Brooklyn Back When - Open Thread

THAT WAS FUN

BOY OH BOY MUSIC CANT GET ENOUGH
BRINGS OUT MY BETTER SIDE LOL

SEE YA LADA

WHERE THE HELL IS EVERYBODY TODAY???????????????

HERES A LITTLE SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT

YEARS AGO THE COMMUNIST PARTY SAID THAT THE U.S. WILL BE TAKEN OVER FROM WITHIN
THAT THE COMMUNIST PARTY COULD NOT WIN A BATTLE WITH THE US

GUESS WHAT I THINK ITS STARTING CHINA IS TRYING TO BY G.M.
THEY ALREADY OWN 40% OF NEW YORK CITY PROPERTY PLUSE A NUM. OF BIZ. IN THIS COUNTRY

JAPAN ALSO OWNS ALOT OF U.S. PROPERTY AND BIZ.

OUR SO CALLED ALLYS ARE THEY REALLY GOING TO STAND BEHINE US
I DONT THINK SO

AND A BATTLE TO SAVE THE U S WOULD MEAN ALL OUT WAR AND I DONT THINK ANYBODY WILL BENIFIT FROME THAT

WE AS A COUNTRY OF MANY DIFFRENT PEOPLES MUST DO SOMETHING
BUT WHAT AND HOW

I SEE WAR COMEING CLOSER EVERY DAY AND GUESS WHAT
I AM SCARED SHITLESS

ANYBODY HAVE ANY IDEAS I KNOW I DONT HOW CAN WE STOP THE
COMEING OF WORLD WAR 3 THE LAST CHAPTER

I GUESS I SHOULD HAVE NEVER WATCH THE HISTORY CHAN. LOL

BUT IT MAKES YOU THINK WHAT THE F#^K ARE WE GOING TO DO

FESTINA

Mea Culpa
Noun

1. An acknowledgment of your error or guilt.

HI ANTHONY

BEEN BUSY AT WORK
NO TIME FOR THE BLOG

OFF FOR AN OIL CHANGE NOW

NO REST FOR THE WEARY

YOUR MUSIC KEEPS ME GOING

LATER GATERS

Someone suggested in response to my post yesterday "Buy American". I agree with the concept......unfortunately, the basic problem is that we (USA) don't make too many things anymore. US manufacturers continue to move operations to other countries and/ or out-source everything. If China takes us over, it won't be through a war.....they simply will own everything. Here is the scary truth. Those so-called "third world" nations like China have become quite advanced with quickly growing middle class made up of folks like you and me who want all the same things we want. So, the bottom line is that the same resources (oil, minerals etc) are under greater demand.....not to mention the competition for jobs. Another bottom line is that there are plenty of well educated, highly motivated people in other countries willing to do the same work for less money. The final bottom line is that the Chinese have taken up the phrase "Buy American" and they are doing it literally......buying up American businesses. How do we bring it all back ? That is the question.

ANTHONY, DON'T STRESS IT......
...IT ALL ENDS ON 12/21/2012...ANYWAY...

....GOGGLE " THE 2012 PREDICTION"

....IT ALL DOSEN'T MATTER....

....BY THE WAY...

.....HI EVERYBODY......HOME FOR DINNER,
THEN OFF TO BROOKLYN FOR REHERSAL #2

Bob, In response to your questioin as to what can be done, I think the first thing is to re-think all these free trade agreements. A lot of companies were given money in the way of tax breaks and grants to build overseas but I can't think of a single product that has gone down in price with the cheaper labor. All they did was take the American worker out of it.

well i buy as much american as i can. If u would stop and think of every time u buy something and look on the bottom (made in china) You still can help alittle by shopping in your american stores. You guys in Brooklyn still have American mom and Pop shops. I go to fort hamilton to Gary the Butcher and buy my meat, 74th street and 13th avenue a and a Fruit market for my vegetables. I go out of my way to shop american. Some things u don't have a choice. Food u do. People wake up and stop being lazy and move your asses to your American shops....I have been saying this for along time. We shop in chinese stores and Arab stores but they do not shop in our stores they buy from their own kind... Now see Umbria u got me started. I just got an email about this the other day. Just my 2 cents again

OH ANOTHER THING KEEP SHOPPING WALMART WHO LET RUBBERMAID EMPLOYEES LOTS AND LOTS OF AMERICANS LOSE THEIR JOBS GIVING THE WORK TO THE CHINA.

