I wonder if the president of that plant has to sell his Porse.
Terrible Tom wrote:
>
> Dan Kramarsky wrote:
>
>> LOL.
>>
>> Ford's Deerborn plant workers were told they must drive a Ford or park
>> across the street.
>>
>> Ford reports a loss of 1.6 billion in its North American auto
>> operations for 2005. And
>> plans to cut 30,000 jobs.
>>
>>
>> http://money.cnn.com/2006/01/27/news/companies/ford_parkinglot/index.htm?cnn=yes
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
> I can understand the sentiment behind that... from the standpoint of
> Ford... however I think its a little irritating that they would mandate
> that. One guy was quoted as having said something like drive or buy
> what you build... well yeah thats nice.. I'm sure every guy that builds
> ford trucks will want to drive one with the WOOONDERFUL gas milage that
> full size trucks get. Granted a UAW worker makes a hell of a lot more
> money than I do.. and can afford more gasoline than I can... but don't
> expect them to buy what they build.
>
> On a related note - on my many trips between chicago and wisconsin over
> the years, I have seen lots of non Dodge products parked in the lots at
> the Belvedere IL Neon plant. Heh
>
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