Posted on 09/27/2011 9:58:54 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
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And Ford is the next target in the UAW's contract negotiations. No doubt the union wants the same deal as Government Motors gave them when they settled a few weeks ago. After all, GM is nothing more than a government employer not unlike schools, cities and states that have employee unions.
There, fixed it for you.
Looks like I was right anyway.
Note that those are DOE/ADV Tech loans (at 2% higher than Solyndra got). Ford is in a tough spot. In order to sell trucks (which they are very good at), in order to comply with Federal CAFE (fleet average mileage) standards, they have to sell a bunch of small/fuel efficient cars (which they’re not very good at.
Get rid of CAFE altogether and set mileage standards based on gross vehicle weight. That would allow Ford and GM to sell trucks (which they are good at) and let Honda and Toyota sell small cars (why THEY’RE good at). The whole industry would be better off.
I seem to recall ads from GM stating that they had paid back all the government loans only to learn that, oops, they lied. They still owe.
Just a different name, my FRiend.
Well, so much for our first Amendment rights.
How much more of this before we start to take our country back?
When are people going to wake up? Why is the left ok with this behavior? Their boy is setting all sorts of precedents.
My ‘01 GMC Sierra was due for replacement but in a trade, it was worth $3,000 less to the Ford guy than the GMC dealer. I had planned to buy a Ford, having purchased four Explorers and a couple of Tauruses. The 3 thou and the 100,000 mile warranty put an ‘11 GMC Sierra in my garage.
GM? - Hell no!
Chrysler? - Hell no!
Ford? - Not if you are going to fold to intimidation.
Toyota? - ?????
What is a truck buyer to do?
But this is beautiful.
More reporting of this kind of threads, please! - “criticism from the media and questions from WH”
WHY on earth is the media critizing Ford’s ad?
Which makes the poor guy and his family an Obama target.
You can hear the interview here:
http://www.wjr.com/sectional.asp?id=38702
“questions or death threats from the white house thug patrol?”
That my friend, is what white guilt put in the White House - “community organizer”.
Ford and GM have the best small cars out there now. The Chevy Cruze and the Ford Fiesta and the Ford Focus.
Ford will soon have the best all electric car out there too.
The Electric Focus.
http://www.ford.com/electric/focuselectric/2012/
It no longer makes economic sense for companies to try to manufacture anything in the U.S. due to the Marxist anti-business regime in Washington. The next election holds the key. But if I was on the board of Ford or Boeing I’d be actively exploring manufacturing options in Canada and other receptive countries.
I’ll take your word for that, but my friend who is chief mechanic for the largest Ford dealership in Arizona always refers to the Ford Focus as the Ford F**kus (for what that’s worth). Maybe things have gotten better in the last couple of years.
Rhetorical, right ?
Customer Chris will now get the free, gubmint Joe the Plumber background check.
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