@Shamoononon: I shave my legs.: Isn't it an artificial sweetener? And yes, I've heard that some people are allergic to something called phenylalanine. #joebiden
@leavethegun-takethecannoli: I'm kind of underweight so I've never been forced into diet food so I'm not totally sure without googling it, sorry to mislead you.
There are people allergic to phenylalanine, and I hear it also causes more cravings. #joebiden
Plus, I heard on the radio at lunch she ate her hot dog with a knife and fork, and that Biden whipped out a couple hundreds and bought everybody in the place lunch. #joebiden
Mmmmm..makes me hungry every time I think of Lafayette's. It's my special Sunday morning post-Sat night binge drinking remedy.
I love driving down to the place at 7am on a Sunday morning when the roads are still empty, the drug dealers are just hitting the bed. Snick the gear lever into 6th, Cruise control on, a bit of music, heating turned on just so. A perfect time to think and contemplate. #joebiden
@Alfisted: if it wasn't for their arrogance as a copmany and their cultish users, I would not have gotten rid of my G4 and converted to windows.
Somewhere allong the lines of fixing the computers people would bring in to the shop while telling me that they never broke as I am fixing their stuff... and Apple having commercials talking not about how cool their stuff was, but why Pepsi to their Coke would give you cancer and eat your children... something inside me snapped and I decided to get away from the product in general.
@beercheck: he has gotten to where he is by riding the back of a bla.. um... half whtie guy. #joebiden
Your own presidential Jesus Someone to inflate your tires, someone who cares Your own presidential Jesus Ties to radicals like Ayers, someone with flair....
When the economy is crashing and people are losing jobs to the tune of 200,000+ a month, the stock market is sinking--this is not a time to focus on solutions that are a decade away, like alternative fuel. True, you have to take a long view of the re-build, but only after you put the fire out.
Well if he's the Detroit Jesus then I'm their Beelzebub. They shouldn't be getting a damn penny of my taxpayer dollars. They've had every oppurtinity before this "crisis" to get something in the works. Toyota had the Prius and other hybrids in the market before anyone else. If this was merely a market issue, all the automakers would be in the same, "GIVE ME MONEY!!".
While Toyota made the Prius and every non-domestic automaker came out with hybrid's, GM built Tahoe hybrids. TAHOE HYBRIDS! No one is going to purchase a "Hybrid" that gets 24 mpg highway. It's just not gonna sell.
I think if the impotent 3, I'm trademarking that, want anymore bailouts the CEO's should resign. That's our money being handed to you to make cars we want. Obviously you havent been doing the job to this point, why should we trust you to do it right the 2nd/3rd time around? Want a bailout Impotent 3? Then have the CEO's resign. They'll either stop begging for our cash or they'll start making changes, QUICK.
So maybe he will do something about the stranglehold Union's have on them. Maybe he will allow them to stop giving outrageous benefits and $150k salaries to 50yo union workers who work 10 hours a week when they feel like it.
Or having the Michigan fat-asses pay more than a $15 co-pay when all that consumed pork turns into a triple by-pass.
Oh wait, he loves Unions and doesn't see that they are killing these car companies. They can't spend money on innovation because its going to legacy union workers, and thats exactly where all the money Hussein gives them will go.
"But they need their union! Or the company will hurt them"
Look at all the foreign car factory plants in America, none have Unions, but their workers are well taken care of. And no foreign companies will go within 400 miles of a plant that does. Yet they make better cars and aren't falling out of the sky. Hmph, maybe something needs to CHANGE!
@jodark: I also agree with you, in theory. I find that unions have generally lost their purpose. In the begining, the Industrial Revolution, they tried to offset the huge power of Industrial Titans, and attempt to gain more humane working conditions for poor, illiterate, unskilled workers, as well as various other things. Read "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair for a little story about how Unions were good at a time, during the height of the Industrial Revolution.
With the Automakers, it should be survival of the fittest, and right now, GM seems to be putting on a few pounds (or they've been putting them on for 10 years and are now being forced to do wind sprints)
I'm not totally against Washington bailing out Detroit, but in a way that totally doesn't screw over taxpayers, and that forces GM to change and transform, so that in 40 years or so, in the next credit crunch (Yes, this has happened before, see Martin Van Buren), GM will be somewhat prepared, and have somewhat, well, competent management.
@jodark: I agree in the sense that the unions have become slow mammoths just like the car manufacturers. I don't think it is the only reason for the Big 3 to be in trouble, but it surely is part of the problem.
@sos10: Nice voice for moderation, but the Unions didn't decide what cars and trucks and SUVs would be made; the Unions did not bring this about. Poor management and bad leadership did--along with the bad luck of being caught in a vortex of finance, as the greed-heads who went after the sub-prime mortgages drag everyone else down.
