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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
peeps1, I voted for me too but it just didn't work out
If it were really possible for the US electorate to make any difference in how the country operates, voting would be illegal.
Americans get to vote for the presidential candidates who have been pre-approved by their corporatist masters. It really doesn't matter to them which one you pick.
even if you're right I would like to think that there is still some hope left
If the big 3 had been forced to make cars that got over 40 mpg where would they be today?
They'd be losing market share to foreign transplants making suburban assault vehicles and heavy pickups. The US auto industry has been required to pay federal and state government to put them out of business since the Reagan administration, so instead of they lose market share to foreign transplants that get subsidized with tax dollars contributed by US corporations.
Congress isn't particularly prejudiced in favor of domestic companies. They'll sell out to anybody, and have been selling out for so long and so much that they've ruined the market and can't even get a good price any more.
When right-wing policies are stacked against you, in order to indirectly attack your unionized workers, it really doesn't matter what your business strategy is. You're damned if you do and damned if you don't - and then get blamed for not doing the opposite.
Why anyone at any time would ever vote for a Republican again for any office is beyond me. This list of Southern senators are no better than Begoyavich and his shenanigans. At least, and this is no defense, just a comparison, at least Begoyavich seems to be motivated by simple stupid greed. The Republicans profiled in this piece seem to be motivated instead by cynical disregard for the general welfare of the country, to not even mention the lives and futures of several million people intertwined with the automotive industry, and blind focus on their own constituencies. Isn't there still a greater good out there that politicians are supposed to look out for? These men are disgusting.
The south hates unions because of the unions connection to the civil rights movement. Catholic immigrant steelworkers in Birmingham unionized and then helped teach black people how to organize. Richard Shelby (R-Al) and others like him have never forgiven the unions for helping the civil rights movement, and that is why they are so hellbent on crushing organized labor. Union hatred is in their blood.
Mr Map you're awfully cynical
even if you're right I would like to think that there is still some hope left
Really? I've been trying to keep it light and easy in the spirit of the Christmas season. Besides, it seriously affects my audience share when my readers throw themselves in front of subway trains.
You should thank your lucky stars that McCain reads me and was sufficiently discouraged to run a lukewarm campaign. Too bad Palin doesn't read.
Sorry, but you're still morons.
For every person like each of you, there's another who's had the same problems with the same VW or Toyota you refer to.
As for the "mileage wars," my father drives a 1995 Chevy van with 325K miles, and still running. And in the national news last year was a report about a Chevy pick up that had just put the ONE MILLIONTH mile on it, and still going. That's 1,000,000 miles. So by your twisted mileage logic, I guess that means Chevy is 3X better than Toyota?
So keep wasting your money on overpriced sales and service. It's just too bad the rest of the country loses along with you.
In fact we should set absolute fixed wages for every job in America. As well as all prices, for everything.
Nixon tried that, way back when Republicans prided themselves on their utter ignorance of economics. The program didn't just crash and burn. It suffered a sudden and gratuitous Total Existence Failure. Any student in a freshman class in economics receiving a grade of at least a "C" could easily explain why that is only to be expected.
After that, of course, Republicans started pretending there was such a thing as "free markets", somehow supposing that would seem more credible that advocating the existence of double-headed pixies.
You make plenty of your own spectacular errors, so many that you really don't need to repeat the failures of utterly humiliated late Republican colleagues.
What we just witnessed with the tactics of the foreign Southern Senators is a sample of what is to be expected on every bill that will be introduced next year. They will use the bi-partisan song to get people to negotiate with them as they nitpick, all the while knowing that they will kill the bill in the end. They not only killed this auto bailout, but they pretended to give a crap about it. They never intended to support the bailout. I believe what Corker was attempting to do if he got agreement by the UAW, was to propose that language to the Bankruptcy judge as part of a structured bankruptcy. You notice that the MSM did not even mention that the failure was due to a filibuster. We need to start pointing out the obstructionist tactics. These are the leaders of the party of "NO".
[Carmen Harlan, our veteran Detroit news anchor, said that on NBC national news tonight.]
Not just for "Detroit" in the metaphorical sense of "the auto industry," but for the actual geographical Detroit Metro area, and for the state of Michigan. We still are VERY focused on the auto industry, and a huge percentage of our jobs still are auto jobs.
We are shutting down our auto plants now. We want a loan, so that we can open them up again later, when people can buy cars again.
So many people still have nasty cartoonish delusions. If you read through the Salon posts for the past week, you can learn the truth, but it's too much to post here and now.
We unemployed auto industry software people are about to move to your parts of the country, with our great resumes and experience, and our need for employment. And we will take your jobs at half your pay, and do four times as much work. That's what we are good at. And you will wish you had made it possible for us to stay in Detroit. Good luck to you.
You will not even be able to get jobs cutting our grass, because we will not be able to afford lawns.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
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