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When these countries want to freely sell their products here, but block our products in their market, something is wrong.
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No doubt...I know I'm just a hillbilly, but that never made sense to me? Seems to me that they depend on *us* more than we depend on *them*, so shouldn't *we* have the leverage? Yet we're letting these podunk countries bend us over??
Funny story I thought of this morning about one of my best friends...this isn't to stereotype or cast the same shadow on *any* union/strike folks, but I chuckled when I thought of it. Anyway, my buddy worked over in West Plains at a factory that machined parts for military vehicles...well, every so often they'd renegotiate their contracts, and each time they'd put it to a vote among the union members to see if they wanted to strike or not. Well, each and every time my buddy and his buddies would vote to strike, because they would still get paid while they were striking, but instead of picketing they'd go cut wood, or go fishing, or just lounge around the house...the funny part of the story is, I think he said they were required to picket like a shift of 1/2 hour each, and of course the day my buddy takes his turn is the day a TV crew shows up, and out of all the hillbillies walking circles the reporter decides to talk to my buddy, who promptly tells 'em he's "enjoying his paid vacation"! Well, his union reps didn't see the humor, and he got a pretty good brow beating, but they were all back to work in a day or 2! I still give him static about him having to be the ugliest or dumbest hillbilly there, because that's who the reporter *always* chooses to interview!