The Union members are at least as screwed as everybody else these days.
I am fully aware of the history of Unions and the marked influence they have in transforming American factories into something humane. While I haven't read "The Jungle" by Upton, I am fully aware of its contents and more importantly its influence.
HOWEVER, Unions aren't what they used to be and and become more and more a way for Union bosses who exert mafia control over a workforce to get rich without spending a single say on the manufacturing floor. The Union as a whole strangles the company while telling them they need more air.
Fix it? No, scrap it! If the people resist, then move. If Union laws prevent moving (they probably do). Dump the company, start a new one and eventually the Union ideology will die once the entire northern midwest is unemployed and hungry. Then move the new company back and conduct business like foreign companies on our soil.
@jodark: Don't you think the work conditions will deteriorate again, though? Even now you have lots of evidence at what happens at say, WalMart, to workers. Unless you think corporations will suddenly grow a conscience and behave ethically.
Don't get me wrong; it is their nature to seek profit and cut costs but they have to be limited somehow.
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Does the Diet Coke cancel out previously eaten calories? #joebiden
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There are people allergic to phenylalanine, and I hear it also causes more cravings. #joebiden
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Plus, I heard on the radio at lunch she ate her hot dog with a knife and fork, and that Biden whipped out a couple hundreds and bought everybody in the place lunch. #joebiden
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That's probably the only reason I'd go back to Detroit. That and to make my pilgrimage to Jalopnik HQ and pray to the deities of hoonage. #joebiden
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I love driving down to the place at 7am on a Sunday morning when the roads are still empty, the drug dealers are just hitting the bed. Snick the gear lever into 6th, Cruise control on, a bit of music, heating turned on just so. A perfect time to think and contemplate. #joebiden
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Always has, always will. #joebiden
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Somewhere allong the lines of fixing the computers people would bring in to the shop while telling me that they never broke as I am fixing their stuff... and Apple having commercials talking not about how cool their stuff was, but why Pepsi to their Coke would give you cancer and eat your children... something inside me snapped and I decided to get away from the product in general.
@beercheck: he has gotten to where he is by riding the back of a bla.. um... half whtie guy. #joebiden
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Someone to inflate your tires, someone who cares
Your own presidential Jesus
Ties to radicals like Ayers, someone with flair....
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Throwing money never puts a fire out.
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While Toyota made the Prius and every non-domestic automaker came out with hybrid's, GM built Tahoe hybrids. TAHOE HYBRIDS! No one is going to purchase a "Hybrid" that gets 24 mpg highway. It's just not gonna sell.
I think if the impotent 3, I'm trademarking that, want anymore bailouts the CEO's should resign. That's our money being handed to you to make cars we want. Obviously you havent been doing the job to this point, why should we trust you to do it right the 2nd/3rd time around? Want a bailout Impotent 3? Then have the CEO's resign. They'll either stop begging for our cash or they'll start making changes, QUICK.
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Or having the Michigan fat-asses pay more than a $15 co-pay when all that consumed pork turns into a triple by-pass.
Oh wait, he loves Unions and doesn't see that they are killing these car companies. They can't spend money on innovation because its going to legacy union workers, and thats exactly where all the money Hussein gives them will go.
"But they need their union! Or the company will hurt them"
Look at all the foreign car factory plants in America, none have Unions, but their workers are well taken care of. And no foreign companies will go within 400 miles of a plant that does. Yet they make better cars and aren't falling out of the sky. Hmph, maybe something needs to CHANGE!
11/07/08
With the Automakers, it should be survival of the fittest, and right now, GM seems to be putting on a few pounds (or they've been putting them on for 10 years and are now being forced to do wind sprints)
I'm not totally against Washington bailing out Detroit, but in a way that totally doesn't screw over taxpayers, and that forces GM to change and transform, so that in 40 years or so, in the next credit crunch (Yes, this has happened before, see Martin Van Buren), GM will be somewhat prepared, and have somewhat, well, competent management.
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How to change this? Not an easy one.
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The Union members are at least as screwed as everybody else these days.
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I am fully aware of the history of Unions and the marked influence they have in transforming American factories into something humane. While I haven't read "The Jungle" by Upton, I am fully aware of its contents and more importantly its influence.
HOWEVER, Unions aren't what they used to be and and become more and more a way for Union bosses who exert mafia control over a workforce to get rich without spending a single say on the manufacturing floor. The Union as a whole strangles the company while telling them they need more air.
Fix it? No, scrap it! If the people resist, then move. If Union laws prevent moving (they probably do). Dump the company, start a new one and eventually the Union ideology will die once the entire northern midwest is unemployed and hungry. Then move the new company back and conduct business like foreign companies on our soil.
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Don't get me wrong; it is their nature to seek profit and cut costs but they have to be limited somehow.
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