Exxon Mobil reports:

I went to WalMart to buy a bicycle and the only ones they had were
Chinese.

Is this what you call a "Catch-22" situation?

 

=you probably wore your india/china/korea made attire, and drove a
metric vehicle, to wally world in the first place........... so?.hehe
I doubt we could get along more than a week, if it werent for them
china making/sewing little people..................? MrJayT=

 

Try Target. I think their shit is french. Not that that is any better.

 

A metric vehicle? You mean his Chinese Harley?

I'm sure I could make it a week without the little chinese people.
Surely Mexicans could do just as good a job.

 

I drive a Chevy pick-up and I ride a Harley-Davidson Street Glide, so
I guess I'm doing what little I can for the U.S. economy. I wear
Levi's, made of cotton from the U.S. assembled in Mexico, but I read
that Levi Strauss & Co no longer make any jeans in the U.S. at all. I
wear an Aerostich suit made in the U.S., and think it's the finest all
around motorcycle garment ever made.

But you make a good point. So many of our products are imported that
it is almost impossible to buy only U.S. made products.

People who complain about U.S. corporations shipping "U.S. jobs"
overseas are happy to buy products that are cheaper BECAUSE they were
built by inexpensive overseas labor. It is easy to blame a company
for shipping jobs overseas, but when you read about U.S. companies
trying desperately to source machine tools and shop supplies and raw
materials from U.S. suppliers, and being unable to because every year
more of them succumb to cheaper foreign competition, it gives the
phrase "race to the bottom" a whole different tone, don't it?

I'll tell you, I work with Americans who make their living providing
for American defense, who will not even DISCUSS buying an American
car. They will ONLY look at Toyotas and Hondas, claiming that ALL
American cars are junk, and NONE are worth looking at. This, despite
numerous magazine articles pointing out that (for a single instance)
the Chevy Malibu has not only "caught up" with the Japanese, it is
objectively (measurably) better, subjectively better (in feel and
feedback) AND it costs less. None of my coworkers will even accept a
photocopy of the road test reviews from Car & Driver, Road & Track, or
Automobile, or Motor Trend magazines that clearly make th epoint.

How is the American economy supposed to recover, let alone prosper, if
American consumers act like that?

 

Many true statements there.

--
Ed Hart
I am confused.When I die,should I go to
Heaven for the climate,or Hell for the
company?

I drive a Chevy pick-up and I ride a Harley-Davidson Street Glide, so
I guess I'm doing what little I can for the U.S. economy. I wear
Levi's, made of cotton from the U.S. assembled in Mexico, but I read
that Levi Strauss & Co no longer make any jeans in the U.S. at all. I
wear an Aerostich suit made in the U.S., and think it's the finest all
around motorcycle garment ever made.

But you make a good point. So many of our products are imported that
it is almost impossible to buy only U.S. made products.

People who complain about U.S. corporations shipping "U.S. jobs"
overseas are happy to buy products that are cheaper BECAUSE they were
built by inexpensive overseas labor. It is easy to blame a company
for shipping jobs overseas, but when you read about U.S. companies
trying desperately to source machine tools and shop supplies and raw
materials from U.S. suppliers, and being unable to because every year
more of them succumb to cheaper foreign competition, it gives the
phrase "race to the bottom" a whole different tone, don't it?

I'll tell you, I work with Americans who make their living providing
for American defense, who will not even DISCUSS buying an American
car. They will ONLY look at Toyotas and Hondas, claiming that ALL
American cars are junk, and NONE are worth looking at. This, despite
numerous magazine articles pointing out that (for a single instance)
the Chevy Malibu has not only "caught up" with the Japanese, it is
objectively (measurably) better, subjectively better (in feel and
feedback) AND it costs less. None of my coworkers will even accept a
photocopy of the road test reviews from Car & Driver, Road & Track, or
Automobile, or Motor Trend magazines that clearly make th epoint.

How is the American economy supposed to recover, let alone prosper, if
American consumers act like that?

 

They already built the railroads! wth do you want from Chinese?

 

I s'pose I figgered you'd seen my dec'lair'8'shun on reeky, knowin (as
I due) that you lurk over there, readin' the goins on.

I'll move to Canada or Australia or New Zealand if Hill'ry is
elected. Obama? I think it'd be inneresting.

 

=====The Me'eh'cans might, but they dont stay in Me'eh'co, long enuff.
Atleast the chinese/indonesians stay in their on country, and make our
clothes....hehe I was slightly implying that ol'Tim probably drives a
metric auto'mobile. 'Coarse, he might have one of them Chinese
Harleys, I've been hearing about...heheh MrJayT=

 

Heh, you sly ol' dawg, you, JaytEE. I weren't know'n yewer implyin'
nothin of the soart. I love my Chebby pickemup truck and its the
onliest 4-wheeled daggone vehickle I owned. Shoot. I rectum you owin
on more imported vehickles thin me, ol buddy mine. I bin thinkin hard
on tradin that lil ol pickup o mine in on a grate big 3/4 tun deisal
new one, what with deisal $$$ so high noah one is bine them and theys
damn cheap, leastways round hear.

