Posted on 09/24/2008 6:58:14 PM PDT by bruinbirdman
most people have money in banks. many people are simply not interested in the cars that come out of Detroit.
[”It seemed like a lot when we first started pushing this,” says Democratic Sen. Debbie Stabenow of Michigan, one of the bill’s sponsors. “Suddenly, it seems so small.” ]
I’m sure to you it does. It is someone else’s money afterall, and it should buy you lots of votes.
and they provide jobs in conservative states!
Ken, you're late to the party. My last new American car was a 1982 Pontiac Phoenix that was a piece of crap. I traded it in on a 1977 Toyota back in 1985, and was lucky to get it, with the dealer paying off what I owed on the Phoenix.
Never again.
Another “bash stupid American workers” thread?
Charming.
Ever wonder how it is, conservatives end up with some, of the stereotypes?...
How about conservatives take a strong and visible stand for AMERICAN COMPANIES for a change?
Against outsourcing. Against trade deficits.
Against sending our best jobs to foreigners who hate us, and who are taking away our way of life.
Just a thought.
I’m going to quit paying my mortgage and apply for $1 Billion for my construction company.
I’d rather buy a Japanese car made with American values than an American car made with Soviet values.
yeah let’s stand for American companies like freddie mac and fannie mae!
We saw this one coming soon as they started bailing other people out.
I’m a dying industry: strong, independent, self-sufficient. Where do I get my handout?
I agree. this doesn’t bother me nearly as much as the bailout of the banksters, unlike whom Detroit is actually involved in the creation of real wealth.
yeah, i know.
i labored long under the idea
“buy american”.
not any more.
now i buy what i like and what i believe to be quality.
If we didn’t spend more money buying foreign imports, than we take in selling exports, we wouldn’t be in this mess.
But scr@w Detroit!
Scr@w unions!
Who cares what happens to the economy, or to our country!
Just so long as we can shaft unions, it’s all ok.
Right?
ken21: “these 3 companies should have planned fuel-efficient cars beginning in 1974.”
They didn’t put their money into fuel-efficient cars because oil was inexpensive and Americans wanted gas guzzlers. They are in the business to sell cars, not make products that people don’t want. Even Toyota, Nissan, etc were taken by surprise. If you hadn’t noticed, they were recently trying to enter the lucrative SUV market. Now they are scrambling just like the so-called US manufacturers to shift production to fuel-efficient vehicles.
That’s what happens when you spend 30 years pissing all over your customers and playing the “where ya gonna go” game - then realize that your customers have all left and that you really need them.
Bash bash bash.
Stupid American workers.
/s
Obviously your Chevrolet was so well built that you didn’t want to buy another... tell us about how well it didn’t work (so we can shove it up the back passages of those people who blindly promote American cars uber alles).
By the time they are done they will be sending a billion dollar check to every resident of the USA.
Were you dropped on your head by a Steelworker, as a child?
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