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Pablo, I'll go and buy a banana and take its measurements just for you. I'll get back to you tomorrow with specific data.
Hershey's Hecho En Mexico
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(visions of Animal House where the young man approaches the dean's wife in the supermarket holding a cucumber stating, "Mine's bigger".)
Originally Posted By: Gary Allan
I really despise the notion that everything has to "get worse" to become sensible. It's really stupid to send scrap steel to China to have it processed and then sent back to the same place on the other side of the planet for use. It's the same for anything. Now if you've got unlimited energy, no problem. Let others slave away to give you stuff for slips of green paper
Is it remotely possible that the people in charge actually profit when things are shipped from further and further away, if their families in the Oil Business?
Do you remember the phrase "level playing field" that was bandied about a lot in the late 1980's? Tariffs have been leveled, but the playing field is not fair, since the competition isn't playing by the same rules.
I propose a solution:
Send inspectors to the source countries where all the cheap imports are being made. If the companies comply with USA/Canada style labor laws, environmental laws etc., THEN the goods are exempt from tariff. If the companies are destroying the future in order to compete unfairly against us, then slap a huge tariff on their product until they play by the same rules our companies are forced to follow.
That would make it a true level playing field.
I really despise the notion that everything has to "get worse" to become sensible. It's really stupid to send scrap steel to China to have it processed and then sent back to the same place on the other side of the planet for use. It's the same for anything. Now if you've got unlimited energy, no problem. Let others slave away to give you stuff for slips of green paper
Is it remotely possible that the people in charge actually profit when things are shipped from further and further away, if their families in the Oil Business?
Do you remember the phrase "level playing field" that was bandied about a lot in the late 1980's? Tariffs have been leveled, but the playing field is not fair, since the competition isn't playing by the same rules.
I propose a solution:
Send inspectors to the source countries where all the cheap imports are being made. If the companies comply with USA/Canada style labor laws, environmental laws etc., THEN the goods are exempt from tariff. If the companies are destroying the future in order to compete unfairly against us, then slap a huge tariff on their product until they play by the same rules our companies are forced to follow.
That would make it a true level playing field.
Originally Posted By: Pablo
If I have a bunch of bananas and someone says one is 29 cents, and they are .39$/pound, how big is my bunch?
Is this new math? :no-no:
If I have a bunch of bananas and someone says one is 29 cents, and they are .39$/pound, how big is my bunch?
Is this new math? :no-no:
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Originally Posted By: oilyriser
Originally Posted By: Gary Allan
I really despise the notion that everything has to "get worse" to become sensible. It's really stupid to send scrap steel to China to have it processed and then sent back to the same place on the other side of the planet for use. It's the same for anything. Now if you've got unlimited energy, no problem. Let others slave away to give you stuff for slips of green paper
Is it remotely possible that the people in charge actually profit when things are shipped from further and further away, if their families in the Oil Business?
Do you remember the phrase "level playing field" that was bandied about a lot in the late 1980's? Tariffs have been leveled, but the playing field is not fair, since the competition isn't playing by the same rules.
I propose a solution:
Send inspectors to the source countries where all the cheap imports are being made. If the companies comply with USA/Canada style labor laws, environmental laws etc., THEN the goods are exempt from tariff. If the companies are destroying the future in order to compete unfairly against us, then slap a huge tariff on their product until they play by the same rules our companies are forced to follow.
That would make it a true level playing field.
Well, then you're up against "just how do you allow others to advance to "right" without capitalist support?". That is, it does little to embargo a nation other than punishing the population. The leadership will remain intact and in power. There's more to it, on the P level, but otherwise you can't just miraculously bring someone out of the virtual stone age to "clean" over night. Now I would just as soon leave them in the stone age and leave me where I'm at. Let them find their own prosperity ...but seeing as we appear to have all of it ..or at least control all of it, we're the one's that are elected/volunteered to share some of it. Now the sharing part seems to fall along some economic divides ..but we really don't need to go there....
Originally Posted By: Gary Allan
I really despise the notion that everything has to "get worse" to become sensible. It's really stupid to send scrap steel to China to have it processed and then sent back to the same place on the other side of the planet for use. It's the same for anything. Now if you've got unlimited energy, no problem. Let others slave away to give you stuff for slips of green paper
Is it remotely possible that the people in charge actually profit when things are shipped from further and further away, if their families in the Oil Business?
