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Originally Posted by tw
You have ignored lessons from history. If GM goes down, all those supplies and all those employee jobs are saved. .
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if it's just GM, maybe. But if it's all of them, no. We're already hanging on by threads, waiting for the turn-around. We've been there for years. We've done chapter 11 -even survived it. But it will take too long for it to work this time. workers for suppliers are already not being paid but it's not just the suppliers, they're only a little part of it. it's the caf on the corner where the workers eat lunch, the preschools where there kids go, the people who clean their houses, mow their lawns, pack their groceries and ask them if they want fries with that. Half of these went in AA when Pfizer closed. they can't survive another so soon. The company logistics may be following the pattern described by events past, but the characters in this play have different structures and the old framework won't fit and can't be made to. Square peg, round hole. Your ivory tower theories of history repeating itself might be comfortable up where you are, but down here on the ground, we can see that the cows are in fact small and not just far away.
(points for that one, Brits and Britophiles....)