Why The Big 3 Should Get Your Tax Money
| By BobVADemHawk - Dec 4th, 2008 at 12:45 pm EST |
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Well, the argument for it is millions of jobs will go under. You will lose the largest manufacturing unit in the United States, the heart and soul of American manufacturing. R&D goes with it. Technology goes with it. Engineering goes with it.
And more important, the auto industry has an enormous future in this world. Americans, we buy, in a good year, 17 million cars. China, India, all these countries are opening up. People are moving into the middle class. They're going to want cars. You will carve the United States out of much of the future. But in terms of viability, what's killed General Motors, and the others, is they have dropped the greatest, highest-paid guys who give the most in taxes, the cleanest, safest factories, and dropped them into global competition against factories in places like China, whose managers would be in a penitentiary if they were doing in the United States what they're allowed to do over there.
We are Americans. Why would you buy a car from a foreign country that hires Americans at a third of what American auto makers pay and all the profits go overseas? That, in and of itself, is un-American.
The Big 3 were instrumental in our winning of WW2. Were it not for GM and Ford converting to make military trucks, jeeps, and other components of the American war machine, we may be all speaking German or Japanese right now. And quite frankly, if we keep "whoring" ourselves out with the trade deficit the way we have been; we may end up speaking Japanese or Mandarin yet.
The time has come to stand up and say no more to our manufacturing jobs being shipped overseas. No more to foreign countries driving down the American standard of living. No more to foreign companies having influence over our elected officials. No damn more! Did Congress ask the AIG executives how they got to Washington? Did they ask Lehman Bros., Bank of America, or anybody else?
Stop selling out your fellow Americans. Look for the Union Label. Look for the Made in America labels. When you walk into a store, ask where the American made products are. Stay the hell out of Wal-Mart. We are Americans and it's high time we remember that. Buy American. At least 3 million of your fellow citizens, and quite possibly the economic future of this country, are depending on you.
And more important, the auto industry has an enormous future in this world. Americans, we buy, in a good year, 17 million cars. China, India, all these countries are opening up. People are moving into the middle class. They're going to want cars. You will carve the United States out of much of the future. But in terms of viability, what's killed General Motors, and the others, is they have dropped the greatest, highest-paid guys who give the most in taxes, the cleanest, safest factories, and dropped them into global competition against factories in places like China, whose managers would be in a penitentiary if they were doing in the United States what they're allowed to do over there.
We are Americans. Why would you buy a car from a foreign country that hires Americans at a third of what American auto makers pay and all the profits go overseas? That, in and of itself, is un-American.
The Big 3 were instrumental in our winning of WW2. Were it not for GM and Ford converting to make military trucks, jeeps, and other components of the American war machine, we may be all speaking German or Japanese right now. And quite frankly, if we keep "whoring" ourselves out with the trade deficit the way we have been; we may end up speaking Japanese or Mandarin yet.
The time has come to stand up and say no more to our manufacturing jobs being shipped overseas. No more to foreign countries driving down the American standard of living. No more to foreign companies having influence over our elected officials. No damn more! Did Congress ask the AIG executives how they got to Washington? Did they ask Lehman Bros., Bank of America, or anybody else?
Stop selling out your fellow Americans. Look for the Union Label. Look for the Made in America labels. When you walk into a store, ask where the American made products are. Stay the hell out of Wal-Mart. We are Americans and it's high time we remember that. Buy American. At least 3 million of your fellow citizens, and quite possibly the economic future of this country, are depending on you.
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GM, Ford, and Chrysler are not American companies, they are multinational companies. Buying from them is no more patriotic than buying from Toyota, for example, since Toyota makes some of its cars here too.
These companies need to make products people want to buy. Until they do, they will always be in trouble. It's time to let the market work on this one. These companies will shrink, but if they learn the lesson of high gas prices, they'll come back stronger for having gone through this rough patch.
Buy American. Look for the union label. Look for the made in America stickers. To do less, in unpatriotic and a disservice to your fellow Americans. If you disagree with that concept, perhaps you should consider changing your citizenship status.
American, union-made products are good, other things equal. The fact is there are other factors to consider, like the environment. The big 3 companies, unfortunately, aren't anywhere close to their competitors on that front. I don't see how messing up the environment makes any sense.
It's pretty ridiculous to accuse me of being unpatriotic. I think the mindlessness of that speaks for itself. Stuff that's not made in the U.S. is everywhere. It's not just Wal Mart and Target. Have you bought gasoline recently? The reality is both dominant political parties are in favor of tariff-less trade. I support free trade with countries that have similar wages and environmental protections to us, tariffs for other countries.
Toyota and Honda are based in Japan. Japan has a BETTER environmental record, and MORE STRINGENT regulations than the U.S.