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onehandle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-07-08 07:12 PM
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Manufacturing Jobs are at their lowest number since 1942. Yes that's Nineteen Forty-Two!
Just heard that little fact on CNN.

Heckofajob, smirk.
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OhioChick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-07-08 07:15 PM
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1. Although I wasn't around in 1942.....
I am astonished how bad things are in Cleveland. I had CNN on in the background earlier today and that woman Gerrie (or whatever...the woman that talks business and gives tips) said that if you lose your job, you should just got back to college for another degree.

I thought to myself.....people are jobless and losing their homes....with "what" money?
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Tandalayo_Scheisskopf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-07-08 07:17 PM
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2. Another academic glue-sniffer. nt
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ProfessorGAC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-07-08 07:26 PM
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5. You're Insulting Academics
That twit is no academic glue-sniffer. She's a communications major glue-sniffer. There's a difference, ya know.
The Professor
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Tandalayo_Scheisskopf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-07-08 10:20 PM
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12. Aha!
Thanks for the clarification. ;-)
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Stinky The Clown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-07-08 07:20 PM
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3. We've been bleeding manufacturing jobs since long before Bush or Clinton .....
... this started with that fuck, Reagan.
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doc03 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-07-08 07:39 PM
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6. I think it actually started in the early 70's n/t
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madrchsod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-07-08 08:02 PM
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7. yup- early 70`s..started moving metal working to south korea and taiwan
shoe industry was on it`s way overseas about that time.
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doc03 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-07-08 08:10 PM
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11. A lot of industries moved to the Right to Work
states down south starting in the 70's then they wanted even lower wages and started moving outside the US. It accelerated under Reagan and Bush 41 then Clinton put the final nail in the coffin with NAFTA.
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kenny blankenship Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-07-08 08:05 PM
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8. Oh but it'll come back, I mean just look at Britain!


Just look at it.
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fasttense Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-07-08 07:24 PM
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4. My husband lost his job here in TN.
He can't find a job so he thought it would be a good time to go back and get his teaching certificate. With his unemployment, we just get by. So when he went into the unemployment office to talk about it. They told him if he went back to school, he would lose his unemployment.

He has sent out hundreds of resumes and has gone to every place he can think of. He hasn't had one single interview. And they call this a right to work state. I think it is right to be unemployed state.

Thanks bush.
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madrchsod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-07-08 08:08 PM
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9. go back to school and do`t tell them
keep looking for a job..wink-wink..and fill out the job search/contact papers. there a lot of ways to get around the system but it boils down to --do`t tell them because they really do`t want to know.
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kenny blankenship Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-07-08 08:08 PM
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10. So it seems we're not just entering a Great Depression,
Edited on Fri Nov-07-08 08:09 PM by kenny blankenship
we're in fact going back in time to the same Great Depression. Historians will definitely want to have their pencils out.
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