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dmcowen674

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Originally posted by: Fern
Dave, do you have some detailed info on Unilver to lead to that conclusion? I'm not debating just asking.

How much of their manufacturing in currently done in the USA?

The US ops seems rather small. Just 3,000 employees, IIRC. Who knows, perhaps there will be no one laid off from there given the plan to sell it?

Fern

EDIT: Gawd, anybody would be foolish at this time to move production to China. Who wants to be poisoned?

They compete with P&G with similar products so I suspect a similar manufacturing & distribution system.

Time will tell or it will be lost in the "Global Economy" noise.
 

dmcowen674

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Originally posted by: nick1985
Originally posted by: dmcowen674
Originally posted by: nick1985
WE NEED UPDATES DAVE!

Sorry, couldn't come up with the $5,000 to file with FEC.

Only the rich can hold political office in the U.S. now.

crap.

Have no fear the Economy is doing fine without me:

8-3-2007 Stocks Fall Sharply Amid Credit Fears

Wall Street plunged anew Friday, hurtling the Dow Jones industrial average down more than 280 points after comments from a major investment bank exacerbated the market's fears of a widening credit crunch.

The drop of more than 2 percent in major stock market indexes was a fitting end to two volatile weeks on Wall Street and followed back-to-back, late-day triple digit gains in the Dow. This time, the catalyst for a sharp skid was Bear Stearns Cos. Chief Financial Officer Sam Molinaro, who described turmoil in the credit market as the worst he'd seen in 22 years.
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Remember just a couple of years ago I was berated on here for commenting on how the bank were giving out money to developers like candy.

How y'all liking those empty subdivisions now?
 

Slew Foot

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Originally posted by: dmcowen674
Originally posted by: nick1985
Originally posted by: dmcowen674
Originally posted by: nick1985
WE NEED UPDATES DAVE!

Sorry, couldn't come up with the $5,000 to file with FEC.

Only the rich can hold political office in the U.S. now.

crap.

Have no fear the Economy is doing fine without me:

8-3-2007 Stocks Fall Sharply Amid Credit Fears

Wall Street plunged anew Friday, hurtling the Dow Jones industrial average down more than 280 points after comments from a major investment bank exacerbated the market's fears of a widening credit crunch.

The drop of more than 2 percent in major stock market indexes was a fitting end to two volatile weeks on Wall Street and followed back-to-back, late-day triple digit gains in the Dow. This time, the catalyst for a sharp skid was Bear Stearns Cos. Chief Financial Officer Sam Molinaro, who described turmoil in the credit market as the worst he'd seen in 22 years.
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Remember just a couple of years ago I was berated on here for commenting on how the bank were giving out money to developers like candy.

How y'all liking those empty subdivisions now?

I love em!! Theyre driving down prices around here, hopefully itll be reasonable to buy in a couple years.
 

dmcowen674

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Awwwwwww, they didn't get the full go ahead from the FDA to prey on the sick cancer patients so 2,600 Californians have to finf work.

8-15-2007 Amgen to cut up to 2,600 jobs

LOS ANGELES - Biotechnology company Amgen Inc. said Wednesday it will cut up to 14 percent of its work force and has lowered its profit guidance because of slimmer than expected sales of its anemia drug Aranesp.

Amgen signaled problems last month when it reported that worldwide sales of its anemia-treating drug Aranesp dropped 10 percent to $949 million in the second quarter in reaction to the Food and Drug Administration finding the drug should carry a stronger warning label when used in cancer patients with anemia.

The warning label addition called for doctors to use the lowest possible dose of the drug.

Aranesp was the company's best-selling drug last year, with $4.12 billion in sales.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services decided to limit reimbursement for Aranesp when used to boost hemoglobin levels. Use of the drug was restricted to less than the FDA-recommended dose.

The company said Wednesday it believes the decision, which Amgen is fighting, will mean cancer patients will need more transfusions in the future, a result that could drastically reduce the nation's blood supply.
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How did the blood supply survive without Amgen before???
 
