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You come on here and make accusations against non-union shops. I am a non-union shop and my place of business is exactly the opposite of EVERYTHING you say. Plus I can give you 100 or more examples of shops the same as mine.
You will not engage in a discussion and say I have no work ethic. You complained when I called you a clueless twit.
And now you want to cut & run. Very classy.
I said you do not show the Irish work ethic I have known.

Now you are showing the pigheadedness of the Irish. and I am part Irish. Just as pigheaded with a touch of German determination. You seem to be twisting everything people say to you. I did not attack you in any way. My Irish ancestors were very hard drinking and worked hard to get anywhere, they came when signs said no Irish hired here. when Irish were told to say out os some bars because they drank too much and wanted to fight anything that could walk on two feet or four is the whiskey was good. My family still like its whiskey straight and warm. Some of the German leaning ones like thick beer, I like it watered down with good whiskey.

Work ethic, hell most of my relatives would be an hour early so they could sober up before work. Then put in 14 hours of hard labor.

If you have a work ethic it may be from the Irish but I bet you are not Irish in any manor. I am proud of my English, Irish, German, Scotch and French history. They all worked hard.The Irish were the most Unionized, the Germans the most precise and the English the most bullsh*ters (Together, they give a good handle on gift of gab).

Now if your looking for a fight, look in the mirror, there is a knuckle head looking for you there.
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You have to have a 6th grade education to sell stamps and I failed.
I'm UP 3k today, how about you STEW-PID j dumb ?

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<quoted text>Lots of folks with my job travel and do it, but unfortunately, the Chinese can't compete....
That is exactly what the people in Detroit said about the Japanese. Been to Detroit lately? Flint? Do you drive an import, talk on a cell phone or use a computer made by non-union labor?

Whats the plan when union labor is so cost prohibitive that hardly any competitive minded American business can afford it, or production costs put more factories out of business? Is the plan to force the government to prop up those industries some more, nationalizing more and more private firms in the name of economic security until the state owns everything, financed by China? Or, do we wage a trade war and do our best to knock our faster, cheaper and more efficient competitors down to our size with our weakening dollar, watching domestic prices for everything triple and quadruple? Or, perhaps we send in operatives to infiltrate the labor force in foreign countries and spark labor unrest, hoping that unions take hold there and drive labor costs up, equal to our own and leveling the playing field?

Oh, that's right. All we need to do is force CEO's to take less money and then tax them 80% on whatever they end up with. I'm sure that will keep the American dream alive.
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pauline 2 wrote:
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I said you do not show the Irish work ethic I have known.
Now you are showing the pigheadedness of the Irish. My Irish ancestors were very hard drinking and worked hard to get anywhere,
Work ethic, hell most of my relatives would be an hour early so they could sober up before work. Then put in 14 hours of hard labor.
If you have a work ethic it may be from the Irish but I bet you are not Irish in any manor. I am proud of my English, Irish, German, Scotch and French history. They all worked hard.The Irish were the most Unionized, the Germans the most precise and the English the most bullsh*ters (Together, they give a good handle on gift of gab).
Now if your looking for a fight, look in the mirror, there is a knuckle head looking for you there.
You sure love stereotyping! How about these, all union people are dumb, blacks are lazy, asians are good at math, women are too emotional?

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Labor unions had better get with the 21st century and either start being more willing to work with employers or start retraining their members. Anything that a man can do, such as putting a bolt on a fender, nailing on shingles, assembling almost anything, driving LRT trains and city buses, even teaching, can and are gradually being replaced by robots and or computers. I believe Honda (or maybe it was Toyota) have built several plants to assemble cars in the US that are almost totally automated. If I recall correctly, the auto workers were none too happy about it but there was not much they could do. Every day, more and more jobs done by people are being done by robots. Even surgery is being done by robots.

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cantmakeitup wrote:
Labor unions had better get with the 21st century and either start being more willing to work with employers or start retraining their members. Anything that a man can do, such as putting a bolt on a fender, nailing on shingles, assembling almost anything, driving LRT trains and city buses, even teaching, can and are gradually being replaced by robots and or computers. I believe Honda (or maybe it was Toyota) have built several plants to assemble cars in the US that are almost totally automated. If I recall correctly, the auto workers were none too happy about it but there was not much they could do. Every day, more and more jobs done by people are being done by robots. Even surgery is being done by robots.
I read an article, must've been over five years ago, that stated the WORLD had lost over 20 million manufacturing jobs in the last decade. We're not outsourcing to Mars, yet, so these jobs were just replaced by automation.

The US wasn't even the biggest loser. I believe Brazil was,with the US being third.

Now this does create many great jobs for those that create, program and maintain those machines.

As to one of our more frequent discussions on Topix, you're probably gonna need more than a high school education for those jobs, though.

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pauline 2 wrote:
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I said you do not show the Irish work ethic I have known.
Now you are showing the pigheadedness of the Irish. and I am part Irish. Just as pigheaded with a touch of German determination. You seem to be twisting everything people say to you. I did not attack you in any way. My Irish ancestors were very hard drinking and worked hard to get anywhere, they came when signs said no Irish hired here. when Irish were told to say out os some bars because they drank too much and wanted to fight anything that could walk on two feet or four is the whiskey was good. My family still like its whiskey straight and warm. Some of the German leaning ones like thick beer, I like it watered down with good whiskey.
Work ethic, hell most of my relatives would be an hour early so they could sober up before work. Then put in 14 hours of hard labor.
If you have a work ethic it may be from the Irish but I bet you are not Irish in any manor. I am proud of my English, Irish, German, Scotch and French history. They all worked hard.The Irish were the most Unionized, the Germans the most precise and the English the most bullsh*ters (Together, they give a good handle on gift of gab).
Now if your looking for a fight, look in the mirror, there is a knuckle head looking for you there.
WTF are you talking about. Work ethic is not genetic, nor is drunkenness, or any of the other things you listed. Seriously are you trying to make a link between ancestry and a predisposition to unions?

