MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
It's the same group that howls against land fill contamination. Screw everyone and fill your pockets now. I'll fill your life with garbage then go sailing in the Aegean in my made in Finland Swan. You want a reason the Chinese are kicking our A$$, you got it. The medical profession is degrading to third world status as well. It's greedy salaries benefits and pie-in-the-sky promises to investors that's the prime mover behind the Junkification of America. I put my foot down at the prospect of getting skewered another hungred bucks for nine dollars worth of Chinese electronics. Junk junk junk junk junk. And lazy money shifters are hetting wealthy in the process.
If you're a USA voter, take a look at
Bernie Sanders.. Of course, one President isn't going to stop those fat cats from smoking Cuban cigars, sipping French Cognac and deciding the new, slightly higher, price of fuel.
The bottom line, IMO, is separating political power from money but that's always been the issue in any oligarchy, back even to the Greeks and before.
Very inconvenient for the OP to have suffered the wrath of the bean counters. I would agree with the mechanic's assessment of the cause and seek compensation from Ford. Stranger things have happened if your letter falls on the desk of someone human.