What if Romney turns out to be moderate?
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2012 Oct 6, 9:58am 24,079 views 90 comments
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Are any of the foreign owned auto plants in the US unionized???
Some are. Some aren't. But even if the point by saying that was to try and "prove" that any and all unionized labor is the root cause of failure, how do you explain the fact that the Midwest such as states like OH, IN, and other heavy manufacturing-centric areas that are still highly unionized are now doing better than most of the rest of the country? How do you explain the fact that the US automotive industry- again- still mostly located in the Midwest- is now doing better than it has in decades?
The whole " Unions are bad" propaganda is just that- Propaganda- and nothing more.
how do you explain the fact that the Midwest such as states like OH, IN, and other heavy manufacturing-centric areas that are still highly unionized are now doing better than most of the rest of the country? How do you explain the fact that the US automotive industry- again- still mostly located in the Midwest- is now doing better than it has in decades?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_Chapter_11_reorganization
On 31 May 2009 news broke that the U.S. would initially likely become the largest shareholder of the reorganized GM following a bankruptcy filing and re-emergence from bankruptcy. The U.S. government would invest up to $50 billion and own 60% of the new GM and the Canadian government would own 12.5%.
All the BMW and Mercedes SUVs are made in the American south because Germans don't understand the concept of an SUV. I don't even think you can buy one over there.
Yes.. they do understand SUVs. And Europe does import Escalade and other US made SUVs. Big 60-70s Cads are very big.
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I'm not the only one to notice that Romney most definitely made a dramatic "change" in his rhetoric on stage last week during the debates. Many political commentators made the same observation- that Romney seemed to have suddenly and without warning moved to the middle. You'd almost think that some of the things he was proposing were basically almost the same as what Obama already had mentioned but Romney had basically "branded" it has his own.
So... that brings up the next question. I'm not going to point fingers or name names. But there have definitely been some comments made by some of the Republican-friendly folks on this forum which has you think that anyone other than a super-rignt-wing, ultra-conservative simply will not do. Thus I would definitely be curious about what some of these people would think if Romney were to actually win and turn out to be a moderate, not as far to the right leaning President? What if he actually turned out to be somewhat liberal ( for a Republican)? What if many of the same things Obama wanted to do or accomplished were simply taken up by Romney and "re-branded" or perhaps dumbed down a little, but essentially along the same lines?
Putting "Liberals against Conservatives" and vice-versa aside for a second, what would the reactions be from those who were perhaps hoping for a super conservative President and instead got a moderate one instead?
Perhaps for once we could keep this civil? Perhaps it might reveal a thing or two from some on both sides...
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