milesarcher
Miles Archer
milesarcher

“Like classroom teachers ... they are vastly overpaid, right?”

Why do you think the “right-wing” wants to shrink government when they have approximately never done so? The government wins every election. People elect those who they think will be send them the spoils or elect the other party of what screwed them the last time. Then they get screwed again.

Again, going to fedgov is moving the goalposts. Fedgov does very little road care and building other than to send checks to state and local government units. If you want to talk fedgov, I can talk fedgov, but don’t say I am wrong because fedgov has a different theft pie-chart. And Trump? Trump is a very poor and

What do you think the corruption does? It creates high salaries and pensions among other things.

We’re talking local roads in this thread, thus state and more local units of government. These units of government steal the most from taxpayers in the form of salaries and pensions. If we move to fedgov the way the taxpayers are stolen from changes. Although salaries and pensions are still significant.

Are you? Or are you employed at taxpayer expense?

If shown a proper chart they would see all the useless non-productive and grossly overpaid government jobs that are taking very large percentages of the taxes they pay for salaries and pensions right off the top before any of the things they want are even considered. I doubt it is just Illinois....

When was the HMMWV ever considered unstoppable and by who? Who was that delusional? It wasn’t even considered unstoppable in 1980s cold war role playing games.

Enormous pickup trucks for daily driving is a by product (of numerous ones) of busy bodies who decided people shouldn’t drive around in large passenger cars and legislating to that end. It’s also a by product of busy bodies who regulate and tax people into choosing one vehicle.

Speaking of calling Ford.... I called Ford over their instacollectable dealer rewards system that resulted in dealers surcharging certain sub models. The guy basically just let me talk. That was that. Now I await the Ford approval process to buy a car from them to move down market from the GT. You want a Bullitt

The packages are driven more from the marketing side than manufacturing engineering. Yes, there’s a manufacturing benefit, and making you buy shit you don’t want is probably a wash and thus not on the list. For every person who buys a package to get X there’s probably someone who forgoes X because of the package cost.

1) Marketing wants to control what is out there.
2) Manufacturing wants fewer BOM variations.
3) Federal regulation such as CAFE will result in model variants being encouraged or discouraged through pricing and configurations or outright limited in volume.

There is a big difference between designing something cheaply putting lives at risk as a matter of standard operating procedure vs. someone covering his ass or looking towards his next bonus.

What does ringwood mines have to do with manufactured products? I looked it up, it’s apparently an old mine that was used as a landfill in the waning glory days of the ‘prove harm’ environmental concept. Prove harm was a government court ruling against private property rights where the person harmed (himself or his

If that’s the case, that’s not a corporate decision. That’s the decision of an individual who expects to be long gone before the shit hits the fan.

The ford pinto case is as media created as audi sudden acceleration.

“When it comes to people’s lives and public safety versus profit; profit always wins.”

It’s a grievance industry now. There is never an end to a grievance industry. The claimed problem will never be declared solved otherwise the activism would no longer be needed. It will simply morph. The way it is calculated will change to show it still exists.

A computer’s answers reflect its programing. Shocking. Film at 11.

Insult is not a counterargument. That and your strawman about seafood is all you presented.