People have no memory. GM destroyed the electric train system in place in almost every large city in the country, conspired with the oil and gas industries and was fined a whopping $1 each! They destroyed the cities with the highway system, "urban renewal", white flight and commutes. They destroyed the electric car and didn't produce smaller or energy efficient or alternative energy vehicles although knowing about the problem since at least the 1970's. They have been profiting from the people for decades making fortunes. Now where did all that money go? All of a sudden they are broke? Off with their heads, out with the corporate leaders. You can't trust unregulated capitalism. Remember railroads, coal mining, factory towns, the 12 hour work day, 6 day work week, child labor? Nothing would ever change if these people remained unchallenged.

Those who keep blaming the union wages and contracts as the reason for the down fall of the big 3 I have a question. If lower wages and benefits will lower vehicle prices then why are foreign vehicles as much or more than domestic cars? The foreign vehicle makers are subsidized by their governments too. Some one is getting a lot of money but it sure isn't the staff on the floor. The argument about US labor having too much is always a complaint of big management. However, management keeps receiving their BIG salaries, pensions, and medical coverage. Nope I don't buy the union argument. My family history showed me what management wants for general labor: pennies for wages, dirt floor shacks, sewage running in the middle of the walk ways, child labor, 7 day work weeks, no workers compensation. Do I need to go on listing cause there is much more like death to any who opposes management and owners. People READ your history; just go back 150 years. We are spoiled rotten and a plague of ignorance will put us right back to the conditions of the not so distant past.

Those who keep blaming the union wages and contracts as the reason for the down fall of the big 3 I have a question. If lower wages and benefits will lower vehicle prices then why are foreign vehicles as much or more than domestic cars? The foreign vehicle makers are subsidized by their governments too. Some one is getting a lot of money but it sure isn't the staff on the floor. The argument about US labor having too much is always a complaint of big management. However, management keeps receiving their BIG salaries, pensions, and medical coverage. Nope I don't buy the union argument. My family history showed me what management wants for general labor: pennies for wages, dirt floor shacks, sewage running in the middle of the walk ways, child labor, 7 day work weeks, no workers compensation. Do I need to go on listing cause there is much more like death to any who opposes management and owners. People READ your history; just go back 150 years. We are spoiled rotten and a plague of ignorance will put us right back to the conditions of the not so distant past.

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Idea:

Someone of stature and prominence, Michael Moore perhaps, who has the ability to promote and co-ordinate a sizable project…

Announces they have set aside a large grassy hill top to receive protest shoes in a symbolic global gesture of distain and contempt from both Americans and anyone worldwide.

The shoes will be received at a safe address, and then placed in the protest pile. After a set time or size of pile the usable shoes would be donated to appropriate cause.

If a height and final date goal [Inauguration Day?] were set, it would add excitement and generate a lot of free promotional news coverage. My prediction is the word would spread world-wide very quickly. Imagine the stories; poor persons from distant lands using their tiny savings to mail shoes…

What a chance to show global unity and restore the world’s downtrodden spirit!

Any one that knows of THE person please pass this idea along.

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