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My '99 XC SP 700 would stomp those mustard bucket 700's like clockwork.

I can't wait until we stop fucking around with these little firecrackers and start dropping the big fireworks. Not to mention Bent's tantrums will get better also.

I don't think so, newer vehicles from what I've observed in the last 10 years rust alot more prematurely than they used to, especially domestics. My son drives a 1997 Camry college beater with 160k on it, zero rust on that car. Might be time to consider foreign vehicles over junk domestics.

The wig on Baldwin's Trump is gray, it needs to be orange.

What a hunk of stupidity that is, do the liberal idiots gaze at that thing in amazement at how awesome it is?

Anybody who buys a Mopar product should have a cranial exam.

Hind sight is always 20/20......it takes balls to take a risk amongst uncertainty.

That's a classic but jesus christ what a crybaby.

You guys be nice to momo, if you're nice to him he'll be nice to you.

I didn't say they were poop shoot, but they had a major revenue drop and the fact that they're located in the Chicago area where you claim the economy is booming is a bit telling.

It appears Caterpillar isn't doing so well, thanks Obama! March 31, 2017 Caterpillar to close Aurora plant, cutting 800 jobs By Claire Bushey Photo by Bloomberg Caterpillar is closing its plant in Aurora, moving the machinery made there to other sites and laying off 800 workers. The company, which has been weighing this move since January, will continue to have an office in Aurora for engineers and product support employees, says Cat spokeswoman Lisa Miller. Caterpillar's workforce in Aurora currently totals about 2,000. The plant closure is expected to be completed by the end of 2018. Workers will have the opportunity to apply to work at other facilities, Miller said. About 500 jobs and the work making large wheel loaders and compactors will move to Decatur. Production of medium wheel loaders and 150 jobs will go to North Little Rock, Ark. The move is part of the company's effort to slash production capacity in the face of dropping sales. Caterpillar revenue peaked at $66 billion in 2012 and has been sliding ever since. 2016 revenue was $38.54 billion. The company has been cutting employees since 2015, with the goal to reach 10,000 layoffs by 2018. The Aurora closure comes on top of those cuts. “Moving production from Aurora to other existing facilities allows Caterpillar to efficiently leverage manufacturing space while still preserving capacity for an upturn,” Denise Johnson, Cat's group president of resource industries said in a statement. “Supporting impacted employees through this transition is a top priority.” Though the company earlier said a decision on the plant's fate would come by the end of the quarter, the move comes four days after a new, six-year contract was ratified by Caterpillar's union workers. The contract with 5,000 workers represented by United Auto Workers anticipated the closure with special measures aimed at Aurora. Workers will receive a lump-sum payment equal to 40 hours multiplied by their hourly wage, multiplied by each year of seniority. For example, a worker who has logged five years and makes $22 per hour will receive $4,400. But Aurora workers were specifically excluded from taking a $10,000 bonus offered to men and women retiring before Jan. 2, 2019.

IMO, our messed up trade policies started getting bad in the early 90's and it has gotten worse since. I like to believe our leaders have the power to change that but when they're dealing with lobbyists from big corps. in the name of greedy greasiness, it has to be difficult. At least back in the 70's and 80's there was still a lot of products that were made in the USA. Maybe the puppet masters don't care as long as the puppets are powerless.

During Obummer's 8 years he did nothing to make that situation better and if anything it became worse under his term.

It's common knowledge that Obummer was an economic failure, the worst in the last 70 years. The question is, was he good for anything? He did kill Bin Laden, that's the only thing I can think of.

Well, let's see the list.

That smells like

which area?

A small clip form "The Warning" if you've never seen the documentary I recommend it, it's pretty interesting.

x's 2 Govt. is the most to blame, when you leave the door open to the hen house (deregulation/glass steagall, etc.) the wolves are going to slaughter and that's exactly what the banks did. There was a gal by the name of Brooksley Borne, I believe she was the head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, in the early 2000's she made Greenspan and the gang aware on a couple occasions of the impending mortgage crisis, it all fell on deaf ears and obviously she was correct but her hands were tied.

awesome, consequences are a bitch, nothing like instant justice

No doubt, a good friend of mine who was the branch manager at a local plumbing/hvac wholesaler had one of his employees do just that. The little fuck was doing false warranty claims and then taking the product home at night and selling it on Ebay. Most of the products he was doing false claims for happened to be constant pressure well pump systems that were manufactured by Grundfos. After about 5 years the accountants at Grundfos started wondering why they were having so many claims coming from Green Bay, WI and they weren't getting this volume of claims any where else in the country. After they figured it all out that employee pretty much got his ass handed to him, prison time, wage garnishment, he'll be paying for the rest of his life. After it was all said and done they figured he stole between $150,000 - $200,000 in product over a 5 - 6 year period.

That's a significant sign of stupidity, Bernie Madoff is a perfect example.