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| Grumpy Old Pharts Board Gerritol, Ex-Lax, Immodium, Bad Breath - all requirements for the Grumpy Board |
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09-09-2008, 07:46 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Here and There Seasonally
Posts: 5,985
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Big business, send it overseas or bring overseas here. Executives pad their bonuses by destroying American workers' lives. Retirements that will never happen, educations that will never be financed, homes lost. Sad and outrageous.
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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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09-10-2008, 12:01 PM
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sick of bluefish
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: TEXAS
Posts: 8,672
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its a sad story, but someone made an investment and bought the company. Non of you bought the company. Your $ is not at risk.The new owner can do as he pleases. If his stuff is crap, it wont sell, he loses money. His risk, his investment.
The larger problem is how we just accept crap. i bought a toro lawnmower a few weeks back from HD. the think rattled like hell, I returned it. got the same one, a little better but on mid-length grass it chokes up and stalls, my prior sears model could mow a jungle, I just dont have the time to drain the gass and return it. I'll live with a crap mower.
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09-10-2008, 01:39 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Libtardia
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But Jim, You and I are the problem as well... Just as someone else is the probem by buying the CO.... each and everyone of us who buys less expensive product is fueling this outsourcing mentality..
I restore old volkswagens... you can not buy quality parts for them becuase all of the quality part manufacturers have been put out of business by the ones who make crap.. simply because people buy what ever costs less...
Its all a viscous cycle..
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09-10-2008, 03:47 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: S. Yarmouth, MA
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Well as far as making and buying furniture goes we've dealt with two of the NC manufacutrers over the past 10 years and could not have been more satisfied. I think both are still in business. Entertainment center, TV cabinet, bureaus, three bedroom suites, dining room set. We go to the furniture stores and find the stuff we like, get the model and serial numbers when the salesman isn't looking and go on-line to see what it compares to the manufacturer. Even with shipping we always came out well on top. Everything branded Made In USA (and heavy, too). I ronically, yesterday I received a replacement night stand for one slightly damaged in a shipment two weeks ago. I asked if they needed directions to the next stop. The next stop was the furniture store where we got the models and numbers.
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09-12-2008, 05:43 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Back to C.Cod x'd Rangeley Me.
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why not post it's name?  FACT IS FACT. |
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09-10-2008, 03:17 PM
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lobster = striper bait
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Popes Island Performing Arts Center
Posts: 5,871
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Quote:
Originally Posted by RIJIMMY
I'll live with a crap mower.
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Thats what the rest of America says too. |
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