Take comfort in the fact that every time someone types out the phrases "should of (sic) complied" or "play stupid games win stupid prizes" a spirit appears like in A Christmas Carol and shows them the future where they die alone without ever having known the love of another living being.
We hear you, we see you, and we know - as you do - that you're a miserable sorta-excuse for a human being who will never know a moment's happiness let alone be tolerable to any other person. Your existence is a cancer on the world and everyone forced to encounter you, even for a moment, is worse off for it. And unlike this woman shot down in cold blood, the moment you die will pass entirely unnoticed and unremaked upon. It will be like you never existed, and you know every word I said here is true. That's why you act the way you do and talk the way you do - because at night, when you're alone, you know all of this. The only thing that never occurs to you is that everyone around you knows it about you, too. You think your act fools anyone, and that's the scariest thing to you: the possibility that people see you for the coward you are.
They do. We do. Sleep tight. ...
It takes an enormous amount of courage to stand there, keep filming, and scream "What the fuck, you asshole" at someone wearing a badge who just shot and killed one of your neighbors in cold blood.
If you're grasping for anything to feel good about right now - and that's a very difficult thing to find - feel good about the fact that not everyone is as much of a spineless, collaborating coward as our elites. Total strangers will risk their lives to stand next to you. ...
pmayo says:
Since someone brought up outsourcing in the last thread, I was thinking "what's our return?" In short, what does the government, and, by extension (hahahaha, see I'm trusting that taxpayers actually benefit) the taxpayer get back in return for bailing out the Big 3? I say the government makes this loan contingent on the cessation of outsourcing, or, at the very least, some outsourcing. Force automakers to bring back those jobs. We give you the money, you repatriate the jobs. It makes the union happy, it makes the taxpayer happy, and it makes the auto exec pay for his rampant greed and stupidity.
Kulkuri says:
The thing I don't understand is that if the cost of medical insurance is more than the cost of steel per car, why hasn't the Big 3 pushed for universal health?? That is the reason the work is going to Canada (heartbeat of America, Camaro is built there) and Mexico where they also have universal health. The studies I've seen show that it would cost less for Big Business to pay into a universal health system than what they are paying now for medical insurance. The insurance companies must have one helluva lobby!! Wait, was I talking socialized medicine, that's bad, crony Kapitalism is good!!
j says:
@ pmayo
I don't know if preventing outsourcing would be beneficial; actually I fear that it might backfire. On the one hand you would be giving them a help to right the sinking ship and on the other hand you would be handicapping them from using any and all tools possible to get things moving in the direction of profitability.
Perhaps a better way to get the execs to put their back into their work is to tie their pay directly and completely to the company's success. If GM loses 1% market share then Wagoner forfeits 50% of his salary.