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$25M contract awarded to JLG

By MARCUS RAUHUT Staff writer -------------------- Click photo to enlarge Awarded: McConnellsburgs JLG will be manufacturing 197 Millennia Military vehicle telescopic material handlers, valued at $24.7 million.

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Orwell
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Feb 16, 2008
 
If you can't make money any other way, go to the government for a contract. Ross knows the drill very well. It's the norm for S. Central PA which can not seem to sustain itself without Letterkenny, "grants" from Shuster, etc. All cheer while the country goes further broke and the dollar becomes worth less. Wonder why the middle class is struggling? Because their currency is worth less every day as a result of the Federal handout drill that Ross is cheering.

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Feb 16, 2008
 
Orwell wrote:
If you can't make money any other way, go to the government for a contract. Ross knows the drill very well. It's the norm for S. Central PA which can not seem to sustain itself without Letterkenny, "grants" from Shuster, etc. All cheer while the country goes further broke and the dollar becomes worth less. Wonder why the middle class is struggling? Because their currency is worth less every day as a result of the Federal handout drill that Ross is cheering.
Chambersburg
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Nothing ever makes the left happy. I guess this is more bad news for the Dems.
Are you suggesting the Navy and Army have no right to equip themselves properly Mr Orwell? I thought the left bashed President Bush for the military not being prepared for war? You leftists can't have it both ways.
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Feb 16, 2008
 
manitowoc and jlg are doing very well without gov't contracts. look at their global sales (in the billions) 25 Mill is a drop in the bucket
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Feb 16, 2008
 
Eric W Pretty wrote:
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Nothing ever makes the left happy. I guess this is more bad news for the Dems.
Are you suggesting the Navy and Army have no right to equip themselves properly Mr Orwell? I thought the left bashed President Bush for the military not being prepared for war? You leftists can't have it both ways.
Eric, Eric, Eric, I think Orwell is one of your own, he is decrying this as a gov't handout. you are saying that makes him a liberal?
why the idiots in chbg
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Feb 16, 2008
 
why do people have to cut and paste what a prior comment said???do these people think everyone is a idiot and can't remember what they just read 2 seconds ago. you take up to much space. or maybe, someone learned this new skill and want to show it off!!!!!!
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#6
Feb 16, 2008
 
YES WE DID JUST LEARN A NEW SKILL. AREN'T YOU PROUD!!!
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#7
Feb 16, 2008
 
you seriously had to come on here and complain about someone quoting another poster? who's the idiot now?

so now on topic, I am sure the big wigs are happy with the new contract. cha-ching? surely.
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#8
Feb 16, 2008
 
whats the big deal iam sure they already had 197 of those things sitting around anyway.just drive by and look at there lots or are they all display models
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Feb 16, 2008
 
I wonder if this means the workers will get a raise?
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#10
Feb 16, 2008
 
of course they'll get raises......get them every day, when they get in a boom lift and "raise" it up.....course they won't get any more money on their paycheck...
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#11
Feb 16, 2008
 
Maybe this is part of the worthless stimulus package!
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#12
Feb 16, 2008
 
I'm a machinist at a local shop that does contract work for JLG, Grove and Frick. This contract has a very good trickle down effect for us. I'm an evil "Dem", but kinda confused as to why the whole red vs. blue thing comes into play in this equation? We're in a war, and albiet if I agree or disagree with the reasons as to why we're in it, fact is, we're in it. War is business unfortunatly, and if we don't make it, there is always an Indian or Chinese waiting in the wings to make it, or more over, we're lucky to have gotten the contract instead of them. So, I'll zip my lip on the semantics and politics, pull my 7 days, and rejoice in the fact there are still jobs and contracts left to give out in this country like this newly announced one...
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#13
Feb 16, 2008
 
I always thought M behind a number represented thousand and not million. Maybe I'm wrong but someone out there should know the correct answer.
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#14
Feb 17, 2008
 
K is thousand
M is million
B is billion

$25 000 is nothing to a company like oshkosh. 25 M is barely a drop in the bucket
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Feb 17, 2008
 
why the idiots in chbg wrote:
why do people have to cut and paste what a prior comment said???do these people think everyone is a idiot and can't remember what they just read 2 seconds ago. you take up to much space. or maybe, someone learned this new skill and want to show it off!!!!!!
News Flash!!!! I didn't even touch my copy/paste feature! The website did it for me. All I had to do to get the "quote" reprinted on my comment was
click on the "reply" in the comment box of the other person.

So whose the idiot now? It is YOU that doesn't know anything. You are showing everyone how truly ignorant you really are! HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
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