Toon- The Working Poor Electronics Show

[n2doc]

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2012/01/08/opinion/sunday/the-strip.html

[Kurmudgeon]

1. At least that Dart runs, good luck keeping an import that old running economically.

I'd still be using my cathode ray monitor if it hadn't broken. That's true recyclng and conservation of resources.
Instead, the working poor are connected to Fox as it shows in the last panel?
Is this somehow supposed to convince the middle class and poor to not vote right wing?
If so, it isn't working.

[3waygeek]

2. The last panel doesn't refer to Fox News...

it refers to Foxconn, an Taiwanese electronics assembler that has multiple facilities in China. Apple Computer is one of their biggest customers; all those iPods/iPhones are assembled by Foxconn employees (at least the ones who haven't killed themselves).

[customerserviceguy]

3. Well, the Dart was a cartoon drawing

Whenever I go back to the Pacific Northwest to visit friends and family, I do see a few Darts (and other older American cars) running, but I also see a lot more imported cars from even the Seventies and Eighties still running on the road.

Here on the East Coast, durability is not as much of an issue, if some idiot doesn't run into you and total your car, the road salt and potholes will get it.

[cbrer]

5. 1995 Nissan Pickup

22 MPG town/city
426,000+ miles
Cost of ownership ~ $600.00/yr.

I recycle everything, and will never buy new, and never buy American again. I use the same purchase logic that American car companies use. Best supplier...period.

PS I realize the drawing of the Dart is of an older model than 1995. Yippee!

[ellisonz]

4. "Apply for jobs, visit food pantry, cry."