Comments on: Helplessly hoping http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2009/02/20/helplessly-hoping/ Just another Pajamasmedia.com weblog Thu, 16 Feb 2012 06:40:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Doug http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2009/02/20/helplessly-hoping/#comment-36950 Doug Fri, 27 Feb 2009 02:30:53 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/?p=2304#comment-36950 <a href="http://info.detnews.com/video/index.cfm?id=1189" rel="nofollow">Webvideo - Ford's most advanced assembly plant operates in rural Brazil</a> ...and the UAW won't let them duplicate it here. (Workers look a whole lot more alert and healthy than the fatasses @ the soon to be shuttered Saturn Plant) Webvideo – Ford’s most advanced assembly plant operates in rural Brazil
…and the UAW won’t let them duplicate it here.
(Workers look a whole lot more alert and healthy than the fatasses @ the soon to be shuttered Saturn Plant)

]]> By: Doug http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2009/02/20/helplessly-hoping/#comment-36947 Doug Fri, 27 Feb 2009 02:25:06 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/?p=2304#comment-36947 Yeah, if Nixon had played Ping-Pong in PLAYA DE LOS COCOS instead of PEKING, what a wonderful World this could be. ...I'll find that link, you gotta see it. Yeah, if Nixon had played Ping-Pong in PLAYA DE LOS COCOS instead of PEKING, what a wonderful World this could be.
…I’ll find that link, you gotta see it.

]]> By: buddy larsen http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2009/02/20/helplessly-hoping/#comment-36788 buddy larsen Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:58:35 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/?p=2304#comment-36788 No, missed it --but they do have some amazing maquiladoras in Old Mexico. Ahh, the UAW. Shame, shame shame. What this country could have been. No, missed it –but they do have some amazing maquiladoras in Old Mexico. Ahh, the UAW. Shame, shame shame. What this country could have been.

]]> By: Doug http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2009/02/20/helplessly-hoping/#comment-36736 Doug Thu, 26 Feb 2009 08:13:29 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/?p=2304#comment-36736 Did you get to see the video of the amazing Ford Plant in the middle of the Jungles of Brazil I linked a while back? Light years ahead of what the UAW allows Ford to do here. Did you get to see the video of the amazing Ford Plant in the middle of the Jungles of Brazil I linked a while back?
Light years ahead of what the UAW allows Ford to do here.

]]> By: buddy larsen http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2009/02/20/helplessly-hoping/#comment-36539 buddy larsen Wed, 25 Feb 2009 11:23:10 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/?p=2304#comment-36539 Steve, those stats on PRC basic mtrls demand have leveled a bit --seems there was some re-stocking for a few months. But still, their internal stock market is up 25% or so since the 2008 bottom. Brazil's stock market is up pretty big too. Trade between the two is rising sharply. World ain't over yet! Steve, those stats on PRC basic mtrls demand have leveled a bit –seems there was some re-stocking for a few months. But still, their internal stock market is up 25% or so since the 2008 bottom. Brazil’s stock market is up pretty big too. Trade between the two is rising sharply. World ain’t over yet!

]]> By: neo http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2009/02/20/helplessly-hoping/#comment-36515 neo Wed, 25 Feb 2009 05:06:04 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/?p=2304#comment-36515 * hope, change and... "why do i need government agencies, when i've got <a href="http://hallsofmacadamia.blogspot.com/2009/02/president-mcdreamy-goes-to-defcon-2.html" rel="nofollow"><i><b>way cool friends</i></b></a> like this?" * *
hope, change and… “why do i need government agencies, when i’ve got way cool friends like this?”

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]]> By: blert http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2009/02/20/helplessly-hoping/#comment-36466 blert Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:31:31 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/?p=2304#comment-36466 China is more bankrupt than America... I know, I know, that's pretty hard to believe... You need to check out their INSANE over investment in commercial real estate. They've been 'building Manhattan' each year for years. Shanghai is now Hung-Lo... She has about a twenty-year supply of empty Class A office space for let. China is set to IMPLODE. China is more bankrupt than America…

I know, I know, that’s pretty hard to believe…

You need to check out their INSANE over investment in commercial real estate. They’ve been ‘building Manhattan’ each year for years.

Shanghai is now Hung-Lo…

She has about a twenty-year supply of empty Class A office space for let.

China is set to IMPLODE.

]]> By: Doug http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2009/02/20/helplessly-hoping/#comment-36447 Doug Tue, 24 Feb 2009 13:57:08 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/?p=2304#comment-36447 Buddy, 75. steveaz points to problems, saw some more posted at the Elephant Bar by someone. I talked about plunging exports to Japan, So. Korea, and TAIWAN. Still stand by your market-based hunch that the Chi-Coms will pull out of the dive anytime soon? Buddy,

75. steveaz
points to problems, saw some more posted at the Elephant Bar by someone.
I talked about plunging exports to Japan, So. Korea, and TAIWAN.

Still stand by your market-based hunch that the Chi-Coms will pull out of the dive anytime soon?

]]> By: buddy larsen http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2009/02/20/helplessly-hoping/#comment-36428 buddy larsen Tue, 24 Feb 2009 04:07:23 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/?p=2304#comment-36428 Dan, you may have something there. http://chattahbox.com/world/2009/02/23/north-korea-deploying-special-forces-and-new-medium-range-missiles/ Dan, you may have something there.

http://chattahbox.com/world/2009/02/23/north-korea-deploying-special-forces-and-new-medium-range-missiles/

]]> By: ag http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2009/02/20/helplessly-hoping/#comment-36409 ag Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:17:20 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/?p=2304#comment-36409 Presumed Karl Marx citation at post#64 is urban legend. Presumed Karl Marx citation at post#64 is urban legend.

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