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Default the widening food gap between poor and wealthy

On 9/6/2014 5:13 PM, Jeßus wrote:
> On Sat, 06 Sep 2014 14:42:37 -0600, Mayo > wrote:
>
>> D, as in Detroit.
>>
>> Ruined by the greedy auto unions, plagued by corrupt leadership, now an
>> urban graveyard.

>
> Not quite.


Yes quite, you're not living here, so don't pretend to know what happens
in this nation.

> You guys built cars nobody wanted, and with inferior
> quality into the bargain.


Inferior quality the UAW helped propagate and assist with.

> Just like the Australian automotive industry
> did, who took too long to adapt to change... and is now dead because
> of it.


We're still taking your last Holden Monaros.

> Any action by unions only compounded the problem,


No, they actively helped grow it.

> but then, what
> American or Australian would work for wages that made the industry
> sufficiently competitive? None would. There's always illegal aliens, I
> suppose.


Oddly Americans are more than happy to work for non-union manufacturers
here like BMW, Mercedes, Nissan, Toyota, etc...

You've inserted your slack opinions into a subject you're ill prepared
to discuss.