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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 10:42 AM Original message |
"Going back to the midwest where people live in the past" |
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Broderick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 10:44 AM Response to Original message |
1. You're in a country that puts Bankers before people losing homes |
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RKP5637 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 10:49 AM Response to Reply #1 |
5. Yep, changing right into serfdom and conversion to the worlds' cheapest |
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Broderick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 10:54 AM Response to Reply #5 |
8. We have allowed our manufacturing base to leave |
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Brickbat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 10:59 AM Response to Reply #8 |
9. Wait, NB has stopped their US manufacturing? All of it? |
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Broderick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 11:01 AM Response to Reply #9 |
11. yep |
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Brickbat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 11:03 AM Response to Reply #11 |
12. When was this? I can't find a link. |
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Broderick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 11:11 AM Response to Reply #12 |
16. I am getting clarification from my wife because she brought home the shoes the other day |
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Brickbat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 11:20 AM Response to Reply #16 |
21. Thanks. Like I said, they are threatening it, but I'd be surprised if they've done it already. |
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Broderick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 11:21 AM Response to Reply #21 |
22. I probably jumped the gun from an off hand conversation |
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RKP5637 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 11:05 AM Response to Reply #8 |
14. It's amazing. That's why I get really torqued when politicians talk about |
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Broderick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 11:12 AM Response to Reply #14 |
17. Great post. |
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RKP5637 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 11:17 AM Response to Reply #17 |
20. Thanks! n/t |
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Ikonoklast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 11:51 AM Response to Reply #14 |
34. Manufacturing is becoming a dead-end street. |
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RKP5637 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 12:04 PM Response to Reply #34 |
36. Yep, and why we need to rethink how an economy works in the 21st century. There are, |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 11:26 AM Response to Reply #8 |
24. NB don't make their shoes in the US anymore? NOOOOOOO!!! |
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Broderick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 11:30 AM Response to Reply #24 |
25. Not all. I jumped the gun from a conversation with my wife |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 11:39 AM Response to Reply #25 |
30. You almost gave me a heart attack, LOL! |
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Brigid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 02:21 PM Response to Reply #5 |
39. OMG! |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 03:01 PM Response to Reply #39 |
43. They already have that plan in motion..n/t |
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RKP5637 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 03:26 PM Response to Reply #39 |
44. Yeah, I know, I thought of that sometime after I posted it. I'm surprised |
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madrchsod (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 10:46 AM Response to Original message |
2. well i guess time must run a lot slower ..... |
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BOG PERSON (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 10:48 AM Response to Original message |
3. I am a force of the past. |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 11:32 AM Response to Reply #3 |
26. I love history, and I love old stuff period. |
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leveymg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 10:49 AM Response to Original message |
4. Perhaps they can migrate next door to Mr. Challenger in East Hampton, Aspen or Park Avenue. |
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pipi_k (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 10:50 AM Response to Original message |
6. And is there something wrong |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 10:53 AM Response to Reply #6 |
7. Not to mention destroying the bison and the indigenous |
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TwilightGardener (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 11:03 AM Response to Reply #6 |
13. Midwest/plains are awesome. A great place to live. |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 11:11 AM Response to Reply #13 |
15. My husband is going to his 50Th class reunion in Fredonia, Kansas |
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pipi_k (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 11:37 AM Response to Reply #13 |
27. They probably are... |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 11:38 AM Response to Reply #13 |
28. I grew up in Tallgrass Prairie country in western Minnesota. |
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TwilightGardener (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 11:43 AM Response to Reply #28 |
32. It's a quiet and subtle beauty, but beautiful all the same. I went to Kansas |
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kctim (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 11:00 AM Response to Original message |
10. We don't want them. |
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RKP5637 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 11:14 AM Response to Reply #10 |
18. +1000 +++, n/t |
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Withywindle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 11:16 AM Response to Original message |
19. Wow. No wonder NASA is being starved. |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 11:23 AM Response to Original message |
23. Wow, I grew up in a town of 500 people in NW Minnesota. That is deeply offensive. |
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Frustratedlady (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 11:38 AM Response to Original message |
29. I am also offended by that remark. I hardly live in the past, but it might be a good idea. |
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sufrommich (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 11:40 AM Response to Original message |
31. Could someone from outside the midwest explain to us how |
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whathehell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 11:53 AM Response to Reply #31 |
35. Me either...I live in Chicago. That's the midwest...Gee, am I "living in the past" |
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WildEyedLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 02:33 PM Response to Reply #31 |
41. Me either |
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Little Star (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 11:49 AM Response to Original message |
33. Why is this a all or nothing proposition about so-called.. |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 02:10 PM Response to Original message |
37. I hope he takes his own advice |
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closeupready (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 02:13 PM Response to Original message |
38. Well, as a born and raised Midwesterner, I agree with him |
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hfojvt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 02:26 PM Response to Original message |
40. it depends if it has really lost value, or not |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 02:43 PM Response to Reply #40 |
42. We turned down a "promotion" to San Mateo CA |
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