Re: Bill Ford for President.


Bob (this one) wrote:
> Pies de Arcilla wrote:
> > chris_tine49@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> >>Dr Zen wrote:
> >>
> >>>C'est magnifique, mais ce n'est pas la guerre. "Pies de Arcilla"
> >>><dearcilla@xxxxxxxxx> led the charge, yelling:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>chris_tine49@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>>The Japanese also understand the value of respecting and developing
> >>>>>workers: that way, you all do better in the future. Motivated workers
> >>>>
> >>>>The Japanese understand that building cars in the U.S. with nonunion
> >>>>labor is cheaper than building them in Japan.
> >>>
> >>>Not for the first time I wonder whether Christine is living on the
> >>>same planet as I am. The Japanese don't give a *** about workers.
> >>>They're pioneers in not giving a ***. See how they build their
> >>>railways.
> >>
> >>It doesn't matter whether they give a *** about workers. It matter
> >>whether they give a *** about maintaining a viable economy with
> >>internal as well as external markets and a compliant and satisfied
> >>workforce, and whether they look past the quarter toward a longer
> >>future more often than we do.
> >
> >
> > Anyone who focuses on the stock price of their company must have a
> > long-term outlook...
> > What was the internet bubble but an excessive focus on the future,
> > rather than dull short-term things like profits and dividends?
>
> Boy have you never been a manager a publicly owned company. *Everything*
> the company does is to bolster that stock price. It's the index of

Which is why they must have a long-term outlook, because the stock
price is the measure of the indefinitely long-term prospects of the
company.

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