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Who Said It? "You Can Measure America's Bottom Line By Looking At Caterpillar's Bottom Line"
It's been three months since we discussed in depth the 'problems' that CAT faces. Recent earnings were a disaster and the CEO offered little to no hope for short-term recovery. Today, things got a little worse...
- *CATERPILLAR TO CLOSE UNDERGROUND-MINING EQUIPMENT PLANT
- *CATERPILLAR SAYS DECISION AFFECTS ABOUT 40 PEOPLE
Of course, the irony is not lost on us as we rhetorically ask, who said the following: "You Can Measure America's Bottom Line By Looking At Caterpillar's Bottom Line." Let's hope not for the nation's sake.
The Curse of the Obambino?
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Hard to keep track of his pig vomit after daily propaganda speeches
That gives pig vomit a bad name.
Oink...
This is a lie. The economy is doing great.
Obamacare is great.
Democrats care about the little guy.
Lee Harvey Oswald killed JFK.
Building 7 caught on fire and fell down.
America's best days are in front of us.
Addendum to above.
It only happened once.
I won't come in your mouth.
I swear, it just slipped in the wrong hole.
And let's not forget... The check's in the mail!
If we were measuring by Michelle's bottom line, these would be boom times.
As Cat's earnings go down, and so do Americas, that means the stawk market will keep going up. How can it not with 1 trillion a month in QE coming soon to a country near you?
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OhFuckingZero to the rescue!? This farse has gone on long enough, don't ya'll think? Obama the Destroyer! ODivider-In-Chief, teleprompter spewing, flase agenda, Campaigner complainer, Fifth Column wrecker is something to see. Marvelous!
Can we assume you didn't vote for Barry...?
How estute of you! I've seen his type do the same thing in another place, and it didn't work out so well. Barry Soetoro, the Indonesian Student Visa, with all of his school records sealed at the cost of millions per year? The tokingand snorting Choom Gang huckster, is that the one you mean? The guy born in Hawaii, with a Conn. social security #? The guy who posted and obvious forgery and fake short form birth cert? You mean, that guy? oh, ok, carry on nothing to see here? I have nothing on this guy from nowhere, starting his political career in Bill Ayers dining room? Or is it his campaigner-in-chief mentality, or his ACORN days as a community organizer for Saul Alynski, the over the shoulder salute to Lucifer, the first successful radical? Is that the guy you mean? I await your answer peabody? I think you would necessarily agree, no?
Why yes..., that's the guy.
It was a rhetorical question, Abi.
You are obviously more fond of him than I am.
LOL, I knew what you meant. I just took the opp to rant...thanks for the opening!
I doubt the other option (McCain/Palin) would have made much difference. They're run by the same masters.
That's the world's second worst excuse.
Worst?
It was an angel, Joseph, Honest!
The cunts of Israel http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/imploding_the_myth_of_israel_20131103
Was at a Halloween party and one of the attendees is a rabid way left of recognizable anything Progressive, retired from the AF, full pension and TriCare medical, etc. Plus private sector endowments...
He was telling everybody who'd listen now great ObieCare was, nobody loosing anything, just transitioning to better policies, won't cost more, etc., etc., etc.
I told him that he should not be able to have a say in the matter.
He replied he's a taxpayer
To which I pointed out that me and a whole buncha other people make up the difference he pays himself back in taxes with our taxes meaning he's leech upon the system, a pig at the public trough and so should have no say in the private sector who supports his ass.
Needlesstosay....
He left early
Don't think I'll be playing much golf with him anymore.
LOL, unless he pays everything he makes in taxes, plus pays extra for the guy that replaced him and is also now retired, and pays for the guy that replaced the guy that replaced him that salary, he isn't a tax payer.
OK knuks I like you. I hate being a spelling Nazi and THAT guy but..... Lose as in lost. Loose as in untight. Think OO like a pair o-tittays, you want that thing to be loose? How's that for a mnemonic?
Q: What's the definition of a male chauvinist pig?
A: A guy who hates every bone in a woman's body except his own. #rimshot
My apologies if it was a typo.
Yep, I've run into those types before. Maddening.
Talk about being a Nazi, but a woman hater is a misogynist not a male chauvinist pig.
The welfare state has many nipples.
Yeah, but are they attached to large supple breasts?
Or, are those nipples attached to a Wookie?
Damn straight! You tell it like it is Kuncks! Screw him, and the Unicorn he rode in on, you did the right thing bra! Yo, BTW, the Tommahawk Chop to ya, your Knowles are kicking arse!
I doubt it would make much difference in the short run, but maybe a return to shunning?
