A Nationalized GM May Drive Off More Customers, Economists and Consumers Say

CNSNews ^ | June 02, 2009 | Edwin Mora

[laotzu]

Did you ever think that buying Japanese would be the patriotic thing to do in America?

Toyota builds a great truck right here in San Antonio, at a non-union shop.

[Sig Sauer P220]

If the government subsidize thousands of dollars in GM cars not only GM will go bankrupt but the entire government will go bankrupt within five years.

And your point is? The government is ALREADY bankrupt.

[waxer1]

Was a GM person myself..Never again. We should all support Ford with our purchasing dollars. I know I will.

[Bob Buchholz]

I’m sure the product will resemble the Tata but the price will resemble the BMW.

[OldMissileer]

Yeah, my wife’s grandfather wouldn’t ride in our toyota Rav4, because he was a Pacific Theater WWII vet.

I was berated by an older gentleman for my Hyundai Elantra Wagon. He saw my military stickers on the windshield and asked me how I could do such a thing given WWII.

I asked him to tell me when we had been at war with South Korea and then I would think about getting rid of it.

He walked away muttering about "buying American."

[jveritas]

My point is the public will not tolerate a continuous 40 billion dollars a year of tax payers money to keep GM alive.

[MrB]

Supporting unions which support the Marxizing of America is not “buying American”.

[Oldpuppymax]

Boycott Hussein motors? Why, that will be against the law. Or at least, anyone silly enough to buy a vehicle they actually WANT will face a very stiff fine—er, tax, er tribute...well, fill in the blank yourself—for displaying audacity enough to ignore what Hussein determines best for the PEOPLE!! See, Hussein knows it’ll be impossible to lose money when you not only make the product, determine it’s price and “value”, create a monopoly, force people to use it....the POST OFFICE?? Oh, yeah. Never mind.

[technically right]

And in Princeton, Indiana too.

[penelopesire]

“Toyota builds a great truck right here in San Antonio, at a non-union shop.”

Nissan is doing the same thing in Mississippi. Non union so far..but I am sure Zero and his band of chicago thugs will ‘remedy’ that as soon as they can (eye roll).

[Yaelle]

No way am I buying Obama Motors. Even used.

[penelopesire]

“...Its a non-manufacturing investment company...”

My bet is still on a Middle Eastern ‘holding company’ of some sort. Mark my word. They love those trucks and are not stupid enough to buy into the whole global warming scheme.

[The Great RJ]

First I doubt the new Government Motors will produce any vehicles with popular appeal. Gone will be the Corvette, pick-ups will be replaced by wimpy mini-trucks that can’t do the jobs pick-up buyers need done and the sedan that can seriously accommodate four passengers will be replaced with some subcompact with barely seating for two. In Obama’s mandate to meet the new CAFE standards engines will be leaned down as to be almost undrivable and reliability will be a joke. Billions will be poured into the Chevy Volt which will gather dust on what few dealer’s showrooms are left.

[DBrow]

Technically, as The Chosen One has pointed out, the USA is already bankrupt and has been for a while.

You are right, it matters little whether it’s a write-off or a subsidy- same money, different column on the spreadsheet.

Could Algor be behind this, eliminate internal combustion engines and force everyone into Green transportation?

[Teacher317]

Never again. We should all support Ford with our purchasing dollars. I know I will.

I've never been big on Ford, so I'll have to look at the F-150, or that 65 Mustang I've been wanting to fix up.

[GulchBound]

I've purchased my last new Chevy or MOPAR. Any future purchases will be pre-2008 models

Unfortunately, the next shoe to drop is the scarcity of replacement parts. Obutthead will soon decide that providing replacement parts for cars built prior to his new era is counter-productive to new car sales. Then there will be a vague, unexplained difficulty in manufacturing and shipping repair parts for older models. The media will attribute this to the economy and the policies of the Bush administration.

Those of us left holding the bag with current GM vehicles will be stuck scrounging junkyards or paying premium prices for leftover stock. If this happens too much, watch for a new government effort targeted to 'reclaim' late model junkers for recycling. It might be time to buy a good parts vehicle to save for a rainy day.

Like nearly everyone else on this forum, I am done buying GM or Mopar. Obutthead can shove his fascist car industry takeover wherever it does him the most good.

[domeika]

Atlas Shrugged bump....Bye bye General Century Motors.

When they wither away and die....and they will, watch and see how far this cancer spreads. Supporting industries will shrink, which are in one way or another damn near everything, and the ripple effect will be felt right down to the local sandwich shops selling them lunch, and the bakery selling the rolls to the sandwich shops and the poor slob who used to deliver them and so on, and so on, and so on.
Businesses will close, inflation will soar, property tax revenues will plunge, and when people are gumming their government-provided soylent-green because national health-care, with the best of intentions of course, let socialist rot and decay lay claim to their teeth....maybe then they'll finally see what the looters, and the liberalism they rode in on hath wrought.

[reagan_fanatic]

[monday]

“Now that Fedgov is in charge there is no end to what they can do to get people to buy them.”

I'll take one if they give them away, but only if they throw in free maintenance and a life time warranty.

[monday]

“My point is the public will not tolerate a continuous 40 billion dollars a year of tax payers money to keep GM alive.”

lol, what makes you think that? Election after election they keep electing politicians that waste many times that amount on far stupider projects than GM.