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Old 09-10-2008, 11:30 AM   #21
Backbeach Jake
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The workers are the ones who built the reputation that was sold from under them. The workers are always the guys who get screwed hardest.
GM once decided to build a super-plant. Took the best and brightest guys and put them all in a plant in Lordstown. To build Vegas. Promised premium wages for the move and all kinds of nice things. GM got caught speeding up the line thus stealing from the workers. Contract said X number of cars. GM decided that meant X plus what they don't know. They were the Best and Brightest remember? They quit going to work and started going to sabotage. Vegas were crap from then on. I personally removed a Coke bottle from a door to fix a door rattle. I heard of a ham sandwich in a headliner.
I don't really want to sound like a socialist, but the working folk in this country really need to get their act together. We're becoming watching folk, and working 3 jobs folk.

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
Thomas Paine
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