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ParticipantThis is the only country in the world were you get people championing thier own shittyness as if they are somehow pointing a finger at the other American and 4 are not pointing back at them.
GM is us, Ford is us. Those are our cars and the people building them are our fellow workers. We are connected no matter how much we try and act like we are each little economic islands unto ourselves who are so very important that an unscheduled trip to the dealership every 6 months is unthinkable.
What brought about this self-destructive attitude? I’ll go out on a limb and say that every US car sold in the past 30 years provided at least a satisfactory job at getting people from point A to point B. Sure some were better than others but at no time were American roads littered with broken down vehicles with mobs of people stranded on their way to work.
Its all a silly perspective of demanding to not be inconvenienced into going to a dealership once and a while.
Had we been the slightest bit proud of ourselves or as supportive of our industry as other countries around the globe are, we might still have a gigantic manufacturing base instead of blindly following TPTB into service and FIRE economy jobs.
Oh well, at least Obama is actively seeking to give us access to more credit. Why build or earn when we can borrow and send that money to Japan, Germany and Korea? Weeeeeee!
ParticipantThis is the only country in the world were you get people championing thier own shittyness as if they are somehow pointing a finger at the other American and 4 are not pointing back at them.
GM is us, Ford is us. Those are our cars and the people building them are our fellow workers. We are connected no matter how much we try and act like we are each little economic islands unto ourselves who are so very important that an unscheduled trip to the dealership every 6 months is unthinkable.
What brought about this self-destructive attitude? I’ll go out on a limb and say that every US car sold in the past 30 years provided at least a satisfactory job at getting people from point A to point B. Sure some were better than others but at no time were American roads littered with broken down vehicles with mobs of people stranded on their way to work.
Its all a silly perspective of demanding to not be inconvenienced into going to a dealership once and a while.
Had we been the slightest bit proud of ourselves or as supportive of our industry as other countries around the globe are, we might still have a gigantic manufacturing base instead of blindly following TPTB into service and FIRE economy jobs.
Oh well, at least Obama is actively seeking to give us access to more credit. Why build or earn when we can borrow and send that money to Japan, Germany and Korea? Weeeeeee!
ParticipantThis is the only country in the world were you get people championing thier own shittyness as if they are somehow pointing a finger at the other American and 4 are not pointing back at them.
GM is us, Ford is us. Those are our cars and the people building them are our fellow workers. We are connected no matter how much we try and act like we are each little economic islands unto ourselves who are so very important that an unscheduled trip to the dealership every 6 months is unthinkable.
What brought about this self-destructive attitude? I’ll go out on a limb and say that every US car sold in the past 30 years provided at least a satisfactory job at getting people from point A to point B. Sure some were better than others but at no time were American roads littered with broken down vehicles with mobs of people stranded on their way to work.
Its all a silly perspective of demanding to not be inconvenienced into going to a dealership once and a while.
Had we been the slightest bit proud of ourselves or as supportive of our industry as other countries around the globe are, we might still have a gigantic manufacturing base instead of blindly following TPTB into service and FIRE economy jobs.
Oh well, at least Obama is actively seeking to give us access to more credit. Why build or earn when we can borrow and send that money to Japan, Germany and Korea? Weeeeeee!
ParticipantThis is the only country in the world were you get people championing thier own shittyness as if they are somehow pointing a finger at the other American and 4 are not pointing back at them.
GM is us, Ford is us. Those are our cars and the people building them are our fellow workers. We are connected no matter how much we try and act like we are each little economic islands unto ourselves who are so very important that an unscheduled trip to the dealership every 6 months is unthinkable.
What brought about this self-destructive attitude? I’ll go out on a limb and say that every US car sold in the past 30 years provided at least a satisfactory job at getting people from point A to point B. Sure some were better than others but at no time were American roads littered with broken down vehicles with mobs of people stranded on their way to work.
Its all a silly perspective of demanding to not be inconvenienced into going to a dealership once and a while.
Had we been the slightest bit proud of ourselves or as supportive of our industry as other countries around the globe are, we might still have a gigantic manufacturing base instead of blindly following TPTB into service and FIRE economy jobs.
Oh well, at least Obama is actively seeking to give us access to more credit. Why build or earn when we can borrow and send that money to Japan, Germany and Korea? Weeeeeee!
ParticipantDevil’s advocate here:
Myself I would gladly make two, three or five extra trips per year to the dealership for repairs in order to buy as American as I can.
