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tankdriver · #61 06-02-2009, 05:47 PM

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Originally Posted by dannym

Especially considering most of them do a job a monkey can be trained to do. It's not like their college educated.

Somebody missed the Case For Working With Your Hands thread.

aklim · #62 06-02-2009, 05:59 PM

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Originally Posted by tankdriver

Somebody missed the Case For Working With Your Hands thread.

That was about somebody who went with a different job that he liked. Unfortunately, I think most of the assembly line workers are there because they are unsuitable for any other job that will pay as well.

engatwork · #63 06-02-2009, 06:23 PM

I have a co-worker that purchased a Saturn SUV about a year and a half ago. He went to the dealer today for an oil change and he said all the cars and salesmen were gone. There were some guys there servicing the customers cars and they were able to change his oil though.

engatwork · #64 06-02-2009, 06:30 PM

China Hummer

It is going to be interesting to see how much China can put Hummers on the $treet for versus GM. I'm guessing they will ship production to mainland China and build em there for distribution throughout the world. Interesting that they own the company that builds our military vehicles now isn't it

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Let's have a quiet moment of silence for the late, great, America when Packards, Dusenburgs, Pierce-Arrow, Cadillacs and Lincolns ruled.

raymr · #65 06-02-2009, 07:40 PM

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Originally Posted by engatwork

China Hummer

It is going to be interesting to see how much China can put Hummers on the $treet for versus GM. I'm guessing they will ship production to mainland China and build em there for distribution throughout the world. Interesting that they own the company that builds our military vehicles now isn't it

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Let's have a quiet moment of silence for the late, great, America when Packards, Dusenburgs, Pierce-Arrow, Cadillacs and Lincolns ruled.

GM only has the consumer grade Hummers. The real HMMWVs are still made by AM General in the USA. The military would never let that go, for good reason.

engatwork · #66 06-02-2009, 07:59 PM

China already builds the "real Hummer"

dynalow · #67 06-02-2009, 08:03 PM

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Originally Posted by aklim

Unfortunately, I think most of the assembly line workers are there because they are unsuitable for any other job that will pay as well.

Or, said another way, are untrained for any other job that will pay better.

I remember going on a tour of the Harley Davidson Final Assembley plant in York PA back in the late 90's. There was a blonde gal lacing up wire wheels. Thought to myself on that hot August day in the plant without A/C, what a crummy job. Went back two years later and I ain't lying, same woman doing the same job. (I remembered the blonde hair

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Probably a pretty good paying job in So. Central PA. Pay and benefits at union scale. She was maybe mid 30's Probably making 20-25 an hour, say 40-50k a year. A high school grad (assuming she was) without trade skills ain't gonna do much better than that in most places.

Life's a *****. Then you die.