Hind sight is always 20/20, and the vote in the Senate was 86-16 in favor. Guys with ACU scores in the 90s voted for that thing, and you want to lay the blame at one guys feet.
Yeah, I fought to keep those plants open—those were three thousand good paying jobs that will not return—and Castle,Carper, Kaufmann and Biden—didn;t do squat.
You got me there, I was working on the assumption that you wanted less government intervention, but it sounds like you wanted more. *shrugs*
And as far as Fisker, we—you and I—the American taxpayer—have GIVEN him $ 500 million for his new tech foreign company, of which he used $ 18 million to buy the GM plant—in order to build the $ 80,000 plus four door hybrid luxury sports car.
Fisker Automotive is a California company. That's not a foreign country..yet. I think you also misrepresent other aspects of the deal. However, you seem to be making my point that a congressman's job is to represent his constituents, not cater to the whims of the national talk show circuit.
Castle's vote on cap and trade could easily have been a quid pro quo for approval of the Fisker deal. It will be up to O'Donnell to disprove and explain what she'd do differently to bring that many good paying jobs into the state.
I didn’t lay the blame at one man’s feet for the bailouts, as you say. My post clearly said that those(plural) should be responsible for their vote.
That the Senate voted 86-16 is not germane to the point. Those knuckleheads of all stripes voted in a panic, then, as you will recall, they compounded their error by loading that bill with so much pork, the country almost ran out of bacon.
The House wasn’t as stupid by the same lopsided amount, but still stupid none the same.
And no that wasn’t hindsight—anyone with a functioning brain could see this was a panic driven boondoggle of the highest order. I called Mike Castle’s office many times at that time to tell him to vote no on the bailout. So, I knew then what has become evident now—that this was a waste of money.
As for the Government Motors plant, my point was that Castle could not even perform the most basic function of a Congressman—looking out for the interests of his district, which for him, is the entire state of Delaware. The Feds already owned GM, so “more government intervention” was a moot point at that point in time.
The point was, if the Feds already owned the plant, why compound the stupidity by firing 1800 workers?
Now, you are correct that Fisker is an American company, based in California. I was mistaken on that point—only because Fisker’s business model is to outsource almost everything rather than to manufacture a car on its own—which it has yet to do on American soil, other than prototypes.
It’s first 15,000 Karma cars will be made in Finland because they said no suitable American facilty was available. Well, you had a GM plant with trained workers ready to build a car, any car, here in DE.
So glad our tax money will help Fisker employ Finnish auto workers.
At Boxwood, they will manufacture a different mass produced model, the NINA hybrid. In 2014, that is.
So the plant can stay closed for about five years, the trained workforce is flipping hamburgers, our tax money employs Finnish auto plant workers, and Fisker buys the GM plant and equipment for pennies on the dollar, all with our own tax money.
Meanwhile, we borrow more money from China to pay the unemployment benefits for these workers, and your grandkids
will pay China back.
So, other than saying that Fisker is a foreign company(which is might as well be for the outsourcing overseas it is doing), what else did I misrepresent?
Castle’s vote on Cap and Trade will cost Delaware over 6,000 jobs, not bring in new high paying jobs. And, it will tank the American economy,as we experience energy rationing as well as healthcare rationing—another thing Castle refuse to support a repeal of.
But, heck, with his millions, he can afford the best healthcare money can buy.