Do you remember the phrase "level playing field" that was bandied about a lot in the late 1980's? Tariffs have been leveled, but the playing field is not fair, since the competition isn't playing by the same rules.
I propose a solution:
Send inspectors to the source countries where all the cheap imports are being made. If the companies comply with USA/Canada style labor laws, environmental laws etc., THEN the goods are exempt from tariff. If the companies are destroying the future in order to compete unfairly against us, then slap a huge tariff on their product until they play by the same rules our companies are forced to follow.
That would make it a true level playing field.
Well, then you're up against "just how do you allow others to advance to "right" without capitalist support?". That is, it does little to embargo a nation other than punishing the population. The leadership will remain intact and in power. There's more to it, on the P level, but otherwise you can't just miraculously bring someone out of the virtual stone age to "clean" over night. Now I would just as soon leave them in the stone age and leave me where I'm at. Let them find their own prosperity ...but seeing as we appear to have all of it ..or at least control all of it, we're the one's that are elected/volunteered to share some of it. Now the sharing part seems to fall along some economic divides ..but we really don't need to go there....
They can copy what we have done, without having to repeat our past mistakes with pollution, nuclear contamination etc.
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But they can't afford it - yet. They can't afford scrubbers or whatnot ...waste treatment facilities ..at least on the scale that they are needed ..blablablabla.
Work hard my good little mice. Momma loves you.
Work hard my good little mice. Momma loves you.
We can't afford not to make them clean up, since we depend on them being healthy, hard workers. It can be done one company/product at a time. When they see the benefits - less money spent retraining new employees, from lower turnover, and higher local real estate values because its not polluted to death, they will want to buy our anti-pollution technology.
Re: Hershey's Hecho En Mexico
Back a little closer to topic, with candies made in Mexico, I can't help but wonder if good old cheap Cuban sugar ever finds it way in there also.
Bob
Back a little closer to topic, with candies made in Mexico, I can't help but wonder if good old cheap Cuban sugar ever finds it way in there also.
Bob
Bought organic Cavendish bananas today for $4.49 a kilo which is cheap. Taste so different than non organic which are basically tasteless.
Originally Posted By: Oldmoparguy1
We pay $.39-$.59/pound here. Lower prices at Aldis, higher at Food Lion & Sams Club.
oh...and here I was thinking that something I consider to be very cheap might, in fact, have been cheaper than there.
We pay $.39-$.59/pound here. Lower prices at Aldis, higher at Food Lion & Sams Club.
oh...and here I was thinking that something I consider to be very cheap might, in fact, have been cheaper than there.
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Originally Posted By: alreadygone
Re: Hershey's Hecho En Mexico
Back a little closer to topic, with candies made in Mexico, I can't help but wonder if good old cheap Cuban sugar ever finds it way in there also.
Bob
The free enterprise system at work. Products find their way to the market. We shall subvert their Communist agenda from the inside out. While they think they're "sticking it to the man" ...we're laughing since they still have to operate in "the man's home court". Soon, they'll be buying movies and rock & roll/hiphop and pornography. Telemundo and Univision are our secret CIA program to undermine the Castro regime.
Ha-HA ..eat that you pinko scum!!
Re: Hershey's Hecho En Mexico
Back a little closer to topic, with candies made in Mexico, I can't help but wonder if good old cheap Cuban sugar ever finds it way in there also.
Bob
The free enterprise system at work. Products find their way to the market. We shall subvert their Communist agenda from the inside out. While they think they're "sticking it to the man" ...we're laughing since they still have to operate in "the man's home court". Soon, they'll be buying movies and rock & roll/hiphop and pornography. Telemundo and Univision are our secret CIA program to undermine the Castro regime.
Ha-HA ..eat that you pinko scum!!
I live near Hershey. The company got tired of the Union striking and demanding what they felt were too high demands in salary and benefits. I think they had a good point. Can't blame them. I'll continue to buy Hershey candy.
90% of the stuff we buy is made elsewhere. Their corporate offices are here and they still employ a lot of people in their related enterprises.
