US and IRAN...reach NUKE deal !

[777 fixer]

 
GM's problems, just like UAir, came from negotiating contracts when the cash was rolling in and money wasn't much of a concern.

 
Why is it other companies in the same industries had similar contract, or even better, seemed to do just fine when the crash happened?
 
 

Those companies you cite didn't have work rules anywhere near what GM did.
You just proved my point.
 

 
Yeah you're right.  They were even better.  In Germany after a month of employment a worker is granted the minimum vacation time allowed by law.  This does not include the abundant holidays in Germany After six months you get the maximum.  Which is four weeks of vacation.  Tell me under which GM contract was a UAW worker granted a month off after six months.  Plus in Germany it's very difficult to layoff employees.  Not so in the US as both you and I know.
 

 
Mismanagement at GM and UAir were SOP.

 
Well duh.

 

[777 fixer]

 
If Clinton hadn't made it US policy of removing Saddam Hussien, we never would have been there.y
 
 

 
That's a lie.  Liar, liar pants on fire!

 

[delldude]

You are confusing benefits with work rules.
 

 
Union work rules made it cumbersome to complete simple and vital tasks in a timely manner. For example, Rand Simberg—a former GM employee who is now at the Competitive Enterprise Institute—explained that, while overseeing the flow of components at a GM factory, he was not permitted to flip a circuit breaker if it tripped in one of the assembly robots. Instead, he had to wait for an authorized electrician to flip the switch. Of course, assembly lines could shut down while waiting for the electrician to arrive, costing the plant thousands of dollars per minute.
 
Even former UAW president Leonard Woodcock confided to a friend: “Our members have the best contract that people with their skills and education could ever hope to get. But we have convinced them that with every new contract, they are entitled to more.” GM’s management and the UAW were locked into a legally mandated, coercive relationship. And the union knew it.
Whatever one concludes about GM’s history with the UAW, the company made many arrangements that a large employer would want to avoid—not have to keep for decades—if labor relations were fully voluntary.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2013/05/20/what-explains-gms-problems-with-the-uaw/

 

[delldude]

 
That's a lie.  Liar, liar pants on fire!

 
The Iraq Liberation Act of 1998 conveyed the sense of Congress regarding U.S. policy toward Iraq. “It should be the policy of the United States to support efforts to remove the regime headed by Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq and to promote the emergence of a democratic government to replace that regime.” (Public Law 105-338, October 31, 1998) 

 

[777 fixer]

You are confusing benefits with work rules.
 

 
No I'm not.

 

[777 fixer]

 
The Iraq Liberation Act of 1998 conveyed the sense of Congress regarding U.S. policy toward Iraq. “It should be the policy of the United States to support efforts to remove the regime headed by Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq and to promote the emergence of a democratic government to replace that regime.” (Public Law 105-338, October 31, 1998) 

 
Moved on from defending GWB decision to invade Iraq to trying to blame other people for it I see.

 

[delldude]

 
Moved on from defending GWB decision to invade Iraq to trying to blame other people for it I see.

 
Truth hurt?
 
Find me a good war yet?

 

[777 fixer]

 
Truth hurt?
 
Find me a good war yet?

 
The truth that it was George Bush who signed the order to send in the troops and no one else?  No, why should that fact hurt?

 

[777 fixer]

You are confusing benefits with work rules.

 


You don't seem to understand whether its work rules or benefits it still costs the company money.

 

[SparrowHawk]

A policy of Non-Intervention does not equal isolationism or Neville Chamberlain.
 
Based upon a recent article a policy of non interventi along with Iran were setting up to trade oil in a currency other than the USD or Petrodollaron since Bush took office would result in a reduction of $4 TRILLION Dollars. That's a whole lot of SNAP benefits or college loans.
 
Honestly, would the Middle East be very different then it is now? Ask yourself who makes/made money on all these wars? You need to single space the list and use both sides of the paper.
 
Also keep in mind that Saddam Hussein and Colonel Gaddafi along with Iran were set to trade oil in currency other then the USD.
 
Time to play "Follow the Money"

 

[delldude]

 
The truth that it was George Bush who signed the order to send in the troops and no one else?  No, why should that fact hurt?

 
Why did he sign the order in the first place?

 

[777 fixer]

 
Why did he sign the order in the first place?

 
Because he viewed himself as a modern day Winston Churchill when in reality he was a modern day LBJ.

 

[delldude]

 
Because he viewed himself as a modern day Winston Churchill when in reality he was a modern day LBJ.

 
You have a link on that?

 

[700UW]

I remember exactly where I was, we were at the Chairman's Conference in CLT, (Grievance Committee Chairman's for 141, 141M and 142) and Bush was on the news and after Saddam said he would let the inspectors in, and Bush stated "How can we trust him, this is the man that tried to kill my Daddy"
 
From that interview, I knew he was going to invade Iraq.

 

[cltrat]

your feelings about Bush not withstanding doesn't change the fact the Iranians won't come close to keeping their end of this deal