Comments on: Broken Dreams and Cookie Crumbs http://firedoglake.com/2009/05/28/broken-dreams-and-cookie-crumbs/ Firedoglake weblog Fri, 17 Feb 2012 15:27:20 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: cobernicus http://firedoglake.com/2009/05/28/broken-dreams-and-cookie-crumbs/#comment-1908176 cobernicus Thu, 28 May 2009 22:02:11 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/05/28/broken-dreams-and-cookie-crumbs/#comment-1908176 <p>I grew up in the Bronx eating Stella d’Oro cookies. I now live in CT and the wonderful aromas from the plant are my official greeting to NY as I come down the Major Deagan Expressway.</p> <p>What a stupid, greedy tragedy this is, run by people who have no sense of the dignity of work, but only the quick buck.</p> I grew up in the Bronx eating Stella d’Oro cookies. I now live in CT and the wonderful aromas from the plant are my official greeting to NY as I come down the Major Deagan Expressway.

What a stupid, greedy tragedy this is, run by people who have no sense of the dignity of work, but only the quick buck.

]]> By: ChuckinDenton http://firedoglake.com/2009/05/28/broken-dreams-and-cookie-crumbs/#comment-1908175 ChuckinDenton Thu, 28 May 2009 21:59:07 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/05/28/broken-dreams-and-cookie-crumbs/#comment-1908175 <p>Re: Cornyn-thats the pot calling the kettle black.</p> Re: Cornyn-thats the pot calling the kettle black.

]]> By: Suzanne http://firedoglake.com/2009/05/28/broken-dreams-and-cookie-crumbs/#comment-1908174 Suzanne Thu, 28 May 2009 21:55:01 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/05/28/broken-dreams-and-cookie-crumbs/#comment-1908174 <p>tula thank you for this post. i wish i could be there to walk on saturday. </p> <p>no eating scab cookies until this is resolved and union workers are back on the production line.</p> tula thank you for this post. i wish i could be there to walk on saturday.

no eating scab cookies until this is resolved and union workers are back on the production line.

]]> By: tejanarusa http://firedoglake.com/2009/05/28/broken-dreams-and-cookie-crumbs/#comment-1908173 tejanarusa Thu, 28 May 2009 21:38:26 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/05/28/broken-dreams-and-cookie-crumbs/#comment-1908173 <p>Aaaaaargh - my ears! Creepy Cornyn on radio right now re (guess!) Sotomayor’s “troubling” statements.</p> Aaaaaargh – my ears! Creepy Cornyn on radio right now re (guess!) Sotomayor’s “troubling” statements.

]]> By: tejanarusa http://firedoglake.com/2009/05/28/broken-dreams-and-cookie-crumbs/#comment-1908171 tejanarusa Thu, 28 May 2009 21:26:29 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/05/28/broken-dreams-and-cookie-crumbs/#comment-1908171 <p>Well, here’s your nice refreshing glass of iced tea, anyway:</p> <p><a href="http://www.teapalace.co.uk/images/articles/glass-of-iced-tea-2.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://www.teapalace.co.uk/ima.....-tea-2.jpg</a></p> <p>(I need to practice linking images. *g*)</p> <p>Besides, excellent addtional point re newspapers.</p> Well, here’s your nice refreshing glass of iced tea, anyway:

http://www.teapalace.co.uk/ima…..-tea-2.jpg

(I need to practice linking images. *g*)

Besides, excellent addtional point re newspapers.

]]> By: foothillsmike http://firedoglake.com/2009/05/28/broken-dreams-and-cookie-crumbs/#comment-1908170 foothillsmike Thu, 28 May 2009 21:22:52 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/05/28/broken-dreams-and-cookie-crumbs/#comment-1908170 <p>Nah, you added a lot.</p> Nah, you added a lot.

