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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (182659)	3/1/2006 1:01:00 PM
From: geode00	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

These arguments are always made as if they are actually based on fact. GM and Ford sucked at the low-priced gasoline pump for decades making a mint on the sale of unnecessary SUVs. Have you seen their little cars? They're awful. Gasoline prices go up, they yell unfair, they blame their workers (always a good thing for a manufacturing co.), they blame the world and they give management millions anyway. They are poorly run companies who have been making lousy products on and off (GM more than Ford) for decades. If they had better relationships with their workers, they could have negotiated more of a shared risk/reward relationship instead of a confrontational one. Blaming workers for everything? Yep, that's rich. If you don't have the studies and stats to back up your condemnation of government welfare then it's just your opinion and we'll just leave it at that. There is more to the world than getting the most crappola for the lowest amount of money. Did you see all of the clothes dumped on the victims of Katrina and the tsunami? We go through ridiculous amounts of clothing. Is that necessary? What if we had fewer, more expensive pieces of clothing manufactured in smaller quantities by people paid a living wage? Instead of having 10 pairs of sneaks, we all had 1 at a time. Would our world collapse? What is the great deal in having cheap t-shirts instead of handmade shirts that we keep for 20 years? What? We need to rethink our fanatical consumption mindset where the only thing is to have disposable TVs at the lowest possible cost made by slave labor under deplorable conditions. Again, this is a brutish, cold, venal attitude about the world. Why do you wish to live in a world like that? Why?