Time for Jeff Bridges to dump Hyundai

[Allan from Fallbrook]

[quote=CONCHO]….organized labor and all they’ve proved over the years is their ability to get $70k per year for a job a trained monkey could do (and probably do better).

There are an awful lot of posts on this thread made during normal working hours (8-5 M-F). Say what you want about the overpaid spoiled stupid TRAINED MONKEY American autoworker, but one thing I’m pretty confident is that they don’t get paid to sit around making grade school insults at people they don’t even know on internet blogs.

I really, really, really hope none of the posters on this thread are using company resources for this. Jobs are hard to come by right now and it’s time to buckle down and help the companies we work for. Let’s do our best to make this country great again, and we can start by just working a little harder.

And for those of you who own your own companies, I really, really, really hope you’re not billing your clients for the time and trouble of playing “I’m smarter than you” with people you don’t even know on the internet. ESPECIALLY if your client is the US government or the government of California. Because both are in big trouble and need our help right now.

I guess that’s all I have to say. This thread makes me sad.[/quote]

CONCHO: Point taken. And, you’re right. No, I don’t bill my clients for any time not spent on their projects. I never have, though.

The “trained monkey” remark had nothing to do with work ethic. Rather, it had to do with the fact that organized labor was successful in acquiring substantial wages for workers who, for the most part, weren’t even fully able to properly thread a bolt through a hole (and before anyone blows a gasket over this, check out the quality reporting on GM vehicles from the 1970s through the mid-1990s).

[paddyoh]

[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]

……the fact that organized labor was successful in acquiring substantial wages for workers who, for the most part, weren’t even fully able to properly thread a bolt through a hole…..[/quote]

In case you forgot, my original title for this forum was:

“Time for Jeff Bridges to dump Hyundai….”

The topic understandably turned to automobiles, manufacturers, etc. – which was fine by me. I’ve made it clear that I agree with Scarlett/Rt. 66 and her belief in buying American made cars, etc. She has made her case so thoroughly I honestly do not know what I can add to defend the documented quality of the American made automobile or the mass screwing of the American blue collar worker.

The bigger picture to me has become American apathy towards American Made goods – particularly cars manufactured in the U.S.A.

It just baffles me that there is so much venom spewed by Americans against American auto workers and American made cars. It would seem that much of that comes from outright jealousy that the American auto worker had the nerve to make a decent enough wage to own a home and send his or her kids to college. That jealousy is then channeled towards the American car itself.

Then there appears to be guilt. The shame of, in a way, selling out one’s own country during a time of nearly unparalleled crisis, by buying a third world automobile and then trying to justify it by blaming it on unfounded, inferior American quality.

There are no doubt people here who have purchased an American made car that turned out to be a lemon. They have a legitimate gripe and may never buy anything other than an imported car again.

But, all the jealousy, guilt, shame, anger or whatever else is the motivation, does not change the fact that we are all still Americans. Maybe, at the end of the day, we can stop sweating the small stuff and pull together to help fix what the politicians cannot.

By buying American again, or even consciously making an effort to buy American made again, right now, today, even if it hurts or costs more, we can make a tiny step forward in restoring our sorely-needed manufacturing base. Americans did it during the World Wars. Why not now ?

Given the pickle we are in, I don’t think you can consider it protectionism. Nor blind patriotism, or being foolish with your money. Right now, today, it just makes sense.

Please take a few minutes of your time to ask Jeff Bridges to use his clout as a major celebrity and publicly renounce the Hyundai commercials and jump on the American Made bandwagon.

Go here and NOW and help nip the stealth bombing of the American auto industry in the bud:

http://nicko62.websitetoolbox.com/post?id=3268355

If your Freedom of Speech is denied at Jeff Bridge’s site, go here:

http://www.HotAirDaily.com

Then, very politely ask Jeff Bridges to support the country that helped make him famous by dropping the Hyundai ads.

It’s not protectionism, or isolationism, or socialism, etc, etc.

Don’t let the nay-sayers get your goat.

HIE-YUN-DIE ~ Hyundai does NOT rhyme with Sunday in blue-collar America.

[paddyoh]

[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]

……the fact that organized labor was successful in acquiring substantial wages for workers who, for the most part, weren’t even fully able to properly thread a bolt through a hole…..[/quote]

In case you forgot, my original title for this forum was:

“Time for Jeff Bridges to dump Hyundai….”

The topic understandably turned to automobiles, manufacturers, etc. – which was fine by me. I’ve made it clear that I agree with Scarlett/Rt. 66 and her belief in buying American made cars, etc. She has made her case so thoroughly I honestly do not know what I can add to defend the documented quality of the American made automobile or the mass screwing of the American blue collar worker.

The bigger picture to me has become American apathy towards American Made goods – particularly cars manufactured in the U.S.A.

It just baffles me that there is so much venom spewed by Americans against American auto workers and American made cars. It would seem that much of that comes from outright jealousy that the American auto worker had the nerve to make a decent enough wage to own a home and send his or her kids to college. That jealousy is then channeled towards the American car itself.

