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What's up at the 4 Way?
For years many people believed that the 4 Way Truck Stop and the 4 Way Casino & Cafe were one in the same. Well, they never have been...until recently. The former company known as Tri-Mart, which carried the title of the 4 Way Truck Stop, fell into bankruptcy and that's when the 4 Way Casino & Cafe bought the operation.
The fuel station is being leased to the Flying J Travel Centers and will carry their usual C-Store, but, this particular location will not have a restaurant. The 4 Way Casino & Cafe will remain the same as always which means that when you stop in to fuel up at this new Flying J you can still rely on the great food and hospitality in the 4 Way Cafe.
Now, try and understand this, the Flying J is not taking over the 4 Way Casino & Cafe, nor is the 4 Way taking over the Flying J...the J is just leasing from the 4 Way.
For all those folks who used to walk from one building into the other without having to go outside...well, this just never happened because these two buildings were, and never have been, connected...but they will be now. Just be aware that there are some changes going on at the 4 Way that will be to everyones satisfaction one way or the other and that you will see some of those changes happening daily.
Next time you're by this way stop on in for a great meal and a chat at the 4 Way Casino-Cafe-Bar and Truck Stop! ...we'll keep the coffee hot for ya'.
LOCAL UPDATES - A few changes around town:
Just so you'll know, the Angel Lake Amoco is now Angel Lake Tesoro, the 4 Way Texaco became the 4 Way Sinclair and is now owned by the 4 Way Casino Cafe and leased to the Flying J Travel Plaza...(as explained above)...and the other Flying J is still the other Flying J.
One could say Flying J North and Flying J South, but, that depends on who's doing the talking and which way you're going. Oh yeah, let's not forget Chevron which is now Shell and the CFN, which is Chevron, is still the CFN. Anybody confused?
Bush Administration asks High Court to
ease restrictions on Mexican Trucks
Thursday, September 11, 2003
By Anne Gearan
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration has asked for the Supreme Court's help in a fight over allowing Mexican trucks and buses on U.S. roadways for the first time in two decades.
The administration wants to drop a court-ordered environmental study that has delayed the border opening. The $1.8 million study is expected to take a year or more.
President George W. Bush ordered U.S. highways open to Mexican trucks last fall, despite long-standing opposition from U.S. labor, consumer, and environmental organizations.
The consumer group Public Citizen, the Teamsters, and others sued on safety and environmental grounds, and a federal appeals court ruled earlier this year that the government must perform the lengthy study.
The Bush administration has said it will comply with that order but also filed an appeal with the Supreme Court.
"The court of appeals misapplied the nation's environmental laws and constrained the president's discretion to conduct foreign affairs," Solicitor General Theodore Olson wrote.
The ruling from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals "prevents the president's action from taking effect and thereby hampers commerce," Olson, the government's top lawyer, wrote in the appeal filed Monday.
The ruling also needlessly prolongs a trade dispute with Mexico over the requirements of the North American Free Trade Agreement, Olson wrote.
The San Francisco–based 9th Circuit handles appeals from the Mexican border states of California and Arizona as well as other western states.
Public Citizen plans to tell the court not to waste its time, said the group's president, Joan Claybrook.
"They're beating a dead horse," she said of the Bush administration.
"They didn't do an environmental impact study and they should have. There are significant environmental issues here, and if they'd done it right the first time they wouldn't have to be in court."
The study will analyze short- and long-term environmental effects of opening U.S. roads to Mexican trucks. It will not stop Mexican trucks from operating in the long run but should lessen potentially harmful effects, Claybrook said.
Since 1982, trucks from Mexico have been allowed only in 20-mile (32 kilometer) commercial border zones, where Mexican rigs must transfer their cargo to U.S. trucks for deliveries within the United States.
Mexican trucks make approximately 4.5 million border crossings every year, and it is cumbersome and expensive to offload cargo to U.S. trucks, the administration filing said.
"Passengers using scheduled bus services must follow similarly inefficient procedures," Olson wrote.
Mexico claims the moratorium has cost it more than $2 billion.
Last of Plutonium Leaves Colorado Facility
By JON SARCHE
Associated Press Writer
GOLDEN, Colo. (AP) - Crews have finished removing the last of more than 12 tons of weapons-grade plutonium left at Rocky Flats, marking a milestone in a $7 billion cleanup of the former nuclear weapons site that closed in 1989.