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WTF? Isn't biotech one of those fields that was supposed to provide huge amounts of high-value-added college-education-requiring jobs to replace the ones that were offshored or filled by H-1B and L-1 visas in other fields?
 

dmcowen674

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According to resident Republicans as well as the ones that ran the country the last 7 years this lady does not exis and or she is a moron like me.

8-18-2007 N.C. waitress applauds minimum wage hike

A North Carolina waitress on Saturday lauded the Democratic-initiated increase in the minimum wage, saying in the party's weekly radio address that the extra money will have a ripple effect on millions of lives.

Fawn Townsend, a nightshift server in Raleigh, N.C., criticized Republicans for blocking efforts to raise the minimum wage over the last 10 years. The Democratic-led Congress approved the increase earlier this year and President Bush signed it into law in May.

"Millions of Americans now have a little more in their paychecks to help pay for basic necessities like food and clothing. And now more Americans can save to build a better future for themselves and their families," Townsend said.

In the future, Townsend said she hoped to attend nursing school ? and she applauded Democrats for passing legislation to make higher education more affordable.

"I'm grateful that our Democratic leaders in Congress are taking our country in a new direction," she said. "They have accomplished more this year than Republicans accomplished in the past six years combined ? including giving people like me a long-overdue raise."
 

fstime

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Minimum Wage Increase: A way to make people feel better, without actually making any difference.

Brilliant!
 

dmcowen674

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8-18-2007 Migrant cash is world economic giant

Around the world, millions of immigrants are sending billions of dollars back home.

One sweaty wad of bills or $200 Western Union moneygram at a time, they form what could be called Immigration, Inc. ? one of the biggest businesses on the planet.

Mass migration, they say, has spawned an underground economy of staggering proportions.

Globally, remittances ? the cash that immigrants send home ? totaled nearly $276 billion in 2006, the World Bank says. Remittances have more than doubled since 2000, and with globalization increasing the numbers of people on the move, there's no end in sight.

And unlike the conventional economy, more cash tends to change hands in an economic downturn, political crisis, natural disaster, famine or war.

Counterterrorism officials say al-Qaida and other groups are financed in part through informal money transfer networks called hawalas. Governments and the International Monetary Fund have been working to regulate those.

There are other downsides: fears of brain drains and a vast permanent army of economic exiles, and the untaxed earnings flowing out of host nations.

The U.S. lost $41.1 billion in 2005, according to the World Bank, while Switzerland watched $13.2 billion trickle out of the country that year.

Mexicans wire home the most cash ? nearly $22 billion ? most of it earned in the U.S.
 

StageLeft

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Originally posted by: dmcowen674
8-18-2007 Migrant cash is world economic giant

Around the world, millions of immigrants are sending billions of dollars back home.

One sweaty wad of bills or $200 Western Union moneygram at a time, they form what could be called Immigration, Inc. ? one of the biggest businesses on the planet.

Mass migration, they say, has spawned an underground economy of staggering proportions.

Globally, remittances ? the cash that immigrants send home ? totaled nearly $276 billion in 2006, the World Bank says. Remittances have more than doubled since 2000, and with globalization increasing the numbers of people on the move, there's no end in sight.

And unlike the conventional economy, more cash tends to change hands in an economic downturn, political crisis, natural disaster, famine or war.

Counterterrorism officials say al-Qaida and other groups are financed in part through informal money transfer networks called hawalas. Governments and the International Monetary Fund have been working to regulate those.

There are other downsides: fears of brain drains and a vast permanent army of economic exiles, and the untaxed earnings flowing out of host nations.

The U.S. lost $41.1 billion in 2005, according to the World Bank, while Switzerland watched $13.2 billion trickle out of the country that year.

Mexicans wire home the most cash ? nearly $22 billion ? most of it earned in the U.S.
You're right, although since the dems supported the last asinine immigration bill more than the republicans, which would have allows more mexicans in here and even more money sent down propping up the mexican economy, you should bring this up with the dems who supported it.

