Compliments of the Detroit Free Press, On Guard for 174 years...
Delphi Declares Bankruptcy; A major automotive supplier and employer of unionized workers says "yo, yo, yo, i gots no dough!" This move would never work for an actual manufacturer of vehicles because it would destroy customer loyalty and faith in the product. Who wants to buy a car from a company that you can't be sure will be around in 3 years? It seems one sided to blame the union workers and their outrageous wages... but we will anyway.
Something about an earthquake somewhere... Another 40K dead... What is that for last two years? about a quarter million dead from weather, world wide?
Local news: (not even front page here)
Detroit Zoo Faces Uncertain Future; The auto industry takes a dive and Michigan follows. And when you've got the most depressed major city in a state with the highest unemployment...
Fire Bomb Hits house of Ecorse Mayoral Candidate; yeah, this happened about 5 miles from my house. There's more stuff, but i don't much have the energy or desire anymore. Time to check out the comics.
"where as profound hatred can can feel transfiguring, sadness just sits there"
4 comments:
guess to many people had one foot out the door, waiting to jump ship...
mother nature will always win.
-Kodjo the meteorologist
Actually, that couldn't be any further from the truth. Trying to get union guy to change jobs is like trying to get a Polar bear to change his underwear.
No, they just sit their and accumulate seniority until they 're so old they can't walk or suffer from some other "gimpify-ing" disease. Why retire?
Which is exactly why Delphi had to file for the B, so they would be free of the responsibility of paying those tremendously high wages.
"Our planet's immune system is trying to get rid of us, and it should."
-Kurt Vonnegut
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