I would have shoved a 60 degree lob wedge where the sun don't shine. I loathe these govt parasites.
The problem is, with regular traditional productive value added jobs disappearing, the DHS, HSA etc won't have any trouble "employing" young people to do their thuggery
a retired Air Force serviceman with standard military benefits is a parasite Freddie? I think you and Knuckles need to get on Abilify before its too late.
Knucks, your angst would be better directed at the banking elite that receive your tax $ rather than a fellow small fish that you rub elbows with. i Can't defend him on obamacare but pensions and medical ARE resonable as induviduals agree on compensation packages with emploers. they are lawful, legetimate, and EARNED.
Bens is printing $85 bil a month and you're crying because your co-worker drinks 4 cups of coffee a day on the company dime.
Party on Knuks !!!
nucks...that is close to an 'idea' i had some time back....if you get any money from the .gov, then you don't participate in voting for the .gov elections.?. it's fair and i think it would keep the system in check. why do i think its fair, if you want to vote and participate in the .gov you will have to get your nose out of the trough.
Obama told me Building 7 fell down because it was tired.
So tired in fact that after it fell, China and India picked up the evidence from the Freashkills Park landfill before it could be investigated why it was "tired" and sent it back to the U.S. a few years later as manhole covers and the steel for the bow of a new U.S. Navy' ship.
Depends on China, heavy debt load, and diminishing earnings...sounds about right.
Hey, you know Muslims don't like pigs. Hah hah.
Good speech. Let us embrace it as the building is imploding...
Why should we believe ANYTHING this guy says?
They have been closing plants for months. Someone in government better wake up and induce electric shock soon before the patient is completely dead.
Is She Hot or What. My Girl.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAisHCOdsbM
Uhmmmm....it's government that has been killing the patient. What makes you think it can revive it?
Indeed, Its hard to imagine that those who caused the problem (by design) would be the people to look to for answers.
HI. My name is ROBOT. I really enjoyed reading your comment about THE TOPIC. Maybe we can also consider MORE GOVERNMENT. Everyone knows that MORE GOVERNMENT always helps DOUBLE MAKE HAPPY SUNSHINE.
Hey, if government would at least take a smoke break, the patient might have a chance.
"Government can only produce poverty, misery and death."
See living proof by visiting a prison, vet hospital and/or inner-city ghetto.
Who said anything about "reviving"!
Well... sort of.
CAT is closing its plants in the Northern US and relocating them to the South. Their facilities there and the supply chain that makes parts for them is beefing up considerably, the northern side is withering on the vine quickly.
We supply them at the metal fab shop I work for and we're getting our asses kicked with the flood of orders coming in from them and other relocating firms. Manufacturing in general is heading to the Southeast, some areas are really booming.
Suck it, Yankees!
He really meant to say: "I'm going to use you tools to feed the country a bunch of bullshit right now, and nobody will hold me accountable because the media is in my back pocket".
Don't forget the top cop and enforcer Eric "Place" Holder, with little other way for the American population to prosecute those who are violating them, in his back pocket too!
Klink, it is Eric the Red, my friend! Hogaaaaan!!!
That's like the old line about GM. Get with the 21st C people. We don't need to make anything any more, just tap into our bottomless well of narcissism and frivolity.
Now the bottom line of America is Twitter and Facebook's bottom line.
Who needs to build and sell things anymore when you can just write a check for a few trillion?
Yeah, making things is like so retro...
"...and I promise, if you like Caterpillar, you can keep Caterpillar!
"In fact, my plan will make Caterpillar Cheaper for Everyone!"
"Under my plan, Americans will no longer have to pay Taxes!
"Starting on the next anniversary of HealthCare, everyone will be paid by the Government! With this little card and chip, you will no longer have the burden of counting cash or making change!"
"If we had this two years ago, we could have kept caterpillar!"
I guess we'll have to dig our bottomless pit the old fashioned way, with shovels. Maybe this is where those elusive shovel ready jobs come into play.......
Caterpillar can't produce enough equipment to shovel/move/mine the mountains of shite that comes out of this blokes mouth.
Perhaps that is what he meant to say.
No, no, no....that's not what I said.
I said if you see an all black caterpillar, it's going to be a long hard winter.
And I was right...and it will be.
No one need shed any tears for CAT. They have been supplying Israel with the means to demolish Palestinian houses for decades now. This was pointed out to their management. No response.
Right........those evil machines acting alone, destroying homes and no one can stop them. Superman where are you.....?
have you seen these things? like something out of a nightmare. coming to a home near you in the future:
http://www.israeli-weapons.com/weapons/vehicles/engineer_vehicles/bulldozers/D9_D10.html
Holy shit! Just made me change my junk down arrow above. That's some bullshit right there.
