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Could be the exporter pulled a fast one by putting one kind of wood on the outside and anther kind of wood on the inside. Can they look at every bit of wood coming into shore? I doubt it. When I put something on the shelf, I have to compromise a bit. Does the number of a certain quantity look right, or is it off? If it doesn't look right, I'll count it if it's feasible. If not I just put it on the shelf. Then once a year we inventory everything, and even then it may not be perfect. Lots of it is in boxes, and there are thousands of boxes. So do we open every box and count the stuff inside? Absolutely not, because it is just not possible with the time we have.
As far as I'm concerned, maybe somebody did make a mistake. Doesn't mean they shut down an entire company. These days, especially under Obama, there are a lot of thugs running around and that is what makes me a little peeved. Scuse me if I rant just a little bit. But no thugs are gonna get the better of me, especially in the state I live in.
Could be the exporter pulled a fast one by putting one kind of wood on the outside and anther kind of wood on the inside. Can they look at every bit of wood coming into shore? I doubt it. When I put something on the shelf, I have to compromise a bit. Does the number of a certain quantity look right, or is it off? If it doesn't look right, I'll count it if it's feasible. If not I just put it on the shelf. Then once a year we inventory everything, and even then it may not be perfect. Lots of it is in boxes, and there are thousands of boxes. So do we open every box and count the stuff inside? Absolutely not, because it is just not possible with the time we have.
As far as I'm concerned, maybe somebody did make a mistake. Doesn't mean they shut down an entire company. These days, especially under Obama, there are a lot of thugs running around and that is what makes me a little peeved. Scuse me if I rant just a little bit. But no thugs are gonna get the better of me, especially in the state I live in.
It's the source country who decides whether or not to sell to extinction their own natural resources.
If the products are illegally exported from a country it should be up to that country to fix their internal problem, not ours...
This law like many other government laws are perfect examples of why America's businesses are going down the tubes...
Most of these poor and corrupt countries don't have the resources to stop the illegal logging. Cutting out the market for illegally cut endangered species will end the incentive for the illegal cutters.
Most of these poor and corrupt countries don't have the resources to stop the illegal logging. Cutting out the market for illegally cut endangered species will end the incentive for the illegal cutters.
Exactly. It isn't like there aren't alternatives to this wood available.
Interesting that you would post something from a thread with the title "rants and raves". Is there any evidence that Obama directed anyone to do what is claimed in that copy and paste?
Eliseo Medina is described by the Los Angeles Times as "one of the most successful labor organizers in the country". So why wouldn't Obama invite him to the white house? Are you suggesting that labor leaders don't have a voice? That no other president has ever invited a labor leader to the white house? I would find that to be very unlikely.
Sure, they probably all have, but I don't trust this one. Allowing "immigrants" into the country, as they put it, is not what I'm for. And the underlying theme is that they want more workers from Mexico to be here in the US so the can be in their union. At least Bush was opposed to amnesty.
The goal of that union is to have everybody in the union, of course, but that's the wrong way to go about it. Wisconsin did some good stuff, standing up to unions. And there's been a big fight over Boeing. Why does it have to be a big fight? South Carolina is a state where unions are very weak and the big unions don't like that. But business is not always the union business. Tough. Deal with it.
Sure, they probably all have, but I don't trust this one. Allowing "immigrants" into the country, as they put it, is not what I'm for. And the underlying theme is that they want more workers from Mexico to be here in the US so the can be in their union. At least Bush was opposed to amnesty.
The goal of that union is to have everybody in the union, of course, but that's the wrong way to go about it. Wisconsin did some good stuff, standing up to unions. And there's been a big fight over Boeing. Why does it have to be a big fight? South Carolina is a state where unions are very weak and the big unions don't like that. But business is not always the union business. Tough. Deal with it.
Brian. We are all either immigrants or decendants of immigrants. Bush was not opposed to amnesty. He actually proposed an amnesty program. Even Fox went ballistic over it:
How did we go from importing wood to illegal aliens and union people?????
I have no idea. I suppose I inadvertantly followed the leader.
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