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They had the pleasure of training their Mexican replacements and then got to help tear down the production equipment, put it on pallets, load it on flat bed rail cars and wave goodbye to 3 generations of employment for our family.

Well I guess the 4th generation will not be working there then, of course I would have guessed that about a paper business anyways.

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Mead cut their production costs over 50% but the price of their products didn't drop one penny.

Well I can't imagine that the demand for paper is going anywhere but south, so one would think that they would have lowered prices a bit. But Dunder-Mifflin Scranton Branch aside, one business I wouldn't want to be in, is the paper businesses.

But thanks for your anecdote that conveniently ignores this past of my post:

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So cheap, outsourced labor likely exacerbated it,

So if you're going to talk to your siblings, try not to forget I said that it exacerbated it again.

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Posted by Bass Tiger

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Posted on 10/10/17 at 7:06 pm to buckeye_vol

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I'll let my 3 brothers and 2 sisters that worked for Mead Paper Co until 2001, that their jobs were doomed regardless if NAFTA existed or not.

Well I would recommend you not dwelling on the uncontrollable past and focusing on the controllable present and future, but whatever works for you.

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They had the pleasure of training their Mexican replacements and then got to help tear down the production equipment, put it on pallets, load it on flat bed rail cars and wave goodbye to 3 generations of employment for our family.

Well I guess the 4th generation will not be working there then, of course I would have guessed that about a paper business anyways.

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Mead cut their production costs over 50% but the price of their products didn't drop one penny.

Well I can't imagine that the demand for paper is going anywhere but south, so one would think that they would have lowered prices a bit. But Dunder-Mifflin Scranton Branch aside, one business I wouldn't want to be in, is the paper businesses.

But thanks for your anecdote that conveniently ignores this past of my post:

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So cheap, outsourced labor likely exacerbated it,

So if you're going to talk to your siblings, try not to forget I said that it exacerbated it again.

Who's dwelling on the past dipshit? The family's moved on just like the plant did. The cogent point of the post was NAFTA was the primary reason that MEAD moved production to Mexico, for cheap labor and less stringent environmental laws.