Michigan under democrats becoming the model for sovietization of the whole country.
The author is wrong about one thing in a major way. Unions have always been the sister of Communism. Poland is a poor example to choose. Unions in this country are an offshoot of Communism at their very core.
I spent five years at the beginning of my career starting up power plants. Nothing I learned in engineering school prepared me for unions. In Arizona, I needed to make a simple five minute adjustment to a coal pulverized. I picked up a wrench to do it and almost got the entire job site shut down. SEVEN trades came out to “help” me - carpenter to move a plank, electrician, boilermaker, instrumentation, pipe fitter, laborer (to sweep the floor), and millwright. None of them moved quickly; there was zero sense of urgency. The five minute adjustment took an entire morning. I was a newly minted degreed mechanical engineer making half of what these guys were making. The “cost” to make that simple adjustment was 1,000 time higher than it would have been without those damned unions. The waste was absolutely mind boggling.
In Washington state, you could not get the unions off of a job at the end. They absolutely perfected featherbedding. In fact, the electricians were so proud of it they called themselves the “FLEAs” which stood for “Fat, Lazy Electrician.” They were PROUD of that!
My union “experiences” taught me everything I needed to know.
Michigan voted themselves back to failure. Kinda hard to feel bad for (all of) them.
Getting what they voted for.
Yeah, yeah, there’s cheating and all, but it shouldn’t even be that close.
And the useful idiots are voting their way into poverty.
From the 1970s to the early 2000s, Detroit lost nearly half its population.
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Although you’ll always find pockets of leftists, you don’t have to go too far north of Detroit before some common sense returns.
Just noticing, are they? we endured 8 years of a non-American prog woman at the helm (Granholm) and now have 8 years of Wretched Hitler. WTH did they expect? It’s all due to Detroit/Lansing/AnnArbor leftist hawgs. Outside of that area, Michigan is bright red except for Traverse Gay and Marquette.
How different are we up north? When Hitler exempted the county where her summer retreat is and the “First Gentleman” showed up at a local boat place demanding to be moved to the front of the line, he said, “Do you KNOW who my wife is?” and the boat place guy said, “Yeah...and you’ll be ****ing lucky if I get to it by August.”
I had an uncle who worked for GM in the late 60’s. He was a brand new employee and they gave him some mundane job to do assembling something the line would install. They showed him how to assemble the part, where to put them when completed and walked out of this room and left him.
About 6hrs into the shift the foreman comes in and checks on him and goes bezerk! What have you done he yelled! What my boss told me to do he replied, I assembled these for the line. The foreman goes storming off cursing and brings in my uncles boss cussing every breath and says look! My uncles boss says you have assembled enough of these for the entire week, you are only supposed to make 5-6 of these an entire shift and you have 30-35 of them! The foreman said hide these from management and work an extra in every night and looked at my uncle and said 5 a night understand and stormed out. Union thugs...
People who paid ANY attention:
Biden campaigned on “EVERY JOB SHOULD BE A UNION JOB”.