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O.K.,I'll play devils advocate and tell my repersentive and senator in washington to go ahead and strike every American a check for your $1333.00 to get America jump started. If you REALLY want to get America going do this... seeing that Washington is about to get into the automobile business lets do something REALLY CRAZY!!! First give the big 3 their bailout with a few conditions. My estimations say the average new car or truck cost about $22,000.00 give or take a thousand or two. Our congress and senate must require the big 3 to go along with a this idea. The government would issue a $5000.00 dollar rebate check to any American who buys an AMERICAN MADE BIG 3 PRODUCT. The BIG 3 would match that $5000.00 amount with a rebate of their own. Now the cost of that average just droped to $12,000.00!!! Then tell the financial people we just bailed out to the tune of 75 billion dollars to belly up to the bar and issue credit for these car loans!!! First of all the bloated lots full of cars and trucks not selling would soon empty out. Then the BIG 3 would have to bring back laid off employees to build more cars and trucks. Not the same old tired stuff Detroit has pushed off on us for years, but new cars and trucks with NEW TECHNOLOGY to promote hybrids and electric cars and trucks! Ecology friendly cars and trucks that will make forgein autos a thing of the past, and make us the USA the leader that they must follow to survive. And to make this work we must start to bring our jobs back to America and lets put the Japs, Koreans, Chinese, and India on the unemployment line!!! You greedy businesses MUST do your part by coming home to America with the jobs you took to there foriegners to save a buck outta GREED. And the workers and unions MUST AGREE to a REASONALBE WAGE, not robbery when it comes to wages and benifits! THIS IS NOT AN OPTION. The survival of America depends on it. Otherwise we'll start to become a third world country with more slums, starvation, and welfare than the poorest Mexican slums. Think about it, cause time is running out.
