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Skriven 2004-10-22 19:16:14 av Björn Forsström (2:203/614.61)
   Kommentar till text 1022 av TIM RICHARDSON (1:123/140)
Ärende: "Proof" (was: FidoNews 21
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 TR> Yeah, well you two probably ain't gonna like this:

I don't have a problem with it.

 TR> I'm not surprised that major auto companies are starting to shut down
 TR> various operations here and there.

Neither am I. There is a hugh overcapacity of car manufactoring.

 TR> I don't know how old you two are, but I'm old enough to remember when my
 TR> grandparents bought a new car every three years; a Desoto.

I even remember when my father bought a new Volvo every three years.

 TR> The car cost less than 35 hundred dollars to buy, including tax and
 TR> license.

They didn't make that much of money eiter so a car in that days must have
been like it is today compared to the sallary. Depending naturally of what size
of car of course.

 TR> Now, today, the car my grandfather used to buy new every three years would
 TR> cost in the neighborhood of $40,000, without very many options.

Here you can buy a new Skoda fully equipted for about $20 000.....

 TR> My youngest son paid $40,000 for his first house! A car costing that much
 TR> is obscene.

I agree. See above.


 TR> And the blame lies in various places; unions, with their constant demands
 TR> for more and more, to a point of pricing themselves right out of a job,
 TR> and their jobs being shipped off to foreign countries; politicians, with
 TR> their constant meddling with stupid-assed laws that only make cars cost
 TR> more and more, taxing mid-level working people out of the new car market,
 TR> and having the fuckin' guts to vote themselves nice fat raises in the
 TR> middle of the night sessions (tell me the last time *you* got a $4000 a
 TR> year pay raise, and an increase in benefits package at the same time,
 TR> overnight!).

That's something only politicains can do and you are not alone.
It's the same shit here.

 TR> The politicians in Congress don't see that they themselves are greatly to
 TR> blame for not putting their foot down and stopping the unions from forcing
 TR> prices to go up high due to their constant demands of more and more.

They just follow their leaders.
Have you seen Fahrenheit 9/11?

 TR> It isn't about `democrat and republican', `liberal and consrevative'. Its
 TR> about America, and whether or not there's going to even be an America in
 TR> our great-grand childrens' day. Its starting to look as though there won;t
 TR> be.

You are not alone in this. It's the same shit here.
Everything is moving to Poland, the Baltic States aso.
All the genuin Swedish things are now in foregin countries hands. Volvo, SAAB,
Swedish Match, Ericsson, ASEA (don't know about SKF but I wouldn't be
surprised).
What's left for us? I do a lot of work for SAAB and soon I have to speak
English
there since that's what GM says is the companys language.
When I bought a new Ericsson phone, not a single thing was made in Sweden.
Sigh.

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