How about you actually say why you feel he has no work ethic?

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WTF are you talking about. Work ethic is not genetic, nor is drunkenness, or any of the other things you listed. Seriously are you trying to make a link between ancestry and a predisposition to unions?
How about you actually say why you feel he has no work ethic?
What? So all the racism I'v been taught my whole life was pure hokum?!?

Man! Way to destroy my worldview...

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pauline 2 wrote:
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I said you do not show the Irish work ethic I have known.
Now you are showing the pigheadedness of the Irish. and I am part Irish. Just as pigheaded with a touch of German determination. You seem to be twisting everything people say to you. I did not attack you in any way. My Irish ancestors were very hard drinking and worked hard to get anywhere, they came when signs said no Irish hired here. when Irish were told to say out os some bars because they drank too much and wanted to fight anything that could walk on two feet or four is the whiskey was good. My family still like its whiskey straight and warm. Some of the German leaning ones like thick beer, I like it watered down with good whiskey.
Work ethic, hell most of my relatives would be an hour early so they could sober up before work. Then put in 14 hours of hard labor.
If you have a work ethic it may be from the Irish but I bet you are not Irish in any manor. I am proud of my English, Irish, German, Scotch and French history. They all worked hard.The Irish were the most Unionized, the Germans the most precise and the English the most bullsh*ters (Together, they give a good handle on gift of gab).
Now if your looking for a fight, look in the mirror, there is a knuckle head looking for you there.
None of this has anything to do with your comments about union vs non-union shops.

You come on here, and make a number of dishonest accusations that you are unwilling to back up. Then you go off on some strange rant about me not being Irish.

Clueless twit is a very kind term for someone like you.
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jw STEW-PID wrote:
<quoted text>I'm UP 3k today, how about you STEW-PID j dumb ?
I lie alot.
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pauline 2 wrote:
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I said you do not show the Irish work ethic I have known.
Now you are showing the pigheadedness of the Irish. and I am part Irish. Just as pigheaded with a touch of German determination. You seem to be twisting everything people say to you. I did not attack you in any way. My Irish ancestors were very hard drinking and worked hard to get anywhere, they came when signs said no Irish hired here. when Irish were told to say out os some bars because they drank too much and wanted to fight anything that could walk on two feet or four is the whiskey was good. My family still like its whiskey straight and warm. Some of the German leaning ones like thick beer, I like it watered down with good whiskey.
Work ethic, hell most of my relatives would be an hour early so they could sober up before work. Then put in 14 hours of hard labor.
If you have a work ethic it may be from the Irish but I bet you are not Irish in any manor. I am proud of my English, Irish, German, Scotch and French history. They all worked hard.The Irish were the most Unionized, the Germans the most precise and the English the most bullsh*ters (Together, they give a good handle on gift of gab).
Now if your looking for a fight, look in the mirror, there is a knuckle head looking for you there.
You lost any respect when you claimed to be proud of your FRENCH heritage. lol
Now how exactly where you able to detemine Irish's work ethic based on a few Topix posts?
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You LOST ALL RESPECT, when you bragged about being a liar, but interfering in a gentleman's wager, is a NEW LOW, even for you ! I'm sincerely embarrassed for you. Very sad, you're raising innocent children.

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I have probably lied thousands of times in my life, care to elaborate on which one you are talking about?

HORSES "MOUTH" LMAOROTF !

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You lost any respect when you claimed to be proud of your FRENCH heritage. lol
Now how exactly where you able to detemine Irish's work ethic based on a few Topix posts?
Something wrong with the French heritage?
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<quoted text>Something wrong with the French heritage?
ITs called a joke Tick. But now that you mention it.....:)
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You're the joke, running mouth.

Trolls <quoted text>
I have probably lied thousands of times in my life, care to elaborate on which one you are talking about?

HORSES "MOUTH" LMAOROTF !
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I don't have any respect for myself and neither does anyone else.
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SeattleSLEW wrote:
I don't have any respect for myself and neither does anyone else.
And you shouldn't wannabee, from the wrong IP address.... Got rid of the space, folks will figure out your nonsense games anyway.
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Trolls wrote:
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ITs called a joke Tick. But now that you mention it.....:)
An elderly couple trolls & IrassWn were on a cruise and it was really stormy.
They were standing on the back of the boat watching the moon,
when a wave came up and washed the trolls overboard.
They searched for days and couldn't find him, so the Captain
sent the old woman back to shore, with the promise that he
would notify her as soon as they found something.
Three weeks went by and finally, the IrassWn got a fax from
the boat. It read: Ma'am, sorry to inform you that we found your
trolls dead, at the bottom of the ocean.
We hauled trolls up to the deck, and attached to trolls butt was an oyster,
and inside it was a pearl worth $50,000....please advise.
The Irasswn faxed back: Send me the pearl and re-bait the trap.

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Trolls wrote:
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ITs called a joke Tick. But now that you mention it.....:)
Silly French and helping us win our independence. and really sparking the whole ideal it was based on...and being the leaders in national diplomacy for an era...and the arts...and science...

Yeah, now that you mention it...
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<quoted text>Silly French and helping us win our independence. and really sparking the whole ideal it was based on...and being the leaders in national diplomacy for an era...and the arts...and science...
Yeah, now that you mention it...
Slapping down your "buudddddy" ?? Say it ain't so, Joe !??? Getting tired of the nipping ?

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