 

Dear Sirs: I have been reading your comments regarding the price of
gasoline, my candidacy, my opponent, and how you think things may change
when I take office.
While I really enjoy your comments, I feel that most of you are full of shit
on all these topics, especially as it applys to common sense and
constitutional law. Of course that should be evident by your dumb ass
language and your general lack of education, and, correct me if I am wrong,
some of you actually ride motorcycles made in places like China, Japan and
Bavaria. Well, anyway, I am here to set you straight on these matters, so
tell your pregnant wife to get you another flavored beer and read the
following comments, without moving your mouths:

Harley-Davidson is a motorcycle. So is Indian and Victory and Big Dog. Buy
one of these and stop apologizing.

Gas costs a lot for two reasons. This is a capitalist society, so making
money on the backs of the working class is legal and desired. Americans are
too chickenshit to protest or act to change anything with US government
backing. Think boys, I wouldn't even be on the ballot if the people of this
great country had the balls to stand up for hard working people making the
dough and setting the rules. The leaders of America are gradually being
brought down to the level of the free food, free housing, free medical care,
without the need to work, population, while being told not to say ugly words
or offend any of our illegal or unemployable freeloader neighbors. This is
the basis of my candidacy, and brain children, this is why I will win. How
does $6 gas sound to you professors?

Lighten up on Bush. I had dinner with him and the Clintons just last night.
We all agreed not to change a damn thing, as long as we remain powerful.
Powerful. Do you get it boys? We want to remain powerful. I know, I know,
many of your fathers bought into the elect the right people and prosper
program of the last few centuries, but that is past. Now we have a system of
serfs feed the government and then we tax for whatever other stuff we may
need like military, roads, fighting global warming(l fucking ol), or taking
care of the cyclone victims in Burma. Where is Burma? Have we payed them
back for all the help they sent us at 9-11 or Katrina? Feel the lights
coming on Einsteins?

Oh yeah and Reverend Wright. Boy talk about screwing the pooch. I thought
we outlawed racism in whites years ago. We should at least have the good
manners not to rub their nose, everyone of their mf noses, in it publically
on national tv. Even you band of pedagogues ought to agree with Sean
Hannity on this one. Seems like some of you like being told that your
rights are shit and being eroded everyday, and you can't stop it because you
are weak and lazy.

Finally, vote for McCain. Me, I'm a front man for America needs
a...............as it's national leader so that people will say we really
are ass kissing, Viet Nam beaten, Democrat worshipping, gotta fix the
environment, give up your wives and daughters, car buyers(you fill in the
blanks ie: woman president, minority president, illegal alien president,
homosexual president, Moslem, oh you get the picture). Senator Clinton would
be a better choice than me, she actually really is a government pawn who is
qualified to carry on the rhetoric and double-talk of American politics. Me,
I'm the product of affirmative action and that is just about all that I am.
Vote for McCain. He really does want to smoke the shit out of the guys in
charge in Iraq, Iran, and any other I's which hate America and hate
Judeo-Christian faith.

One more thing. Buell. Don't you just feel like it all started sliding when
the motor company told us that Buell really is a Harley-Davidson? Buell is
just another well made, appropriately priced, good value, dependable and fun
motorcycle. It is just another Honda, Ducati, Kawa, Beamer, Yamaha, and
others which cost less, run forever, and leave the mo co wondering how to
get out of this one.

Anyway, that's the truth, and I'm glad you listened. Now back to CSI,
reality shows, and sports. Sports. You know, I never played sports. Of
course I didn't. What a cliche!

Barack Obama


PS: just kidding guys. Really. Take it easy. I'm just a lurker here. Like
we used to say in the war, "it don't mean nothin. There ain't no cowards
over here".

 

Senator Baroma, you need to get your N-word ass out there and try to
beat Hilliary at her own game, and stay the hail' off these types of
bull shit threads...

 

If you check with Wall Street, you'll find where the fault lies.
And I don't mean the _San Andreas_ either.
Someone hollers "there's a shortage" and the price jumps up.

 

(Rogue Rider)
Houston.. ExxonMobil Corp, the worlds largest oil company reports that
the record making crude oil prices helped its first-quarter profit to
escalate to 17%.

And I don't mean the _San Andreas_ either. Someone hollers "there's a
shortage" and the price jumps up.'' Rogue Rider-

======That is right, and that is business.
However, the oil companies are the only businesses who are really doing
well during our nations recession, at the expense of folks who are
struggling, to survive. MrJayT=

 

And guess who's some of the top leaders in our Country who are benefiting?

 

I am ashamed to say that I alone am the number one consumer of oil in Plano.
Too many cars and motors and I counted 24 partially filled gas cans in my
garage, some dating back to the rationing of gas in the seventies. I am well
prepared for the Molotovs, but I fear spontaneous combustion more than a
third marriage. Personally, Dick Cheney owes me a hand shake or at least a
reach around.