler. Sold it for $ 7B |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-03-09 06:14 PM Response to Original message |
31. OMG they are MOVING jobs TO the US |
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