Theres a factory in the UK for the French firm Peaugeot. Peogeot decide to shut it down because they can build a cheaper factory in Slovakia on EU handouts. The UK and Germany pay more into the EU than any other country. 2300 Brits are now jobless. It is inconcievable that French workers would be let down in this manner in France. Am I the only one angry at this?
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First, thanks for the comment on Americans...at least no one has imposed an anti-democratic, illegal government with powers to spend tax money on the U.S.A.!  No foreigner at least can use public money to put Americans out of work.  Here only 5% of us don't work!  On the other hand:\n\nScandalous?  Yes, its scandalous, unfair, anti-democratic, immoral.\n\n            It's the European Union.\n\n            The politicians are happy, especially the most cynical and useless ones, who when they lose elections in their home countries, populate the European Parliament, the European Commission on this and that, the European...    There are dozens of men who lost elections in their countries of origin who wield more power than the majority of Prime ministers in Europe.  And money disappears continuously...500 million euros according to what I have \nread about last years accounting...the auditors, I understand, refused to sign the books so much money had gone astray!   They disbanded the European Parliament a few years back due to corruption, nepotism, waste of funds\n...now they are all back!\n            Where were your complaints, then?\n            \n             Do something about it.  Pressure your local politicians, let people know you'll vote for the people who'll stand up against the imposition of a European supergovernment.  Boycott products, tv stations, and publications that run propaganda PRO-Europe!   Don't we all have enough government with our own?\n\n             Originally Europeans were told (I know because I was in Britain then) that this was an economic Union...that it meant cooperation and peace...and who could be against that?   But since it has converted in a monster, gobbling up the tax money of Western Europeans to promote policies that put them out of work, that increase crime and illegal immigration, that make political parties illegal in countries that used to be free and functioning nations, etc.\nAnd people were told, there's no danger, the treaties will be revoked if ONLY ONE member country votes no in a referendum.\n\n             Since then, count them...I believe the list is something like this on referenda (do you want your country to be part an European Union political union?)   Denmark:  NO,   Austria:  NO,  Belgium:  NO (I think in Belgium they closed down the Parliament to change the vote somehow), Holland: NO, France: NO.   Blair won't allow Britains to vote because he knows its an overwhelming NO, at least until he gets enough immigrants in to change the vote. \n\nThroughout Europe  ( I know Ive talked to Belgians, Spaniards, Germans, Poles...) the schools brainwash children in how wonderful the Union is, how much \nthey owe to the Union, etc...let a generation pass and the NOs will be Yess, why? propaganda.  I travel in Europe and the television is a never ending stream of European Union this and that.\n\n               Yes, if you work in production of goods and services in France, Germany, Britain, Poland, Austria, Holland, Belgium...you are paying.  Are you getting anything back?   Yes,  soon you won't have a job, or your pay will be less, and, if it matters to you, your country won't have sovereignty anymore.  If you think its scandalous now, just wait until the European army and \npolice force exist. Think George W. Bush is a danger to mankind?  Who bombed Belgrade in 1999?  Who benefitted from all those innocent civilians who died?  Why was there no protest against that illegal war?  Isn't it curious that there are so many laws against this and that, but that crime soars, illegal immigrants destroy property and \nneighborhoods, sell drugs and increase crime, and even bomb subways...and Europe orders the media to play it down, to not be so "racist".  Well, you should read your History, that's my favorite reading...the E.U. was Hitler's idea,  its origins are the Nazi's whose goal was a European political union.  And the idea
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Been to Walmart lately?  The vast majority of their items are made there.  Bunch of junk if you ask me.  They buy for pennies and sell for dollars, not to mention that they routinely put american manufacturers out of business and switch to a foreign suppliers.  Great for Walmart, but at the expense of product quality loss of US jobs.  How do they expect us to buy their products if we don't have jobs to earn money to purchase those products?
