I don’t understand what you are driving at.
Are you saying because I am against throwing money down a black hole that I am un-American? That because I happen to live up in Massachusetts I have no right to say how I am to be taxed and how my tax dollars are to be spent? We had the “Big Dig” up here, and sure, it has improved driving in Boston, but I am on the side of people who are pissed because they live in Texas and had to have their federal tax dollars spent on something in Massachusetts.
Don’t misunderstand me. I am all for American built anything if it can compete on its own merits. BUT FAILURES IN THE MARKET ARE JUST AS IMPORTANT AS THE SUCCESSES.
I am not willing to endorse socialism in order to “save” something that CANNOT BE SAVED. The American car industry is DEAD or nearly dead, and it is the UAW that has had more to do with its demise than nearly anything else. Sure, you hear the union people all the time lamenting it is poor management that has done it.
I call BS.
It is union greed that bears a greater responsibility than anything else. And now, MY tax dollars and OUR tax dollars THAT OUR COUNTRY DOES NOT HAVE AND IS NOT GOING TO EVER HAVE are being thrown DOWN THOSE RATHOLES CALLED GM AND CHRYSLER.
So what is it you are saying? Are you for the nationalization of the banks, automakers and all the other people that are going to be coming down the road with their hand out? Where is that money going to come from to put in their hands?
Are you saying that you endorse socialism so you can drive an ostensibly American made pick-up truck that is made in the USA with Chinese financed debt? Is that what you are saying?
Please do not take this personally. Normally, I don’t mind the “we are more “American” than the Yankees because we drive pick-up trucks” junk because I don’t have much room to maneuver coming from a state that has people like Barney Frank, John Kerry and Ted Kennedy in public office. But not when it is invoked to somehow justify socialism.
But I’ll be damned if somehow driving an American made pickup truck made with MY tax dollars and supporting socialism makes someone more American or patriotic than another person driving a Toyota who is committed to free market capitalism and opposes socialism in all of its forms.
Again, this is not directed at you per se, but to invoke the patriotic red-blooded American patriot in the context of the bailout changes the complexion. If you have never read “The Road to Serfdom”, I suggest you buy and read it.
An interesting experiment in the flaws of socialism, share the wealth. The union demanded it, fought for it with revolutionary ferver. They demanded unrealistic shares of profits to the point of confiscating all profits and stealing others profits (confiscating the bonds) even to the point of confiscating the assets of the company built with others profits from their labors.
The government is as much to fault as the union. It promoted the Grand American Automobile Experiment.
That experiment lasted about as long as the Soviet Union and failed for the same reasons with the same results.
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