Thread regarding Ford layoffs

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Point was Germany is led by the green-extremists and is dismantling itself. It's a little like during the high times of the EPA. They also went completely overboard. Only that green party you're not gonna get shut down. In their view everything is bad, production facilities? bad for the environment. Building a highway? Save the trees. Elon is bringing us jobs? Save the rare earth worms in the area. No natural gas? could use electricity to survive the winter but wait, we need to still shut down our power plants, bad for the environment. Grandma has to freeze.
And those folks now want EV's lol. That's like California dreaming about their idea of the EV mandate. At the same time they have rolling black outs. They're completely delusional.

@qoy you are aware of how close in proximity European countries are to each other? And how many people are related to people of neighboring countries? Germany and Ukraine are roughly the same distance from MI is to Savannah Georgia.
It’s easy to spout off when there is an ocean separating the US from most countries (Canada and Mexico being two exceptions).

Germany F'd themselves....as usual

It's all a moot point when Putin cuts of Germany's fuel.
Destroy your own country in order to keep propping up Ukraine. Why not?
You really can't fix stupid, as it turns out.

Makes you wonder if current brass is looking at this. We have a habit of underpaying SWEs so we end up with mediocre ones who stay and good ones leaving for other companies mostly in Tech. Software is gonna be important for EVs if we want to survive, and outsourcing software won’t work despite what everyone keeps thinking will happen

"But that's software. Ford's software is perfect. And mechanical quality issues no one cares about" *irony off

well what to say? Germany completely jumped on the EV train. They have a radically left-leaning government currently. The Green party (yes, you read that right) is in the government. Lot's of ideology and party-programming. They don't make much sense but that was never important. They main objective: cars are bad. And so, there is a whole generation of youthful mo--ns growing up who blabber "cars are bad" and truly believe that tiny country can change the whole world. Bunch of id--ts. In reality, they are destroying one of their biggest industries and their path of destruction is vast. It is green-extremism. Don't ask questions, just execute. Lot's of "yeah, but..." arguments. It's the whole drama.

And our software at Ford is at minimum not as good as VW’s.