*Germany, Japan and Sweden manage to make great cars that people want while co-operating with their strong unions*

Hmmm, where to begin? *Sweden making great cars* Volvo is owned by Ford...has been for over ten years...Saab by GM...both are failing miserably. GM had to invest over 3 BILLION dollars in Saab just to keep it a float a few years ago. Is a Saab really a Saab when it shares many parts with a Chevy Malabu?

Same deal with Volvo...sharing platform parts with many of mainstream parts. *Smart* Europeans are turning away from them in droves. Ford and Chevy thought the *cashe* of owning these companys would rub off on their US counterparts..no such luck.

Other than the Germans, most other European car makers are small potatoes.

p.s...much of the Ford and GM product produced, designed and built in Europe IS NOT the same crap they build here.

*bundlers who raised millions of dollars for his White House bid are starting to land significant posts on his transition team*

*Change we can believe in*?
Who's says that we need to wait and *see* who the *real* Obama is?
Yet another example of what he *really* is...another corrupt Chicago politician...YES HE IS!

Hiring Emmanual and many other Clintonista's?
Again, this is *change*?

I really want to believe in my commander in chief(even if he wasn't my choice). However his *actions* have lead me to believe(even before he takes office), that my initial reaction was correct. He'll end up being nothing more than an extreme, left wing partisan hack...flame on!

I keep hearing the lyrics from the Who's *won't get fooled again* every time I see this guy open his mouth...

*I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around me
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
Don't get fooled again
No, no!

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAH!

Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss*

*Well, I meant relative peace and prosperity, you know like not attacking a country "preemptively", then bogging down there for years.

And like paying down the debt and leaving a surplus, you know, the opposite of what your guy GW did*

You mean the *surplus* generated by a Republicans? Holding Clinton's feet to the fire(on spending) and cutting taxes therefore generating the additional dollars that paid down our debt?

You must mean the *relative* peace of Kosovo and ethnic cleansing?
Didn't Clinton waged war against a tyrannical regime that did not immediately threaten the United States? Kinda like that? Funny how when Clinton did this it was for *humanitarian* reasons and when Bush did it was for *oil and the greed* of his buddies in big oil..

*Which did ya'll hate most about the Clinton admin, the peace or the prosperity?*

Which *peace* were you referring to?

Oh, you mean the *peace* generated by Clinton sticking his head in the sand an ignoring the terror threat around the world? All the while hoping like hell he could make it out of office before we had a major attack on U.S. soil?
The *peace* in Africa? He didn't lift a finger to help those people...hundreds of thousands died during his watch. That peace?

What prosperity?
You mean the prosperity he inherited from previous administrations and the prosperity of the dot.com and tech boom(before the bubble burst)or the record run up of the stock market?
Yea, he *created* that prosperity. Any intellectually honest individual would admit his *contribution* to that economy was staying the f*@k out of its way...flame on!

*Lioness of the Senate*

bhhhhhah! for all you conspiracy nutz...this is actually a ploy for Barry to get her out of his hair...she'd have to give up her post a madam senator...then he could ditch her after a few years...bwahhhh

*they're all dancing around Jerry playing an infinite solo. they don't even hear the Experience*

hmm, I doubt it...Jerry was and always has been marginal(at best).

Reminds me of an old joke...What did one dead head say to to the other once they ran out of acid at a show?
"Lets get the hell out of here, this music sucks"

Hendrix re-invented/invented modern guitar...he ushered in an entirely new era of sounds and techniques that will be influencing young guitarist for eon's....

I've seen *the dead* with Jerry a few times...I was so impressed, I literally feel asleep. Jerry isn't fit to tie Jimi's boot laces...Hendrix was from another planet...not of this earth.

Hendrix has finally reformed the *original* Experience...
Along with Cream, they defined the word *power trio*...

