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- Go to Tax Unemployed Auto Workers $2.00 Per Gallon for Ga$ - Michael Moore
you say industry doesn't need safety and environmental regulatons.
then you go down to Mexico and work in an auto plant and live near one, worry about if you might have an arm cut off -- or drink the poisoned water and breath the polluted air.
You care about people about as little as industry does -- that is the logical conclusion. People don't need a safe workplace (I've encountered a few people whose lives have been cut short by unsafe workplaces and it's been a loss for their families -- I guess it's like Iraq -- you, like Herr Bush & Co. don't care about the young American lives lost or the tens of thousands of casualties and the loss to the wives and children -- same with factories -- and of course you wouldn't mind drinking water poisoned by those plants -- or breathing air that burns your lungs and gives you emphysema or darkens the sky -- those plants need the profit -- to hell iwth your health or safety.
Right?
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Xeno-x
on June 6, 2009 at 7:58 PM
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the intresting thing about workers' income and buying cars is:
something you totally overlooked in your narrow, one-sided point of view.
you make it seem that auto makers, in order to make a profit, have to make unemployed tens of thousands of American workers and have the work done in Mexico, where the people are paid a whole lot less -- and of course the factories are not under an environmental regulations -- oh that';s just too expensive to think of the health and safety of people around you -- like poisonous pollution in the water and air -- that's is just not good business to refrain from killing people.
But back to the American worker thing. You seem to think (as apparently do the totally short-sighted management at GM) that it's good for business not to have American workers make good wages. Or even be employed. They don't mind putting people out on the streets and neither do you.
But Henry Ford had a different idea entirely. Back in the 20's the going wage for an auto worker was about $2.50 a day. Henry Ford doubled the wage to his workers to $5 a day, which was unheard of at that time and objected to by other automakers as unprofitable. His logic was that when the workers are paid well, they will spend the money on the new cars -- his cars. And he was proven right.
GM and other industries (and you) don't think that way. To hell with workers. And of course workers can't buy their product as a result.
About products that people want -- like maybe Hummers -- great automobile -- let's see -- what's the gas mileage? -- and light trucks? -- yes people want and need light trucks (my 13 year old granddaughter wants a behemoth of a truck to drive when she gets driving age) but they aren't so light -- they are huge things compared to what they used to be -- get far less gas mileage -- less than autos -- used to be a pickup got better bas mileage than just about any auto.
But looking at where GM is now, looks like Mr. Moore was pretty much on track, wouldn't you say? You sure as hell ain't got any idea about the situation.
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Xeno-x
on June 6, 2009 at 7:52 PM
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