Posted on 11/30/2008 11:28:00 AM PST by reaganaut1
Oh really? According to my repro copy of the Dallas Morning News, in May, 1899 there were seventeen automobile companies incorporated in as many states.
Where are the other fourteen now? No one bailed them out. Anyone seen a new Studebaker lately?
Up when I lived in Michigan years ago our heat-treater (a big company that did a lot of production automotive parts) sat down and opened its books to the union (UAW) and let them go over the numbers to PROVE they would go under unless things changed, higher energy costs plus medical benefits were killing them.
They voted no concessions, the plant closed two weeks later and they all lost their jobs, even after they had it spelled out in black and white in front of them.
If the government bails out the “Big Three” automakers, I will have reached my limits with bailouts. My response and I would encourage a very organized effort on the part of millions of others to do the same is this:
Refuse to buy a car from Ford, GM or Daimler-Chrysler.
What’s Obamo going to do, force everyone to buy a car from them? Maybe, he’ll institute a quota system where he’ll make everyone buy cars so that all the automakers sell the absolute same number of cars. Don’t put it past these maniacs in the White House and running the Congress.
Sorry Ronnie, but if by "we" you mean the greedy UAW workers and their mobster bosses and enabling Management, the sympathy meter hasn't twitched.
On the other hand we, the American Taxpayer, can't afford to allow you crooks to rip us off for a bunch more money.
Ripping us off to the tune of $1200 per American car before a bolt has been set on a new car is just adding insult to injury... You lose!
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