Tuesday, November 22, 2005
30,000 lay-offs at GM: oh gosh the U.S. car manufacturing industry is down the tubes now too. I hate to sound like a liberal Democrat whiner but things really aren't looking very rosy for America. It's one thing to watch for years as one manufacturing industry after the other swam (or was tugged) to other shores but to now be witness to the demise of the car industry is symbolically speaking a huge blow to the car-defining soul of the American (Amish excluded). Let's not forget here that not 50 years ago, America reigned supreme in the car industry!
Other than freeing up 30,000 former GM employees as potential cannon fodderees for Iraq, I just don't see a viable long-term strategy anywhere for this country ie. what now?? Not that GM's crappy cars were ever a sustainable strategy for this country but where is the next rung of progression? Does anyone out there have a plan or are we just the blind leading the blind here. Maybe the religious fanatics have got it right. Just keep praying loudly enough and the petrificant din of reality will go away....
Other than freeing up 30,000 former GM employees as potential cannon fodderees for Iraq, I just don't see a viable long-term strategy anywhere for this country ie. what now?? Not that GM's crappy cars were ever a sustainable strategy for this country but where is the next rung of progression? Does anyone out there have a plan or are we just the blind leading the blind here. Maybe the religious fanatics have got it right. Just keep praying loudly enough and the petrificant din of reality will go away....
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