Because those boundaries don't matter. Just ignore that they are there. When we need you, we are all one. When we don't need you, you're on your own.
- Regionalism, Detroit Style 2012
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"Detroit" means much more then the physical boundaries of the city. It's a concept, an image - to the rest of the U.S. I live in Iowa and have never lived in Detroit. Henry Ford moved out of Detroit. Chrysler. But the region and the concept has never waivered.
I'm not lumping the entire younger voting population into anything first off.
Second, if young people want to have any taste of the living standard their baby boomer parents had [[thanks to what many call Socialism now), Ron Paul would be the LAST person they want to support, who wants to take us right back to the pre-New Deal era [[if not colonial era).
It was a good commercial. It was nice to see that they once again showed the Flag at Tiger Stadium in the commercial.
I was actually one of the people responcible for putting that flag up, and this makes 2 years in a row they showed that flag during the superbowl.
Because relocating 12,000 people from the second largest office building in the world 30 miles would cost billions of dollars. Thats a stupid idea...
There was already rumors about Chrylser snagging some office space downtown somewhere.
I'm proud of my city and I don't live in it, do I have to move to prove I care?
"What lies ahead in the second half? Apparently all that matters is that Scott Walker gets recalled, the President wins a second term, taxpayers forget about that $1.3 billion and everyone just keeps on believing that "Detroit’s showing us it can be done".
Last time I checked, it wasn't GM or Chrysler that was responsible for blowing up the US economy. That's the responsibility of the geniuses on Wall Street who took hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars, used that money to boost their bottom lines and showered themselves with massive bonuses and haven't done anything to clean up their act while acting as if they did nothing wrong. In comparison, the sins of GM and Chrysler pale in comparison. But Wall Street workers aren't represented by a union so the right-wing couldn't care less.
Meanwhile....
The commercial has already been lampooned by The Second City network. What would have happened to Detroit without stimulus. It's a spoof but with a serious undertone. This is what will happen with mister cut-cut-cut-fire as commander in Chief, the callous and heartless Mitt Romney.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBgYq...layer_embedded
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‘Halftime in America’ and controversy over ad both miss an important Detroit reality — the city is 80% blackQuote:
Rose says, “We have to see what’s invisible in this ad. Not only is it a pro-Chrysler ad, as if Chrysler is itself Detroit, but it does it by showing this world where even when there are racially ambiguous minorities, they’re mostly predominantly white…in a city that is 80 percent African American. It’s very important to see what’s missing in this ad — it pulls on our heartstrings and all of our fears to galvanize our support of a corporate agenda as if it’s the equivalent of a citizenry.”
First off, as a fiscal conservative, I see absolutely no Obama endorsement in this commercial. It's simply Chrysler saying, we [[company, city, state, country) were down, but now we're coming back, and it's time to get the rest of the way up.
As to the auto bailout, I was staunchly against it. I felt they companies needed to fail and that the unions would only step down if the companies were allowed to fail.
I most certainly was wrong. The auto bailouts did an unbelievable amount of good for Detroit and the country. Also, the unions fell in line and took the concessions they needed to start to take.
I still think more union reform is needed, but we're headed in the right direction.
It is NOT Halftime in Detroit. Clint Eastwood Got it Wrong:
http://happyfrogdetroit.com/ron-will...-new-ball-game
The best part about this commercial is that is brought some good honest debate amongst the natives. There is a separation.
I am in no way shape or form a Republican , but have to give credit where its due . Bush thought up the bailout , but didn't implement it .
http://www.dailytech.com/Bush+Defend...ticle23952.htm
Last one, Here's Saturday Night Live.
Quite funny!
I like the SNL one better. Chrysler should hire them next time.