GM is just a bad business, in general. They took planned obsolescence to the extreme, for decades. I saw it in the body shop biz, they had like 120 paint swatches while every other company has like 8. After the bale out they dropped to like 10 and now they are back in the hundreds. Let shit businesses fail, even if it means many people getting laid off. Sorry for the serious post, but man I’ve busted too many knuckles on shit GM products.
the problem with the bailing them out, much like the banks, is that nobody learned any lessons from it
the shitty ass car companies are right back to making shitty cars, and the shitty ass banks are right back to their shitty lending tendencies (with a big assist from daddy rolling back dodd-frank, which was already a bandaid for a bullet wound)
basically everything is shit and we are doomed to repeat every mistake we've ever made as a species until we inevitably accidentally extinct ourselves. hopefully soon
I honestly have to wonder though if some of the current problems are getting comparable to Roman land reform in the late republic - most of these problems have solutions (or at least things that could be solutions), but the political system cannot implement them. It just becomes an unending problem that gradually erodes the legitimacy of the system.
Especially teachers. In Kentucky they have rooms of bad teachers that have been passed around so much that they just sit in a room all day doing nothing, bc they can’t be fired.
No, they aren't and no they don't. Corporations aren't accountable, at least local government and the federal government are somewhat accountable to voters.
Voters don't primarily care about "cutting taxes" and increasing taxes on the wealthy enjoys high levels of support from both democrats and Republicans.
Voters are only ok with raising taxes when it's someone else's taxes being raised. Kind of like how you are only opposed to unions when it's your taxes paying for them.
Again: My anti-public union stance has literally nothing to do with money or taxes.
You can keep trying this. Here, let me put this to rest now: pass lows locking in an acceptable salary for all teachers, cops, firefighters, whatever else.
Right, because all unions do is fight for salaries and sub-human government bureaucrats won't pull some shit, like increasing duties while cutting funds from the budget in other ways.
You are just have a hate boner for corporations without realizing that government bureaucracies are the other side of the same coin.
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1 Kaiser-romulus 2019-11-20
Unions are only good never bad you alt right Nazi
1 Kat_B0T 2019-11-20
GM is just a bad business, in general. They took planned obsolescence to the extreme, for decades. I saw it in the body shop biz, they had like 120 paint swatches while every other company has like 8. After the bale out they dropped to like 10 and now they are back in the hundreds. Let shit businesses fail, even if it means many people getting laid off. Sorry for the serious post, but man I’ve busted too many knuckles on shit GM products.
1 Kaiser-romulus 2019-11-20
I agree let them die
1 GeauxHouston22 2019-11-20
the problem with the bailing them out, much like the banks, is that nobody learned any lessons from it
the shitty ass car companies are right back to making shitty cars, and the shitty ass banks are right back to their shitty lending tendencies (with a big assist from daddy rolling back dodd-frank, which was already a bandaid for a bullet wound)
basically everything is shit and we are doomed to repeat every mistake we've ever made as a species until we inevitably accidentally extinct ourselves. hopefully soon
1 Kat_B0T 2019-11-20
Well put, this pretty much exactly.
1 trexmundi 2019-11-20
The day of consumption is nigh.
I honestly have to wonder though if some of the current problems are getting comparable to Roman land reform in the late republic - most of these problems have solutions (or at least things that could be solutions), but the political system cannot implement them. It just becomes an unending problem that gradually erodes the legitimacy of the system.
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1 ponzishill 2019-11-20
Unions, even with the downsides, are better than the alternative.
1 Kaiser-romulus 2019-11-20
What about bus drivers
1 ponzishill 2019-11-20
I don't think any public sector job should be allowed to unionize.
1 Kaiser-romulus 2019-11-20
Especially teachers
1 ponzishill 2019-11-20
Likely, yes.
1 Kat_B0T 2019-11-20
Especially teachers. In Kentucky they have rooms of bad teachers that have been passed around so much that they just sit in a room all day doing nothing, bc they can’t be fired.
1 NumerousEvent 2019-11-20
>Unions are good unless I have to pick up the tab
1 ponzishill 2019-11-20
It has nothing to do with the money and more so police officers and public workers getting away with absolutely absurd shit.
See: Police unions.
1 NumerousEvent 2019-11-20
1 ponzishill 2019-11-20
Not even close to what police unions do.
1 NumerousEvent 2019-11-20
But you said all public sector unions should be banned, not just police unions.
1 ponzishill 2019-11-20
I think all should, they all get away with pretty retarded shit, especially teacher unions.
1 NumerousEvent 2019-11-20
The original point then stands and your harping on police unions is a red herring.
1 ponzishill 2019-11-20
It's pretty simple: Corporations are sub-human filth and unions have every right to exist.
Public worker disputes can be addressed by other means.
1 NumerousEvent 2019-11-20
Government bureaucrats are sub human filth and public sector unions have every right to exist.
1 ponzishill 2019-11-20
No, they aren't and no they don't. Corporations aren't accountable, at least local government and the federal government are somewhat accountable to voters.
1 NumerousEvent 2019-11-20
Yes they are and yes they do. Voters primarily care about cutting taxes. Public sector workers aren't going to get didly without unionizing.
1 ponzishill 2019-11-20
Voters don't primarily care about "cutting taxes" and increasing taxes on the wealthy enjoys high levels of support from both democrats and Republicans.
1 NumerousEvent 2019-11-20
Voters are only ok with raising taxes when it's someone else's taxes being raised. Kind of like how you are only opposed to unions when it's your taxes paying for them.
1 ponzishill 2019-11-20
Again: My anti-public union stance has literally nothing to do with money or taxes.
You can keep trying this. Here, let me put this to rest now: pass lows locking in an acceptable salary for all teachers, cops, firefighters, whatever else.
Then ban public unions.
1 NumerousEvent 2019-11-20
Right, because all unions do is fight for salaries and sub-human government bureaucrats won't pull some shit, like increasing duties while cutting funds from the budget in other ways.
You are just have a hate boner for corporations without realizing that government bureaucracies are the other side of the same coin.
1 jerryjoneshere 2019-11-20
Getting cucked by the fine folks behind the pt cruiser lmao