Harley-Davidson buys Italian motorcylce maker

MyLife wrote:

Harley Bashing. Meh. I guess it's like playing king of the hill. Funny that it's always H-D that is the target. They must be doing something very right.

BM BOY wrote:

I bet what ever they sound like it will show how little their penis's really are?

Hoody wrote:

Interesting scenario - Will the union call on their brothers and sisters to boycott buying Harley products or will they call on them to buy Hogs in order to keep the plant open?
What do you think?

Jeff wrote:

hopefully HD will move all of its operations to italy and then the scum union boys will realize how good they had it

Friend of H-D Workers wrote:

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I know plenty about Europeans quality of life. I'm first generation American who's father's family fled Italy before the war was about to break out. My father's mother died when he was 11 years old while his father was in the U.S.A. looking for work. Word of his deceased wife took 6 months to reach him! He returned to Italy and brought his 3 young children to America which was billing itself to Europeans as having plenty of jobs and the great land of opporunity! For 6 months my paternal grandfather could not find work. When he returned to the U.S.A. with his 3 young children he stormed into the Mayor's office in a big city and pounded his fist on the Mayor's desk hollaring that he heard America was welcoming Europeans to come to America where there are plenty of jobs and golden opportunities and he had yet to find work within 6 months while his wife died in Italy at the young age of 28. The Mayor asked my grandfather to calm down and have a sit while he made a phone call. The Mayor made a phone call and ended his conversation and asked my grandfather when he could start work. My grandfather said right that minute as he had 3 young children's mouths to feed and put a roof over their head. The Mayor told him he could start work the next day building bridges! To this day one bridge still remains that my grandfather built!
Italy still has slave labor!
My father took me to Italy with his wife [my mother died when I was 18] and step son and his wife. My spouse didn't want to go. I saw more than I cared to see. Young children holding up cardboard signs reading "will work for food" dressed in shabby clothes and no shoes with uncombed hair in downtown Rome! I later was told by my brother who had visited Italy years before I did that Italians use their young children to beg for money. My father told me a story when I was child about his family living downstairs of another family and for a couple of hours every night he would hear this loud boom boom. Two weeks later his father investigated and discovered that in the apartment upstairs lived a man with his young son. The father had a dummy tied to a rope hanging from a light fixture. The father was teaching his son to be quick at pick pocketing! When my father heard the boom boom, it was the young boy jumping up and down to grab the wallet of the dummy. My father would hear the young boy cry as his father hollared at him. The father was hollaring at his son that he wasn't quick enough. This was in Naples. To this day you have to be very careful of pick pockets in Naples!
As for drinking vino with dinner. The reason for that is because the water is contaminated. If you drink it, you will get one heck of a case of Montezuma's revenge you will never forget!
I was impressed with the large size of produce in Italy. So large I've never seen anything like it before except at the York County Fair where ribbons are awarded for the largest pumpkin. In Italy lemons were the size of eggplants! Why? The use human manure as fertilizer to grow their produce. This is why upon consumption of "fresh vegetables" tourists develop constipation with severe stomach craps strong enough to make them double over.
Don't get me wrong, Italy is a beautiful place to visit as there is so much beautiful scenery to take in. Scenery most people will never see anywhere else in their life.
I know one thing is true. My brother told me that because I had never been overseas before the first thing I am going to want to do upon returning from Italy and arriving in the U.S.A. is to stoop down and kiss the ground thanking the Lord for being an American and on U.S.A. soil.

typical york county wrote:

that company is in direct competition with another motorcycle company Harley owns. Buell. I have heard harley management say on more than one occasion how well the buell sells in europe. I just hope I can trade in my buell on an mv. Maybe I can get that fat 20% discount on them as well!
I think most people understand Management answers to stockholders. With that said the All American image HD presents is fake and has been for a long time. So many parts are made overseas. A person with reasonable intelligence would see this is a trend in a majority of the manufacturing companies in the U.S. not only union companies. You can blame all the worlds problems on the union. Me, I blame them on George W but hey BAE is doing well and union by the way.