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Nov 7 08 8:39 PM
stpattygirl wrote: thebatter wrote: Scotties are adorable, especially in pairs! Yours may be demons, but that guy's face still makes me smile. Finlay is pretty good. It's the other who's a little demon. I came home the other night and found a mangled tube of doggie toothpaste on my living room floor -- she unzipped (yes, unbelievable, but she did) their travel pack and got it out. There was toothpaste, runny carmel colored poop and puke all over the place. Not.fun. but I can laugh about it now.
thebatter wrote: Scotties are adorable, especially in pairs! Yours may be demons, but that guy's face still makes me smile.
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Nov 7 08 8:45 PM
luvs2mambo wrote: stpattygirl wrote: thebatter wrote: Scotties are adorable, especially in pairs! Yours may be demons, but that guy's face still makes me smile. Finlay is pretty good. It's the other who's a little demon. I came home the other night and found a mangled tube of doggie toothpaste on my living room floor -- she unzipped (yes, unbelievable, but she did) their travel pack and got it out. There was toothpaste, runny carmel colored poop and puke all over the place. Not.fun. but I can laugh about it now.
Nov 7 08 8:48 PM
stpattygirl wrote: One night I came home and this big candle I had on my end table was chewed up. I thought Kenna did it, but the next morning the evidence appeared....in Finlay's poop.
Nov 7 08 9:03 PM
luvs2mambo wrote: stpattygirl wrote: One night I came home and this big candle I had on my end table was chewed up. I thought Kenna did it, but the next morning the evidence appeared....in Finlay's poop. You've got a handful.
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Nov 7 08 9:35 PM
thebatter wrote: I'm not trying to freak anyone out. I'm saying what can be confirmed if anyone choses to look it up. It's very easy to find that information on Granholm's complete & utter failure in Michigan. More people will be laid off. It won't stop. Remember, when Jimmy Carter raised taxes in the late 1970s, unemployment & inflation went into double digit figures. So did borrowing interest rates. Government can not create jobs, much as they like to pretend that they do. Only businesses can create jobs, and they only do it when it makes sense financially. If they don't have money to spend, they won't spend it. If they need to generate cash, one of the quickest ways to do it is to reduce headcount. Personnel costs are the largest cost any business has. And the problem with the car manufacturers can be found in a few things, including the fact that they don't have the orders they need to justify their headcounts. No orders, no money. No money, no jobs. Until people stop buying foreign cars, and start buying GM, Chrysler & Ford products, nothing will change. I kinow Obama is a lawyer and probably didn't take too many management or business classes in school, but you learn that on day 1 of any accounting, economics or business course. You have costs, and you have revenues. Revenues minus costs = profit. If you spend more than you bring in, you will go out of business. Without the revenues coming in to the car manufacturers, they will ultimately fail. And the number of workers in Michigan alone who are tied to the auto industry (at the manufacturers, suppliers, the companies that make their parts, etc.) is something like 3 million people. Obama may want to take this opportunity to tell his supporters to buy American cars and put the Audis and Hondas and BMWs up for sale. Pouring more taxpayer money into the auto industry is merely a bandaid. They need the sales. Period. Oh, and GM is rolling out a 100% electric run car in 2010. They've been working on alternate energy vehicles for years. Obama should know that already.
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Nov 7 08 9:43 PM
A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul - George Bernard Shaw
Nov 7 08 9:45 PM
thebatter wrote: What a strange post, idoiwill. Why do you "guess"? I don't care about the government of Chile or the new deal. I'm talking about now, Michigan, and the auto industry. GM is introducing an electric car to the market in 2010. You can look it up. It's called the Chevy Volt. They've been working on it for years.
Nov 7 08 9:52 PM
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Nov 7 08 10:12 PM
thebatter wrote: Geezus, idoiwill, I know who Friedman is. That isn't relevant to the conversation.
Nov 7 08 11:15 PM
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Nov 7 08 11:53 PM
thebatter wrote: I don't have ideas about economics. I am talking about my 25 years of business experience, including years of consulting to businesses that need to re-engineer themselves. I have had some high level jobs in large businesses, and my father was the CFO of a Fortune 100 companies. My sister is an executive at AT&T. I grew up in corporate America. I don't know why you're giving me the biography on Friedman. I studied him in business courses. I base my posts on what I learned in the real world, and I'm a student of business and business models for many years.
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Nov 8 08 12:12 AM
thebatter wrote: More people will be laid off. It won't stop. Remember, when Jimmy Carter raised taxes in the late 1970s, unemployment & inflation went into double digit figures. So did borrowing interest rates.
