02-08-2010, 04:23 PM
beckster Wrote:Chip Wrote:beckster Wrote:Yeah, I know. Too many people I know have worked for the original Big 3. And watching Flint, Saginaw and Detroit fall apart has been crazy. I have an empty GM plant right across the river and the houses around it are people living in poverty, because the jobs left and nothing new comes in.
But it's ok, because buying an import is the trendy thing to do.
Then we wonder why the economy fell apart and why Michigan has been in a recession for the past 10 years. Not to say that these guys are without fault. Unions got greedy and fucked things and over nobody really stood up to them.
It would have been nice if someone had said if a company wants to sell cars in this country, a certain number of them had to be union made.