My experience has been bad with Japanese vehicles and good with US vehicles throught the 80s, 90s and 2000s. So this is not really something I have had to do, but I would. I’m just so sick of seeing American manufacturing gutted.
So how many extra trips would you be willing to make to throw your fellow American worker a bone?
Put a number on your national pride or lack thereof.
ParticipantDevil’s advocate here:
Myself I would gladly make two, three or five extra trips per year to the dealership for repairs in order to buy as American as I can.
My experience has been bad with Japanese vehicles and good with US vehicles throught the 80s, 90s and 2000s. So this is not really something I have had to do, but I would. I’m just so sick of seeing American manufacturing gutted.
So how many extra trips would you be willing to make to throw your fellow American worker a bone?
Put a number on your national pride or lack thereof.
ParticipantDevil’s advocate here:
Myself I would gladly make two, three or five extra trips per year to the dealership for repairs in order to buy as American as I can.
My experience has been bad with Japanese vehicles and good with US vehicles throught the 80s, 90s and 2000s. So this is not really something I have had to do, but I would. I’m just so sick of seeing American manufacturing gutted.
So how many extra trips would you be willing to make to throw your fellow American worker a bone?
Put a number on your national pride or lack thereof.
ParticipantDevil’s advocate here:
Myself I would gladly make two, three or five extra trips per year to the dealership for repairs in order to buy as American as I can.
My experience has been bad with Japanese vehicles and good with US vehicles throught the 80s, 90s and 2000s. So this is not really something I have had to do, but I would. I’m just so sick of seeing American manufacturing gutted.
So how many extra trips would you be willing to make to throw your fellow American worker a bone?
Put a number on your national pride or lack thereof.
ParticipantDevil’s advocate here:
Myself I would gladly make two, three or five extra trips per year to the dealership for repairs in order to buy as American as I can.
My experience has been bad with Japanese vehicles and good with US vehicles throught the 80s, 90s and 2000s. So this is not really something I have had to do, but I would. I’m just so sick of seeing American manufacturing gutted.
So how many extra trips would you be willing to make to throw your fellow American worker a bone?
Put a number on your national pride or lack thereof.
ParticipantThe corporations are strong in this one.
Wow, do you have thinner brush maybe?
Everytime I go to a fast food restaurant I see people slacking off and avoiding work, ditto for the airport, traffic crews, Home Depot, etc.
Can you think of any good things unions have given the American worker? Do you think corporate America would have willingly given over the wage and benefit concessions the unions have won?
Yes there are bad aspects to unions but unless you run in Trump circles, your bread is more buttered by the efforts of unions than corps.
ParticipantThe corporations are strong in this one.
Wow, do you have thinner brush maybe?
Everytime I go to a fast food restaurant I see people slacking off and avoiding work, ditto for the airport, traffic crews, Home Depot, etc.
Can you think of any good things unions have given the American worker? Do you think corporate America would have willingly given over the wage and benefit concessions the unions have won?
Yes there are bad aspects to unions but unless you run in Trump circles, your bread is more buttered by the efforts of unions than corps.
ParticipantThe corporations are strong in this one.
Wow, do you have thinner brush maybe?
Everytime I go to a fast food restaurant I see people slacking off and avoiding work, ditto for the airport, traffic crews, Home Depot, etc.
Can you think of any good things unions have given the American worker? Do you think corporate America would have willingly given over the wage and benefit concessions the unions have won?
Yes there are bad aspects to unions but unless you run in Trump circles, your bread is more buttered by the efforts of unions than corps.
ParticipantThe corporations are strong in this one.
Wow, do you have thinner brush maybe?
Everytime I go to a fast food restaurant I see people slacking off and avoiding work, ditto for the airport, traffic crews, Home Depot, etc.
Can you think of any good things unions have given the American worker? Do you think corporate America would have willingly given over the wage and benefit concessions the unions have won?
Yes there are bad aspects to unions but unless you run in Trump circles, your bread is more buttered by the efforts of unions than corps.
ParticipantThe corporations are strong in this one.
Wow, do you have thinner brush maybe?
Everytime I go to a fast food restaurant I see people slacking off and avoiding work, ditto for the airport, traffic crews, Home Depot, etc.
Can you think of any good things unions have given the American worker? Do you think corporate America would have willingly given over the wage and benefit concessions the unions have won?
Yes there are bad aspects to unions but unless you run in Trump circles, your bread is more buttered by the efforts of unions than corps.
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