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To: Longbow1969

Soon we will not have a big 3 to choose from.

We will have Cherry knockoffs of GM cars.


34 posted on 11/26/2011 6:35:47 PM PST by Cringing Negativism Network ("Galts Gulch" <> Communist China)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network
Soon we will not have a big 3 to choose from.

Actually, thanks to free trade and globalization, we probably have more choices than ever when it comes to automobiles. The auto market is VERY competitive and foreign auto companies operating in non union states do just fine. For those that have a foreign car, there is a good chance that was made right here in the USA by American workers.

No longer are we forced to buy from Detroit. They now have to compete. Had GM and Chrysler been allowed to go into proper bankruptcy, they likely would have emerged even stronger with no bloated union contracts at all. And if they couldn't make it, some other company(s) would have bought the remains and created something productive and competitive out of them. Instead the government (Obama) protected the labor unions and gave GM and Chrysler a stay of execution instead of forcing them to get their act together properly.

It sounds to me like you are a union guy who hates competition for the same reasons labor unions do. You even package your agenda the same way. I could go to auto union websites and hear the same spiel. On this issue at least, you sounds absolutely no different from Bernie Sanders, Ed Schultz or every other rust belt union hack who blames free trade for their lack of competitiveness.

59 posted on 11/26/2011 6:58:48 PM PST by Longbow1969
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