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Re: Ferguson Tractor Works - Detroit MI
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Posted by noncompos on July 21, 2006 at 19:06:31 from (65.102.43.41):
In Reply to: Ferguson Tractor Works - Detroit MI posted by Turke Bros. Farms on July 21, 2006 at 14:58:33:
"...seems to me we used to have a lot of jobs in Michigan years ago, and now very few..."...uhhhh, yeah...look, with all due respect, you gotta get out of those turkey barns more, turn on the radio news, watch some TV news, maybe even (gasp!) read a newspaper...there"s been things going on, like "cheaper labor overseas" "no labor laws, no pollution controls, no safety laws overseas". CEO"s"ve been telling their boards: Hey, we make money here, but if we send the work overseas and still sell at US prices, we"cn make a ton of money, and by the time there"s no one left in the US making enough money to buy the stuff, we"ll all be so rich it won"t matter". Stuff like that. How"s the market for turkeys coming along? Any coming in from Malaysia or Bangladesh yet?? (All meant in a spirit of fun, except it really isn"t funny).
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