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Toyota to build new plant in Woodstock, Ontario, despite American states offering twice to three times the funding - because American workers are semiliterate and have to be taught basic problem solving before Toyota will let them at the machines, and that's too expensive.

Nissan and Honda have encountered difficulties getting new plants up to full production in recent years in Mississippi and Alabama due to an untrained - and often illiterate - workforce. In Alabama, trainers had to use "pictorials" to teach some illiterate workers how to use high-tech plant equipment.

In addition to lower training costs, Canadian workers are also $4 to $5 cheaper to employ partly thanks to the taxpayer-funded health-care system in Canada, said federal Industry Minister David Emmerson.

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Date: 2005-07-04 05:41 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] neobitch.livejournal.com
Oh my god, there's a surplus of uneducated people in the southern US?!

[insert Makaulay Culkin hands-to-cheeks look of surprise here]

Snort.

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Date: 2005-07-04 06:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lurkerwithout.livejournal.com
Dear Jackasses:

Maybe constantly cutting the school budgets wasn't such a smart idea was it?

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Date: 2005-07-04 08:19 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pope-guilty.livejournal.com
We may be starvin' to death, but at least it's by design... INTELLIGENT design! Muhaha! Muahaha! Muahahahahaha!

PRAISE JESUS

Date: 2005-07-04 12:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] unnamed525.livejournal.com
Who needs that thar fancy book-learnin' when all y'all need to know you can learn in Sunday school?

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Date: 2005-07-04 06:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] silmaril.livejournal.com
*teanose*

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Date: 2005-07-04 06:16 pm (UTC)

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Date: 2005-07-04 06:24 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] theweaselking.livejournal.com
Tea | Nose > Screen

(Tea, through nose, into screen)

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Date: 2005-07-04 06:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pope-guilty.livejournal.com
Ahhh. Eeeexcellent.

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Date: 2005-07-04 10:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] silmaril.livejournal.com
I was drinking some tea when I read your comment. In laughing, I inhaled the wrong way. The rest is left as an exercise to the reader.

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Date: 2005-07-04 10:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] silmaril.livejournal.com
Indeed.

And actually, I'm going to throw this to [livejournal.com profile] metaquotes. I hope you won't mind?

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Date: 2005-07-05 01:25 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] theweaselking.livejournal.com
I don't mind, but did you mean my explanation, or his Intelligent Design joke - and if you meant the ID joke, shouldn't you be responding to him?

Re: PRAISE JESUS

Date: 2005-07-05 01:28 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jbarbie23.livejournal.com
that's "Sundy Skool" to you, Yankee

;-)

Re: PRAISE JESUS

Date: 2005-07-05 10:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] unnamed525.livejournal.com
I knew I was going to fuck up the dialect somewhere.

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