Sad, sad day...
Jimi and the Experience are playing SO loud...hopefully it's pissing off all the old dead hippies in heaven..lol

*I dont think blacks will ever put the racism card down. That would mean they would be just like everyone else, and have to take responsibility for their own situatations*

Boaz is correct...in effect, we can no longer be labeled a racist country...almost 50% of *we the people* voted for Obama...

Jessie Jackson and Al Sharptons worst nightmare has come true...a black man(that didn't play the *victim* card) has risen to the highest position of power in the modern world. Why do you think Jessie was *really* crying the other day? His free ride is over...his *victim* mentality is now for all intents and purposes dead.

I agree with Boaz...putting down the racism card would mean that the black community would finally have to take responsibility for themselves and assimilate into modern American society just like every other immigrant/minority group that has made its way to this country.

I'm proud to say I didn't vote for *change*...

The *old white guy* got my vote...

TrueBlue

He's a *private* plumber here in Ct only...He sticks to a *higher end* clientele. In addition, he works a ton of hours.

Back on point...the poorest and middle class Americans will still pay MORE in total taxes under Obama...lest we forget things like state sales tax, increases on tobacco, alcohol, gas tax...etc...

anamerican has it correct...*how can 95% of Americans get a tax break when only 40% of Americans pay taxes?*

is this *new* math? a new form of welfare perhaps? socialism?
this is SO un-American. anyone that thinks *only the rich* will be affected is sadly mistaken and down right naive. once they're done *milking* people over $250k...then *rich* will be re-defined as anyone making over $100k and so on...only a matter of time till Obama picks your pocket too...

unless you're one of the *poor, under privileged, down trodden*...then you'll have everything handed to you...that will make everything *fair*...

btw...my oldest friend has a plumbing company(for twenty years)is the ONLY employee and make far more than $250k a year

I knew there was a reason to choose direct tv over dish network...

*remember when you were young?
you shone like the sun*

fedupwithpols...

modern diesels don't have issues with fuel geling...in addition, fuel in colder regions is treated so this won't be an issue.

Modern diesels will start instantly to temps well below zero. Not at all like your old Rabbit...

sawdust is 100% correct...the brainwashed, un educated *green* lobby has put pressure on the EPA to push their *green* ideas. Truth of the matter is that modern diesels emmitt less polution than their gas powered equivalents.
Everyone equates diesels to stinky, belching buses and trucks. The American public still remembers those horrible, un reliable GM diesel cars of the 70's and 80's.

Go drive a new VW/Audi/MB diesel...you'd never know that your driving a non gas car. Tons of power/torque and acceleration with none of the noise, clatter and smell of the past.

aaaahh, a subject near and dear to my heart...
I've worked for VAG(Volkswagen Auto group...VW, Audi, Bentley, Seat, Skoda, Bugatti,
Lamborghini)for over ten years.

VW has had a vehicle available in Europe for years know as the Polo. Available in diesel, it's rated at approx 70-75 miles per gallon. Problem is that the ill informed *green Nazi's* have all but killed diesel in this country. Within the past year or so, ultra low sulfur diesel fuel is now mandatory in the U.S....in lay mans terms, the fuel is now on par with the European standard. Now modern diesels can run as clean if not cleaner than any gasoline powered vehicle.
The green dopes in this country actually believe that a Prius actually is better for the environment...in reality, the long term effects of a hybrid are much worse for the planet. The battery technology in a modern hybrid contains toxic and heavy metals that just can't be dumped into a landfill. The longterm effects of which have yet to be determined.
VW and Audi had hybrid diesel/electric vehicles in development in the early 90's. What they determined was that the additional 20% gain in fuel economy wasn't worth the complexity. The VAG diesel engineering group determined that with future technology, they'd be able to re-gain that 20% in efficiency with the development of piezo electric injection.
BTW...VW has offered diesel cars in this country that obtain 40-50 plus mpg since 1993.
Funny thing...Honda and Toyote have approached VW to license clean diesel technology...
One of the main reasons being that Europeans think of hybrids as a joke...neither Honda or Toyota can give them away in Europe. Just goes to prove the the whole *hybrid* thing is a marketing scheme.