Mahoning63 wrote:
There's more competence and entrepreneurialism on the hustling street corners of the ghetto than in the Boardrooms and CEO offices of American Capitalism Inc so if the ruling class is changing its address from Country Club Lane to 15th Street more power to America. One day these kids might redirect their energies and play a major role in digging us out of the mess that generations of well-bred private sector idiots created.

I've been taxied through Berlin in a Mercedes E-Class and it was a darn good car, just as competent as the stuff we see here. I've also been in a Crown Vic cabbie in NY and it was the same disgusting piece of cr@p that my great uncles drove. I also helped engineer (but had no authority to really fix) the 2000s Town Car. It was piece of cr@p with a suit. Mercedes and BMW have earned every penny they have taken in. Cadillac, Lincoln and Imperial deserve their current states... fair, poor and poof. As for Packard, they were the canary in the coal mine that warned of the wholly deficient post-war breeding techniques that America had adopted to grow its business leaders.