Hmm I was always leaning toward Dodge Diplomat.

Ooooh I member CHiPs!

Everyone quickly forgot that the reason GM got bailed out wasn’t to save GM assembly workers. It was the massive industry of on shore parts suppliers that made a GM collapse so potentially destructive.

Well, that was informative.

I hate all poetry equally.

Kids... In my day we were happy to have 65,536 rows.

They did manage to find a brunette.

Vertical integration that would make Jack Donnaghey proud. Pull the needed seats out of the “passenger” transit van that’s on the dock next door being converted for commercial.

Bleh... Why’d they go and put those extra doors on?

I did, but that doesn’t work for everyone.

I think they got it right with “Equal Opportunity Programs”

And that’s the American spirit people love. Seek new opportunities rather than dwell on lost ones.

Well... That’s a bit unfairly inflammatory and narrow. A lot of manufacturing is skilled labor, it’s not always as simple as brainless assembly line work. That is the job that was automated long ago.

Thank you for the honesty. There are large disconnects between what data reports and the real quality of life issues people balance on the ground. Though it’s not really a new problem, my factory working father did the same thing in the 80's. He worked 3rd shift while my mother worked retail day shift. Consequently my…

Sadly I’ve resigned to believing that stratifying the political landscape so that it’s not the bipolar march toward city vs country civil war 2.0 isn’t truly possible. This red vs blue nonsense we’ve been sold is toxic. The last presidential campaign being the crown jewel. Objectively 2016 should have been a 4…

My experience in engineering school there was a large female drop rate mainly due to sexist peers.  Conversely though I’ve never heard of men getting shit from women in nursing school (my wife is currently in nursing school, but I finished in 2009 though, so my anecdotes are dated.) Affirmative action isn’t about…

I’ve spent a year looking for someone to restore the oak floors I’m my 150yr old house, it’s surprising how many people just don’t respond when I ask for a quote.

What happened to apprenticeship and on the job training though? My father in law did not have a CDL when he was hired to drive a milk truck 40 years ago. How much blame really falls on the ED sector vs the business climate of not wanting to invest in labor?

Honest question, not trolling... Have you looked outside your zip code?

Sounds like you might be on my recent train of thought that public corporations ruined capitalism and frankly don’t work (for all but the top tier “in-group” investment class) in 21st century of globalization.