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Old 12-28-2009, 07:37 AM
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Dave what I have been saying for years, we run on the Jack System, as in "Screw you Jack, I've got mine".

I have commented on how our mortgage system was designed by thieves for thieves. Now I know there are many honest people in the business, but the system tempts people to cheat. Suppose I am a mortgage broker, my kid needs college tuition and I have this client who wants to buy an $750,000 home. I know his income won't meet the mortgage after the first year, but I get one point from the $700,000 mortgage and run no risk, so I refer him. The bank knows that it will securitize his mortgage along with others and sell it so they take their two points and sell the bundle. If this is not what Wall Street calls Moral Hazard they bloody well should have.

Sure there is greed in abundance out there but the system only encourages it, to the point where honest folk are thought to be fools.
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We could have insisted that the Big Three come up with better iron.
WAAAAY to hard for the big 3 to understand, they were arrogant.

Folks, we start a trade war and this recession will look like a quaint little problem.

Why can the Japs make money building cars here, but we can't? What is different?

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WAAAAY to hard for the big 3 to understand, they were arrogant.

Folks, we start a trade war and this recession will look like a quaint little problem.

Why can the Japs make money building cars here, but we can't? What is different?

Pete

The Japanese plants are largely, but not entirely, non-union.
This is a problem that can, and should be resolved.
I agree, Pete. The playing field needs to be levelled.
The Japanese managers have had it entirely too easy for entirely too long.

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Old 12-28-2009, 12:32 PM
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WAAAAY to hard for the big 3 to understand, they were arrogant.

Folks, we start a trade war and this recession will look like a quaint little problem.

Why can the Japs make money building cars here, but we can't? What is different?

Pete
So we should sit back and be raped?

Because the states where they located gave them big tax breaks and even paid them to locate where they are. They are non-union and pay scab wages. Their home governments subsidise them, part of Japanese trade policy, subsidise their manufacturers until they have eliminated the competition, then watch out.
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They pay well Rob, and around here anyway the state gives big money to the 'medium two' ( ) to stay put and expand.

It's the crazy bennies. Last contract, one concession was they gave up the day after Easter as a holiday.

I didn't know some folks got that day. I've never even heard of it.

I agree, Japan is no slouch and we should be very careful. I vote for full reciprocity regarding trade.

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They pay well Rob, and around here anyway the state gives big money to the 'medium two' ( ) to stay put and expand.
There are a lot of hidden percs the southern states like Alabama, South Carolina and Kentucky have given the foreign manufacturers for locating in their states, everything from giving them free tax-free land to building the highways that run past it.

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It's the crazy bennies. Last contract, one concession was they gave up the day after Easter as a holiday.
Well, they've cut their wages and benefits to the point where they can't getaway with more. All they have left is to nickel and dime the workers around the edges by taking away little things like paid days off.

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If you're talking about tariff and such it's kinda too late for the car companies. How do you put an import tariff on something built here by a foreign company?

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There are a lot of hidden percs the southern states like Alabama, South Carolina and Kentucky have given the foreign manufacturers for locating in their states, everything from giving them free tax-free land to building the highways that run past it.
Ohio does the same thing for both foriegn and domestics.

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Well, they've cut their wages and benefits to the point where they can't getaway with more. All they have left is to nickel and dime the workers around the edges by taking away little things like paid days off.
Do you have any idea what benefits we're talking about here? T'ain't 5 and 10.

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If you're talking about tariff and such it's kinda too late for the car companies. How do you put an import tariff on something built here by a foreign company?

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Use the exact same thing they do. Are we allowed to build cars there? Then guess what. Start taking apart every car that comes in from Japan and the big 2 will be booming again toot sweet

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Not only that they are assembled here, many of the parts are imported.
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Gosh we love to argue don't we?
Is that what this is?

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Ohio does the same thing for both foriegn and domestics.
I don't think that's true. When was the last time Detroit built a plant in Ohio or anywhere else? They've been closing them and/or selling them to foreign manufacturers. Of course, that would also mean no new roads to non-existent new domestic plants.

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Do you have any idea what benefits we're talking about here? T'ain't 5 and 10.
So, the UAW hasn't negotiated away any of their wages and benefits lately?

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Use the exact same thing they do. Are we allowed to build cars there? Then guess what. Start taking apart every car that comes in from Japan and the big 2 will be booming again toot sweet

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Again, they're all building cars here. How do you impose a tariff on them? Do you propose forcing them to shut down their US plants?

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Maybe we can get South Carolina to seceed.
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