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Default the widening food gap between poor and wealthy

On Sat, 06 Sep 2014 19:36:17 -0600, Mayo > wrote:

> 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...


Don't forget that those manufacturers would be willing to work with
unions if they weren't inhibited by the states they are located in.
>
> You've inserted your slack opinions into a subject you're ill prepared
> to discuss.




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