It was a sweet ride that would scat and get.
They still make the Opel??????????
They can recognize a gang of fools when they see them.
TIME TO PRINT SOME MONEY!!
We should ask Germany to bail out Chrysler.
Now they get it?!
For years their government was subsidizing, had state owned industries, played protectionist games with their TUV, tax code, etc.......
Essentially, what we are doing is what they did for years, and we're not even nearly as discriminatory and purposely creating import barriers as they did. Try to get US beef in Germany.
Do I agree with it? Of course not, it's completely upside down. But a German complaining about this? A country where “BY LAW” you could not bring in a foreign made phone years past because that might compete with the state monopoly Deutsche Telecom? The country where the ship industry is alive because of unlawful subsidies (Vulkan Werke)? Where whole consortium's are borne from state mandates with massive capital investments from a government as with EADS/Airbus???????? Now they are complaining because this appears a little unfair when we are doing what they have done over decades?
I'm not rationalizing nationalization. I'm not supporting the big government approach of our administration. It's the complete opposite of what I believe in because it is a dangerous game where to much power is amassed in a central government, but also highly inefficient, lends itself to GREATER corruption, and is unresponsive to the real wants and needs of consumers. Nonetheless, I can't get over the irony.
This is how “free trade” works.
The “free trader” government used our tax dollars to fund American companies to become transnational. The “free trader” government used our tax dollars to guarantee the formerly American companies profits overseas with special insurance programs, and ‘foreign aid’ to the target countries (i.e. bribes to their politicians) to grant favorable access to their country’s economies to the formerly American companies.
Now that the formerly American companies can no longer be called American companies, and who can no longer expand globally because of the ‘credit crunch’, the “free trader” government is using our tax dollars to ‘bail (read bribe) the formerly American companies to keep their losing business propositions offshore.
They figured out long ago that the American taxpayer would foot the bill for globalization, through theft of our tax dollars, loss of our domestic economy and loss of sovereignty.
They will not give up until America is completely destroyed, and all those countries who despise freedom and American propserity will laugh all the way to the bank.
If GM were an American company they would divest themselves of their foreign factories and subsidiaries and use the money to keep their core business functioning in the US. But instead, they will steal more from the American people so that foreign governments can prosper.
This is globalization, this is “free trade”.