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Also in price and size the CTS is closer to the 3Series. I think sales figures back up that the CTS is not that loved.
Dang, you must be a "highlander". "There can only be one". I guess that takes the phrase "you can run but not hide" to a whole different level;) LOL.
Just kidding. I can't hit jack with a pistol from 50 yards. I don't shoot much though, while my opinion means nothing in regards to firearms, I'd say head shots from 50 yards is impressive.
I really don't know much about the H-1 Visa's but for a while my wife was hiring pharmacists through H-1s (about 3 years ago when there was a severe pharmacist shortage) and I know they paid them the same as any other pharmacist. She stopped hiring via the H-1's because according to her the paperwork was a nightmare and it wasn't worth it. In the end it was costing her more money and time to go the H-1 route. Plus with state education and licensing requirements it mas a major PITA.
I yes have complained about the job market here in Michigan. I have good reason to be sad about it. It was only a dozen years ago this state was booming and expanding. I think if we could ever elect someone that wasn't a globalist this country could be saved. If the Big 3 go under just remember you heard it from me that this country will be doomed. Hospitals, will go belly up because there will be millions of uninsured people using them and those doctors and nurses will flood to the south and the wage you might make today well won't be what you make tomorrow. Everyones standard of living will go down. Will you be able to make your mortgage and car payments if you lose 25-50% of your income??? The competition for each job in the south will be very stiff. Think I'm kidding??? Just say I told you so!!!!
-Rocky
Rocky, define skilled labor. Is something that you can be trained to do in an hour skilled labor? Or is something you study and work as an apprentice to learn skilled labor?
It can be both scenario's. My dad learned how to operate screw machines on the job. Sure it required a certain degree of mechanical aptitude. He was considered skilled labor as was his job as a job setter which he also learned on the job. Not some floorsweeper off the street could come in and do either of those jobs like you like claim.
Immigration creates crime and thus more tax dollars will be needed for police and corrections officers also. All they are is criminals and when they breed they have more criminals. 35% of our prision population is made up of illegal aliens. I guess I'm not suprised you are pro-amnesty also!!!! :confuse: :sick:
-Rocky
I'd add illegal immigration creates crime. I know several people who've immigrated to the US and are law abiding productive citizens. No, I'm not for amnesty. I'm also very pissed that my state (IL) is one of several which allows illegals to attend our state universities at in-state subsidized tuition rates.
-Rocky
P.S. Why didn't you put your education to good use at home???
The CTS has the highest KBB book value. Can someone else since I offer this guy no credibility confirm that Cadillac, had the highest KBB resale value. They advertise it on there commercials as a bragging point!!!
-Rocky
I guess that means we'll all soon be migrating to China, India, and other points east?
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All I can say is that if you cannot make (or find) friends in 5 years of living at a place, there is something inherently wrong with you.
>I refuse to give up living here or near home for a better job only to be miserable and lonely. I am not willing to leave the midwest ever again.
Your choice. You are welcome to do that. But don't cry that you don't have a job. I don't even want to know if you have one or not anymore. You do not have my sympathies, and you will never hear from me that "Hang on Rocky". That is unless you make a common sense effort to get a job, and that includes moving to other regions of this country. Maybe even overseas.
Exactly!!! :sick:
My mom said today that if my step-dad loses his Millwright job at Delphi, that they might be moving to Mexico, because that is where some of our jobs are at.
-Rocky
And why not? Millions migrated to the USA because there were jobs here.
Like I said earlier, maybe it is time to export labor, not import.
You didn't offend me per say. I just can't stand broadcasting urban legends as gospel revelations - and you can put your 25-50% of pay in that department.
I don't care what Lou Dobbs says. I care what I see and receive and it was a full pay and benefits. The lawyers were also cristal clear about that when drawing the visa papers. Believe what you want if it makes you feel better, but I know the truth because I experienced it.
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The CTS has the highest KBB book value. Can someone else since I offer this guy no credibility confirm that Cadillac, had the highest KBB resale value. They advertise it on there commercials as a bragging point!!!
I got your back Rock. While I've sat in the back of a CTS and it's far from what I'd consider roomy, the car is definitely bigger than a 3 series and probably very close to a 5 series.
cts: L= 191.6" w= 72.5 wb 113.4
3 : L= 178.2 w= 71.5 wb 108.7
I can't confirm the data, but I've seen a few reports that the CTS had the highest resale value and it's definitely been included in CTS adds.