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Hey "dufus", you are evidently looking for a grand opening and with your I.Q. you won't be able to get...so if you are un-employed you might try to go to France and chew on some wieners while you're making up your poems about our leaders...if you don't like it over here, why don't you pack up your pet poodle and get out of America. There will be wars until God comes back and I wish it were today !!  Are you ready to go ???
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It's a damn shame that, this is what it has come to in parts of the country. I work a manual labor job, granted I don't make 5 dollars an hour.. so, I would have to disagree there will always be people to take those jobs.. some sort of jobs. People that really want to provide the best they can for themselves or their families. My boss hired a Mexican lady once, she was legal.. married to a American man. She seemed nice.. BUT... she could NOT read english, barely write it and speak it. I asked her if she was going to learn english... and she told me straight out no!! I was taken aback by this.. as I have never encountered this before but I was pissed. If you want to be legal and come here and work,fine for now I guess!(who knows what the government will do w/amnesty) NOT live off the system.. NOT live in a shitty house with 6 kids and have a brand spanking new car in the garage! I don't know about anyone else but refusing to speak english is a pure insult!! (Sorry, I know part of my response is in the wrong catagory.) I don't think they will get a higher education.. some may and a lot more may not. They just want the money.. but shame on some of our employers for hiring them. It's such a double-edged sword.. you feel bad for them on a level but angry with them on another level. I guess time will tell.
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Exactly What Jessica Said\nAMERICA FIRST\nYou Stated\n"the employer was required to hire 1 unemployed American for every 2 guest workers,to fairly compensate the unemployed"\n\nWhy Not Hire 3 Unemployed Americans to fairly compensate the unemployed??? At the same wage as an American union member ??? health insurance and other fringe benefits???\n\nAMERICA FIRST
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britain is going the way of most of euroope. The promise of social support and medical coverage is more than the government can handle.  Immigration fills jobs that others do not want.  But what people do not recognise is that the immigrants have plans to better themselves while too many people sit back and expect the government to take care of them.  Anyone that does not work at getting better will end up falling into the muck.  You make the future.  By getting more valuable to society the chance of success is increased. Do not blame others for your sitting still.
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So you don't know any white british people who work???\n\nSorry but although I do agree with you opening sentiment about 'foreigners' being the backbone of the econony and that you are having a dig at the red top tabloid readers' ingnorance and generalisation of 'foreigners' motives and involvement in british society, I have to pull you up on the blatant hypocrisy of your question.\n\nWhy complain about being 'generalised' in the public domain when you have really made the most rediculous overgeneralisation of white british people.\n\nYou are doing race relations no good in this country if you resort to tit for tat accusation. Opinions are polorised enough without stiring the big racial pot which is about to explode in this country.
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I agree with you. I think many of them come here for the exact reasons you stated. I know there are war torn countries and whatever but Britain is only a small island and there are plenty of safe countries in between us and their own country. They come here because they are practically guaranteed a good life and a job, if they feel like working, though they don't have to. I get about £300 a month in tax credits to help me stay at home with my own kids. There are people who have a problem with that when these illegals are coming in and being given brand new houses, some built for them, then they were getting those food voucher thingys but that's not good enough is it, they want the cash so they can go and buy themselves a corner shop and rip us off some more. I am all for the BNP on this one. It's not racist. It's fair. It doesn't happen in other countries. If I went to another country, they wouldn't just hand out free stuff just because I was foreign so why do people think it's racist if you don't want to do that?
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Its about time someone started thinking along these lines. See my question in the government section also." Has capitalism failed the British public?" It has failed the Americans but I'm not so sure most of them are smart enough to know this. Trillions and Trillions of debt to live like Brittany Spears and the others. But when the book is looked at, you have sold your soul to a faceless fat cat who has hidden accounts off shore where he does not even pay taxes. They buy the politicians to oil the system. Bravo! I'm with you on this one.