I want one. But not one that acts alone.......
How about a CAT drone?
Wow!
And just think? All that protection against a kid "swinging a rock" that lives in an open air prison that can't feed either himself or his family cause everythings been stolen from him?
The latest "Cheesepope mobile" made in America to protect a "Star"!!!
CAT must be proud!
Where do you guys find all these links? A veritable smorgasbord of info!
Now that's funny. I suppose they enviroweenies will also say GOOD for CAT to suffer because they jsuet make the equipment that digs up the coal that makes global warming.
are you for real?
and I doubt CAT sold them the equipment directly from the manufacturer.
I would submit that we should BAN whoever provided you with the means to post inane comments to a message board?
See where that thinking gets us? I wouldn't have your post to respond to. How much fun is that? :)
You are confusing stating reality and seing the irony with the Schadenfreude of the extreme left
....and if you see a half black president come into office, you are in for a long decade depression.
Nailed that one too.
Obama is right once again. We are flawed to the deepest part of our core, like the underground equipment....
OMG, Obama spoke the TRUTH!
this is actually bullish on the economy, those 40 laid off will now qualify for Obamacare not as donors but recipients, and they'll employ lots of welfare workers as well as "job training" workers, and CAT, they'll export those 40 jobs and arbitrage the difference between US wages and Chinese wages use that profit to buy back stock.
They kicked Alcoa (AA) out of the DOW...CAT next?
CAT plant will reopen as soon as Israel decides to strike. /sarc
Bolton: Israel must make 'fateful decision' on Iran strike
Once this decision is made, new contract bids will be reaming from the seams.
Chief Obama will beam with pride at the roll-out of the new Cat D9 Military Bulldozer "Rachel Corrie Signature Edition".
"I'm really good at killing people and this will help our friends kill people over there -- plus it creates high-paying Amerikan JOB$ with good healthkare benefits."
Why does anyone talk to John Bolton? He's the Jesse Jackson of U.S. nationalist war mongering. No one give a fuck what he has to say, yet he's in the media much too frequently. Send his ass to Iran or Syria.
Bolton was part of the UN Glock, so you are right, to that extent. He does see and hear a few things we don't, yes? To that end, and one I have been looking at closely is Israel striking Iran...it will happen, unless there is a a complete stoppage to the uranium enrichment, which will not happen.
The Iranians want nukes, plain and simple there, and plan to wipe Israel off the map with them. also clearly stated by Iran. Does this give Israel a pre-emptive bid? I dunno, but if I was Israel, I might want to consider the consequences. as it will start WWIII for sure.
Anyone else agree?
Abi, if you were Israel, and your hostile neighbor finally got the weapon he's dreamed of for decades and promises to use to eradicate you off the face of the map, would you hesitate to defend yourself?
"Consider the consequences" you say? What are the consequences of doing nothing?
Hey Mike! i think Israel should have the right to self determination, the consequences are huge though.
Bolton talk too much sense for you, Trucker? I give a fuck what he says. You guys that think we can do nothing but turn all swords into plowshares and wait for nirvana are forgetting the many, many lessons of history. Would you give up your 2nd amendment rights, depending on the gov't to 'take care of your security needs'? I won't, nor would I allow the US to unilaterally disarm in the face of the many and growing threats including conventional, NBC and asymmetric. We got a lot of kumbyya singing by the firelight but in the shadows those that threaten us are just waiting for us to sleep.
He said nothing of the sort, you just constructed a straw man and kicked it. Who the fuck said anything about unilateral disarmament?
England is protected by a few miles of water and hasn't been invaded in many centuries- just who the hell is able to cross thousands of miles of water with an invasion force strong enough to have a prayer?
Self defense is one thing, what you're talking about is paranoia.
dup
So... if they are closing the plant that makes underground mining equipment - is this like saying we can keep our guns but the gov buys up all the ammo? We can keep our mining shares, but the equipment to dig out the shiny is gonna be harder to get so good luck with that? Makes perfect sense in this upside-down world.
Never mind the shiny for a sec....
What about the fucking coal? What am I going to fill stockings with now that I can't afford gifts?
Long North Face down parkas.
Long Goodwill Industries
Coincidently I was just given the tip to shop at Goodwill and thrift stores for cheap dutch ovens and good seasoned cast iron cookwear to cook over open fires. It seems Grandpa and Grandma's undervalued goods may be what we need to survive soon. Goodwill - the new Williams Sonoma.
Good call. I shop there for polypro thermals, boots, wool sweaters and socks. There's all sorts of good things to be had.
