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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
... Much of the wealth owned by these millionaire senators and their backers came from slave labor. These guys are part of a long tradition of keeping the working poor right where they want them: fighting the battles of the rich, and saying "Yassa, them unions is bad, thank ya massa". These senators are scumbags through and through, who truly hate America. Where was their outrage at the compensation of the bankers they fought so hard to bailout? They were all too eager to hand a trillion dollars to a bunch of crooks who claimed their banks would fail, while shutting down all competition (think it's a mere coincidence Lehman went down, while Paulson's alma mater Goldman Sachs not only survived, but is now using bailout money to gobble up smaller banks?) These are the same fools who allowed B of A to buy a bunch of other banks just a couple of months ago, and now wants to give them taxpayer money, lest they 'fail'.
These people are despicable. Hate unions? Great! Let's bust 'em all, and repeal all the laws which 'tie the hands' of business, especially the child protection act. Just imagine, if we could get all the 13 - 16 year olds to work the assembly lines from dawn to dusk! Boy Shelby and co. would be dancing in the streets, and we could make cars so cheap, even china would buy 'em! Yeehaw!
This is VERY interesting .. it is a short video of a new Ford plant in Brazil.
One look at this and you will be able to tell why there will probably never be another assembly plant built in the USA. It will also point out why more assembly plants will go offshore.
After you watch this, you really need to take the time to write your Congressman and Senators urging them NOT to support the proposed bailout of the big three automakers. It will quite obviously be another large chunk of our (taxpayers) money going for a futile cause - because those companies are not ever going to be able to change enough to be successful until the UAW is willing to make some huge changes. And that seems unlikely.
Do not be scared into thinking that Ford, GM, and Chrysler are going to go under. They will survive, but their assembly operations in the US likely won't -- whether we provide a bailout or not.
And keep in mind that a huge percentage of the cars sold in the USA are made in the USA today -- not just by Ford, GM, and Chrysler -- but by Toyota, Honda, and many of the rest. They are built by American workers and they are being profitable.
Why, you must ask? Because they are non-union operations and do not have the UAW hanging around their necks like large ship anchors.
Watch the video:
http://info.detnews.com/video/index.cfm?id=1189
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.
re: They are built by American workers and they are being profitable.
They're foreign owned. Why do you hate America so much?
BTW, they're going down the tubes as well.
re: Because they are non-union operations and do not have the UAW hanging around their necks like large ship anchors
It always amazes me that any working person would pay any attention to this cheap-labor conservative propaganda. Yeah, blame it all on the hourly workers, and ignore the obscene salaries and bonuses lavished on the CEOs that drive these companies to bankruptcy.
Oh, I'm sorry, is bringing up the multi-million dollar salaries of these bloated fat cats "class warfare"?
When the 'geniuses" of the Chicago University school of economics, aka "The Chicago Boys", "The Friedman Boys", "The Disaster Capitalism Boys" , "The Sock Therapy Boys" were "advising" the economies of Chile, Argentina and Poland into total meltdowns, their first advise was:bust the unions. Union busting is pure fascism and the GOP is a pure fascist entity.
Bush may have left a rotten legacy behind but if he does rescue the automative industry for now, he can at least claim that he is not another Herbert Hoover. I suggest that he is going to kick the can down the road and let Obama deal with the heavy lifting.
If Obama has the brains he seems to have (thank goodness), he and his Secretaries of Labor and Commerce can work out a set of conditions that include fuel-efficient and smaller cars, fewer dealerships, an equitable labor contract and health care reform. Working with the awesome intellect who has been tapped as Energy Secretary, we could have a trasnformational industry within four years producing cars that are both nice to drive and kind to the environment.
Health care costs are probably most crippling for the automobile manufacturers. In almost every other industrialized country, there is some kind of univeresal health care that is not piled on the manufacturing sector. We should have the same thing.
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