]]> By: tejanarusa http://firedoglake.com/2009/05/28/broken-dreams-and-cookie-crumbs/#comment-1908169 tejanarusa Thu, 28 May 2009 21:20:33 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/05/28/broken-dreams-and-cookie-crumbs/#comment-1908169 <p>Foothillsmike - I think I ower you a beverage.<br /> You said the same thing I did in different words.</p> Foothillsmike – I think I ower you a beverage.
You said the same thing I did in different words.

]]> By: tejanarusa http://firedoglake.com/2009/05/28/broken-dreams-and-cookie-crumbs/#comment-1908168 tejanarusa Thu, 28 May 2009 21:19:44 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/05/28/broken-dreams-and-cookie-crumbs/#comment-1908168 <p>Unbelievable, if it weren’t so believable.</p> <p>How is it so easy to employ strikebreakers? When I was growing up, reading about strikes - I had the impression strikebreakers couldn’t be employed. Or was it just that no one would cross the picket lines?</p> <p>I noticed Stella D’Oro cookies showing up here in San Antonio recently; I recognized them from the ’70’s in Boston. I will be sure to mention that I won’t be buying them.</p> <p>Although - email protests? Surely those are really easy to ignore.<br /> Do you have a snail-mail address?</p> <p>As an aside, I think the invention of private equity, and their taking over manufacturing, is up there with the invention of derivatives and hedge funds, oh, and the levereaged buyout (a la KKR) in destroying our economy over the last 30 years.</p> Unbelievable, if it weren’t so believable.

How is it so easy to employ strikebreakers? When I was growing up, reading about strikes – I had the impression strikebreakers couldn’t be employed. Or was it just that no one would cross the picket lines?

I noticed Stella D’Oro cookies showing up here in San Antonio recently; I recognized them from the ’70’s in Boston. I will be sure to mention that I won’t be buying them.

Although – email protests? Surely those are really easy to ignore.
Do you have a snail-mail address?

As an aside, I think the invention of private equity, and their taking over manufacturing, is up there with the invention of derivatives and hedge funds, oh, and the levereaged buyout (a la KKR) in destroying our economy over the last 30 years.

]]> By: foothillsmike http://firedoglake.com/2009/05/28/broken-dreams-and-cookie-crumbs/#comment-1908167 foothillsmike Thu, 28 May 2009 21:14:44 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/05/28/broken-dreams-and-cookie-crumbs/#comment-1908167 <p>After my first year of college i had a job working at Thomas bakery in Long Island City and was a member of the same union. Brings back memories of how hot it was in the vicinity of those ovens.<br /> What has happened here is a typical story repeated over and over by greedy wall street vultures who have bought companies, loaded them down with enormous debt, used the debt as a reason to cannibalize the workforce then dumped the company. This is part of what is happening at many newspapers today.<br /> I’ll send an e-mail too. Count me in!</p> After my first year of college i had a job working at Thomas bakery in Long Island City and was a member of the same union. Brings back memories of how hot it was in the vicinity of those ovens.
What has happened here is a typical story repeated over and over by greedy wall street vultures who have bought companies, loaded them down with enormous debt, used the debt as a reason to cannibalize the workforce then dumped the company. This is part of what is happening at many newspapers today.
I’ll send an e-mail too. Count me in!

]]> By: MrsTarquinBiscuitbarrel http://firedoglake.com/2009/05/28/broken-dreams-and-cookie-crumbs/#comment-1908166 MrsTarquinBiscuitbarrel Thu, 28 May 2009 21:10:20 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/05/28/broken-dreams-and-cookie-crumbs/#comment-1908166 <p>What a sad, terrible story. Thanks for telling us about it. There isn’t one minute of one day when I don’t thank G-d (and my husband) for our medical coverage. I spent too many years without any, and it’s hard hard hard.</p> What a sad, terrible story. Thanks for telling us about it. There isn’t one minute of one day when I don’t thank G-d (and my husband) for our medical coverage. I spent too many years without any, and it’s hard hard hard.

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