90% of the stuff we buy is made elsewhere. Their corporate offices are here and they still employ a lot of people in their related enterprises.
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Well, Al, Reese's was non-union. I imagine that they're going south of the border too.
Originally Posted By: moribundman
Pablo, I'll go and buy a banana and take its measurements just for you. I'll get back to you tomorrow with specific data.
It's bound to be a slippery slope when you start measuring bananas....
Pablo, I'll go and buy a banana and take its measurements just for you. I'll get back to you tomorrow with specific data.
It's bound to be a slippery slope when you start measuring bananas....
Originally Posted By: Al
I live near Hershey. The company got tired of the Union striking and demanding what they felt were too high demands in salary and benefits. I think they had a good point. Can't blame them. I'll continue to buy Hershey candy.
90% of the stuff we buy is made elsewhere. Their corporate offices are here and they still employ a lot of people in their related enterprises.
just goes to show that the only ones that Americans have to blame is AMERICANS. I'm sure a lot of those complaining union hershey workers shop at wal mart. well, you can't have it both ways (high wages/cheap goods). Americans have been raised to believe the 'american dream' is their [censored]-ordained right- well, it isn't. I'm sick of it all. but as long as people shop at wal mart and American executives and stockholders are getting rich from outsourcing, it's not going to stop. I know that I can't change things, but I can at least feel good about the products I buy. I check the label on EVERYTHING I purchase, and will only go china inc. when there is no other choice. and I definitely will NOT be allowing my kids to consume any FOOD made there.
I hope hershey's execs burn BAD over this decision. and I hope people have the sense to stop going to the amusement park as well. I'm like an hour and a half from there, but there is NO WAY I'm giving them my money.
I live near Hershey. The company got tired of the Union striking and demanding what they felt were too high demands in salary and benefits. I think they had a good point. Can't blame them. I'll continue to buy Hershey candy.
90% of the stuff we buy is made elsewhere. Their corporate offices are here and they still employ a lot of people in their related enterprises.
just goes to show that the only ones that Americans have to blame is AMERICANS. I'm sure a lot of those complaining union hershey workers shop at wal mart. well, you can't have it both ways (high wages/cheap goods). Americans have been raised to believe the 'american dream' is their [censored]-ordained right- well, it isn't. I'm sick of it all. but as long as people shop at wal mart and American executives and stockholders are getting rich from outsourcing, it's not going to stop. I know that I can't change things, but I can at least feel good about the products I buy. I check the label on EVERYTHING I purchase, and will only go china inc. when there is no other choice. and I definitely will NOT be allowing my kids to consume any FOOD made there.
I hope hershey's execs burn BAD over this decision. and I hope people have the sense to stop going to the amusement park as well. I'm like an hour and a half from there, but there is NO WAY I'm giving them my money.
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Originally Posted By: Pablo
If I have a bunch of bananas and someone says one is 29 cents, and they are .39$/pound, how big is my bunch?
I went to Trader Joe's and the bananas were on sale today. I picked an average size specimen (Chiquita brand). The cost was 19 cents. I weighed the banana with its skin on my electronic kitchen scale. Its mass was 8-1/2 ounces (242 g) and its total length (measured along the outside curve) was 11-1/4 inches (29.21 cm).
Enough info?
If I have a bunch of bananas and someone says one is 29 cents, and they are .39$/pound, how big is my bunch?
I went to Trader Joe's and the bananas were on sale today. I picked an average size specimen (Chiquita brand). The cost was 19 cents. I weighed the banana with its skin on my electronic kitchen scale. Its mass was 8-1/2 ounces (242 g) and its total length (measured along the outside curve) was 11-1/4 inches (29.21 cm).
Enough info?
No comment.
Originally Posted By: moribundman
The Oakdale, CA plant has closed. Production has been moved to Mexico. In other news, iris scans and palm printing all Americans will keep the USA safe. Think about that when you eat your Pot of Gold. Has everybody gone mad?
Will it be fortified with the recommended daily allowance of lead?
The Oakdale, CA plant has closed. Production has been moved to Mexico. In other news, iris scans and palm printing all Americans will keep the USA safe. Think about that when you eat your Pot of Gold. Has everybody gone mad?
Will it be fortified with the recommended daily allowance of lead?
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