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• 1. Juice  |  November 20th, 2008 at 5:36 pm

  He will be President someday too.

• 2. Juice  |  November 20th, 2008 at 5:53 pm

  Seriously he has a few good points about building a better mass-transit system, especially like from Rockford to Chicago. Unions should operate with the flow of the company, as should CEO pay, which is way out of control. They both have to change drastically. Nobody should get $30 million bonus and nobody should get $90k a year plus full bennies for putting a wheel on a car. The car could be $4k cheaper and everyone could be happy and fully employed forever. But neither side wants to budge a bit. Very unfortunate. That’s why Honda and Toyota kicking butt big time. A $40,000 electric Volt is not going to sell either plus not on the market till fall 2010. It’s too late, obviously. Let them go belly-up like United Air lines and reform into a new, confident, realistic company America can support. UAL did it.

• 3. jake  |  November 20th, 2008 at 9:25 pm

  Yeah sure — Detroit makes whatever kind of vehicle they feel like, and forces the American public to buy it.
  Michael Moore is even dumber than I thought. Can’t he admit that people wanted those gas guzzlers. The Big 3 just satisfied the desire of the people for large vehicles.
  Now he wants the government to dictate what vehicles we will be permitted to drive. Would that be better in some way?

  The UAW will have to realize that it is not 1947. The featherbed contracts of those days, when the factories of Europe and Japan were piles of rubble, are no longer possible. There is such a thing as competition in labor, with consequent lowering of the price.

• 4. unmanager  |  November 21st, 2008 at 6:26 am

  “Now he wants the government to dictate what vehicles we will be permitted to drive. Would that be better in some way?”

  They technically do now…there’s tax breaks many businesses collect by driving fully loaded Escalades when the “business-use” purpose of the vehicle could be satisfied by a Caliber….

• 5. echo4charlie  |  November 21st, 2008 at 8:28 am

  Michael Moore is a man who is expert at alienating and agitating anyone, and everyone. But, he makes sense every once and a while, too.

  The bottom line is; We made our bed. Now we’re lying in it. Where do we go from here? The one thing that I see America suffers from is the inability to learn from painful lessons. We soon forget, and history repeats itself. And, when it does, we’re confused, suprised, and outraged that history has repeated itself.

  One can always be sure that in the future, history will always repeat itself.

• 6. Milton Waddams  |  November 21st, 2008 at 11:29 am

  While we are falling behind in math and science, our study of history is terrible. Right on Charlie.

• 7. Craig Knauss  |  November 22nd, 2008 at 1:07 pm

  Echo says, “One can always be sure that in the future, history will always repeat itself.”

  No kidding. And lately it seems like it only takes a few months for it to happen. When gas prices were under $2, every Billy Bob and Irma Jean out here had to drive a big, honkin’ SUV or heavy duty pickup to work or the grocery store. When the prices went over $4, they tried to sell their behemoths and drive something that got more than 10 mpg. Now that the price of gas out here is approaching $2 again, guess what? Yep, the battleships are on the road again. Some of these people have the memory span of a goldfish.

• 8. echo4charlie  |  November 24th, 2008 at 3:43 pm

  Mr. Knauss,

  You are correct. They must not think that we’ll ever pay more at the pump again. They’re mistaken. These lower gas prices won’t last forever.

  And then, as you said, when oil prices spike again, they’ll be stunned in disbelief.

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