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Shemp Howard

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12. I am rooting for the factories to come back.

Reply to JoePhilly (Reply #10)

Thu Oct 30, 2014, 12:31 PM

Oct 2014

I want to see all the shut down union factories reopen. Those factory jobs allowed the middle class to thrive, and that's where the poor could join the middle class.

But no one cares about that. NO ONE has any plans to reopen those factories.

I'm not minimizing the good economic news of recent. But I'm not jumping with joy either. It's tough to jump with joy when I see all the closed down, rusting factories in my region.

And don't think people who once work there have found comparable jobs elsewhere. Because they haven't. And it looks like they never will.

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What we need is private sector union growth. (nt) Shemp Howard Oct 2014 #9

Well, click your heels and make it so. JoePhilly Oct 2014 #10

I am rooting for the factories to come back. Shemp Howard Oct 2014 #12

what we need is that worker paid about $20 an hour,in safety shoes, long sleeves, gloves & dust mask Sunlei Oct 2014 #11

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