On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:00:45 -0500, "J. Clarke"
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Gunner Asch on Wed, 25 Jan 2012 02:24:27 -0800
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On Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:35:40 -0800, pyotr filipivich
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Gunner Asch on Tue, 24 Jan 2012 01:42:18 -0800
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On Tue, 24 Jan 2012 09:04:15 +0700, John B.
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I don't remember what the song was. A whole lot of people moved north in days past from
the agrarian south to cities like Detroit to make high wages. That worked for a while but
now many of them are trapped in inner cites with no hope.

See
http://www.library.jhu.edu/collectio...gwar/farm.html

I wonder if history will do a repeat?

Wes

The move to Detroit was, if I remember correctly, to take advantage of
very much higher wages paid in the factories there as apposed to be a
sharecropper in the South. The situation in many parts of Asia are the
same. Take a job at the new factory for a salary or stay at home and
get practically nothing for harder work.

But it wasn't the workers who caused the exodus out of Detroit, it was
the unions and the manufacturers who caused that move. The workers
were very much the victims.

As for history, it does tend to repeat itself.

--
John B.


Keep in mind..that Detroit was a very very prosperous economy for nearly
70 yrs. Most of those big hotels and factories were built in the
1900-1930s..and Detroit didnt start to decline until the late 1970s

It worked just fine for all those years..until something happened to it.
Primarily the Unions became greedy and forced manufacturing to
dramatically raise their prices. In 1964 the Ford Mustang cost $3000 out
the door

Seen this yet?

http://autos.yahoo.com/news/ford-rei...5-mustang.html

Neat. Now all Ford has to do is put the last fifty years of
technical improvements in side, and I'd say they probably would have a
big seller.

tschus

It should be noted..that they are charging $15 THOUSAND dollars for the
complete sheet metal. No frame, no wiring, no motor..just the stampings.

A bit..much.....

For such short runs? Of course. With inflation, the 1964 Mustang
would run you around $18 Gs today. So, ramp up production, get the
economies of scale and sell them for 20 -25 K, make a fortune.

So what would this 2012 production-legal Mustang look like?

http://autos.yahoo.com/news/ford-rei...5-mustang.html
One could not be a successful Leftwinger without realizing that,
in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers
and mothers of Leftwingers, a goodly number of Leftwingers are
not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
Gunner Asch