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• Saturday, December 13, 2008 10:52 AM

  Wrecking the wrecking crew

  The GOP oafs think that if they can just drive a stake through Detroit's heart, then their states will become the new auto manufacturing powerhouses in the U.S. (albeit with the companies foreign-owned, but what the hell do they care, as long as they keep wages down and the campaign contributions a'comin').

  However, their Southern-fried wet dream is already going down the tubes:

  ITEM: November auto sales

  Toyota Motor Corp. fell 34 percent, the most since 1987...Honda Motor Co., Japan's second-largest automaker after Toyota, said sales fell 32 percent to 76,233 vehicles, the lowest monthly tally since 2000....Tokyo-based Nissan Motor Co., Japan's third-largest automaker, said it sold 46,605 new vehicles last month, down 42 percent from a year ago.

  http://tinyurl.com/5oxpxy

  ITEM: Deep cuts in production

  Honda Scales Back Production in North America

  The company’s latest production cuts come on top of previous reductions of 56,000 vehicles for North America in this fiscal year. Last month, Honda said it was cutting production in Japan and Europe by 61,000 vehicles.

  http://tinyurl.com/5wdfdy

  These bumpkins fail to understand that the economic Katrina we're experiencing is wiping out the entire auto industry.

  Without a strong and vibrant American middle class, which these cheap-labor conservatives have destroyed, no one is going to be buying cars. ANY cars.

  —Scorpio69er Read Scorpio69er's other letters
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