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Originally Posted by LiquidSwordz
What have auto makers done "creatively" to combat the Japanese auto-industry? Foreign auto-industry in general... NOTHING! Saving these auto-makers would be a waste of our TAX dollars!
3 million people will lose jobs, but who's to blame for that? Of coarse its the auto-makers, because they have failed miserably to be "competitive" in a competitive world!
Don't blame congress for not passing the bill, because that would show your ignorance, in this situation.
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The automakers have done more than you know. Blame at this juncture, if we
must place it where it should lie has to be with NAFTA, CAFTA and congress
most assuredly must share responsibility. Every other country has import
tarrifs. Every other country knows enough to care for their own
manufacturers that actually produce vital goods.
What do you drive? How has lifting import tarrifs changed what Americans
buy and drive? What do you really know about what they have or havent
done? Nothing. Thats what. You trust the media to report what the three are
doing in their r and d departments but not about anything else?
Good heavens people?! These companies actually manufacture a product.
These companies employ millions, and so do their suppliers. It is incredibly
hard for factories and industry to stay in this country and still make a profit
with all the regulations, taxes, EPA stipulations and on and on but they have
kept many here, thank god. How many of you even look to see where
products are manufactured before you put your money down? You talk talk
talk about people needing to wake up but how many are willing to when
the sentiments of individuals on this site have shown disdain, contempt and
worse about the automakers here today? How many of you had or have a
relative that works for one of the three or one of their suppliers? Dealerships,
mechanics, and the like? Are any of you aware of GM's 30 miles/30 minutes
supplier requirement? I dont know if they still have this in place but they did
and the result was a boom in the suppliers building local factories which
employed masses of people. It was the lowest unemployment our state ever
had.
The 700 billion is already allocated for this purpose. It is sheer madness to
say its great for AIG, who makes...nothing, but not for companies employing
millions of people nationwide. We werent using our constitution when
congress decided to become a banking institution, something that clearly
violates the consitution. Bush has thrown out most other aspects of it with
executive orders. Why are all of you acting so viscious and tyranical about
the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ now? Because congress treated them so
ungraciously that you all must too? And people put themselves above dogs
when in reality they are jast as ready to follow a pack leader to decide how
they will react about a situation. Pack mentality.
This may be Bush's only act of grace while in office.