I read the Detroit Free Press pretty much every day now, though I am now living in Pennsylvania. I grew up on The Freep. My Dad used to read it every day. Matter of fact, he read two newpapers daily. The Freep, and The Herald-Palladium, which is a Benton Harbor daily. On Sundays, we would get the South Bend Tribune, and the Free Press. I grew up with the news on and in my head.
So I still am in that habit. And something about the goings on in Michigan are disturbing to me. It is very reminiscent of an old Limp Bizkit song.
Seems that folks are doing a lot of finger pointing when it comes to the Big 3 Auto Makers. Some blame Management, some blame the UAW, some blame the foreign car companies, some blame the states for buying manufacturers. Lots of blame going around. But not a whole lot of trying to figure out what the heck to do to correct the situation.
If the Big 3 go under 2.5 to 3 million auto workers, and supply company workers are out of work. Is that part of a free market system, to let the rotten fruit fall ? Yeah, but is it in the interests of the rest of the country? Hmmm. Does management need to trim their excesses? Yeah. Does the UAW need to give some also? Yeah. Will that piss everyone off? Oh yeah. We still have this “This stuff is mine, keep your hands off of it” mentality going on.
What is the solution? Can’t tell you. Though I can suggest that we need to get beyond the “he said, she said bull@%&*” before we can get to that solution.
What do you think?
Namaste.
