Same here fd-ski.
Im from the former Yugoslavia, and that was one of the nicer ones...
Im not one of these dumb flag waving Americans who hate "commies" because that what all "Red blooded Murricans" s'posed to do.
I think I need to make it more clear that I lived in one of our little socialist wonderlands, as my unusually strong anti-cummunist belifs have been mistaken for idiot USA flag-waving before on this BBS.
As for the kids protesting, Im not sure if they know what they want. However I have seen many of them in the protests wearing shirts with Hammer and Sickle, CCCP/USSR, Lenin, Marx, Castro and the ever deligthtul Che Guevara. They also spew the usual Communist Youth oriented proaganda, of evil busnessmen, worker exploitation etc etc etc.
Basically I hate these little western European salamanders who grew up wealthy with all sorts of nice things now protesting for communism. The very system that ruined eastern-european culture for thje past 60 years. I cant see how you could defend the fear, the corruption, the godddamn black marketering, the lazyness, the giving of favors, the privelage of party people, and all that crap tham im sure you saw in Poland too.
These kids want that crap for some reason, they are against free markets, they are against democracy. They say democracy a lot dont they, but both of know all our communist countries were democratic too yep, 5 offices to fill and 5 candidates running, how nice. These arrogant salamanders assume they speak for the "people" and anyone who doesnt see it their way is "ignorant burgeois opressor" Sound familliar?
I hate communism, I hate this new fangled neo-leftist socialism/communism even more, and im quite happy these bomb throwing aggitator salamanders just found out they can only push reasonable people so far.
I saw communism and I hate it, you saw it but you still seem to hold some sympathy to its lovely flowey propaganda...
As For USA cars.
The Japanese brought over in the 1960s small relatively indefferent cars and continued doing so till the 1980s.
The USA car industry, as you say started on the decline after the 1960s. 20 foot long coupes built like crap were the result. The oil embargo hurt them too as engine performance went to hell. But the 70s and 80s also saw the demise of US car quality.
You see arrogant (racist too) car exectuives didnt see the "Nips" as that big of a threat. They ignored the quality improvements of the japanese cars and in the 1980s that bit them in the ass.
Here were well built cars with good small engines that were more reliable and ran well. Plus the cars rode and handled better.
USA carmakers got lazy and stopped innovation, How else can you explain large V8 engiines barely putting out 160-180 HP?????
Basically the quality of 1980s Japanese cars
shocked the US companies from their lazyness. They had to improve or face incresing loss of market share as GM found out.
The result are much better US cars now than those of the 70s and 80s.
The lazy and conservative US car companies would not have changed a damn thing in that period if it wasnt for large volume mass market cometion from well built and efficent Japanese cars!!!!!!!!!
Thats how the Japanese saved the US car business. As for the car workers who losttheir jobs, well tough. They have clearly been proven to be useleess to the USA car industry as levels of quality and production efficency are higher than ever. These people are now free to participate in other economic activities.
Ask yourself this, are US cars better today than they were 15-20 years ago? Were they improving at a constant rate? Or did the viable and vigorous Japanese competion in the 1980s spur them into improvements.
Im risking a lot in this post, potentially ive both insulted the Communists and the Red-Blooded Meat eting Flag waving Americans;
I must be on the right track...