Thats it Terry, Blame Umbria....LOL

HEY TIM GLAD TO SEE YA GOT YOUR MONEY I THINK I EMAILED U

What will happen when these overseas work forces decide that they too want a good wage and benefits. There may be a growing middle class out there but I don't think its the factory workers or the walmart workers in china that are forced to accept walmart housing. GEEZ... what got me started????LOL

UMBRIA GOT U STARTED I AM SUPPOSE TO BE COOKING DINNER AND IM THIS FRIGGIN BLOG LOL THANK GOD I DID NOT MARY MIKE OR ELSE HE WOULD BE DIVORCING ME RIGHT NOW...LOL

BY THE WAY I LIKE YOUR NEW PICTURE ON HERE...
OK GOING TO COOK AND OFF TO ZUMBA CLASS WHAT EVER THE HELL THAT IS LOL

Thanks Terry, I got your email and now I'm going back to background reading

Ni hao ma ? Ni jin tian mai shenme le ? Ni zai nar mai le ?

Translation:

How are you ?

What did you buy today ?

Where did you buy ?

COMO?????
TRANSLATION WHAT???? LOL

MISS YOU BOB HORAN
TAS

I THINK AMERICA HAS TO REVAMP ALL ITS LAWS
EVEN OUR CONSTITUTION IS OUT DATED
IT DOSE NOT WORK FOR THE TRUE AMERICANS
ITS A HIDOUT FOR THE CRIMINALS THANKS TO THE LIBERALS
I SAY YOU DO THE CRIME YOU DO THE TIME
INSTEAD ITS A COUNTRY CLUB CABLE TV GYMS VIDEO GAMES AND SO ON PUT THE BASTERDS TO WORK REBILDING THIS COUNTRYS HIWAYS AND SUCH
AMERICA MUST REVAP ITS WAYS STOP SENDING OUR JOBS OVERSEAS
BETTER IMAGRTION LAWS
DO YOU KNOW IT E-ZER FOR AN IMAGRENT TO GET A LOAN TO START UP A BIZ. THEN IT IS FOR AN AMERICAN
YEP ITS TRUE LOANS AND GRANTS AND GRANTS FOR THE MOST PART DOES NOT HAVE TO BE REPAYED NICE RIGHT
EVEN WELFARE ITS E-ZER FOR AN IMAGRANT TO GET THEN AN AMERICAN AND THEY ALL KNOW HOW TO GET IT FUNNY RIGHT

3-4-EVEN 5 CHECKS PER FAMILY + FOOD STAMPS SECTION 5 LIVEN EXPENES AND SO ON AND SO ON THEN THEY WORK OFF THE BOOKS TO BEAT ALL AND THE BEST PART IS NOBODY CHECKS UP ON THEM

YEARS AGO WHEN MY GRANDFATHER WAS DOING TIME MY GRANDMOTHER HAD TO GO ON WELFARE DO YOU KNOW THEY CAME TO CHECK ON HER SITUATION EVERY MONTH THEY FOUND OUT MY DAD AND MY AUNT ALICE WAS WORKING AND THEY STOPED HER WELFARE
2 PAY CHECKS A FAMILY OF OF 9 THEY STOPED HER WELFARE

HELLO TERRY

Tim,

The reality is that it is cheaper for US manufacturers to have it done in another country. There are US drug companies which have all the lab equipment and personnel to do testing but it is cheaper (even with the shipping cost) to send a drug substance sample to a contract lab in India than to pay their own US employees to do the testing. That guy named "Bob" who answers the Amazon.com help line phone is really named Bhupthal and he is answering the phone in Bangalore, India.....and may have a PhD in IT.

You can buy a pair of flip flops at the 99 cents store. How much do you think they would cost if they were made in the US ? Did you know that a large percentage of "Italian" shoes are made in one city in China ? That city is Wenzhou (south of Shanghai).

Your generic drugs would cost a lot more if the drug substances and the finished products were made here instead of in China or India.

So, what do we do ? Accept that we will pay a lot more for our daily purchases ? Spend less ? Expect that our paychecks will not go as far as they use to in order to buy stuff made here and just tighten our belts and tell our kids to work harder and expect less ? As I indicated earlier, there are a lot of well educated, highly motivated people in other countries who will work for a lot less (and the money goes further where they live).

BOB

WHAT CAN WE DO TO CHANGE THIS ANY IDEAS

BOB,
It is so funny u should say what u said. I was in Italy and I was buying scarves to bring home when I got home they said made in china. Never thought to check!!! I could have gone to the 99 cents store in the US and bought them and not get ripped off like I did tas

Even Chase MANHATTAN BANK WHEN U CALL THEY ARE FROM INDIA.
WOULD YOUR HIGHLY SKILLED KID WORK FOR PEANUTS I DON'T THINK SO.
Although I must say my younger son Jonathan when he moved to S.I. he worked for this BIG Italian company and he was the only white american boy at 15 painting dumpsters with Mexicans. The S.I. kids their mothers gave them everything. My son had to work for what he wanted. Granted i did help him along the way but he showed me he was a hard worker. He was treated just like an immigrant worker and he went to school with owners son who was driving a new car at 16 and my son was driving a s--t box that he would not pull into the school parking lot because all the boys had new cars..I do not keep up with the JONE'S