All of you who think you are “wise consumers” who searched out the best value the “free” market had to offer when you bought you Nissan or Hyundai are actually just useful idiots.
You destined your country to high unemployment and super high taxes for generations. Do you think your grand kids will think your decision to send your money to Japan or Korea was wise? I’m betting they’ll look at us like we were fools and wonder what sort of person can’t make simple connections to their actions and its effect on the economy, either supporting it or greatly hurting it.
You wise consumers LOL.
The Gov. is complicate in this. If they wanted those good jobs to stay here they would have steered you toward American cars with simple and FAIR trade policies. Instead they invite Asia and NAFTA to take our good jobs. Why? Well I can only speculate but I think the US Gov. is more interested in Governing the world and has long ago moved on from just trying to keep Americans happy.
Thus we have the “diplomatic trade charity” of the past 30 years, which incidentally coincided with 30 years of stagnant middle class wages; and things have been that good only because of ridiculous bubbles.
The Gov. wanted to give banks and Wall Street our money. Our representatives were flooded with petitions, faxes and emails from angry Americans all over the country demanding they NOT, never ever!! Support and vote for a bailout of the elite. They did it anyway.
Our Gov. said screw you, we run things we are doing it, and you, your kids and your kid’s kids will pay for it, suffer suckers! What excuse did they give us? They said if they didn’t make the bankers and Wall Street whole there would be much suffering.
Businesses would close, whole corporations would fail, jobs would be lost and people would lose their homes. Have you been keeping score? GM and Chrysler BK anyway, why? Mainly because they could not turn over their commercial paper (no credit market). Wasn’t the bailout needed to prevent just that?
What about jobs and housing? Oops, missed the target again. Unemployment at Great Depression numbers. Glad we avoided that? The Las Vegas valley has over 54,000 homes in some stage of foreclosure. Wasn’t the billions given to the banks supposed to save us from that?
Well at least Goldman employees will have lots of money.
How about more people than ever on food stamps while Goldman employees get enough bonus money to buy private islands?
Skyrocketing commercial RE foreclosures and rocketing small business failures, escalating still because of???????? What was the bailout of the banks needed for again? Oh yeah, we needed to keep rich people rich because if we did not then credit would dry up??? WTF? Wow have we been uber conned or what!
Still, you don’t have to take it lying down; you can still get one over on them by making a “wise” choice and buy an Asian or European car, sending your money to Europe or Asia for the benefit of their populations.
What the Gov. wants, they MAKE happen. If it was “wise” consumers on one side demanding Asian cars and the Gov. on the other side desiring a return to a sustainable society based on manufacturing jobs and real production, who do you think would prevail?
If that was the goal then over-night your Toyota or Honda would cost thousands more than a comparable American brand and people would suddenly find it “wise” to buy a super reliable, very highly rated Malibu over an Accord with a $5000 higher price tag.
Incidentally that would be a change to merely, almost FAIR trade, and nothing near protectionism. Simply eliminating the currency manipulation is all it would take.
You wise consumers are simply tools, kidding yourself into a fantasy of “free” trade and your own intelligence, when in actuality you are killing your country and your countryman’s good job so Uncle Sam can gift those jobs to allies in exchange for??? Military bases? Military allegiance? Or maybe our Gov. is simply buying friends across the globe? Who the hell knows.
With all this happening around us most Americans still cannot see the value in supporting one of our very, very few remaining large scale manufacturing and well paid job generating industries; auto manufacturing.
It’s an industry that employs millions when you count jobs it creates all over the country. It’s an industry where Americans can still compare an American made product with a foreign one with similar cost, safety and value…and make a choice to:
Support our companies, more American jobs and keep our hard earned money circulating in America for our schools, our hospitals our roads, our electrical grid…..etc. etc.
Or we are free to use our wisdom and chose to award the sale of the second largest purchase most people ever make, to a foreign country, to circulate through their economy and provide all the benefits listed above.
Rome is burning and yet so many yahoos put so much effort into trying to convince themselves and others that there can possibly be any good, logical reason for continuing down this unsustainable path.
