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    <updated_at>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 08:43:10 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[My book is &quot;A Savage Factory - An Eyewitness Account of the auto industrie's self destruction&quot; My twitter address is <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/robertdewar">http://twitter.com/robertdewar</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:46:12 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Hi everybody. My name is Bob. I am a famous writer who packs boxes for a living. O.K. A not very famous writer who packs boxes for a living. All right, all right. Nobody ever heard of me. But I have wanted to be a writer since 4th grade when I wrote a love poem to Jo Ellen Ross and she laughed at me and threw it in the trash. That violent, insensitive act wounded me so badly that I gave up writing until the 5th grade.The truth is I have written on and off since the 5th grade, have had a few articles published, and have now reached the crowning achievement of my life. No, not packing boxes. Getting a book published. At the elevated age of 66. And it only took me 30 years to complete. You got a problem with that? I knew, when I started in the auto industry, in 1974, that I would have to write a book about the incompetent management and the lously quality that we made. So I did. O.K. so it took me 30 years to finish. I write real slow, O.K.? I hope you read it. It is called &quot;A Savage Factory - Eyewitness to the auto industry's self destruction.&quot; But don't read it yet. It has not been released.It is not nice to read a book before it gets released. But it will be released within a couple weeks and I hope you read it. ]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 15:46:50 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Good point, Kevin. And for Sarah and Randomanthony, I was referring to the Big Three, and, of course, what the collapse of the Big Three is doing to the city of Detroit. I worked at Ford for years as a supervisor, could not believe how management was destroying the company, and that motivated me to write &quot;A Savage Factory - Eyewitness to the auto industry's self destruction.&quot; On the bailout, let me give you a for instance. I grew up near Pittsburgh in the 40s and 50s. Back then they had 150,000 men digging coal with picks and shovels, and working in front of smoke belching Bessemer Furnaces built in 1900. What if the government had said STOP - We cannot risk losing 150,000 jobs. Let us bail out those antiquated industries and keep them alive artificially with government money. How insane would that have been? They did not, of course, and coal and steel collapsed in Pittsburgh, there was 18% unemployment, foreclosed homes, etc. But we bit the bullet, adapted to change, and now Pittsburgh is a shining example of a clean, vibrant city supporting thousands of high tech jobs, few related to coal mining and steel making. Detroit has to do the same, or it will be a perpetual slum.   ]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 15:16:47 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[<em>Randomanthony wrote: &quot;It seems like every week another newspaper files for bankruptcy.  Here's a story about a Philadelphia newspaper about to close:<br/><br/><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29338923">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29338923</a><br/><br/>What do you think about th...&quot;</em><br/>I could not agree with you more. I want to have my coffee, open the paper, kick back, and read articles. Do not want electronic news.<br/><br/>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 17:33:44 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[<em>Randomanthony wrote: &quot;I was thinking about something Sarah Pi said in another thread about drawing out meals, and that got me thinking about slow food and really enjoying meals and people's company.  <br/><br/>I rarely do that ...&quot;</em><br/><br/>My wife and I have a small business. We spend 70 hours per week there. I make 14 meals on Sunday and put them in tupperware in the freezer. Take out 2 meals each morning, let them thaw, and we eat about 7 each night, at our desks, after we close. Lunches are whatever we can grab as we answer phones, wait on customers, etc. I eat breakfast alone, because I usually am up by 5 to do my writing before I go to the store. She gets up about 7. By then I am eating and out the door. We have one night a week that we eat with our son, his wife, and our grandchild. We rotate the cooking. We eat, talk (usually about the economy, the family, and how Ethan (8 months is growing out of all his clothes). After that we play a game (cards or scrabble), have a drink or two and it is time to go home. They live in Northern KY, us in Cincinnati, a half hour drive. We look forward to the Thursday night dinner. We don't eat out much. Too expensive. This morning we varied the schedule. My son and wife and Ethan took us out to breakfast. They read my book &quot;A Savage Factory&quot; and we discussed it. On Easter my daughter, who is a journalist, and my other son, a teacher, will hold a mock radio talk show and discuss my book. It should be fun.  ]]></body>
        
    
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          <body><![CDATA[People in Applachia have a more difficult time adapting to modern life than immigrants from other countries ]]></body>
        
    
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