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SHRED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-05-11 07:03 PM
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Steve Jobs Bashes Teachers Unions

I'm sorry but I have no love for Steve Jobs.

Manufacturing with cheap labor in China while blasting American unions.

Good riddance.


Jobs Bashes Teachers Unions
Apple CEO Steve Jobs said today that teachers unions are "what's wrong with our schools."
By Gregg Keizer, Computerworld Feb 20, 2007 3:00 pm

Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs laid into teachers unions Friday at a Texas education reform conference, an Austin, Texas, newspaper reported, saying they're "what's wrong with our schools."

http://www.pcworld.com/article/129214/jobs_bashes_teachers_unions.html
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Tansy_Gold Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-05-11 07:05 PM
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1. I'm with you. K&R
We may be the only ones, but here we are.
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SHRED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-05-11 07:06 PM
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2. and we may get locked
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Tansy_Gold Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-05-11 07:29 PM
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13. That's okay.
For whatever it's worth, I do'nt consider pointing out the truth to be "grave dancing." I'm sorry he died, and I'm sorry if it was a painful death, but I'm sure he had the very best care money could buy right up to the last minute.

On the other hand, many people die painful deaths every day. People starve to death or freeze to death or are blasted to bits by bombs. Or they commit suicide because they have lost their job and home and health care, and if their death is "easy" compare to Mr. Jobs' passing, they leave behind a legacy of grief and fear and guilt.

Steve Jobs lived a very wonderful life. He was gifted and brilliant but he was also greedy and not afraid to exploit workers for his own gain. I'm sorry he died before he could learn that there are better ways to live.


TG
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Dawson Leery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-05-11 07:42 PM
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14. kick
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teddy51 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-05-11 07:06 PM
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3. Whether you loved him or hated him, you can't take away the fact that he was
a brilliant man. The way he died had to have been very painful as well.
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SHRED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-05-11 07:08 PM
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4. yes...he was a brilliant capitalist
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n2doc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-05-11 07:08 PM
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5. Speaking ill of the dead so soon?
Classy. On Ignore.
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SHRED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-05-11 07:09 PM
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6. Oh no...I have before
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TheCowsCameHome Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-05-11 07:13 PM
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7. IBTL
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MrSlayer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-05-11 07:15 PM
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8. Agreed. I have no time for Union bashers.
Brilliant guy but an asshole.
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Dawson Leery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-05-11 07:17 PM
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9. Joe Kennedy (from experience) once told his son
that "all businessmen are sons of bitches".
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-05-11 07:18 PM
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10. Unec cause grave dancing is just wrong
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arcane1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-05-11 07:19 PM
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11. In memorium, all iPhone sweatshop workers will get an extra chicken foot
and they get to leave work 15 minutes early today.

Without pay, of course.

And they're docked for the chicken foot.

(I just made this up, but you get the idea)
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madinmaryland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-05-11 07:22 PM
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12. Un-recced.
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