Ford to Cut Salaried Workers Worldwide

calirepub · 2018-10-07T21:36:39.631Z

wonderingrover:

Yep - that’s the problem with putting these tariffs on things like steel and aluminum. They affect other areas of the economy and have a negative impact.

If Ford was smart they would start making cars out of things other than steel and aluminium. I believe that the only reason why wooden cars never became a thing is because of the subsidies for steelworkers.

koushi_shinigami · 2018-10-07T21:38:43.082Z

Eh?

Wooden cars were a thing.

calirepub · 2018-10-07T21:42:57.821Z

koushi_shinigami:

Eh?

Wooden cars were a thing.

Why are wooden cars a novelty today? Subsidies.

Everything is a thing.

Edit: Thanks for getting me googling. I want a wooden car. These look amazing. When I was a teenager I wanted a woodie… as I was a surfer in my teenage years.

Oh yes. And 34.

koushi_shinigami · 2018-10-07T21:45:25.804Z

Wooden cars take more skill and time to build. Steel parts can be stamped out much more quickly in mass production and require fewer skilled workers.

calirepub · 2018-10-07T21:46:23.628Z

koushi_shinigami:

Wooden cars take more skill and time to build. Steel parts can be stamped out much more quickly in mass production and require fewer skilled workers.

Depending on the tariffs on steel, wood might be a viable alternative.

Samm · 2018-10-07T21:52:27.817Z

Plasmaball:

We make steel here…

^ Would someone bump the table please? Plasma is stuck in the groove.

wonderingrover · 2018-10-07T21:53:52.477Z

If they’d just watch the Flintstones, they’d get some ideas for really fuel efficient cars

calirepub · 2018-10-07T21:58:30.274Z

wonderingrover:

If they’d just watch the Flintstones, they’d get some ideas for really fuel efficient cars

Was there even fossil fuels during that time period?

TheDoctorIsIn · 2018-10-08T03:19:23.251Z

Samm:

Just think, if we made aluminum and steel in this county (like we used to) there would be no tariffs on it.

And?

We dont make as much steel and aluminium anymore because it’s cheaper to buy it from someone else.

Why is that a bad thing?

Samm · 2018-10-08T03:21:09.895Z

TheDoctorIsIn:

Samm:

Just think, if we made aluminum and steel in this county (like we used to) there would be no tariffs on it.

And?

We dont make as much steel and aluminium anymore because it’s cheaper to buy it from someone else.

Why is that a bad thing?

Why do you think I was making a judgment?

TheDoctorIsIn · 2018-10-08T03:21:43.589Z

So it was just an idle thought?

We used to make buggy whips, too.

Samm · 2018-10-08T03:22:41.333Z

TheDoctorIsIn:

So it was just an idle thought?

We used to make buggy whips, too.

The topic was tariffs, not obsolete products.

TheDoctorIsIn · 2018-10-08T03:23:31.620Z

If you’re not making a “judgment”, what’s your point?

Samm · 2018-10-08T03:24:13.789Z

TheDoctorIsIn:

If you’re not making a “judgment”, what’s your point?

To make conversation. It worked too, didn’t it.

TheDoctorIsIn · 2018-10-08T03:25:36.353Z

Usually, when someone affirmatively acts to “converse”, they have a point to make.

Apparently you don’t?

Samm · 2018-10-08T03:30:12.429Z

TheDoctorIsIn:

Usually, when someone affirmatively acts to “converse”, they have a point to make.

Apparently you don’t?

Why does everything said in a conversation have to have a point? Does everything you post have a point? For instance, what point are you trying to make now?

TheDoctorIsIn · 2018-10-08T03:36:11.044Z

Yes, everything I post here has a point. Everything you post has a point too, whether or not you want to admit it.

In this case, your point appears to be mindless support of Trump’s tariffs. But since you might not even support those tariffs, you couch your remarks in vague statements, and then pretend you didn’t actually mean anything when anyone presses you.

TheDoctorIsIn · 2018-10-08T03:39:18.920Z

Either you support the steel and aluminium tariffs, or you don’t. I dont know why you’re trying to play both sides of the fence.

Samm · 2018-10-08T04:05:58.424Z

TheDoctorIsIn:

Yes, everything I post here has a point. Everything you post has a point too, whether or not you want to admit it.

In this case, your point appears to be mindless support of Trump’s tariffs. But since you might not even support those tariffs, you couch your remarks in vague statements, and then pretend you didn’t actually mean anything when anyone presses you.

There was absolutely nothing in my post to suggest that I support Trump’s tariffs mindlessly or otherwise. If you require my statement to have a point, it is that we regulated and priced steel and aluminum production out of the country making it necessary to import those commodities which in turn makes them subject to tariffs whatever they may be. Had that not been done, Ford would not be impacted one way or the other by those tariffs.

Are we good?

TheDoctorIsIn · 2018-10-08T04:08:50.762Z

Samm:

There was absolutely nothing in my post to suggest that I support Trump’s tariffs mindlessly or otherwise. If you require my statement to have a point, it is that we regulated and priced steel and aluminum production out of the country making it necessary to import those commodities which in turn makes them subject to tariffs whatever they may be. Had that not been done, Ford would not be impacted one way or the other by those tariffs.

Are we good?

There’s no need to get huffy, I thought you wanted to have a conversation.

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