Given the broadcast media's and government's reports, the NE is already
down the tubes.

Of course, nobody ever believes either of those sources...g

BTW, Ed, the biggest difference between Southern and Union manufacturing
is that the Southern plants are hiring and the Union plants aren't.


that's because they pay the workers ten bucks an hour or less and give
them no benefits. Why else would anyone open a factory in the south.
It's the only place in the country where they still let management
exploit the workers. In the north they just get more productivity out of
the same workers but they get fair pay and benefits.

Hawke