In regards to minimum wage, though, only the worst of the losers are getting paid minimum wage. The problem is not the minimum wage, it's them. A brain dead chimp can work at walmart and make more than minimum wage. A grown adult making minimum wage who isn't suffering from some kind of illness has so little motivation I'm surprised their heart can find the desire to even beat.
 

dmcowen674

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Originally posted by: Skoorb
The problem is not the minimum wage, it's them.

A brain dead chimp can work at walmart and make more than minimum wage.

A grown adult making minimum wage who isn't suffering from some kind of illness has so little motivation I'm surprised their heart can find the desire to even beat.

Why don't you come out and say what you really feel about your fellow Americans.

Do you honestly believe there is a high paying job for everyone?

Where is this fantasyland you live in?
 

StageLeft

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Originally posted by: dmcowen674
Originally posted by: Skoorb
The problem is not the minimum wage, it's them.

A brain dead chimp can work at walmart and make more than minimum wage.

A grown adult making minimum wage who isn't suffering from some kind of illness has so little motivation I'm surprised their heart can find the desire to even beat.

Why don't you come out and say what you really feel about your fellow Americans.

Do you honestly believe there is a high paying job for everyone?

Where is this fantasyland you live in?
I am not an American. There is not a high paying job for everyone because not everyone deserves one; the economy is structured to allow the thoroughly indolent to be employed and make their minimum wage. They are worth almost nothing to the greater productivity and therefore make almost nothing because their skills are reasily replaced with robots (e.g. automated check-out machines).
 

dmcowen674

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Originally posted by: Skoorb
Originally posted by: dmcowen674
Originally posted by: Skoorb
The problem is not the minimum wage, it's them.

A brain dead chimp can work at walmart and make more than minimum wage.

A grown adult making minimum wage who isn't suffering from some kind of illness has so little motivation I'm surprised their heart can find the desire to even beat.

Why don't you come out and say what you really feel about your fellow Americans.

Do you honestly believe there is a high paying job for everyone?

Where is this fantasyland you live in?

I am not an American.

There is not a high paying job for everyone because not everyone deserves one; the economy is structured to allow the thoroughly indolent to be employed and make their minimum wage.

They are worth almost nothing to the greater productivity and therefore make almost nothing because their skills are easily replaced with robots (e.g. automated check-out machines).

Thank god you are not an American. :thumbsdown:
 

StageLeft

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Originally posted by: dmcowen674
Originally posted by: Skoorb
Originally posted by: dmcowen674
Originally posted by: Skoorb
The problem is not the minimum wage, it's them.

A brain dead chimp can work at walmart and make more than minimum wage.

A grown adult making minimum wage who isn't suffering from some kind of illness has so little motivation I'm surprised their heart can find the desire to even beat.

Why don't you come out and say what you really feel about your fellow Americans.

Do you honestly believe there is a high paying job for everyone?

Where is this fantasyland you live in?

I am not an American.

There is not a high paying job for everyone because not everyone deserves one; the economy is structured to allow the thoroughly indolent to be employed and make their minimum wage.

They are worth almost nothing to the greater productivity and therefore make almost nothing because their skills are easily replaced with robots (e.g. automated check-out machines).

Thank god you are not an American. :thumbsdown:
Actually, some Americans still prefer candor over nonsense. Your views seem to go along better with socialism or even so far as communism (always feel bad for the poor, thinking that they deserve just as much as everyone else; hate the rich, etc.), which is quite a bit more un-American than what I think :)
Should there be?
In dmcowen's america, where even the most indolent deserve to be rewarded for their inactions, yes!

 

dmcowen674

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Originally posted by: Skoorb
Actually, some Americans still prefer candor over nonsense.

Your views seem to go along better with socialism or even so far as communism (always feel bad for the poor, thinking that they deserve just as much as everyone else; hate the rich, etc.), which is quite a bit more un-American than what I think :)

Should there be?

In dmcowen's america, where even the most indolent deserve to be rewarded for their inactions, yes!

