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There were some stabbings, drug OD's, arrests, a few murders, the toilets overflowed, it rained. It's a wet dawn on the third day. Everyone's tired and hungry and tripping. Obama Hendrix take the stage and plays an odd rendition of the Star Spangled Banner.
Seriously, what have you left out - is it about the environment because that would be the lamest thing of all.
I hate watching movies with people who insist on knowing how everything ends how everything ties together before it's even started. Luckily though, they're the ones in the bathroom, on the phone or asleep for most of the film.
Stick to Lost and similar train wrecks.
So GM gets bought out by Hyundai or one of the Chinese firms. Americans aren't going to stop purchasing vehicles just because of the name on the hood ornament. In any industry if aggregate demand drops from 17 million to 12 million units in one year there is going to be contraction.
Look at the UK. There's no more 'homegrown' auto industry there at all either. All the marque names either disappeared or belong to German or Japanese or American companies. But people still buy cars. You can only forestall failure so long at which point those companies like Triumph, Rover, MG, Jaguar, Vauxhall, Lotus, Cooper, Rolls Royce, Bentley, Aston Martin (and 3 dozen other companies) either die or become just a name on someone else's car.
Negro please.
It's the Jews fault. Everything always is. We can safely ignore the peaceful peaceloving Pakistanis of peace. Go after the Jews. They are the danger.
Wipe out 90% of the human disease that is civilization and we're left with a green world largely untouched by our filthy horrible selves.
If you can't tell your story in 2.5 hrs or less you're doing it wrong.
I'm of the liberal blogger aristocracy. Results are for little people.
And free health care. Nationalize all their pensions and increase the social security tax to pay for it. And increase the retirement age of everyone currently working by 5 years to ensure they stay working long enough to pay for the pensioners now. I'm sure there's still some employed middle class people who would happily pay for it.
If auto companies are such a strategic asset then we should be willing to pay whatever it takes to keep it running. I'd be fine with that. I'll just emigrate.
When they live in the magical nirvana of national health care?
Anyway if you want to underwrite one industry forever then fine. Cut their wages 20% and pay the difference out of taxes. Nationalize their pensions, increase the social security tax to pay for it and raise the retirement age for everyone else. Why should we even worry about this when we can yoke some middle class people to the wheel and beat them until they drop in the harness? I would happily embrace a 50% tax increase across the board in order to bailout every industry everywhere.
zionist scum.
We should completely bail them all out and pay them their current wages forever even if they don't sell a single car. If that means I have to pay 100% income taxes then so be it. I fully support the return of slavery.
As long as Bruce Willis in a dirty wifebeater fights Gort.
No one can do worse than the current jerk. No one. Robert Mugabe and his present catastrophe with rampant Cholera would be a better choice for the US than the administration now. If it turns out the Obama is the bastard son of Satan and he kills half of America, fine. At least it's progress.
And shoot all the rats who come running out.
So there's a lot there for liberals to love too.
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They would have been better off calling the UAW's bluff and letting them strike forever, years ago. Now they're stuck with each other. May they all drown in boiling lava in hell.
Instead of joining a union, you're shackled to that company for a period of time. Like the way China handles their manufacturing complexes - barracks. But with more restrictions. In exchange they take care of you completely 100%, a place to live, some money, training, free health care, every expense carried by the company. After a set block of time you're free to move to any other company who will hire you at any wage you're able to negotiate or you can be self employed or you can go on welfare for a small portion of what you last were 'paid'.
..and their brood. Problem solved, the revolutionary way.
I hope it all ends in flames and cannibalism. For everyone, everywhere.
I can smell the hippies lining up for this one already.
We need to leave, ignore it and let them settle it however they want. It really matters nothing what we want and there's nothing we could do about it if it did. If they want to start lobbing missiles at other, fine. And if 'terror' boils over to us, well that's fine too. All they can do is piss the west off, they can't actually effect any meaningful change among us. And once we're 100% disengaged, there isn't anything we could do less of anyway. So screw them.
What planet are YOU from. A couple of hundred thousand UAW line guys out of work isn't going to change how my company already treats people like shit. It won't make the least difference at all.