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To: wideawake

What planet do you live on?


79 posted on 03/17/2005 9:06:59 AM PST by Havoc (Reagan was right and so was McKinley. Down with free trade. Hang the traitors high)
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To: Havoc
What planet do you live on?

As is your wont, you resort to insult instead of argument.

Again, the burden is upon you, especially at a conservative website, to explain why Marxism and class warfare rhetoric are valid tools for describing economic reality.

You were wrong on the facts to begin with: GM is not losing market share because Americans are too poor to buy cars - simple statistics show that Americans spend more on automobiles every year, and that a higher percentage of Americans own luxury level cars every year, and that numerous manufacturers are gaining sales volume in the US.

Now you assert that simple economic reality is some kind of coordinated conspiracy: i.e. regions like the American South and South America that have a labor surplus are more efficent places to manufacture cars than in Michigan and other non-right-to-work areas where the labor market is artificially restricted and overpriced.

The only conspiracy is the one proudly proclaimed by UAW: they demand that GM and other manufacturers pay extortion-level prices for labor, and they demand it as their "right".

You also assert that there is such a thing as a "working class" which is an outdated, simplistic Marxist concept. 21st century America is not 19th century Europe. We do not have a blood aristocracy that lives off agricultural rents. We do not have classes that one is born into for life. Marxism presumes that manual labor is the destiny of 90% of all men by nature. Nowadays we realize that this is not fate, but a voluntary career choice.

According to Marx, the fat lazy UAW worker who gets paid $80,000 a year to take coffee breaks and collect union dues is a member of the mythical "working class" while the freelance IT consultant who earns $60,000 a year tweaking code is a "propertied bourgeois".

These tired old labels just do not apply to life anymore. There is no such thing as a 40 year career in a factory putting in a bare 40 hour week with endless contractual raises and guaranteed job security anymore. And thank God for that.

81 posted on 03/17/2005 9:33:28 AM PST by wideawake (God bless our brave soldiers and their Commander in Chief)
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