Holy macaroni.... it's a good thing nobody mentioned anything about the workers of the world casting off their shackles and chains to rid themselves of the jackboot capitalist oppressors.
That might have caused many vitriolic exchanges. .... ha ha !!

If you know the book then you already understand you're living living the story. A lot of entries in this thread could have been authored by James Taggart.

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Gee, I can't imagine why I would take it personal when you insinuate all union lBor are thugs or that I throw temper tantrums if I don't get my way.
A few posts back I told of incidents where people,my wife being one, were going to be unfairly terminated over an incorrect accusation. In a non-union shop she would have been fired. Because of her union she wasn't. I don't considerbthat whining, i consider it representation.
: obviously we need to agree to disagree as we share no common ground.

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'12 Concours
'11 DL650
'10 Tiger1050
'01 HD FXD
'09 HD XR1200
'79 BMW R100

true, it is a good thing it wasn't mentioned.

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Hell, lets go for it. I prefer a respectful exchange but I'm not afraid of vitriolic exchanges when warranted.

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Joe S.
'12 Concours
'11 DL650
'10 Tiger1050
'01 HD FXD
'09 HD XR1200
'79 BMW R100

Twinkies shall rise again

Now close this thread to protect IQ's

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I will go with that.
Just a reminder that this is the "Off topic and Member Therapy" forum. I needed to get it out!

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PC-V, Smart TRE, CR8EIX plugs, Madstad bracket, Madstad 22" shield, Fork brace, 43T rear, Airhawks, Chinese mirrors, mirror extenders, RDL.

A healthy exchange of ideas is always a good thing!!!

While the media is busy blaming the union for Hostess’s demise, nobody is reporting that CEO Brian Driscoll helped himself to a 300 percent pay increase. Just another example of the one percent literally taking food out of the mouths of everyone else — in this case Twinkies and Ho Hos.
Driscoll’s salary went from $750,000 to $2,550,000. Another executive’s salary went from $500,000 to $900,000 and another doubled his salary from $375,000 to $656,256.
In the meantime, the company was eliminating its largest debt — the Union Health and Welfare/Pension to which it owed $989,323,000 as reported in January 2012. If there’s no money to pay workers and you’re asking them to make concessions such as lower pay and higher insurance premiums, where do you get off doubling and tripling your salaries? Ask workers to take a pay cut while you suck every available dollar out of the company you can and steal their pensions and you wonder why they won’t accept your deal?!
Hostess clearly has had numerous problems for a long time now. They first filed bankruptcy in 2004. Then after Driscoll helped himself to his 300 percent raise, Gregory Rayburn was appointed CEO — the sixth CEO in the past ten years. He immediately reduced the salaries of the four top executives to $1 per year. A day late and a dollar short.

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2003 DL1000 - Priscilla / 1997 Concours - Ms. Piggy
2002 DL1000 - Fluffy the Torque Monster (Deceased)
2003 DL1000 - Freya, Leather Winged Demon of the Night

Some of you guys need a long long ride.

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