Nov 8 08 1:23 AM
yoduhh wrote: thebatter wrote: More people will be laid off. It won't stop. Remember, when Jimmy Carter raised taxes in the late 1970s, unemployment & inflation went into double digit figures. So did borrowing interest rates. i remember that, interest rates for mortgates were like 15%, can you imagine that now?
Nov 8 08 1:37 AM
awishforyou2 wrote: thebatter wrote: I don't have ideas about economics. I am talking about my 25 years of business experience, including years of consulting to businesses that need to re-engineer themselves. I have had some high level jobs in large businesses, and my father was the CFO of a Fortune 100 companies. My sister is an executive at AT&T. I grew up in corporate America. I don't know why you're giving me the biography on Friedman. I studied him in business courses. I base my posts on what I learned in the real world, and I'm a student of business and business models for many years. Batter, you're a Republican. There's no shame in telling the truth. Republican = Redneck = Idiot. There's just no way little old you could know anything about the big bad business world.
Nov 8 08 1:51 AM
Nov 8 08 2:11 AM
idoiwill wrote: awishforyou2 wrote: thebatter wrote: I don't have ideas about economics. I am talking about my 25 years of business experience, including years of consulting to businesses that need to re-engineer themselves. I have had some high level jobs in large businesses, and my father was the CFO of a Fortune 100 companies. My sister is an executive at AT&T. I grew up in corporate America. I don't know why you're giving me the biography on Friedman. I studied him in business courses. I base my posts on what I learned in the real world, and I'm a student of business and business models for many years. Batter, you're a Republican. There's no shame in telling the truth. Republican = Redneck = Idiot. There's just no way little old you could know anything about the big bad business world. Awish, I thought you were a Republican. Also I have a lot of friends that are Rednecks that aren't idiots or Republicans... Batter was asking me why I brought up Chile, so I sent her an article about Freidman, a Nobel Laureate (also a Republican, redneck and idiot, by all accounts ...).
Nov 8 08 2:14 AM
awishforyou2 wrote: idoiwill wrote: awishforyou2 wrote: thebatter wrote: I don't have ideas about economics. I am talking about my 25 years of business experience, including years of consulting to businesses that need to re-engineer themselves. I have had some high level jobs in large businesses, and my father was the CFO of a Fortune 100 companies. My sister is an executive at AT&T. I grew up in corporate America. I don't know why you're giving me the biography on Friedman. I studied him in business courses. I base my posts on what I learned in the real world, and I'm a student of business and business models for many years. Batter, you're a Republican. There's no shame in telling the truth. Republican = Redneck = Idiot. There's just no way little old you could know anything about the big bad business world. Awish, I thought you were a Republican. Also I have a lot of friends that are Rednecks that aren't idiots or Republicans... Batter was asking me why I brought up Chile, so I sent her an article about Freidman, a Nobel Laureate (also a Republican, redneck and idiot, by all accounts ...). I am a Republican, though these days I consider myself less Republican and more conservative. I heard a commentary the other day that I thought was pretty interesting: The democrats of today are socialists and the Republicans of today are the Democrats of yesterday. I don't know that it is a completely accurate description, but the Republican party of this election, absent a few candidates, is certainly not the conservative party it should be and used to be. I was just teasing Batter.
Nov 8 08 2:33 AM
idoiwill wrote: awishforyou2 wrote: idoiwill wrote: awishforyou2 wrote: thebatter wrote: I don't have ideas about economics. I am talking about my 25 years of business experience, including years of consulting to businesses that need to re-engineer themselves. I have had some high level jobs in large businesses, and my father was the CFO of a Fortune 100 companies. My sister is an executive at AT&T. I grew up in corporate America. I don't know why you're giving me the biography on Friedman. I studied him in business courses. I base my posts on what I learned in the real world, and I'm a student of business and business models for many years. Batter, you're a Republican. There's no shame in telling the truth. Republican = Redneck = Idiot. There's just no way little old you could know anything about the big bad business world. Awish, I thought you were a Republican. Also I have a lot of friends that are Rednecks that aren't idiots or Republicans... Batter was asking me why I brought up Chile, so I sent her an article about Freidman, a Nobel Laureate (also a Republican, redneck and idiot, by all accounts ...). I am a Republican, though these days I consider myself less Republican and more conservative. I heard a commentary the other day that I thought was pretty interesting: The democrats of today are socialists and the Republicans of today are the Democrats of yesterday. I don't know that it is a completely accurate description, but the Republican party of this election, absent a few candidates, is certainly not the conservative party it should be and used to be. I was just teasing Batter. I was just teasing too, I wish. I think the country has become more conservative, and you think it's more liberal. It's interesting the different perspectives. Maybe we are talking different eras, I was born in the early 60's...
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