Ferrari Mailing List: Re: More

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----- Original Message ----- 

From: "Brian E. Buxton" <BrianBuxton [at] BuxtonMotorsports.com>

To: "Rick" <Forza355 [at] verizon.net>
Cc: <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 12:21 PM
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] More

Here is another good article about BO and his "payback trail."

At the top right hand corner of Page 17 of the New York Post of January

24th, 2009, was a short column entitled "Replacing Michelle" in the 

National

Review "The Week" column. I found this interesting, so here it is, word 

for

word, as it appeared:

Some employees are simply irreplaceable. Take Michelle Obama: The 

University

of Chicago Medical center hired her in 2002 to run "programs for community

relations, neighborhood outreach, volunteer recruitment, staff diversity 

and

minority contracting".

In 2005 , the hospital raised her salary from $120,000 to $317,000 --  

nearly

twice what her husband made as a Senator.

Oh, did we mention that her husband had just become a US Senator? He sure

had. Requested a $1 million earmark for the UC Medical Center, in fact. 

Way

to network Michelle!

But now that Mrs. Obama has resigned, the hospital says her position will

remain unfilled. How can that be, if the work she did was vital enough to 

be

worth $317,000?

We can think of only one explanation: Senator Roland Burris's wife wasn't
interested.

Let me add that Michelle's position was a half time, 20 hour a week job. 

And

to think they were critical of Blagoyovich's wife for taking $100,000 in
fuzzy real estate commission.

My thoughts: How did this bit of quid pro quo corruption escape the sharp
reporters that dug through Sarah Palin's garbage and kindergarten files?

Brian

=================

Do you really have to ask why Media Journalists that get " thrills running 

up their legs"  everytime BO reads his teleprompter, don't report the same 

stuff about BO that they rip Republicans to shreds over all the time? ;-)

Rick

LarryT wrote:

Jim suggested <<Get the UAW to accede to MAJOR wage/benefit concessions at
all
    of the big 3 - this includes some of the retiree pensions as well.>>

OK, IMHO, this would never happen.  As payback for delivering the large
block of union votes to the obama bandwagon the union leadership ended up
with a lot of cash to fund union mandates

Here's a telling quote I found -  "While Detroit's big three automakers
grovel for a tax-funded bailout, 14 U.S-based, international automakers
announced last year's additional investments of $39.3 billion in 69

facilities that employ 92,700 people with an annual payroll of $6.3 

billion.

Why are the U.S.-based international automakers *expanding*, while 

Detroit's

big three are grasping for a life-saving handout? The answer, of course, 

is

labor *unions*; only two facilities of the U.S.-based international

automakers are unionized, one in California, the other in Illinois. All 

the

others are union-free and are doing quite well.

The big three domestic automakers have already been granted $25 billion to

retool. Now, they want another $50 billion, half of which is needed to 

fund

union-mandated benefits."

IMO unions were a good thing in the teens and 20s of the last century when

the industrial revolution was really rolling along.   Child labor, very 

long

work weeks (for hourly workers - mgmnt has always worked unGodly hours) 

;-p

and other problems gave unions a reason for being.   However, once these

critical changes were made, the unions had to demand more & more 

regardless

of the need in order to justify their own existence.

So far I haven't heard about any large unions making any concessions - at 

a

time when GM is struggling to stay out of bankruptcy the unions should be
sharing the pain.

***But most of all - the US Taxpayer should NOT be expected to pay for 

union

mandated needs!!  ***

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Free 1 year NRA membership to anyone interested!

----- Original Message ----- 

From: <clyderomero [at] worldnet.att.net>

To: "Larry Turner" <l02turner [at] comcast.net>
Cc: <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 6:52 AM
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] More

No its 50 Miles to qual
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Conforti <lndshrk [at] xmission.com>

Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 21:26:30
To: clyde<clyderomero [at] worldnet.att.net>
Cc: <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] More

At 08:36 PM 5/26/2009, you wrote:

I am just a simple engineer...  I am still busy stacking whatever
singles I can find and trying to extrapolate how high they would stand
if I had a billion of them...

Well, according to my micrometer - and concurrence of the US BEP
fresh US currency is 0.11mm thick.  A lot of people (even on this
list) have never seen $100k in cash - never mind a million - so
the concept of a BILLION is generally "just a number" to (too) many.

0.11mm * 1E9/(1.61 * 1E6) = 68+ miles

Technically, if you CLIMBED that 68+ mile high stack of money you
would in fact qualify as an ASTRONAUT since the boundary is around
62 miles.

As to Chrysler - there was only ONE viable solution that would
result in it's continued existance.

Allow Chrysler to cast off it's union contracts and cut it's labor
costs drastically.

It was never going to happen.

The UAW is simply too greedy.

While we can argue as to the minutiae of what the "average" UAW worker
makes - they make about DOUBLE what they should.  When you have forklift
operators making over $100k/annum - something is WRONG.

A "smart bail out" would have done the following.

1) Get the UAW to accede to MAJOR wage/benefit concessions at all
   of the big 3 - this includes some of the retiree pensions as well.

2) Use federal dollars to buy down any debts (mortgages/etc) of
   the workers/retirees so affected - to leave them in a relatively
similar
   place post wage-decrease.  I would also go so far as to say that we

   (the taxpayer) should pick of the tab for the college education of 

the

   children of any worker so affected.

3) Bridge loans to get at least 2 of the big 3 thru this.

4) There is no 4 - we don't need Government Motors.

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Re: More	<– Date –> <– Thread –>
From: Rick (Forza355verizon.net)
Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 09:45:37 -0700 (PDT)