Where did I ever say anything about reward for inactions?

 

EagleKeeper

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Originally posted by: dmcowen674
Originally posted by: Skoorb
Actually, some Americans still prefer candor over nonsense.

Your views seem to go along better with socialism or even so far as communism (always feel bad for the poor, thinking that they deserve just as much as everyone else; hate the rich, etc.), which is quite a bit more un-American than what I think :)

Should there be?

In dmcowen's america, where even the most indolent deserve to be rewarded for their inactions, yes!

Where did I ever say anything about reward for inactions?
You may seem to feel that the government/society has the responsibility to reward people for their ineptitude.

 

StageLeft

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Originally posted by: dmcowen674
Originally posted by: Skoorb
Actually, some Americans still prefer candor over nonsense.

Your views seem to go along better with socialism or even so far as communism (always feel bad for the poor, thinking that they deserve just as much as everyone else; hate the rich, etc.), which is quite a bit more un-American than what I think :)

Should there be?

In dmcowen's america, where even the most indolent deserve to be rewarded for their inactions, yes!

Where did I ever say anything about reward for inactions?
You bolded the part you took issue with, I reiterated it, and now you're pretending that you didn't take issue with it. Try again, you get another shot :)

 

CanOWorms

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I'm waiting for the article about the McDonald's worker's opinion on the presidential race. It's going to be riveting.
 

CADsortaGUY

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Originally posted by: dmcowen674
According to resident Republicans as well as the ones that ran the country the last 7 years this lady does not exis and or she is a moron like me.

8-18-2007 N.C. waitress applauds minimum wage hike

A North Carolina waitress on Saturday lauded the Democratic-initiated increase in the minimum wage, saying in the party's weekly radio address that the extra money will have a ripple effect on millions of lives.

Fawn Townsend, a nightshift server in Raleigh, N.C., criticized Republicans for blocking efforts to raise the minimum wage over the last 10 years. The Democratic-led Congress approved the increase earlier this year and President Bush signed it into law in May.

"Millions of Americans now have a little more in their paychecks to help pay for basic necessities like food and clothing. And now more Americans can save to build a better future for themselves and their families," Townsend said.

In the future, Townsend said she hoped to attend nursing school ? and she applauded Democrats for passing legislation to make higher education more affordable.

"I'm grateful that our Democratic leaders in Congress are taking our country in a new direction," she said. "They have accomplished more this year than Republicans accomplished in the past six years combined ? including giving people like me a long-overdue raise."

"N.C. waitress"??? Uhhh. How about a "N.C. ACORN activist"... THAT would be a more honest description of her.

If there was any doubt that the far far left runs the DNC - this should erase it. Letting an ACORN activist deliver the radio address? What's next? Letting the DKOS crew give the address?
 

Pabster

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Originally posted by: CADsortaGUY
If there was any doubt that the far far left runs the DNC - this should erase it. Letting an ACORN activist deliver the radio address? What's next? Letting the DKOS crew give the address?

Be careful what you wish for :laugh:

There's been no doubt that the far, far left have been at the reins for quite some time now. ACORN is as far left as you can get (right up there with NAMBLA) and yeah, considering how Pelosi and Reid both have admitted to meeting and strategizing with left-wing bloggers (DKOS among them), I wouldn't be too surprised to see a member giving an address.
 

Pliablemoose

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Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Thank god you are not an American. :thumbsdown:

You know what that's just crap, Skoorb is a IMHO more of an "American" (that's pretty ethnocentric to claim the whole continent as a nationality or citizenship affiliation, BTW) than many, he chose to move here & go through all the BS to become a US citizen. It's complicated & expensive & you don't do that crap on a lark.

 

Jaskalas

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Originally posted by: dmcowen674
8-18-2007 Migrant cash is world economic giant
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Mexicans wire home the most cash ? nearly $22 billion ? most of it earned in the U.S.

Is this why your party wants to grant them amnesty and hand out citizenship/rights to vote? Would keep all their money "home", if the entire extended family also lived here.