Posted on 02/12/2011 2:33:47 PM PST by Walter Scott Hudson
I am really glad to see no one on this thread defending Detroit and using all those standard union lines like “It’s unions that keep ALL wages up!” and “Unions BUILT this state!” and we should all pitch in and fix up Detroit.
I guess that since we paid for this cool ad, we are already pitching in, huh?
Mr. P heard Paul W. Smith’s show after Steyn said all of this and says Mr. Smith is really tinkled off at Steyn.
Steyn is totally right. Democrats did this and now want us to pay for the fix. Sort of like the little red hen in reverse.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2670713/posts?page=24#24
Steyn was being a Richard Head period. Just once, just once, say something nice to someone who is down on their luck. But no, he couldn't even say "hey that was a great commerical".
I am not going to defend Detwaa, The UAW, the bailouts etc, read my post I have been a big critic.
But again just once say something nice to someone trying to make a turn around and he couldn't even freakin do that, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar and he couldn't see that....
Go read with the Auto Website Jalopnik told Stein, I am inclined to agree...
As a resident of SE MI, my election motto for the last Presidential election was, “export MI’s economy to the rest of the nation and elect Obama!”
I was mocked.....whose laughing now?
With all due respect, Steyn has an excellent point. It’s not about luck, it’s about who was in power and put there by the unions and the big D machine.
There is no one who is “down on their luck.” This was DONE to the area and the state BY THE DEMOCRAP party! That’s Steyn’s point!
As for the last line you posted, I have read it over and over and it makes no sense.
If the last like makes no sense go to Jalponik and see what they said.
“If the last like makes no sense go to Jalponik and see what they said. “
I really tried to figure out what Jalponik was. I googled it, even. Nothing. Did you mean Jalopnik? I found a site called Jalopnik and there is nothing about Steyn on it.
My family has been involved in auto industry stuff for two generations. I understand how one industry bleeds and lots of other people bleed. But, Detroit’s politics did the place in, and the collateral damage to the whole area is understandable. Things happen, you move and you change when you have to, to survive. Except for the whiners who sit and complain and get their mugs on TV saying “poor me”.
So someone points out the obvious in this, and you call him a prick? Why not put your energy into the real problem instead of going after Steyn? The real problem here is all the union members who are at heart conservative but will vote Democrat because it’s what their union leadership tells them to. Why not get busy and recruit some union members you know to pull out of their unions? Start a revolution.
Yes it is the Auto Website Jalopnik and their latest incarnation is hard to navigate. Stein still is a prick for once again not having the heart to saying something nice just once about a freakin commercial. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar and he still didn't get it and neither do you.
I hated that lying commercial.
Possibly because it wasn't a great commercial. It was a pack of uplifting lies from beginning to end. Pointing that out, as Steyn did so crisply, is a far greater public service than playing make-believe.
Nope, you’re the one who doesn’t get it.
Wow. That was enlightening. What a shame.
IMO the unions ruined my home state. I grew up Michigan and know all too well what happened there and why. IMO those who did not work with in a UAW shop struggled and the economy was out of wack for most of my life because of the UAW and Teamsters. When my husband got out of the Air Force we stupidly and optimistically tired to make a go of it there AGAIN in the early 1990s. We tried so hard to make it but ended up reluctantly returning to Florida where I had a job within a week. I pray every day for a recovery in Michigan. My family is there. My daughter is moving to the Detroit area this week and taking my young grandson with her. Things are tough in Florida now too, but Tampa is not like Detroit. She insists she is not moving to the city of Detroit and that the suburbs are just like here in Tampa. I hope I am wrong, but I doubt that living a few streets away from the third world can be a good thing and I agree with Mark as well.
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