The 6,000-acre site 15 miles northwest of Denver is slated to become a national wildlife refuge after the $7 billion cleanup ends in 2006.
"Rocky Flats ... is no longer in the nuclear weapons business," Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham said Tuesday in a statement issued in Washington.
Removal of the plutonium was finished 12 years ahead of schedule, Abraham said. The material will be shipped to a site South Carolina for conversion into fuel for nuclear reactors.
"It is the end of Rocky Flats' nuclear mission, and it brings us that much closer to the safe closure of Rocky Flats," said David Abelson, executive director of the Rocky Flats Coalition of Local Governments.
For 40 years, Rocky Flats manufactured plutonium triggers for nuclear weapons. When it was shut down in 1989 for safety violations, more than 12 metric tons of the highly radioactive metal was left.
Gene Schmitt, the Energy Department's site manager, said with the plutonium gone, about $2 million spent each month on security can be applied to cleanup work.
Shipments of plutonium to South Carolina began last summer in tractor-trailers guarded by armed federal agents under secret schedules. Former South Carolina Gov. Jim Hodges lost a federal court fight to block the waste and was rebuked by a federal judge when he tried to ban the shipments.
Rocky Flats still has lower-grade waste, such as contaminated equipment, that will be transported to a site near Carlsbad, N.M.
Copyright 2003
The Associated Press All Rights Reserved
Ain't Gonna Work on Maggie's Farm No More
By: Norma Sherry
24 October 2003<
Are American workers at risk of losing their jobs? Damn right they are. Particularly if they pursued what they thought were safe jobs in today's commerce. When American workers lost their blue-collar jobs they stepped up to the plate and educated themselves in the technologies that they were told would assure them security. Sadly, corporate America lied. Not only are American workers losing their coveted jobs, but in unprecedented moves they are being asked to train their replacements.
The consequences are mortifying.
By now, most of us have experienced calling an organization we have done business with before only to find the overtly sweet voice on the other end of the receiver has a thick, almost unintelligible foreign accent.
Well, folks, get used to it.
By the thousands jobs are being exported, or the new word, outsourced to India, Hong Kong, Peoples Republic of China, Panama, Manila, The Philippines; and many other countries where the local citizens speak English. Jobs are moving offshore to any country where the populace is accustomed to working for pennies a day. Any sum above a dollar in many cases, is the beginning to middle-class wealth and vast change of lifestyle...
Are you wondering how to safeguard yourself? It's not very promising, but here's the scoop. All manufacturing careers are going overseas. It's as simple and as appalling as that.
Since 1986, 15 million high-paying manufacturing jobs have left the US and American workers. Need a second to take absorb that? It's startling, I know. But the horrifying truth is, sooner than you think, not a single automobile, airplane, or ship will be assembled or manufactured in the land of free, home of the brave. It won't be long thereafter, that all manufacturers wanting to stay competitive will seek to bring their businesses to the millions of workers overseas. After all, they are willing to work for a pittance without the contrivance or interference of nasty unions, health benefits, 401K's, and the multitude of perks the American worker has worked hard to achieve.
Be on notice, American workers. If your job can be performed as well elsewhere, you are in grave danger of losing your jobs. If your job relies on computer skills, telephone skills, manufacturing.your days are numbered. Any job that can be performed in another location, preferably outside of the realm of American wages and American work-related laws, are going.
If you're a nurse or a physician, a medical technician, a physical therapist, even a nurse's aide, you're safe.at least for the time being. But if you're an x-ray technician, watch out. According to Irwin Kellner, a professor of economics at Hofstra University in New York, already many films are transmitted via the Internet and read abroad. Kellner also says, however, that ''We will manage not only to muddle through but to create jobs to add to our overall well-being,'' He also says he has. ''.faith in the system. Somehow or another, we'll create jobs that can't be exported overseas.''
Other experts in the field are not quite so idealistic. Diane Morello, research director and VP at Gartner, Inc., estimates that "based on her preliminary calculations, at least 500,000 jobs will be lost to offshore outsourcing by the end of 2004." Her company report also dimly states, "one out of 10 jobs in the US computer services and software sector could move overseas by the end of next year". Furthermore, the study indicates that "while professionals in the computer industry will be especially hard-hit, IT jobs in other sectors such as banking, health-care, and insurance will also feel the impact, with one in 20 being exported to emerging markets such as Russia, India, or other countries in Southeast Asia.
