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Originally Posted by Adak
When the Unions control production, most of the politicians, and can force huge wages and benefits for themselves, (far beyond the scale of non-union workers), then it's certainly NOT free market capitalism, anymore.
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When a political agenda is more important than reality, then brainwashing is effective.
Detroit was heavily unionize in the 1950 and 1960s when Detroit was so innovative, became productive, and was profitable. What changed? By the 1970s, all top management was replaced with business school graduates. Top management in Detroit (ie Henry Ford) did not even have a driver's license. Top management was so ignorant that 2x4s were placed under the accelerator of the first Saturn. So that Roger Smith could not press that accelerator. Smith also did not know how to drive a car. So we should blame that on the unions?
Top management technical ignorance in and after the 1970s was so widespread that, for example, no innovation exists in a GM in 30 years unless innovation was required by Federal regulation. GM even had three intermediate sized cars that did not share even one part. Unions did that? Unions stifled design innovation? Business school graduates did. And then blamed the unions, Japanese, unfair trade, taxes, education, environment laws, and virtually everyone else rather than admit who were so anti-American. Their rhetoric and lies are automatically believed by those most easily brainwashed.
An engine that made Honda Accord and Civic the #1 an #2 selling car in America in 1980s (called CVCC) was developed in Ford in 1960 (called stratified charge). A bean counter and anti-American names Henry Ford stifled that innovation because it had three valves per cylinder - would increase costs. A 70 Hp per liter engine that was ready for production in GM in 1975 finally appeared in patriotic American products from Honda and Toyota in 1992.
The new machine tools necessary to make superior innovation was too expensive according to Roger Smith and other bean counters. Many GM cars even today need anti-American V-8 engines. Hate, ignorance, and fear stifles innovation. The dumbest among us then blame others who have nothing to do with those designs - the unions.
Even in the Indianapolis 500, V-8 (obsolete technology) engines are no longer raced. V-8 only exists where people who fear innovation and change (bean counters and wacko extremists) would rather blame others. V-8 is a trophy of those who are most anti-American. And others so brainwashed as to not even know that. The enemies of mankind stifle innovation to protect the status quo.
Why would anyone make a hybrid whose gasoline engine cannot even recharge its battery? Makes no sense to engineers or layman. But makes sense to top management (bean counters) and to others brainwashed by rhetoric. Who do not even have driver's licenses. Unions clearly designed that car? Total nonsense. Only the most brainwashed would recite that stupidity. Corrupt people - bean counters - designed it. And so screwed up the design that it had to be redesigned. Volt took more than 10 years to design. But extremist rhetoric even somehow blames that on the unions. But then knowledge of reality is irrelevant to wacko extremist rhetoric.
How long has this problem existed. We know that William Clay Ford started letting engineers design starting in 2000. Profits started to appear in 2008 and 2010. Ford did not need government loans to survive because, while still losing money massively, William Clay knew products designed by patriots (car guys) would appear some years later.
In 2000, innovators replaced liars (bean counters). We are observe superior products designed by people who have driver's licenses. But that will not change 40 years of hate promoted by bean counters who blame everyone except themselves.
How can Detroit survive when concepts taught in the business schools (communism) and rhetoric believed by the most easily brainwashed (wacko extremists) refuse to admit they are the problem? Why do so many GM products need 2 and 4 extra pistons to do what patriotic cars from Japan, Korea, and Europe do? Unions had nothing to due with people educated in concepts found in communism, mafia, and fear. Reality (and the reason for Detroit's crappy products) is directly traceable to stifled innovation and wacko extremist who would protect such evil.
We are still many years away from patriotic American products (with Chrysler nameplates) designed by Italian engineers. We still have no GM products designed by American engineers. After decades of stifling innovation, Detroit is just another trophy of the business schools Wacko extremist rhetoric would blame everyone else.