I'll second that. While I like Lou, some of his reporting has been suspect when it's been on a topic I have first hand experience with. Which makes me question how accurate any of his reporting is. That pretty much goes for any personality on TV. Most of them are clueless, making headlines for ratings.
I was getting 30% more than other US citizens working in the same department in a similar role.
That said, not every immigrant is as lucky. Quite a few get the bottom dollar too for the fear of bieng deported.
Had lots of friends many whom I still stay in contact with but it's not remotely close to the same as family. If you can't comprehend that well I'm sorry. Blood is thicker than water.
Your choice. You are welcome to do that. But don't cry that you don't have a job. I don't even want to know if you have one or not anymore. You do not have my sympathies, and you will never hear from me that "Hang on Rocky". That is unless you make a common sense effort to get a job, and that includes moving to other regions of this country. Maybe even overseas.
I don't want your sympathy and I never asked for it. I was using my personal examples as references to just how bad the economy is. Just because I don't want to move to Timbuktu, doesn't mean I don't have a right to complain about what is happening to not only my state but my country as well. We have lost something like 5 million jobs thus far and it looks like GM & Chrysler could be filing for bankruptcy meaning millions more could be out in the job market as well. :sick:
So I am not hear for any sympathy. I do appreciate the support I get from some in the "edmunds family" as iluv likes to call us.
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P.S. The UAW negotiated adoption assistance and many coworkers of my dad have adopted U.S. Children again doing a social good.
P.S.S. Will be on later. Got to go apply for a job!!!
Of couse I can comprehend that. But reality is that nobody moves away from family by choice. You are living in the metro age. Everybody moves around to earn his/her future. Before you know it, your family will also move away from that area in search of work. What then? I guess you will move with them. But where? Some could move to TN, others to CA, and some to TX. Where will you go then?
Hope he's in the same place as such dignitaries as Hitler, Stalin, Idi Amin, Saddam Hussein, Pol Pot, and Roger Smith.
Sometimes your logic escapes me. They were getting a full fat paycheck. The least they could do is pay their own tuition. Millions of students would love to go to college while receiving $30 per hour for not working. So you think sitting in a rubber room collecting the money is smarter than taking that golden opportunity to better yourself. I am finding it difficult to find any redeeming quality in the UAW mindset. It has corrupted your thinking and the whole state of Michigan. Good luck when the goose has been eaten.
What is a screw machine? Please don't tell me it is a giant screw driver?
And don't be so quick to blame crime on immigration:
An Op-Ed in The New York Times by Harvard University Professor in Sociology Robert J. Sampson says that immigration of Hispanics may in fact be associated with decreased crime.[104]A 1999 paper by John Hagan and Alberto Palloni estimated that the involvement in crime by Hispanic immigrants are less than that of other citizens.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Us_immigration#cite_note-104
They took our jerbs! And made better cars. Rocky, what did the average guy buying an Astro-van look like?
Wow. The collapse of the Soviet Union must have really bummed you out.
Also I think GM had to pull the resale value add with all the bankruptcy talk. No joke.
The Chevrolet Astro was exported to Japan, where the van enjoys a cult following. In 2005, to celebrate the last year of Astro production, Chevrolet of Japan offered a limited edition run of the final production models. The Astro's popularity in Japan comes even though it was only offered in left-hand drive.
A few posts back you said I was trying to have it both ways. Now you are claiming all was fine 12 years ago. A few posts back you claim Reagan sent all the jobs overseas. He left office over 20 years ago. So he must not have outsourced all the jobs. It is just part of the blame game you were taught from the crib. If things are not going good it is someone else's fault. That is sad.
Chevrolet Astro. While Chrysler, Toyota, and Honda were refining their minivans in the 1990s and coming up with innovations like hideaway seats and electric sliding doors, GM was offering an old, truck-based van gussied up with carpeting and cupholders. "It showed GM's repeated failure to market competitive products based on styling and packaging," says Tom Libby of J. D. Power & Associates. The Astro drove like a bread truck, and consumers noticed. It also earned the worst safety ratings in its class. Before long, GM was effectively out of the minivan segment. No biggie—those were just mainstream American families the automaker decided to ignore.
http://www.usnews.com/blogs/flowchart/2008/11/14/10-cars-that-sank-detroit.html?- - s_cid=related-links:TOP
They took our jerbs! Hopefully this will never happen again with the "new" GM.