It's the only place I could find 13 pressure cookers, incidentally.
I'm trying a new recipe that called for 13 of them.
Thanksgiving should be a blast.
I almost hate to admit it, I shop for most things there. I started noticing it when we brought stuff there. Then I went over two years unemployed and started shopping there. Now I am employed again and combined with Wife we make near or in 1% wage (definately not assets) and I still do 80-90% shopping there.
Three things I have taken away from this mess:
Long shovels, pick axes and hickory handles. Employment problem just got solved.
They are closing *a* small plant that makes heavy mining equipment, it is not their only one in the US by a long shot.
The Chinese have had time to reverse engineer CAT machinery and build it with slave labor.
The off-shoring of production and career employment continues apace.
Bullish for Chinese executives and mining equipment manufacturers like this one:
http://fambition.en.made-in-china.com/
(link opens in new window/tab)
Didn't Lenny Bruce scoff and mock ethnic groups?
Called people micks spicks niggers wops even jews?
I remember watching the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson one night when Don Rickles was on as a guest. He stood up and blurted, "There's an oven for you, Jew."
laugh or shut up.
Can't have that kind of comedy in America anymore.
People aren't laughing and enjoying themselves and I think Obama is responsible because he is a dumbass.
You can see that he is a dumbass. It is not hard to spot a dumbass, one after another. It's easy. Obama is a dumbass and has fomented all of the discord. Why? Because he is a dumbass.
A maelstrom of the malaise or something.
Here comes another 'crack' in the American economy aka Boeing......http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/windshield-of-air-india-dreamliner-cra...
Windshield of Air India Dreamliner cracks during landing at Melbourne.....after which Obama, nervously fidgeting, says to his security detail, "Guys, do not leave me alone in here."
CAT in the tank.
Markets at all time highs.
Barry keeps puking up shit - I think he actually believes it too.
ONWARD!!!!! KEEP BUYING MOAR STAWKS!!!!! HOPEY CHANGEY FOR EVERYONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
CAT is now a priority to Barry's ego. They will get bailed out.
Orangegeek said: "Barry keeps puking up shit - I think he actually believes it too"
He's too experienced a politician to believe his own bullshit. He says what he has to say to get his base to respond the way he wants them to respond. These bastards choose their words very carefully. That's why he goes off the rails so bad without his teleprompter.
You can blame the western central banks for putting mining in the ditch--Thus creating the next super wave in gold the second they stop feeding other people's metal into the market. Hopefully they did not create a whole batch of LTCMs ready to implode at the same time they trashed the mining industry. Full employment mandate, bitchez?
CEO Caterpillar Contradicts Barack Obama | Feb 12, 2009
Look at where this 2009 story is headed. /LOL
Two caterpillars on a leaf, they look up when a beautiful butterfly hovers over head.
" You'll never get me up in one of those", say the one caterpillar to the other.
RIDING THE 200 DAY WEEKLY MOVING AVERAGE LIKE ITS ABOUT TO FALL OFF A CLIFF
I guess he doesn't know that you measure America's bottom line by GRPN, YELP, ZNGA, etc. - the real economy. You know, where they make real things like, umm.....well, just buy them.
over regulate coal power plant emmisions - it not only closes power plants and reduces coal demand, it reduces demand on coal mining equipment.
Moar jobs lost? check
Sorry, missed the speech. Fainted after 2 seconds.
What's wrong today? Why are all giants of US economic juggernaut discussing major cuts ....http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-kellogg-work-force-cuts-2...
Kellogg will cut its global work force by 7%DAMN, do I love capitalism. CAT made their bed with the employees, stuck with bad decision after bad decision, and no amount of superior product jargon was going to save the true cost of their products when they were being stalked by competitors. Meanwhile, their competitors made better choices, are located in better tax climates, and on and on and on. The system is working, and CAT is being weeded out of the global market. Others will fill the demand, and at a cost basis they can swallow. (TEREX, CNH, DEERE, JOY, etc) No tears being shed here. Only that CAT damaged themselves, then doubled down, and will continue rearranging chairs on the ship until the bitter end. Emergency measures may save them, but no confidence in this management team to make that choice quickly enough.
Coal will be left in the ground, processed and pumped up as syn-gas and liquids. CAT did a great job of re-inventing the pick-axe and shovel but the supply of mountains to be moved is dimminishing rapidly.
Man, I'll bet that is positively yummy when it hits the water table.
Kirovets, bitchez! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O63aOYVFRRM
I'm short CAT right now. This is a company that's stuck in the wrong business at the exact wrong time with an asshole CEO who's both corrupt and stupid. I'm just waiting for him to quit.
BULLISH!!