Ford Cutting Own Throat

[2centsworth]

So why is San Antonio/Bexar County willing to pay to build expensive toll-roads that will benefit few, but not a light rail system connecting Austin-San Antonio that will benefit many? Aren't our own city planners being as short-sighted as FORD management?

simple answer is tax revenue. total sham visit www.satollparty.com.

think this discussion is worth a seperate thread.

[Yonivore]

...it would have helped, but then they'd still have the problems of poor design, substandard material quality, and disorganized product portfolio.

That's where true compe ion would have come into play.

If the manufacturers weren't so busy cradle-to-graving their union employees with obscene compensation packages, extorted by the unions, they could have concentrated their dollars on R & D; attracting quality engineers, emphasizing quality designs, and buying quality materials.

That's hard to do when you're paying an illiterate $35.00 an hour (and more) to put the same bolt in the same hole day after day after day and, then, continuing to do so when they are laid off or otherwise unable to work.

[Oh, Gee!!]

That's where true compe ion would have come into play.

If the manufacturers weren't so busy cradle-to-graving their union employees with obscene compensation packages, extorted by the unions, they could have concentrated their dollars on R & D; attracting quality engineers, emphasizing quality designs, and buying quality materials.

That's hard to do when you're paying an illiterate $35.00 an hour (and more) to put the same bolt in the same hole day after day after day and, then, continuing to do so when they are laid off or otherwise unable to work.

blame the workers, you're a true Libertarian.

[Yonivore]

blame the workers, you're a true Libertarian.

I blame the Unions and the manufacturers that didn't have the gonads God gave Wal-Mart who, by the way, is standing up to the unions.

Opened a store a block outside Chicago because Chicago capitulated to the unions and wouldn't allow them to build there. Had 14,000 applications for 325 jobs.

And, if you blame that on a soft job market, you'd better be ready to point to other big box employers in the area who have received as many applications for so few jobs.