tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290855.post115228210345438681..comments2023-10-28T06:01:32.088-04:00Comments on The Southern Dem: Pillowtex: Adding Insult to InjuryB. Musehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13022009819093617007noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290855.post-1152635567236512512006-07-11T12:32:00.000-04:002006-07-11T12:32:00.000-04:00It is actually painful to read your comment and tr...It is actually painful to read your comment and try to translate it into English. However, I will try. <BR/><BR/>It isn't a recycled argument. Explain, if you can, why it is OK for the U.S. to borrow billions a day from China. Then explain what free market forces will save us if they "call the note" so to speak.<BR/><BR/>You can't. I know you can't because the Republicans haven't put out thoseB. Musehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13022009819093617007noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290855.post-1152627174007599242006-07-11T10:12:00.000-04:002006-07-11T10:12:00.000-04:00Nice recycled argument with China owns everything ...Nice recycled argument with China owns everything …… I remember that from the Japans owns everything days (ie Japan buys the sears tower in early eights) its a typical sky is falling tactic. <BR/><BR/>No, there was no plan. Were not socialist – Face it the free market closed the mills. You can blame CAFTA, the senate, and Mr. Rodgers for that matter but the Free Market still is the major stock Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290855.post-1152578790425016572006-07-10T20:46:00.000-04:002006-07-10T20:46:00.000-04:00I guess if you want to climb over the backs of oth...I guess if you want to climb over the backs of others...that's up to you. So taking the jobs of 4000 people was part of the overall plan? What's the plan for retraining these folks for the biotech industry? Ahh...I didn't think you'd figured that part out yet. I guess you realize that few of the jobs will be filled by people who actually live in Kannapolis now. Well...beyond custodial and B. Musehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13022009819093617007noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290855.post-1152542485032670192006-07-10T10:41:00.000-04:002006-07-10T10:41:00.000-04:00Democrats = low paying jobs today Republicans = Fu...Democrats = low paying jobs today <BR/>Republicans = Future careers for the next generation<BR/><BR/>It is nice that you want to keep Kannapolis a dirty mill town. It sucks that those people lost their jobs, today is bad but the future looks good. Kannapolis has the potential to be one of the shining stars in the state. The bio-tech project has the potential to improve the school systems, create Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290855.post-1152528092740627622006-07-10T06:41:00.000-04:002006-07-10T06:41:00.000-04:00Republicans = biotech campus?'friad so. The local...<I>Republicans = biotech campus?</I><BR/><BR/>'friad so. The local delegation, mainly State Sen. Fletcher Hartsell, were instrumental in working with Murdock to getting the biotech campus here. Darrell Hinnant, a Republican City Councilman, has been in the middle of the implementation.<BR/><BR/>You'll be hard pressed to find a liberal Democrat in the middle of all of that. They are to busy Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290855.post-1152448674278143442006-07-09T08:37:00.000-04:002006-07-09T08:37:00.000-04:00Republicans = biotech campus?Do you mean the same ...Republicans = biotech campus?<BR/><BR/>Do you mean the same Republicans who are against stem-cell research? <BR/>The same Republicans who tried to scuttle the Research Triangle Park when it was first conceived? <BR/>The same Republicans who say the science on global warming is a liberal plot? <BR/>The same Republicans who want to promote creationism in schools? <BR/>The same Republicans who Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290855.post-1152447251392698072006-07-09T08:14:00.000-04:002006-07-09T08:14:00.000-04:00Union involvement. Preceeded the fall of Pillowtex...Union involvement. Preceeded the fall of Pillowtex. Must have caused it, somehow. Got it.<BR/><BR/>Brushed my teeth. The morning that I got that speeding ticket. Must have caused it, somehow.<BR/><BR/>The unions in NC have long since been broken. They don't have the clout around here to ruin a birthday party.Lance McCordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09939530444163698760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290855.post-1152419674978002672006-07-09T00:34:00.000-04:002006-07-09T00:34:00.000-04:00Justin, Wow...neo-Bolshevik? Gee, and all this ...Justin, Wow...neo-Bolshevik? Gee, and all this time I thought I was just speaking the truth. <BR/><BR/>I'm happy for your parents. I do hope their luck continues and I'm sure it's combined with a great deal of skill. <BR/><BR/>I never said that Pillowtex management didn't carry some blame, now did I? Actually, I said there were many reasons why the company had to close its doors. I see B. Musehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13022009819093617007noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290855.post-1152417998522682262006-07-09T00:06:00.000-04:002006-07-09T00:06:00.000-04:00I'd like a job at NASA, but I've worked a manuel l...I'd like a job at NASA, but I've worked a manuel labor job for over a decade and only have a high school education. Am I qualified?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290855.post-1152389723983394072006-07-08T16:15:00.000-04:002006-07-08T16:15:00.000-04:00Sorry about little J. We ran out of Ridlin this mo...Sorry about little J. We ran out of Ridlin this morning in the Thibault household.<BR/><BR/>The Bio-Tech campus is going to be GREAT though! I hear they're specifically hiring laid off mill workers to be the research scientists.<BR/><BR/>Ha. Ha.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290855.post-1152364824065550122006-07-08T09:20:00.000-04:002006-07-08T09:20:00.000-04:00Oh and to put things a little more simply for you....Oh and to put things a little more simply for you.<BR/><BR/>Democrats = Mills<BR/>Republicans = Bio-Tech Campus<BR/><BR/>Where would you rather work?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290855.post-1152364768052816772006-07-08T09:19:00.000-04:002006-07-08T09:19:00.000-04:00My parents run a small manufacturing firm in Kanna...My parents run a small manufacturing firm in Kannapolis - so, let's cut through the neo-Bolshevik rhetoric with a few facts.<BR/><BR/>I suggest you go back into the Charlotte Observer archives and you'll find that the Pillowtex management had much more to do with it's demise than Free Trade did. <BR/><BR/>Also, union intervention preceded the fall of Pillowtex; but the UNITE people set world Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290855.post-1152331769282302362006-07-08T00:09:00.000-04:002006-07-08T00:09:00.000-04:00I couldn't agree with you more. I won't back down...I couldn't agree with you more. I won't back down. Our futures are far too important to leave in the hands of Republicans. They've failed at every turn.<BR/><BR/>Thank you for your comment.B. Musehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13022009819093617007noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290855.post-1152325665498695562006-07-07T22:27:00.000-04:002006-07-07T22:27:00.000-04:00Southern Dem:Punch them in the mouth with the trut...Southern Dem:<BR/><BR/>Punch them in the mouth with the truth. This is a failed administration, most of all to the citizens of North Carolina. This criminal cabal has sacrificed our rights and at the same time made us less safe and the scorn of the world..<BR/><BR/>Unilateralist foreign policy: Not so much.<BR/><BR/>Elect Democrats now.<BR/><BR/>Kissell in the 8th-the change starts now!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com