Our Dependencies

[RobertN]

It don't matter your brand; it's the feeling of being in the wind/w3tcompact/icons/grin.gif If you're ever out thisaway, we'll have to ride! There's great riding here in the Calif Gold Country; Highway 49 runs through the core of it. In fact, we'd even be able to ride over and say hey to Harv, and to Rat!

I love my Harley, and wouldn't own anything else('cept maybe an early Indian, or one of the new Polaris'). I won't begrudge anyone for wanting to ride though, regardless of brand.

 

[JATO_RaT]

Robert as you well know, the ride from your house to mine is not that far distance wise, but Highway 49 is surely a treat on a bike and does take a little time. Perhaps the Highway 193 through Georgetown is another possibility. Its some great country, today would have been a prime day to go for a little joyride, 61 degrees and pure sun.

 

[Trev]

<font color=blue>Secondly, being a little different by my nature, I see a better world, different, sure, but better. One of the things that's so good about us as human beings is we always come up with a solution that works and works well for any problem that confronts us.</font color=blue>

I see the world a bit differently too.. and one thing that strikes me is that we have to get all of our eggs out of this one basket. We should be colonizing other planets by now. Someday I hope to have someone ask me "Where are you from?" And my reply will be "Earth. It's the third planet out from a small G4 star in such-and-such quandrant." And they'll say "Wow.. it's a small Universe isn't it? I knew someone from there!" /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

Okay, call me nuts. But that's my "vision" of mankinds future if we're to survive as a species.

Bob

 

[rancar]

Here's some interesting notables about manufacturing activity in China.

<A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.village2000.com/context/main/crystal/messages/138022.html>Manufacturing All Going To China</A>

 

[saw_dust]

<font color=red>When I have to pay $40k +++ for a Suburban because the janitors at GM get $100k a year </font color=red>

The greedy over paid CEO's and management are not part of the problem are they?

 

[saw_dust]

<font color=red>I think the unions are 99% of the problem.</font color=red>

everyone and everything else else is only 1 %,but not the (AMA)

<font color=red>when you see your life savings go up in smoke on the worldcoms and enrons</font color=red>

those darn uneducated union workers caused the poor educated innocent CEO's to steal.

<font color=red>non-educated union worker is pulling down six figure incomes </font color=red>

<font color=red>I think our govt. is the biggest culprits</font color=red> they must be union too...

Wow....I am glad I am not union....

 

[Anonymous Poster]

Hi,

Had to go back to the top of this thread to see what it was all about after reading everything!

<font color=blue>Maybe we could report back with the things that shock you the most.</font color=blue>

For me...

After being on the same page as Wroughtn Harv...I concluded my contribution to the thread would be the thing that shocks me the most!

Since getting my tractor, I now only want to plan vacations when the weather is worst here! Priority now is to be home when the weather is tip top tractor good!

Only problem is the wife...but I'm sure she will come around if I throw her a bone or something /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif.

"Dang this rain, and dang this waisted day" has more meaning than ever now.../w3tcompact/icons/grin.gif

Sorry for such a serious post, but somebody had to do it! /w3tcompact/icons/blush.gif

Bill in Pgh, PA

 

[jhburke]

I agree with you about these ads only noting how much a month, but not how many months of those payments. I just traded trucks last month and all the salesman kept coming at me with " it will be only xxx a month" . I told them it I drove off their lot with other than the truck I dove in with it would be paid for and mine. Also those who keep telling you to not worry about what it costs because you can afford it. I tell them the only reason I can afford to live as I do is because I watch what and how much I spend. I am trying to pay as I go. In Oct of 2001 I traded for my B7500. They delivered it on a wedsday and on the following tuesday I had open heart surgery. The first 5 months I owned it all I could do was look at it. It was much nicer not having to worry about payments on it.

 

[bgott]

That link asks for a user name and password.

 

[Wingnut]

I have no intent of excusing CEO's .... but my math indicates there's one CEO ... and tens of thousands of hourly workers.
Let's see, we'll take a company I'm familiar with. CEO makes 7 mill a year (6.5 more than I think he should make) ... 7 mill divied by 50,000 workers equals $140 each. Now ... the janitor makes $100k and is providing what value ... $10k? $20k? How many janitors?
My math says that the extreme overpayment of the CEO makes a pretty small drip in the bucket when you add up the rest. Heck, the year before last I got a 22% bonus ... if the average bonus was anywhere near that ... the company paid out 3/4 of a BILLION in bonuses. Of that, the CEO got 3 million or so .... 3/750 or 0.4%.
Sorry for all the math .... I just want to point out that a great many overpaid workers (who like to strike for even more) contribute more to the bottom line than one or two or three or four execs. Do you really think it's the salaries of the execs that got United into hat water?
And, no, I'm NOT an exec ... not even middle management, I just use an awful lot of math in my job ... and commonly work in the millions - so I have no problem understanding cost/value analysis.