Thread: Jobless rate tops 10%

Quote: Originally Posted by kcvega One thing that often goes unmentioned in the news-outsourcing. One local aerospace company had to layoff a few hundred employees due to bad economic times. BS!!! They always fail to mention their new facility in Mexico or the outsourced work to Italy!! Profit margins just too low for the owners. Luckily for me I left that place 4 years ago for a higher paying union gig. No union bashing needed, just saying....

Quote: Originally Posted by RvRrat I never called you a liar. In order to lie you to have some limited intelligence. I see you are like most people that cant prove their point, they move on to other tactic's. Nice showing of your superior intellect.

Quote: Originally Posted by Jake Where do you all think the profits from these sales in our country go, here or Japan? I asked the same question 3 times to 1986 here but he would not answer and claimes he was just giving someone else a hard time. Japan, China, Mexico, India, etc......not here!

Quote: Originally Posted by donzi5150 I agree, 15% unemployment and more O spending to come.....April 2010 will be my prediction. Maybe sooner. Don't forget that it took all the math genius's 15 months to say we were even already in a recession.

Quote: Originally Posted by redneckcharlie And there it is, Foreman, skilled labor. Not assemblyline work. Thats in So Cal...Union wages vary thru out the U.S.

Quote: Originally Posted by Havasu1986 Had to look at my pay stub because I didn't know it off hand. Foremans wages not includeing benefits for a fire sprinkler installer is... 43.33 And there it is, Foreman, skilled labor. Not assemblyline work.

The three stooges HusseinO/Pelosi/Reid promised the insane spending of the stimulus money would save and/or create more jobs than would be lost. Surely they didn't miscalculate or simply lie, did they???????? Heaven knows, their constituency already received handsome payments for their political support as we have already seen. I wonder why unemployment is rising so quickly? Could it be part of their grand scheme?

total consuming and no producing society=no jobs

Quote: Originally Posted by donzi5150 I had an employee a couple of years back who's husband was laid off from a Chrysler plant closing, on the floor 12 years an was given 2 years pay at 60% after payout of benefits..........2 years at 60%? My younger brother is forced, mandatory take out of pay for the union and he hates it. He has constantly complained about the lack of incentive and lack of productivity of the workers with a...

Quote: Originally Posted by OutCole'd I hear you on the union thing also, and for the record. My brother hates the union because of the same reasons you stated. No accountability, people file grievences over anything, it's a joke. But for him, it's a job. And, yes, there are some great perks that most would feel un reasonable to those that don't get them. But how else are you going to get someone to stand on an assembly...