And the housing market is squeezing more and more people out of home ownership. I don't see tha ever getting better.
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@gxw+1njqnx25 I’m personally done buying Fords so I’m with you there. That said, I’m not convinced that’s ever going to save our jobs. Honestly I think the fact that people aren’t buying Fords on dealer lots right now probably has more to do with years of bad JD power and quality ratings and rising prices, rather than being due to word of mouth from disgruntled employees.
I’m onboard with the gesture of not buying Ford, it just feels like a hopeless one.
@dlr+1njqnx25 If it is just the employee who stops buying Ford maybe a drop in the bucket. However when the extended family and their businesses join in it snowballs quickly. I know of examples where extended family businesses stopped buy Ford fleet vehicles, and by word of mouth their network of business friends did the same. A bonus, their fleet vehicles had less down time for repair.
The previously empty Ford dealer lots are full of high priced trucks and SUVs. Markdowns have started as they can’t move the product. Many customer ordered vehicles are being declined when they arrive. Ford has a major problem.
@naw+1njqnx25 Agreed. Middle or lower class, we’re all subject to the greed of a handful of billionaires / multi-millionaires with MBAs.
Endlessly frustrating that the only suggestion people seem to have to “fight back” is by not buying Fords. If every employee they lay off never buys another Ford, that’s a drop in the bucket for them.
Collective bargaining seems like the only way to accomplish anything concrete here. The UAW is far from perfect, but their efforts to protect from outsourcing seem to be working on some level. Until salaried folks have some sort of collective leverage, we’re gonna continue to be left vulnerable and the endless outsourcing and layoffs will continue.
Remember: the more miserable you make people the more aware they become of the discrepancies between the upper class and them. The upper class are utter fools; you want to keep the class below you d-mb, fat and happy with beer, parties and music. You take away that distraction all eyes look at you. People are like ants, one ant is of no consequence but a colony of ants can move big things.
But… but… the news said everything is great and getting better. ?