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Originally Posted by Robbie This just can not be true. The unions run Detroit. And we have all been told that unions make life so much better. So this story must be another blatant lie by the extreme right wing nut jobs. Get GrantMercury in this thread...he'll get it straightened out.

The UAW and the Management of the Auto Companies both had shit for brains -- they all went down together.

Both are to blame.

The Big 3's own best customers were their own overpaid workers

How did Ford survive the recent severe downturn? They had similar UAW contracts to their bankrupted, bailed out competitors? But really, that is not the core issue -- after 1973 they were all bailing water with a leaky bucked anyway.

There is a comparison to the tubes wiping a path of destruction to the porn paysite industry that is really strikingly similar to Detroit (the Motor City's) demise; Their ( the Tubes ) debasing the value of the (porn paysites ) product and having cheaper (albeit infringing) product (read: The Japanese imported cars). Oh yeah, in both cases the consumers liked the product better; In autos is was price and in porn is it price (free).

However, there won't be any "urban farming" in the remains of Porn City. When digital property is vacated it becomes null.