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To: nascarnation
Yes, you are absolutely correct and I think they did the right thing. Why sacrifice 15% efficiency? The Volt is a winner and it's killing many on this site that the damn thing works as advertised. I know many don't like GM because of the bailout and I wish GM had a standard Chapter 11 bailout. But what's done is done and I wish GM, Ford, and Chrysler all the luck in the world. We need to keep manufacturing alive and well in the US. Not everyone can work for Google or Apple. We still need base manufacturing and the Automobile Industry is a big part of this.
23 posted on 10/19/2010 7:01:00 PM PDT by truthguy (Good intentions are not enough.)
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To: truthguy
If you want to buy an American car, buy a Nissan that is made in Tennessee or Mississippi by non-union workers. If you buy a car made in Detroit, you might as well just write a big check to Obama or Hillary Clinton because you are DIRECTLY supporting socialism and marxism.

One cannot understate the pure evil of labor unions. They extort money from the workers (in the form of dues) and apply it towards supporting marxist and socialist political candidates who are committed to destroying America and all it stands for. On top of that, the unions tell their workers who to vote for and intimidate them into holding signs and otherwise volunteering for the campaigns of Democrats.

Unions reward sloth and destroy anybody who wishes to work hard and do a good job. They promote socialism by paying everybody exactly the same wages for the same job. If somebody calls out sick twenty times a year and drinks and smokes weed on the job, they get paid exactly the same as the poor sap who comes in every day, works hard and goes the extra mile.

In fact, unions HATE people who work hard and they seek to root them out of the workplace. They even have an expression to discourage others from working hard: "Don't kill the job." Because they know that if people do a full days work, the companies they are leeching off of might realize that they don't need to have quite so many workers on the payroll. So basically it takes seven men to dig a hole, one to hold the shovel and the other six to lean on their shovels and watch.

This is no exaggeration either. The labor unions, where they are permitted to exist, suck the blood out of our industries and like the parasites they are, they eventually destroy the host.

26 posted on 10/19/2010 7:15:06 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (I am 42 days away from outliving Curly Howard)
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