Of course I am. I guess I should just go and support entities that work for my defeat.
Can you imagine how they will vote after millions are thrown out of work?
And again, how does that make things any worse than they are now? At least in this scenario, a major Democrat fundraising arm will be cut off.
I mention my neighbor so some of you can understand there is a human cost to the manufacturing job losses.
And again, if the UAW was so concerned with retaining manufacturing jobs in the USA, it wouldn't continually try to kill the companies that sustain it.
It is in the country’s best interest to have an auto industry.
Why do you continue to believe that GM, Ford and Chrysler are the only companies which make cars in the USA when it is not true? No one is going to miss GM, Ford or Chrysler when they are gone because there are vastly superior product offerings made in the USA by US workers working in foreign car company factories.
Look. I understand that the unions are being blamed by the GOP for the election defeat. Believe me, the unions do not have that sort of power anymore. The GOP is responsible for its own losses. You have McCain spouting off in Michigan about jobs not coming back-stupid. You have President Bush spouting off about the Korea trade agreement every time he goes on television. Last year Korea got millions of cars into this country while protecting their markets against US cars.
You have Repubs supporting really unfair trade agreements. I consider it surprising the GOP won Ohio in 2004 not that they lost it in 2008. consider no Repub has ever been elected without Ohio. I promise you the GOP will lose the entire Mid West for a generation if they are seen as killing the big three. This is a fact that the GOP should seriously ponder before taking action that will destroy their election chances for a generation.
You ask how does this make things worse-aside form human suffering which you obviously don’t care about. Ohio is not lost permanently to the GOP. This was one election cycle. It’s possible in 2012 to get Ohio back with a good candidate and a little work on trade by Republicans. Bring back those blue collar Reagan Democrats.
The big three are the only American car companies that make cars in this country. The foreign companies as another poster pointed out, only have final assembly in this country. By the way, they will out of business as well-because the suppliers will be gone. How can you equate Toyota (Japan) with GM (American). This is unpatriotic. I heard some financial weenie on Morning Joe ask if we should bail out the Japanese auto industry-they were sneering and laughing at working Americans except for Joe and Pat who said the American auto industry is essential to the economic health of this country. It is. If GM goes and bankruptcy means the demise of the big three not the unions- all I can say is welcome to the Republican depression. Things will get a whole lot worse for everyone.