Without voicing a pro or con opinion:
I am not worried about delays. If it gets held up by a strike and I have to wait longer I will just hold on to my money and draw interest off of it longer. I will just drive my GT350 and Focus ST for fun until the GT500 arrives.
Interesting story. I didn't realize the information below.
I don't like unions, because I think they tend to drive companies out of business and make them less profitable. It's difficult for a company to be competitive if they have to pay their workers too much money. It means the company has to try to find other areas to cut costs. I'd like to see Ford and other automakers find non-union people that can be hired and fired based on their work performance and paid the going market rates.
This thinking is whats killing the middle class. GM, Ford, Shell oil, Exxon etc. Make profits in the billions every year. And they make those profits off of the backs of their workers. So lets let these giant, ultra rich companies. Pocket even more profit? By cutting pay and benefits? How does anyone in this country benefit from that? With the exception of large share holders and board members. Is Ford going to cut the cost of a Mustang? And pass that saving on to the consumer? Is Exxon going to lower the price of gas? At the pace this country is going. Your going to have two classes in this country. Rich and poor. And trust me. Most wont like the ratio of rich/poor. Where does it end? Ask yourself how long would it take these billion dollar companies. To replace you with illegal immigrants? Who would work for less than minimum wage. And are happy to get free health care from the government. If they could get away with it.
Workers are free to work for any company, or to start their own business. And lots of people hop jobs over and over to get raises, different experience, etc. Corporations don't have to care about workers, just like workers don't have to care about the corporation they work for. However, if the corporation doesn't offer to pay the worker as much money as their competitors do, the workers will go work for another company. And the best workers will start their own competing companies and beat the corporation at its own game. There's no need for a union for workers to get a "fair" wage. Competition naturally takes care of that.
Everyone in the world benefits from the great products that are produced by American businesses and American people. Companies can't sell products unless they are able to make a product that is better than the products made by the competition. Successful companies employ a lot of people and produce products that benefit lots of people. Making money is something that companies need to do in order to hire people to develop and make more products. Economics 101.
I like some of her movies but never read anything by her.
Not only replacing us with illegal immigrants but with machines. Anyone one been in Walmart lately they have installed more self checkouts and reduced to five or six lanes where there is a casher and usually they only have two of those lanes manned. Walmart wants you to use the self checkouts and eventually that's all they'll have. No need to have ten people to run registers when you can have one or two watching cameras. I do not and will not use a self checkout.
