[Willie Green]

The automotive cartel has been squeezing the lifeblood out of its suppliers for years, never passing along ssvings to consumers, just stuffing the difference in their own pockets. Of greater importance than pickels, they're the ones who are subverting our domestic steel industry, and jeopardizing our national security in the process.

The self-serving agenda of multi-national corporations don't coincide with what's in the best interest of our nation.

The National Interest versus Corporate Interest

"Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains."

--Thomas Jefferson to Horatio G. Spafford, 1814. ME 14:119

"I hope we shall... crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country."

--Thomas Jefferson to George Logan, 1816. FE 10:69

[GatekeeperBookman]

Good shot Willie-but you have had pratice.

[_Jim]

The automotive cartel has been squeezing the lifeblood out of its suppliers for years, never passing along ssvings to consumers

Pardon my french, but you're FOS on this one friend (you've obviously just been born and never owned the carburator-based mechanically-based ignition system (they called them "points") equipped crap in the 60's that Detroit used to grind out) ...

[newgeezer]

never passing along ssvings to consumers, just stuffing the difference in their own pockets.

Oh? Why doesn't competition take care of that? Last I checked, your automotive "cartel" was still trying to fight off the import threat (and losing, bigtime).

[CSM]

"The automotive cartel has been squeezing the lifeblood out of its suppliers for years, never passing along ssvings to consumers, just stuffing the difference in their own pockets. Of greater importance than pickels, they're the ones who are subverting our domestic steel industry, and jeopardizing our national security in the process."

Yep, and the cost increases related to the UAW Cartel haven't been fully passed on to the customer either. Nor has the increases caused by the Government Cartel. Instead the profits are shrinking.