Ford employees ask the company to stop making police cars

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  1. PARTIZAN1

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    "DO YOU WANT TWO SUGARS WITH THAT COPPER-CHINO"
     
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    All American auto companies are hurting..... well all TWO of them that is.
     
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    The modern day liberals think lunatics should run the asylum.

    Sometimes the appropriate management response upon being told what to do is "**** and get back to work." If needed, the appropriate 2nd response is "your fired."
     
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    In a free market you get what you can from your customers as long as the competition does not eat your lunch.

    As far a CEO over compensation the is up to the company or in reality up to who controls the voting shares. It may some day come back and bite corporations in the ass.
     
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    This movement to boycott the organizations who protect us is self destructive behavior.
     
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    I can understand some of the employees concerns, but in the larger scheme of things, the Ford Intercept vehicles are the least concern. I'm more concerned about the police use of surplus military vehicles and gear.
     
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    Just as the Defund Police or Defund the Pentagon, or Defund The Government ( remember starve the beast) was never thought through.

    It goes back to one of my favorite sayings ---------a simple solution to a complex problem is usually wrong...........
     
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    Maybe the employees are why FORD stands for Fix or Repair Daily -- or Found on Road Dead.
     
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    I heard the Wunderbar Bakery employees want the company to stop baking White bread !! Anyone else hear that?



    lol!!
     
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    You in the wrong thread?
     
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    some can ask, course the layoffs would come after due to lost profits
     
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    exactly
     
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    Ford is a lot better than GM.
     
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    Those all fall under the government. Cutting funds should be combined with cutting useless laws. Any act that doesn't produce a victim should not have a law making it a crime.
     
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    now now, that is a stereotype of police that they do not like

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    In my experience this is a true statement.
     
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    If people are willing to keep paying the outlandish prices Didney is charging it's none of my business. It doesn't seem to bother people at all.

    But we haven't spent a penny for any Didney product or service in about twenty-five years. You don't get value for your money.
     
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    There are people stupid enough to pay that much to go to their parks. Ford can't afford to throw away business at the whim of some employee's wokeness. That decision should belong to the stockholders.

    I bet Toyota has a turbo 6 in development that would be a great police engine in a 4runner body.
     
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    If this were a mere year ago I would be agreeing with you. I had to step away from current events for the past few months due to work commitments and when I came back into the fold and saw what was going on I swear I literally triple checked my browser to see if Babylonbee or the Onion had taken over the MSM as a late April Fools joke or something.

    Folks chanting to abolish the police, actual elected officials with power AGREEING with them...Others saying just defund them into oblivion, Officers walking off the job in droves, riots burning down cities, ripping statues down, etc. Some fools cordoned off part of Seattle and made their own country LOL??

    I was sitting here flipping through the news waiting to see clips of elected officials saying like "Alright children that was cute but it's bedtime now". Nope, I'm watching clips of elected officials saying "Yeah we're on board with abolishing the police"....

    What in the literal HELL is going on here lol? Are you folks sure this isn't some huge coordinated practical joke being played and everyone is in on it? This isn't just the FAR Left acting up and the collective rest of America just ignoring them? Elected Officials are actually saying yeah we agree with this stuff??

    Everywhere I turn I'm seeing BLM banners and stuff. I go to order a few things on Amazon and I'm hit with a BLM banner? Watch a show on Netflix or Hulu and I'm hit with "Hey check out these black documentaries because we support the riots (I mean the protests)." Hey it's cool to rip down statues of American Presidents and historical figures because racism. And elected officials and even society is just letting this happen??

    Are we seriously bowing down to this stuff? Companies are really bowing down to this? Elected officials?! Ford may very well bow down to this nonsense, hell everybody else is...I wouldn't surprise me one bit if the next headline is actually "Ford chooses to discontinue production of police vehicles in support of equality".

    I need to go back out of town again....my country has lost it's ever loving MIND. Is all this nonsense actually a "thing" now? Or is this just the mainstream media highlighting a very vocal small percentage of absolute insanity for ratings or something? Somebody please tell me it's the latter...
     
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    Psssssssst,

    Then don’t go to their park. Paying $200 to go to a theme park is about as asinine as paying $8 for a coffee, $600 for a pair of jeans, $150 for a pair of sneakers that were made in China, $25,000 for a ticket to a football game, $10 for popcorn at a movie theater or $1500 for the latest smartphone.

    BTW, the owners of Starbucks, True Religion, Nike, New England Patriots, AMC Theatres and Apple are all worth we’ll over $100 million each.
     
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    I experienced all this in slow motion, being as i was watching the news daily. I'm turning to day drinking as a solution
     
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    Go "old school" and get some horses or try out some skateboards?

    I get the reasoning. I really do, but this is beyond ridiculous.
     
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    Hell the slow burn would have been easier to handle than getting walloped in the face with this sledgehammer. Here I am being away from home again on behalf of my country and I come back and my country has turned into that movie Idiocracy....

    I mean seriously, why is this OP even news?! Have we really gotten to the point where this is actually news?

    Here is how this would play out in a normal non-idiocracy world

    Ford Employees from the article: We should stop making police cars because the police are bad
    Ford leadership: Shut up

    The end.

    The fact that this is news in general means that something has gone horribly wrong here....That means that this sort of thing has been going on in other companies and they are BOWING to this sort of nonsense. There is no way this is reality right now. Where the hell are the adults?
     
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    This is well beyond the point of just holding differing opinions now...It's one thing to have different opinions on policy or political ideology or something...But how in the actual hell can somebody look you in the face without smiling and say yes we should completely abolish the police?!

    There is simply no way under any circumstance whatsoever that makes ANY sense. And the fact that some elected officials are agreeing with that and businesses are considering doing what they can to help strangle the police is horrifying.

    I've been alive awhile, up until literally 4 MONTHS AGO throughout the history of the entire existence of the United States an article that said something like "Mayor agrees to dismantle police force" or "Ford employees as company to stop manufacturing police cars" would be in the freakin' NATIONAL ENQUIRER or THE ONION.

    NORMAL, rational, logical, society doesn't say things like that. We've officially gone off the deep end. I'm absolutely thrilled that I just spent months once again away from home on behalf of my country and its citizens to come back to this utter nonsense.
     

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