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Old 11-16-2008, 10:40 AM   #7
Trilby
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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce View Post
And how many of the 266,000 GM employees did you see gaming the system?
All of them. Just extrapolate: 10 out of 9 apples at my GM plant were bad.
90,000 dollars a year for a janitor, who still lives in a trailor on the wrong side of the tracks? Full medical? Gramma's and Grappy's putting grandchildren on their insurance coz mom and pop are meth addicts? Yeah. And there's so much more.

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