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US DOLLAR = 2.47 on 2 Oct 2008? [54]
biggest exporting nation in what
do tell more. per capita? per gdp?
america is hell of a consumer. in america the $ rules. if it's cheaper from china, then that's where it's coming from. that doesn't mean they are more productive, just cheaper. quality is not really america's trademark.
It's a another strategy as to point to problems and to say that something has to be done, that things aren't so great anymore....but maybe it works....again....
i sure hope so.
pretty ambivalent. there are good sides and terrible sides in unions.
One example about workers in GM (true story): a friend's son got an intern job at GM. The first day he was shown how to sabotage machines so that workers could get extended breaks.
well, i think that's what killed detroit. i've been inside ford, gm and am general [when it was independent] and it was unbelievable how things worked. out of those 3, am gen. actually did work but quotas were stiflingly low.
i actually was in a union for a period of time (construction) and i feel it wasn't as bad as uaw but still stifling and draining on the process. pretty good for the workers but not really that good for the customer's bottom line.
