Some people think Americans (or Newyorkers) love the French too much? In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
I prefer these comments:
A wonderful story of community and resolve. Also, a good time to reconsider certain policies. ... We need economic incentives to support local food sourcing....Let's petition our representatives to take the subsidies away from mass-production agra-business/industries and use that money for local and regional economic development. -- jb, nj Recommend Recommended by 29 Readers 8. This is a great story and it chips away at my natural cynicism about how things work in this country. I am much heartened and it should be a lesson to the thousands of similar communities throughout the United States that they do indeed have a voice if they unite under one voice. Vive Colebrook! -- chas. liebowitz, southfield MA Recommend Recommended by 44 Readers ... 10. This is not a story. This is a call to arms, a hoisting of the colors, the sounding of the trumpet d' charge. It is a testament of the true American spirit, irrespective of forms and red tape and bureaucratic gobbledegook. Lafayette, they are here! Thank you for this reminder there is more to life than making a living and that the end result for any American, of whatever origin or status, is I CAN. Why is it necessary to provide a living for more than oneself and one's family? Isn't that the standard most of us follow? How marginal are we? -- deuce bollards, USA Recommend Recommended by 51 Readers ... 14. the only thing i kept thinking while reading this story: free government-seized foreclosure properties and visas to any french retirees who want to open a cafe anywhere in the usa if that doesn't work, special ops forces must be sent to the french countryside and kidnap retirees to come here to open cafes sorry, i'm hungry -- BR, times square
A wonderful story of community and resolve. Also, a good time to reconsider certain policies. ... We need economic incentives to support local food sourcing....Let's petition our representatives to take the subsidies away from mass-production agra-business/industries and use that money for local and regional economic development.
-- jb, nj Recommend Recommended by 29 Readers
8.
This is a great story and it chips away at my natural cynicism about how things work in this country. I am much heartened and it should be a lesson to the thousands of similar communities throughout the United States that they do indeed have a voice if they unite under one voice. Vive Colebrook!
-- chas. liebowitz, southfield MA Recommend Recommended by 44 Readers ... 10.
This is not a story. This is a call to arms, a hoisting of the colors, the sounding of the trumpet d' charge. It is a testament of the true American spirit, irrespective of forms and red tape and bureaucratic gobbledegook. Lafayette, they are here! Thank you for this reminder there is more to life than making a living and that the end result for any American, of whatever origin or status, is I CAN.
Why is it necessary to provide a living for more than oneself and one's family? Isn't that the standard most of us follow? How marginal are we?
-- deuce bollards, USA Recommend Recommended by 51 Readers
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14.
the only thing i kept thinking while reading this story: free government-seized foreclosure properties and visas to any french retirees who want to open a cafe anywhere in the usa
if that doesn't work, special ops forces must be sent to the french countryside and kidnap retirees to come here to open cafes
sorry, i'm hungry
-- BR, times square
We have large numbers of immigrant owned businesses in our community and I have witnessed nothing but good will extended to them from clients.
i wish this were true of the chinese immigrants in italy. the italians feel shown up by how hard they work, but on average they are set up in their own little business after 5 years grind, according to a very good current tv doc i saw recently.
go al gore! ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
Typically, asian small businesses seem to be a very family oriented effort to begin with. I have noticed that the Koreans here are hiring American (native born) labor more and more though.
I can see where the typical Asian business and work model would rile feathers. Here the Korean laundries undercut existing ones by charging 25-30% less for the same services. Family labor standards and lower profit margins may contribute to their ability to do this in some cases. I can swear there ain't no heaven but I pray there ain't no hell. _ Blood Sweat & Tears
