  Lilpup Member Username: Lilpup Post Number: 5778 Registered: 06-2004 |
driving one with a Cruze body and having another on display http://freep.com/article/20081 203/BUSINESS01/81203081 | ||
Lmichigan Member Username: Lmichigan Post Number: 6493 Registered: 10-2003 |
Just you watch; many of the politicians and columnists will still find something negative in this. | ||
E_hemingway Member Username: E_hemingway Post Number: 1872 Registered: 11-2004 |
And then they'll give another $50 billion to Wall Street with no questions and no strings attached. | ||
Danindc Member Username: Danindc Post Number: 5290 Registered: 10-2003 |
And it's all because Congress HATES Michigan, and HATES Detroit, and wants to see you all suffer and be poor. | ||
Lilpup Member Username: Lilpup Post Number: 5782 Registered: 06-2004 |
At this point we have no reason to believe otherwise. | ||
Otter Member Username: Otter Post Number: 436 Registered: 12-2007 |
Well, if it's what you (I mean the collective you, not you individually) want to believe you'll probably find a way to convince yourself of it no matter what. | ||
Lilpup Member Username: Lilpup Post Number: 5784 Registered: 06-2004 |
Not true, Otter. SE Michigan has the greatest concentration of engineers in the country. We are analytical people. Your condescending dismissal of our concerns is exactly the behavior we repeatedly see from so many others. Michigan was raising the alarm about economic instability long before things starting blowing up this past year, but everyone scoffed at us and sniped about our "one state recession." We would rather not have the opportunity to say again "We told you so" after the complete collapse that will occur if you people don't get your heads out of your asses. | ||
Otter Member Username: Otter Post Number: 438 Registered: 12-2007 |
Lilpup, I am not dismissing your concerns for the state of Michigan or the auto industry. If I am dismissive of anything, however, it is of agreement with statements like "And it's all because Congress HATES Michigan, and HATES Detroit, and wants to see you all suffer and be poor." - which was meant sarcastically by the poster but seems to be taken seriously by a lot of people. If you reduce an oppsition's motivation on a political issue like this one to a personal one, then you are almost certainly wrong. It is rather myopic to imagine that the rest of the country is so consumed with a personal hatred of you, your state, your industry, whatever. They're not. FWIW, I'm an automotive engineer too. Not sure how that bears on anything, though. You (personally) may prefer not to have the opportunity to say "I told you so" but other posters here seem to look forward to it. |
