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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Übercrombie & Fitch says" Make it a law requiring all citizens to purchase an American car".
Foreign car Companies are manufacturing their cars in the U.S with U.S labor for the U.S. markets. These workers get paid as much in wages and benefits as autoworkers in the U.A.W. The difference is management & consumers.
I started buying Toyotos in 1979 because they are more reliable, better quality, and have better gas mileage. I now own a Acura. When U.S. auto makers finally 'get with it' maybe I will return to their cars. Ford makes smaller more efficeint cars for the foreign markets, why not the U.S. markets.
Maybe we should let GM & Chrysler die a natural death and fund new U.S auto makers who make alternative fuel cars.
Even now, some Republicans can't see that the policies they have championed over the last few decades have taken us to the place we find ourselves now--on the brink of the next great depression. They won't be satisfied until they have gutted every protection for US workers and manage to reduce us to the slave status endured by workers in China and Pakistan.
I was a member of IUPAT at a Naval Shipyard.I've been to more than my fair share of Union meetings and was involved with a few issues, I understand the beast.I also worked non-union for 12 years, for a GM supplier and I know the difference between the two worlds.I suggest that maybe your knowlege on this issue is the one lacking.Union shops are ,by nature, riddled with hacks, and kronies and relatives and friends and many positions filled that add no value to the finished product.Insiders are protected and the politicians who do the Unions bidding get thier support,that is how people like Blago get to power in the first place.The UAW is just one part of a larger organization and anything we can do to minimize thier influence on our manufacturing the better off we will be.John Lennon years ago spoke of how the left was fooling the masses saying they would give power to the people,but in truth we always have had it and the intention was only for them to gain power.The UAW a long time ago quit being for the blue collar man and more for the agenda of a few.Power to the People!!
All of you are concerned about “spending the taxpayer’s money to bail out the auto companies.” Many of you speak with such hostility, it is as though you will have to write a check directly to those companies to help pay.
You will have to pay taxes whether these companies get help or not! Our government is always spending money. They never ask us if what they spend it on is OK, unless it is blown-up by the media. It's only then, we hear, “spending the taxpayer’s money.” If they don’t use it on the auto companies, they will use it for something else……how about the mating habits of crabs? If you knew where all of your tax money is spent, you would flip out.
Then, again, if we don’t like where our tax money is spent, we can always move to another country!
Maybe, we should keep our mouths shut and let them help the auto companies, because foreign governments already do that on a regular basis in countries with auto industries, but then, you wouldn’t want your tax dollars going to their auto industries if you moved there, so you’d have to choose a country without an auto industry. In some countries, government officials don’t care what their citizen’s think or allow them to speak out. So, you might be in a bind as to where to move.
We have to look at ALL the repercussions if GM, Ford, and Chrysler, go out of business. Some of those repercussions might affect you without knowing it until later. Then you would be blasting those that blocked that help.
Helping the auto companies is a sensible way to spend our money.
Ford makes smaller more efficeint cars for the foreign markets, why not the U.S. markets.
-- bernbart
Because in Europe, South America and Asia, Ford competes on an equal footing. No CAFE standards. And those consumers are all similarly choosing those cars in reponse to their fuel prices.
Maybe we should let GM & Chrysler die a natural death and fund new U.S auto makers who make alternative fuel cars.
-- bernbart
Oh, that's a good idea. Let Congress design and build cars. A huge new line of "alernative fuel" cars. What is an "alternative fuel" exactly? Is that like an "alternative lifestyle"? Is ethanol an alternative fuel? That's really working out well, isn't it? Is it all-electric? Chevy is building the Volt right now. What is Toyota and Honda working on? Still, the Volt isn't much of an economic model. It costs too much and won't be easy to drive in normal use.
Really, it is clear to me -- the Salonistas, with a few notable exceptions like timbuktom, HATE the Detroit automakers more than any Southern Senator. How ironic.
If it means we save the unions. I say impose a 100% tax on all incomes in order to bail out all the faltering car companies.
It's not accidental that foreign car companies chose the rural South, where they could hire whites without compunction, anymore than it's accidental that the opposition to federal money for the Big 3 is coming from Southern Republicans, whose base is the modern versions of the White People's Councils of Jim Crow. The Big 3's plants are for the most part mixed race or largely African American, with blacks as a whole the most militant and pro-union. That's why those companies shut many northern urban plants in the 1980s and why GM chose rural TN for Saturn.
The venom and spite being spewed by those who despise the unions and wish to see them destroyed has reached a truly fevered pitch in this forum. And it seems to be more the retired than the active workers they're out to get. These retirees are people who played by a certain set of rules all their working careers and were promised a decent retirement; but, oh no, the union busters cannot bear the thought of common ordinary citizens living out their remaining years in relative comfort. This hatred goes way beyond economic or even political issues; it's just plain evil.
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