Reply #19: Seen it all before.

[sofa king]

America has specialized in making giant pieces of shit since 1973. Periodically, gasoline prices kill demand for these pieces of shit, whereupon the automakers take the opportunity to steal money from the Indians and raid the employee pension funds. Then they re-badge some reliable, economical, foreign-made cars as their own and charge an extra thousand or two bucks to the idiots who think they're buying American. Then, when gas prices come down and the companies become profitable again, they skimp on modernization and retooling--after all, why bother when you can count on the feds to pay for it later?

The thing is, I don't think they're going to get away with it this time. I doubt we're ever going to see another oil surplus, and we certainly won't with a couple of Texas oilmen as our fascist dictators.

Won't that be a lark, to see American auto executives lining up right alongside the union autoworkers they've spent all these years fighting?