On 17 Jan 2006 11:47:31 -0800, with neither quill nor qualm, "rigger"
quickly quoth:
Larry Jaques offered:
Liberal??? Because I care about people? Show me your NRA card and
I'll show you mine. 
Liberal ideas, then.
Please clarify. According to your definition people who care about
others are "liberal" and those who don't are.......what? So if you
care about others only a "little" then it's OK? Or does that "little"
bit make you "all" liberal?
Liberals tell the rest of us to ante up to "fix" things which should
be covered by personal integrity/responsibility or rung up as
accidents by the less intelligent or irresponsible parties.
But tell me, would the color of my skin make any difference to you?
Where'd that come from? No, skin color makes no difference to me.
Sorry if I'm off-base but it sure seemed you were attempting to
denigrate me because of my "aol.com" address. In your mind is this
inherently different?
Google on "aol" and "me, too". And, yes, they're different. Racism is
not EVEN in the same league as newbie humor. (Hate vs. grins)
Not convinced, and I'm quite aware, thanks. So, you're saying that you
would have caught the original engineering oversight in the Pinto? An
oversight (problems caused by 35+ mph rear-end collisions don't figure
into the engineering drawings) is just that.
Me, catch an engineering oversite missed by professionals, HAHAHA. But
you miss the point: It was readily shown Ford was AWARE of the defect
and, rather than recall or at least temporarily stop production or make
changes, calculated the cost of these measures against money projected
to be lost in "wrongfull death" lawsuits and chose to continue killing
people. All the information is on-line if you care enough to look.
And you missed my point about the legal system requiring that action.
According to the speaking weasels (attorneys) the shareholders require
that they maximize profits. Some of the bigwigs should have figured
out that doing the right thing (voluntary recall immediately) would
have cost less in the long run. I'll even bet that if they had charged
Pinto owners their labor costs for the retrofit (I think we made $8-10
on the installation.) that it would have been a winning move. But that
didn't happen due to the legal climate. Owning up to something brings
on the ambulance chasers in mega-droves.
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