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Posted: 8/1/2005 9:48:30 AM EDT

I was at the store this weekend, (atleast I got what I went after this time), someone was getting an XM radio, they had finished asking someone about some station on it and I let them know that XM had employed about 200 people here in town and let them go last month when they sent thier jobs to Jamacia, he still got the radio.

If I knew a place had done that, I would probaly avoid their product, especially since its in the town you live in.

Posted: 8/1/2005 9:53:24 AM EDT

[#1]

Quoted:

If I knew a place had done that, I would probaly avoid their product, especially since its in the town you live in.

Why?

Do you not support a business making a profit?

Do you even understand WHY they had to relocate?

Have you put any real thought or research into this at all?

Do you think the company OWES people a job?

Why?

If you were the owner of a company wouldn't YOU do everything possible to keep it profitable?

After all, you have a responsibility to your stockholders also...who just happen to often be middleclass people themselves.

So why should THEY suffer for your town?

Tell me...WHY TAXMAN?

Sgat1r5

Posted: 8/1/2005 9:54:09 AM EDT

[#2]

Quoted:
Quoted:

If I knew a place had done that, I would probaly avoid their product, especially since its in the town you live in.

Why?

Do you not support a business making a profit?

Do you even understand WHY they had to relocate?

Have you put any real thought or research into this at all?

Do you think the company OWES people a job?

Why?

If you were the owner of a company wouldn't YOU do everything possible to keep it profitable?

After all, you have a responsibility to your stockholders also...who just happen to often be middleclass people themselves.

So why should THEY suffer for your town?

Tell me...WHY TAXMAN?

Sgat1r5

Posted: 8/1/2005 9:54:34 AM EDT

[#3]

Jamacians need jobs too

Posted: 8/1/2005 9:56:22 AM EDT

[#4]

People don't care until it effects their paycheck.

Posted: 8/1/2005 9:57:36 AM EDT

[#5]

Quoted:
I was at the store this weekend, (atleast I got what I went after this time), someone was getting an XM radio, they had finished asking someone about some station on it and I let them know that XM had employed about 200 people here in town and let them go last month when they sent thier jobs to Jamacia, he still got the radio.

If I knew a place had done that, I would probaly avoid their product, especially since its in the town you live in.

what American made goods were you buying at the store?

Posted: 8/1/2005 9:59:53 AM EDT

[#6]

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Jamacians need jobs too

having been to jamaica i can pretty much tell you there are VERY few locals that would qualify as "technically" proficient for anything above menial labor. don't know what jobs they moved there but i tend to agree with taxman. Companies have a commitment to a bottom line but they also have a commitment to the customers. I will pay a bit more for a company that supports my fellow countryman.

thanks for that info taxman. i will be looking into it. if it's a typical bullshit move i will probably cancel my xm. i haven't been that impressed with it anyway.

Posted: 8/1/2005 10:02:00 AM EDT

[#7]

Quoted:
Quoted:
I was at the store this weekend, (atleast I got what I went after this time), someone was getting an XM radio, they had finished asking someone about some station on it and I let them know that XM had employed about 200 people here in town and let them go last month when they sent thier jobs to Jamacia, he still got the radio.

If I knew a place had done that, I would probaly avoid their product, especially since its in the town you live in.

what American made goods were you buying at the store?

I think the case fans were but they were not on sale like they were posted, so no case fans for me.

Posted: 8/1/2005 10:04:43 AM EDT

[#8]

I think its a business' right to send their jobs over seas just as its my right to buy domestic. I'm with Taxman on this. Bravo too. I don't blame companies who suffer under US Labor Unions to turn a profit but I do blame consumers who ignore the trade deficit.

Patty

Posted: 8/1/2005 10:08:33 AM EDT

[#9]

Quoted:
Quoted:
Quoted:

If I knew a place had done that, I would probaly avoid their product, especially since its in the town you live in.

Why?

Do you not support a business making a profit?

Do you even understand WHY they had to relocate?

Have you put any real thought or research into this at all?

Do you think the company OWES people a job?

Why?

If you were the owner of a company wouldn't YOU do everything possible to keep it profitable?

After all, you have a responsibility to your stockholders also...who just happen to often be middleclass people themselves.

So why should THEY suffer for your town?

Tell me...WHY TAXMAN?

Sgat1r5

+1

Posted: 8/1/2005 10:10:17 AM EDT

[#10]

Miller closed their plant in my county, they're mud in my book. Remington still has an upstate NY plant, I generally buy Remingtons because of that. I don't suppose Remington or Miller give two shits about me either way. I don't drink much anymore anyways, but I buy at least one Remington a year on average.

Posted: 8/1/2005 10:13:15 AM EDT

[#11]

i just buy it...the cheaper the better

Posted: 8/1/2005 10:14:07 AM EDT

[#12]

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I think its a business' right to send their jobs over seas just as its my right to buy domestic. I'm with Taxman on this. Bravo too. I don't blame companies who suffer under US Labor Unions to turn a profit but I do blame consumers who ignore the trade deficit.

Patty

Well these jobs were union or that highpaying

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