The average monthly payment for a new car was $733 in the second quarter of 2023. That could rise if auto workers strike long enough

[Woodznutz]

They do run forever, but they sure are ugly.

Keep them clean and waxed and they look just fine.

 

[Mr Natural]

You gotta love republicans and their fuck the worker mentality.

Especially when most of them are workers themselves.

 

[Woodznutz]

Why would increasing union wages and benefits rise car prices, when the companies have been making tremendous profits for years?

They make tremendous profits because people continue to buy their vehicles.

 

[Woodznutz]

You gotta love republicans and their fuck the worker mentality.

Especially when most of them are workers themselves.

Workers are hired to enrich the employers. That's the way it works.

 

[gipper]

They make tremendous profits because people continue to buy their vehicles.

You missed my point.

 

[gipper]

It is because of the national wealth produced by investors, entrepreneurs, and the government that the common man is able to attain wealth. Hard to get rich in a poor country.

So you’re fine with the 1% taking the lion’s share. I’m not.

You do know radical income inequality ultimately results in revolution.

 

[Mr Natural]

Workers are hired to enrich the employers. That's the way it works.

And employers can’t be enriched if they have no one to do the work.

It’s a symbiotic relationship.

 

[gipper]

And employers can’t be enriched if they have no one to do the work.

It’s a symbiotic relationship.

Unfortunately the relationship between employees and employers has skewed radically in the favor of employers. Yet we see some cons and Rs in full support of this.

 

[TNHarley]

They should give them raises. They are the ones that bailed their asses out years ago.
If not for them, all those rich fuckers behind the scenes would have lost a lot of money. Instead, we did.
Thanks GM.

U.S. Government Says It Lost $11.2 Billion On GM Bailout

The government lost $11.2 billion on its GM bailout, more than the $10.3 billion Treasury estimated when it sold its remaining shares in December.

www.foxbusiness.com

 

[gipper]

They should give them raises. They are the ones that bailed their asses out years ago.
If not for them, all those rich fuckers behind the scenes would have lost a lot of money. Instead, we did.
Thanks GM.

U.S. Government Says It Lost $11.2 Billion On GM Bailout

The government lost $11.2 billion on its GM bailout, more than the $10.3 billion Treasury estimated when it sold its remaining shares in December.

www.foxbusiness.com

Somehow this is lost on many Americans.

 

[DigitalDrifter]

I paid $ 300 for my first car.

Lasted me 6 years.

My first car was 7 years old, and it cost me $35.00.

 

[DigitalDrifter]

You gotta love republicans and their fuck the worker mentality.

Especially when most of them are workers themselves.

I'm not saying they shouldn't get a raise. But the raise they want is going to hurt millions more than it will help. The last thing this economy needs is more inflation.

 

[gipper]

I'm not saying they shouldn't get a raise. But the raise they want is going to hurt millions more than it will help. The last thing this economy needs is more inflation.

No it’s not. Why have you chosen to believe right wing propaganda?

 

[gipper]

My first car was 7 years old, and it cost me $35.00.

Lol. What are you? One hundred years old.

 

[Woodznutz]

You missed my point.

Sorry.

 

[Woodznutz]

So you’re fine with the 1% taking the lion’s share. I’m not.

You do know radical income inequality ultimately results in revolution.

It is the average consumer that has made the 1 percenters rich. Bill Gates for example got rich by selling computer stuff to millions of average consumers. If people continue to buy every shiny new thing there will be more uber wealthy.

 

[gipper]

It is the average consumer that has made the 1 percenters rich. Bill Gates for example got rich by selling computer stuff to millions of average consumers. If people continue to buy every shiny new thing there will be more uber wealthy.

Your post is off topic. When workers aren’t paid what they’re worth and much of the wealth they generate is given to the 1%, you have a distortion that leads increasingly to an unstable economy and nation.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

The socialist left hates smart people who create products and become rich

Science Is for Suckers

The smart people who create products are forced to hand over the ownership of that intellectual property to their bosses. Corporate patents are not only grand larceny; they demoralize inventors and make them produce far less than they would be capable of if given half the ownership of those patents as an incentive. If someone swallows his pride, he chokes his talent.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

It’s because workers have few rights and wealthy shareholders have lots of rights. It’s the American Way. Money rules.

The Stock Market Is a Paradise for Plutocratic Parasites

Then make the employees the only shareholders. The result will be that every worker will be motivated to increase profits so that he can get bigger dividends.

Both Capitalism and Communism fail because of absentee ownership.

 

[Woodznutz]

Depends on what you include as labor. It's probably closer to 80 percent.

That would

Funny how only 5% of the total cost of the car goes towards labor costs.....but ok.....

If 95 percent of the price of cars rolling off the line is profit that's the business to be in.