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14th December 2011, 14:28
555-04Q2

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Originally Posted by chuck34

What the hell is the excuse for someone "further down the economic ladder" for not getting an education?

Exactly :up: There is no excuse if there is a will to do it.
14th December 2011, 18:07
Roamy

The point here is that GE chose to spend 2 billion supporting chinese interests while there CEO serves as the job czar. On top of that GE pays no taxes. So you can call those people scum and so on but in the end when the middle class in America stands up the world will know!
14th December 2011, 18:11
ioan

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Originally Posted by chuck34

Why? How does it effect your life? What is preventing you from "getting ahead"?

Why does it have to be about my life? Maybe I am not egocentric.
14th December 2011, 18:19
ioan

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Originally Posted by Roamy

Well consider this: This sh!t ain't gonna last much longer and the next wave of protesters are going to get higher up the rung. GE needs a good asskicking for this

As if we need any more evidence that Obama is the most anti-American President our country has ever seen, we see this…

Keep your eye on Waukesha, Wisconsin......Their biggest employer just moved out.General Electric is planning to move its 115-year-old X-ray division from Waukesha, WI to Beijing.In addition to moving the headquarters,the company will invest $2 billion in China and train more than 65 engineers and create six research centers. This is the same GE that made $5.1 billion in the United States last year. but paid no taxes-the same company that employs more people overseas than it does in the united States.So let me get this straight. President Obama appointed GE Chairman Jeff Immelt to head his commission on job creation (job czar). Immelt is supposed to help create jobs. I guess the President forgot to tell him in which country he was supposed to be creating those jobs.Thanks Jeff, you're a "real" American....give Barrack our Best !!If this doesn't show you the total lack of leadership of this President, I don't know what does. Please pass this information to others and think about it before you buy a GE product.For Snopes verification of this information, go to:snopes.com: General Electric China Move

Excellent example.
14th December 2011, 18:30
ioan

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Originally Posted by 555-04Q2

I hear what you are saying, but doing it via correspondance (ie: at home in your spare time) costs virtually nothing at all. The prices you quote are for attending varsity full time I presume?

I don't think there is any chance to get a serious engineering, for example, degree via correspondence.
14th December 2011, 18:33
ioan

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Originally Posted by chuck34

And Rollo's solution to this is to somehow FORCE GE to stay in Waukesha? That will do one of two things.

1) Drive up the cost of products produced there (X-Ray equipment). Which drives up the cost of healthcare, something that is already a huge issue. Which drives up the cost of health insurance. Which drives down the net income for many people, particularly on the low end of the wage scale. Which will widen the "wealth gap" even further. I thought you were against the "wealth gap"?

2) GE will take a loss. Sure they have the market cap. to wether that for a while, but if you start adding up a little here and a little there, over time they may start opperating at a loss company wide. No company can do that for long. So in the long run GE could go bankrupt, putting even more people out of work.

You failed to see the big picture once more.
Who will pay for the GE equipment produced in China if people in the US lose their jobs.
Is it so bloody difficult to think more than one step in advance?
14th December 2011, 18:33
ioan

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Originally Posted by henners88

I bloody love this forum!! :laugh: :up:

Sure you do, as many others who've been around this forum forever.
14th December 2011, 18:37
ioan

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Originally Posted by chuck34

As 555 said those numbers are for "top" schools, there are plenty of other options out there, corresondance schools, on-line schools, vocational institutions, etc.

And you think that if one goes for one of the 'not top schools' will they have an equal chance to get to the top with those who go to a 'top' school?
It doesn't look to me that this is the much claimed equality you and 555 are in love with.
In reality you just admitted to the fact that there is no such thing as equal chances, maybe only in theory.
14th December 2011, 18:42
chuck34

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Originally Posted by ioan

Why does it have to be about my life? Maybe I am not egocentric.

I use "you" as an example just as many use "people". The argument goes something like "people just can't get ahead". One way to break that down is to personalize it. If "you" can get ahead, why can't "people"? Why is one person's situation any different than another's?
14th December 2011, 18:43
chuck34

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Originally Posted by ioan

I don't think there is any chance to get a serious engineering, for example, degree via correspondence.

Start out with a vocational/tech school degree then go to a main campus to get an engineering degree. I know plenty of people who have done that.

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