From: T Wake on 26 Nov 2006 08:17 "Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:4568EC73.70348815(a)hotmail.com... > > > krw wrote: > >> rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com says... >> > jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >> > >> > > Take a look at European nations that are blatant socialists. >> > >> > False premise commented on. >> > >> > > They have to import people to do the work. >> > >> > Like Mexicans in the 'socialist' USA you mean ? >> >> A little. The difference is that the Mexicans are here illegally >> rather than having been invited in because of a negative population >> rate. > > A large number of illegals work here too - estimated to be as many as 1 > million. > It's a current hot topic with us too. Most are 'overstayers' rather than > having > entered illegally in the first place though. > > >> It's about time for an open season on Mexican here. > > Some ppl here wouldn't mind something similar here too. Not wrt Mexicans > of > course ! The people that do tend to be less well educated or members of right wing extremist organisations.
From: T Wake on 26 Nov 2006 08:20 "Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:4568E8FE.3F04F589(a)hotmail.com... > > > T Wake wrote: > >> "Phineas T Puddleduck" <phineaspuddleduck(a)googlemail.com> wrote in >> message >> > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >> > >> >> > > Although one could argue that the coal mining industry in Wales >> >> > > was >> >> > > reaching the end of the line in the 70's and 80's, due to cheap EU >> >> > > imports of coal - what was more galling was the fact that there >> >> > > were >> >> > > no >> >> > > contingency plans set up by government. Her government simply shut >> >> > > up >> >> > > shop in Wales without any investment in replacement/alternatives. >> >> > >> >> > Good Lord! You mean the cradle to grave gravy train ended? >> >> >> >> Mining was hardly a gravy train. >> >> >> >> Graham >> > >> > Of course it was, those miners went down in fur-lined elevators to >> > recline in comfy settee's and watch daytime TV. >> > >> > Ignoring the fact that Welsh coal and steel built most of the British >> > Empire, of course. >> > >> > >> > >> > (quick rule of thumb - Unsettled is an idiot) >> >> A massive understatement. Unsettled registers 5.8 Porats on the idiocy >> scale. > > Borats surely ? Sorry it was a bit on an "In joke" about the posts Y.Porat makes in news://sci.physics. Basically he is illiterate and woefully uneducated and convinced that photons have mass. Any one who disagrees is called a "Nazi" (or more often than not a Nasi, Nsai or Nzai) and subjected to a tirade of (badly spelt) insults.
From: Phineas T Puddleduck on 26 Nov 2006 08:21 In article <456900D8.52B41491(a)hotmail.com>, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > Get over it. You've sat on your laurels for 16 years and > > have no one to blame now but the governments since then. > > Are you going to continue to balme Thatcher for hundreds > > of years? > > Once companies have gone to ( been forced to ) the wall it's near impossible > to > rebuild them. The skills disperse and are forgotten. Her legacy will indeed > be with > us for hundreds of years. Particularly with the fact that the children affected by watching their communities go to the wall grow up with a whole new set of social problems. Society in general can take hours to damage and generations to fix. -- Just \int_0^\infty du it! -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com
From: John Fields on 26 Nov 2006 08:21 On Sun, 26 Nov 2006 00:22:39 +0000, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > >Ken Smith wrote: > >> In article <456844BE.827AEA7B(a)hotmail.com>, >> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >> [....] >> >Heck, they even go to war so Bechtel and Halliburton can pick up uncontested >> >contracts. >> >> Ben Laden Costruction is a local company they could have used instead. > >Actually I think I may have been mistaken about the uncontested bit. > >I think some British companies did bid too, so it wasn't uncontested but since >they were British they weren't allowed to receive US 'reconstruction' funds. --- That doesn't make any sense, since I'm sure they knew the ground rules before they bid, so why would they waste money putting a bid package together if they knew they wouldn't win the job? -- JF
From: Phineas T Puddleduck on 26 Nov 2006 08:23
In article <456904C5.3EDD345D(a)hotmail.com>, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > > Don Klipstein wrote: > > > Michael A. Terrell wrote: > > >Don Bowey wrote: > > >> > > >> Oregon has it's own medical plan. > > > > > > And a fine job they do, letting their mental patients run free to > > >make threatening phone calls to people. One has lost multiple ISP > > >accounts for threatening people online, been bared from the local > > >Wal-Mart, and arrested for trying to run over someone, as well. > > > > Are you arguing on basis of the actions of one person in the entire US > > "state" of Oregon? > > It's amazing how often ppl do this. Newspapers do it too. > > Graham When you want to attack something, you conveniently ignore the 90+% it does things right and focus peoples minds on the 1% it was very wrong. Then rather on trying to fix the 1% by improving the system, you push your own agenda for change. I see it all the time with nimby's. -- Just \int_0^\infty du it! -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com |