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   Fuller Wrath to Miles   
   Re: Are full-size trucks bought for util   
   14 Dec 08 11:46:51   
   
   XPost: alt.autos.dodge.trucks, alt.trucks.ford, alt.trucks.chevy   
   From: boogerpicker@wazoo.net   
      
   Stop blaming the unions for the failure of management. Fucking idiot   
      
      
   "Miles"  wrote in message   
   news:i7oTk.7093$Oq2.4668@newsfe08.iad...   
   > someone@some.domain wrote:   
   >> In article , Miles  wrote:   
   >>> Roy wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> The same old bs.  Hammer the hourly worker. Miles you'll never get it.   
   >>>> And I'm done with it.   
   >>> Hammer the hourly worker?  Roy, tell me why an unskilled job should be   
   >>> paid $20/hr+?  Your only reason is that someone who worked their way to   
   >>> the top makes a lot of money.   
   >>>   
   >>> Tell me how much a person that requires only minimal training to install   
   >>> lug nuts should be paid?  Is that amount based on their need, their   
   >>> ability or by how much someone at the top makes?   
   >   
   >> they deserve all they can get in a free market economy. whatever the pay   
   >> scale is around them. they have a right to make enough to survive on   
   >> their labors.   
   >> there are few people today who worked their way to the top. it's most   
   >> nepotism and how much they can save fucking those under them to impress   
   >> the owners of a company.   
   >> pollyanna, you need real world economics 101. the bonehead beginer class.   
   >> you sound like someone used and beat down because they couldn't figure   
   >> out the system.   
   >> i used my head, worked enough to be really good and moved up every chance   
   >> i made. i've had several careers because i bore easily. master a place   
   >> and move on to a new challenge. maybe someday you'll move up to lugnut   
   >> counter.   
   >   
   > Not sure who you intended to reply to 'pollyanna'?  I agree with you. Work   
   > hard and work your way up and earn the rewards.  Trouble is, many feel   
   > they deserve more than the free market economy supports and they get it by   
   > artificial means instead such as unions.  Don't get me wrong, some unions   
   > in some industries are needed where the balance is off in favor of the   
   > corporations.  But in too many cases the unions shift the balance too far   
   > their way.  Not good either.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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