According to the Washington Post, 2.5 million factory jobs have disappeared since 2001.
If you're a draftsman, an architect, a computer programmer, a graphic designer, your days are numbered. If you're a plumber, electrician, construction worker, contractor, bricklayer, you're secure for now.
A young software executive states, "He's allowed to hire whomever he wants--as long as they live in India or Australia. Another American executive says, "We've got one company that's closing a support facility here to move it to Asia, and another that doesn't even try to fill jobs at home. There's something vaguely unpatriotic about all this. Especially when the jobs are answering the phone to talk to American customers or developing programs to be sold primarily to American companies."
Stuart Yasgur and Ernie Nounou wrote in Business Week that, "Common knowledge says that we are in the midst of a 'Jobless Recovery.' After all, while the United States economy recovered statistically from the 'mild' recession in 2001, unemployment has risen from 4% to 6%-- a whopping 50% increase. Urban centers like New York City, which had a January unemployment rate of 8.6%, have been particularly hard hit. What is not commonly known, however, is that jobs have been created during this recovery, just not in places like New York City, San Francisco, or even Flint, Michigan. Jobs have been created in places like India, Jamaica, the Philippines, and even Sri Lanka. The National Association of Software and Service Companies (Nasscom), an association of software and IT- enabled services companies, estimates that India's IT-enabled services industry grew by 70% during 2001-2002."
So, dear reader, if you find yourself maddened by the inarticulate, difficult to understand techie on the telephone, perhaps it's time we made our voices heard. If you pick up your telephone and dial an out-of-state number and the voice on the other end of the telephone is speaking in an almost unintelligible accent from India or some other foreign country, you can rest assured your phone call was re-directed outside of the United States.
Corporate America is sending our jobs and the jobs of our fellow Americans abroad to foreign countries so that the company that is multi-billions of dollars wealthy can save money by farming its work outside of America and far from American workers. I don't know about you, but I'm mad as hell and I don't want to take it anymore.
The very companies we made rich by buying their products, their computers, their software, their clothing, their kitchen gadgets, their televisions -- are thanking us by taking the jobs of our citizens and moving them, excuse me, outsourcing them, to countries and a workforce far from our shores. They're doing this for one reason and one reason only: The Almighty Dollar. It's despicable.
If we don't do something and do something quick, it's going to be too late. Our lifestyle and our wealth will cease to exist, as we know it. The wealthy few will be the corporate entities that outsourced their workforce.
After Shirley Turner, a Democratic state senator from New Jersey discovered that a program from her state, Families First, which provides welfare recipients with grocery debit cards had been outsourced to Mumbai, India, she proposed bill No. 1349. Her bill, which was approved unanimously by the New Jersey Senate in December 2002, would require all state contracts to be performed by either US citizens or foreign citizens who work legally in the United States.
Following her lead, Connecticut, Maryland, Missouri, and Wisconsin all have similar bills under consideration. However, folks, this is a very small pebble making tiny ripples. It is time we stepped up to the plate.
We need to revolt. We need to get mad as hell and unwilling to take this anymore. Not just because corporate America is a lethal indignity; not just because truth in advertising is a lie; not just because American jobs are being shipped out of the country. We need to realize we are the power, we can make this a better world, a better place in which to raise the next generation. We can start here and now and tell Bill Gates' Microsoft, the McAfee's and Norton's, The Gateway's, the Dell's, our telephone companies, and insurance companies, and our Internet providers that if they want our business, they are going to have to earn it and they're going to have to keep on earning it. It's time folks to become mad as hell and not take it anymore.
We need to boycott products that are outsourced. We need to write letters to our representatives and our local newspapers. We need to make our voices heard. We need to parade in front of corporate offices and hold banners high and shout out loud "We are mad as hell and we are not going to take this anymore!" We need to write to the CEO's and write them again and tell them how we feel. But first and foremost, we need to stop buying their products and their services.
Finally, we need to safeguard ourselves by becoming re-educated and prepared for the possibility that we may need to fit into a new workforce.
© Norma Sherry 2003
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