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Oh please.  Of course GM (or Ford/Chrysler/Lear/Dura/Dana/Tower/etc, etc) closing plants have a lot to do with the unions.\n\nUnion workers don't like to hear this, but NO company can afford to pay workers for the REST OF THEIR LIVES and stay in business.  Our government unions will find this out soon enough.  The wages & benefits of the UAW workers have been so out of whack with reality and the actual value of their skills, that the only way any of these companies can ever hope to stay in business is to trim their staffs.\n\nThe same EXACT thing was happening in the early 80's, the Big 3 had the chance then to fix this and they chose to do the easy thing and allow the unions to demand ever increasing wages and benefits, even as costs went through the roof, yet the prices of the vehicles could not keep up.\n\nIn the 90's the decision was made to screw over their American venders/suppliers in order to save money, yet they continued to give more & more to the unions to keep them from striking.  They managed to run nearly EVERY other American manufacturing job out of the country, and now the chicken is finally coming home to roost.\n\nFunny, if you run your suppliers out of business, then the people who used to have good jobs (and trust me, they were not near as good as the Big 3's workers had) can no longer AFFORD to buy your cars.  Your production slows, you lay off/fire workers and the big cycle of the demise of the American manufacturer is on.\n\nAll I can say to the affected UAW workers, is I AM sorry for your plight, but you should have used your free education opportunity for just this reason. \n\nOh yeah, & welcome to the real world.
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It is so much easier for people to shout at each other than face reality. And as long as they themselves feel alright, they are not inclined to even want to do anything about it.\nI am from Ireland, a country that was crippled by its national debt for decades after a spending spree of one irresponsible gouvernment, and only the EU funds got us finally out of it.\nIt might still be great at the moment, but it will certainly catch up with the US in the long run.
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Maybe in some respects , but i personally dis-agree !\nThe British are out-casts in the European Union, No Euro , still British passports .....\n\nHigh time they came out of Uncle Sam's shadows AND grew up on their own !\nElse ... god save the queen . . . .
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No shitt, it's just the big wigs trying to compete with china's cheap labor at the expense of our country's values.\nI'm sick of it. I think any company doing this should be shut down and the owners prosecuted
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HOW MANY PEOPLE HERE IN THE UK DO YOU REALLY THINK WANT TO GO INTO EUROPE.....ANSWER ...NOT MANY.......STUFF THE KRAUTS AND THE FROGS....WE ARE BRITISH AND PROUD OF IT.........AND I'M NOT VERY GOOD AT THE GOOSE STEP....LONG LIVE THE QUEEN
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because they are ugly, and bird dropping are a mess, so it is better if French have to bear this burden.\n\nSpeaking seriously, I agree with above people that France is a wrong market for artistic items, due to their snobbish pride in domestic art. Never seen them having bird-feeders either; i think it is a British thing.\n\nI also understand it is part of business training to argue for ideas no matter what. Maybe you could argue something along the lines of cheap wood, depictions of Canadian scenery or birds, or Native American motives in design.
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I can say that I am mad about the outsourcing of jobs and the dependence on foreign items, but I cannot answer the question based on facts. My opinion is that we're being outsourced because its cheaper to produce things outside the US. Our dependence for foreign items comes with the outsourcing of jobs and perhaps that we can't preoduce itmes for ourselves fast enough that we look for outside items. I would like the politicians who benefit or support outsourcing to be ousted from Congress.
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Not China or Mexico but:\nMy job consisted of working in several departments. Due to some of those departments going to Germany and some to Brazil, many of us were laid off, permanently. I had to find another job at 1/2 what I had been making.  I had recieved good reviews, offered raises and bonuses. I feel like our businesses shouldn't offer the raises and bonuses and then let us go, and hire temporary workers, at lower wages, to do some of the other jobs available that we could have done. I would have taken a cut in pay just to keep my benefits and seniority. We were not given that option.\n\nOur leaders do not see what the common worker has to deal with. They need to come down here and talk to US, the ones affected by NAFTA and CAFTA. Big corporations want more for less, not necessarily better quality. Quantity for the money is more important than quality. It stuffs their wallets and takes it out of ours.