Maybe the Astro failed as a soccermommymobile, but it is an excellent smaller work/delivery van as it's built on a much sturdier truck chassis as was the Ford Aerostar my Dad once owned.
Hard to give Ronnie credit for the artificial collapse of the bolshevist scourge.
Something that should be relegated to fleets and gov agencies. Not the family trip to the zoo.
I've always thought the UAW and other unions were the sheeple of the world; and arrogant ones at that. Why Sheeple?
1) Because they can't survive unless someone is employing them. They have no initiative or idea on how to make a living unless someone hires them.
2) They think that whether they work or not that they are entitled to a big piece of the pie.
3) Whether it be the government or the company they are making big-money from, they openly detest the leaders feeding them. i.e. Biting the hand that feeds them, and they would otherwise starve.
Rocky - get rid of the excuses; grow up and realize your ancestors left their family across the ocean at some point. If there are no jobs, or jobs you like, and you are talented, then create your own job. There's nothing stopping you from running some sort of business. You think you know a lot well then you should be able to create and run a business. You may have to work 70-80 hr/week for a few years, but people do it.
"Gave the Astro a "poor" rating in 1996 because of what by all appearances was a horrifying display of structural failure in the Institute's 40 mph (64 km/h) crash test into a fixed, offset barrier. The underbody of the test van buckled, pitching both front seats forward and shoving the crash dummy into the dashboard and steering wheel, leading the Institute to comment that "[t]he collapse of the occupant compartment left little survival space for the driver."
All GM had to do was pay attention and use their superior might to simply MAKE A SUPERIOR PRODUCT...they didn't, and the UAW was no help either...
Fast forward to today...you lament the fall of GM like it was an accident...only in the last few years have they made a car that was exemplary, like Malibu or CTS....where were those quality cars, and the rest of the GM line for the last 20 years???...no lemko, I do NOT want to hear about your damn Buicks, they are the ONLY good GM vehicles from that era, no one else seems to have one...:):):)...
The article quoted above mentions the crap that the Astro Van was...where was the updated engineering that could have made it a standout???...no, rocky, rather than GM make a better product, like a child you cry that the imports played unfair...making a technologically better product is unfair???...would you actually demand that the American consumer be stuck with an inferior Astro simply because UAW makes it???...the thought of quality never crosses your mind, just so some UAW floorsweeper has a job...
The imports did NOT steal one UAW job...the UAW gave them all away by making junk for more years than we can count...not ONCE do you mention the quality gap between Big 3 and Japanese cars, just that some UAW idiot MUST have a job, regardless of the junk he is making...don't I have the right to the best product out there???...please tell me why the UAW never struck for better quality in their own products...you have NO insight whatsoever, just your welfare mentality from being raised in a welfare UAW family...the rest of the USA has watched how better cars are made, and you just stick your head in the sand...this is pitiful...
You rail about conservative folks in the media, yet you think that Lou Dobbs does not have his own agenda???...so, we are fools for listening to Rush, but you have deep intelligence for listening to Lou Dobbs???...this, from the same guy who can't figure out that moving may be the best way to get a job, but still stays in the same area where there are no jobs and wonders why there is no work???...the same guy who states that additional education will only lead to a job at McD's, when poster after poster documents otherwise???...and THEN, you whine because GM would not have paid 100% tuition, which reveals more about your welfare mentality than anything else???...do you EVER take responsibilty for paying anything in your life???...does EVERYTHING have to be paid by someone else or else you called it a capitalistic ripoff???...do you ever think of taking responsibility for your own life other than whining about what you cannot get for free???
I do NOt experience glee at the fall of GM...but any fool can see that Ch 11 is the only reasonble option, because the behemoth can no longer pay its bills...
And you expect them to re-hire 250,000 UAW workers just so they have jobs, even tho there is no work for them to do...simply more welfare mentality form a brainwashed UAW family who, itself, was brainwashed into the fairy tale land of the UAW, thinking that anyone who can turn a screwdriver or close a door was worth $35/hour...
It is time to wake up...
It's because what we call "poor" here would be considered great life in 60-70 percent of the world (Africa, half of Asia, half of S. America). Most trully poor people in Africa would kill to be poor in US. In fact, calling our low-income "poor" is an insult to them.
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I caught some stooge wearing a Chevy Bowtie lapel pin while giving out the player and coach of the year award. Since when did Chevy become a charity? Oh wait, last October.
....thanks to the high costs of the UAW.