Posted by Future Thinker on 5/29/2009, 4:15 pm, in reply to "Re: Multiple CSX Ore Trains"
Pittsburgh is a perfect example. They realized the steel industry, in its previous form, was never coming back. They adapted accordingly. The Ohio Valley refused to do so. All that land along the river, proximity to Pittsburgh..with a litter effort, the area should be able to attract some sort of industry, instead of trying to dwell on the past. Companies are in business to make money. Employees should be paid according to how they contribute, NOT according to seniority only...makes for a lazy employee. Like one gentleman said, don't like your job? Go to college and learn to do something else. Just my humble opinion.
--Previous Message--
: OK, then what started the "We
: want a lower price" deal in the
: first place? Foreign companies
: dumping products on us.
:
: It was our government refusing to
: put import taxes on things coming
: into this country, while those
: countries were taxing the crap out
: of anything we sent there. So they
: could just dump products on us at
: cost, and either put our industry
: out of business or force them to
: move manufacturing to their
: countries giving their people jobs.
: It worked great.
:
: WE built the Japanese industries
: after the war, while ours were 40+
: years old. WE sat back while
: American companies moved jobs
: overseas.
:
: Now they jacked the prices up to
: what we paid before, or higher (with
: inflation). BUT we're making a
: fraction of what we were then. The
: average car is over 10 years old
: now, for the first time since the
: war. THAT'S progress.
:
: ANd now WE subsidize auto companies
: who build most of their stuff in
: other countries or buy supplies from
: foreign suppliers. And WE are
: forcing them to cut jobs to get that
: money (the Pontiac closing and the
: Chrysler Twinsburg plant are two
: examples).
:
:
:
: So what can the Ohio Valley offer
: than China can't? I'm not being
: sarcastic, I'm trying to stimulate
: thought.
:
: So, you guys can celebrate the
: "clean-up" trains on your
: favorite line, just get a LOT of
: pictures. Trust me, I know.
:
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