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Just an update how bad the US economy is...
Trident
Ranger
in Zocalo v2.0
Some of you might have been watching about the crap going on with Chrysler and it's dealings with Fiat and the UAW and it's chapter 11, but to tell the full extent of how bad it is, I was just told today that my plant (Cummins Midrange Engine Plant) which builds engines for the Dodge Rams, Wendsday is our last day for.... well... they say as little as 4 weeks, a guess at 9 weeks, or what ever... they won't give us a return to work date. They don't have a clue, all of us (the union workers) are layed off until Chrysler can get it's shit back together. I know I'm not around much here anymore, but kinda wanted to give a heads up of what's going down in my part of the world. I hope everyone else is doing good in the world. Good tidings and cheers :)
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I never understood this obsession for building overpriced, inefficient, uninspired cars when pretty much the rest of the world went the other way for decades. Not that the rest of the world was faultless either. Even Toyota is now in dire straights.
I fear this crisis was necessary for a much needed change to occur.
But sorry to hear about your job buddy.
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Well, I have a job and I don't have a PS3. I'm saving for my own home. So, yes, easy to say for some.
I like the gameplay of that clip though. Too bad I'll probably never play the game, unless it comes out on the PC.
I also have high hopes for Batman: Arkham Asylum.
who knows what may come your way
The "capitalist movement" (read: company) where I work during daytime took its first loss since 1998 this April. It may be the start of a trend... no way to reliably predict.
In other sectors of economy, it's somewhat (or much) messier. State has trimmed its budget already twice this year, frozen its participation in some obligatory retirement savings schemes and in a rare bout of temporary sanity, granted citizens the (alas, temporary) right to freeze their participation in said schemes as well.
Obligatory feeding of a narrow selection of investment funds seemed a bad idea to me from the start. As a matter of principle, I have serious reservations about indirectly investing any money into anything through a long chain of intermediaries. I likewise have doubts about funding any company not owned by its workers (to a company owned by its workers, or at least operated this way to an appreciable degree, I would agree to loan if I had some)... but by now, said funds have proven themselves a bad idea to way more people, by magnificently failing to preserve the value of anything given to them.
In other news, recently, some clueless minister proposed that along with wage reductions for government employees, state might also grant private employers the right to unilaterally renege upon wage agreements (by as much as 8%).
Some folks from trade unions suggested that workers might then unilaterally grant themselves the right to increase their wages by as much as 8%, to avoid having to unilaterally renege upon loan and tax payments. :P
I personally think said minister (name withheld lest the fool gain publicity) should start growing feathers. Ability to fly will benefit him a lot, if that bill gets approved and he'll have to escape unscathed... since if that happens, even local (generally never-do-nothing passivist) trade unions will get their heads out of sand and call for a little general strike or something. If such were the case, I would wholly support it.
Meanwhile, some economically less insured anarchist friends decided to stop renting and went squatting (occupied an abandoned house). I've helped them out as much as I can, and so far it's a fairly functional and highly autonomous squat (e.g. they don't steal electricity, they produce it, and they don't buy washing water, they collect it). As much as city conditions permit, they also grow food plants in the yard, and they will argue against the use of any intoxicants until the Moon flies away and continents collide with a crunch (generous use of intoxicants has caused the premature failure of multiple previous squats - punks started drinking a lot and everything went downhill from there on). Lack of such habits makes it quite a likable place for me.
So if, in economic terms, shit should hit the fan real bad (in which case I might have to sell my apartment in very unfavourable market conditions, which would return only slightly more money than I owe to my bank)... I have alternative plans laid out regarding where to work, what projects to undertake and where to live. But I still hope it won't come to that... lazy corporate drone and fairly resistant to learning new tricks. :p
The Internet economy is taking over what really should be done through physical appearance at a store. Thus somebody who knows exactly what they are looking for doesn't need to shop and stop. LOL
Like the Zocalo on B5, most people go to the mall just to look. Why risk spending the money, notice how you see very few people carrying out bags of goods?
I will prolly quit from the place at the start of next year unless i win in lottery, when i would leave the place in 3 months.
This is becoming like 1984 seriously...
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