The Greek

Let's Buy Detroit Outright

I should make one point first. I believe the auto industry should not go bankrupt. I beiieve it should be supported, but through acquisition or signficant cost and assurances of reform and restructuring. And I agree, health care reform is welcomed by me.

Answering the comment of "Pork" again, where he assumes I couldn't last on the assembly line.

I'm pretty darn sure I could last on the line, as anyone who knows me can attest. From age 11 through college, I worked with my father in construction. I lifted cement blocks that weighed more than me, and towed bags of shingles up ladders, and wheeled carts of cement through mud.

I didn't buy luxuries with income, I bought stocks, and I started my career learning investing lessons the hard way from age 16. My first job as a mutual fund accountant, started at $19,500. After grad school (financed with more loans), I started as a stock analyst at $53K, and after working my tail off and becoming the 2nd best stock picker of 90 global analysts in my firm (over five years of free picking) I was finally making $153K (with bonus included), and that's very low for Wall Street (and my performance), very low.

In my life, I've delivered pizza, washed dishes, bused tables, cooked, dropped leaflets. After college and grad school, I worked four to five to six hours longer than 99% of my peers on Water Street (before 9/11 - 3 hrs after), Saturdays and often Sundays, so even sitting on my butt, I worked my tail off. I've been tired my whole life, but I never quit. I could handle the assembly line with my eyes closed and legs tied, but that's not saying it's easy to do my friend.

Now, you were interested in how much I make now. Well, running my blog and building my businesses, I do the jobs of ten people, working from sunrise to well after most go to bed, for very little reward, as all start up businesses see. I'm a blue collar kid who got everything in his life the hard way. NEVER assume... God bless.

My point is, Detroit needs fixing, or it wouldn't be where it is. A lot of fat has been built into our economy, from Wall Street to Main Street. We've got some hard years ahead of us here, and a big challenge. We have to get back to basics of hard work, honest wages and we need to take a good look at ourselves and instill ethics and moral values back into our lives, our country and mankind.