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• Doug Chaney posted at 9:27 pm on Sun, Jun 12, 2011.

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  By the way, my wife's side of the family are Mexican, I get plenty of first hand information from them about equality and Lodi is not at the top of their list by far. Got a problem with that, Mr. Scott?

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• Doug Chaney posted at 10:32 am on Sun, Jun 12, 2011.

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  Mr. Scott, huh? I dind't make any comment about the WASP community or the good old boys. I merely expressed my opinion of the fact that good paying jobs are gone and are being replaced by minimum wage, under the table, or working unpaid hours free that are undermining our economy and employment by using illegal immigrants, rather than using the e-verify system to ensure workers are here with legal documentation or green cards and have an SS# in their own name and not the name of someone else.Is there anything wrong with that principle, Mr. Scott?

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• Jackson Scott posted at 8:23 pm on Sat, Jun 11, 2011.

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  A story about wine exports to China and our beloved conspiracy theorist Doug turns it into the Wealthy White Corporate Elite screwing illegal aliens by giving them jobs. I'm just surprised he didnt work in the Lodi GOB's or The Three Ayemeegos.

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• Doug Chaney posted at 9:01 pm on Fri, Jun 10, 2011.

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  It's true that manufacturing jobs are coming back. Mostly with minimum wage, no benefit deadend jobs and financed by the wealthy and multi billion dollar corporations, employing even some of your good friends, the illegal alien sector, Mr. Dockter. The far right will stop at nothing to thwart the legal citizenry from being able to earn an honest wage with health and retirement benefits.

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• Brian Dockter posted at 7:19 pm on Fri, Jun 10, 2011.

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  http://bizshifts.wordpress.com/2011/03/07/u-s-manufacturing-is-dead-true-myth-or-somewhere-in-between/

  In the blog “U.S. Manufacturing Is Not Dead” by Hale Stewart writes: There is a common theme across the internet: US manufacturing is dead and it’s never coming back. Well, there’s a big problem with that analysis: it’s not true. U.S. manufacturing is alive and well. The real issue is manufacturing employment, which is dropping like a stone. And the reason for the drop is an increase in productivity. Many people have a knee-jerk reaction to the decline in manufacturing jobs and immediately blame outsourcing/imports for this decline. The linkage between increased imports and a decline in manufacturing jobs is virtually nonexistent. What we clearly see is that imports increased quite dramatically over the last 30 years; while good producing jobs remained fairly level (dipping during recession and then recovering) until this last recession, which took a huge toll on manufacturing employment even though imports actually declined. This again plays much better to the argument that productivity increases are the greatest contributor to our decline in manufacturing employment than the outsourcing/imports argument…

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• Brian Dockter posted at 7:13 pm on Fri, Jun 10, 2011.

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  Jordan wrote:

  "The United States has lost almost every manufacturing job there is to overseas markets, but we can earn them all back and then some by providing food to the hungry world," said Frank Gayaldo, an international wine broker based in Lodi.

  -One of the biggest lies is the first sentence above. Not even close to being true.
  America is the largest exporter of goods in the world.

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