Then there appears to be guilt. The shame of, in a way, selling out one’s own country during a time of nearly unparalleled crisis, by buying a third world automobile and then trying to justify it by blaming it on unfounded, inferior American quality.

There are no doubt people here who have purchased an American made car that turned out to be a lemon. They have a legitimate gripe and may never buy anything other than an imported car again.

But, all the jealousy, guilt, shame, anger or whatever else is the motivation, does not change the fact that we are all still Americans. Maybe, at the end of the day, we can stop sweating the small stuff and pull together to help fix what the politicians cannot.

By buying American again, or even consciously making an effort to buy American made again, right now, today, even if it hurts or costs more, we can make a tiny step forward in restoring our sorely-needed manufacturing base. Americans did it during the World Wars. Why not now ?

Given the pickle we are in, I don’t think you can consider it protectionism. Nor blind patriotism, or being foolish with your money. Right now, today, it just makes sense.

Please take a few minutes of your time to ask Jeff Bridges to use his clout as a major celebrity and publicly renounce the Hyundai commercials and jump on the American Made bandwagon.

Go here and NOW and help nip the stealth bombing of the American auto industry in the bud:

http://nicko62.websitetoolbox.com/post?id=3268355

If your Freedom of Speech is denied at Jeff Bridge’s site, go here:

http://www.HotAirDaily.com

Then, very politely ask Jeff Bridges to support the country that helped make him famous by dropping the Hyundai ads.

It’s not protectionism, or isolationism, or socialism, etc, etc.

Don’t let the nay-sayers get your goat.

HIE-YUN-DIE ~ Hyundai does NOT rhyme with Sunday in blue-collar America.

[paddyoh]

[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]

……the fact that organized labor was successful in acquiring substantial wages for workers who, for the most part, weren’t even fully able to properly thread a bolt through a hole…..[/quote]

In case you forgot, my original title for this forum was:

“Time for Jeff Bridges to dump Hyundai….”

The topic understandably turned to automobiles, manufacturers, etc. – which was fine by me. I’ve made it clear that I agree with Scarlett/Rt. 66 and her belief in buying American made cars, etc. She has made her case so thoroughly I honestly do not know what I can add to defend the documented quality of the American made automobile or the mass screwing of the American blue collar worker.

The bigger picture to me has become American apathy towards American Made goods – particularly cars manufactured in the U.S.A.

It just baffles me that there is so much venom spewed by Americans against American auto workers and American made cars. It would seem that much of that comes from outright jealousy that the American auto worker had the nerve to make a decent enough wage to own a home and send his or her kids to college. That jealousy is then channeled towards the American car itself.

Then there appears to be guilt. The shame of, in a way, selling out one’s own country during a time of nearly unparalleled crisis, by buying a third world automobile and then trying to justify it by blaming it on unfounded, inferior American quality.

There are no doubt people here who have purchased an American made car that turned out to be a lemon. They have a legitimate gripe and may never buy anything other than an imported car again.

But, all the jealousy, guilt, shame, anger or whatever else is the motivation, does not change the fact that we are all still Americans. Maybe, at the end of the day, we can stop sweating the small stuff and pull together to help fix what the politicians cannot.

By buying American again, or even consciously making an effort to buy American made again, right now, today, even if it hurts or costs more, we can make a tiny step forward in restoring our sorely-needed manufacturing base. Americans did it during the World Wars. Why not now ?

Given the pickle we are in, I don’t think you can consider it protectionism. Nor blind patriotism, or being foolish with your money. Right now, today, it just makes sense.

Please take a few minutes of your time to ask Jeff Bridges to use his clout as a major celebrity and publicly renounce the Hyundai commercials and jump on the American Made bandwagon.

Go here and NOW and help nip the stealth bombing of the American auto industry in the bud:

http://nicko62.websitetoolbox.com/post?id=3268355

If your Freedom of Speech is denied at Jeff Bridge’s site, go here:

http://www.HotAirDaily.com

Then, very politely ask Jeff Bridges to support the country that helped make him famous by dropping the Hyundai ads.

It’s not protectionism, or isolationism, or socialism, etc, etc.

Don’t let the nay-sayers get your goat.

HIE-YUN-DIE ~ Hyundai does NOT rhyme with Sunday in blue-collar America.

[paddyoh]

[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]

……the fact that organized labor was successful in acquiring substantial wages for workers who, for the most part, weren’t even fully able to properly thread a bolt through a hole…..[/quote]

In case you forgot, my original title for this forum was:

“Time for Jeff Bridges to dump Hyundai….”

The topic understandably turned to automobiles, manufacturers, etc. – which was fine by me. I’ve made it clear that I agree with Scarlett/Rt. 66 and her belief in buying American made cars, etc. She has made her case so thoroughly I honestly do not know what I can add to defend the documented quality of the American made automobile or the mass screwing of the American blue collar worker.

The bigger picture to me has become American apathy towards American Made goods – particularly cars manufactured in the U.S.A.

It just baffles me that there is so much venom spewed by Americans against American auto workers and American made cars. It would seem that much of that comes from outright jealousy that the American auto worker had the nerve to make a decent enough wage to own a home and send his or her kids to college. That jealousy is then channeled towards the American car itself.

Then there appears to be guilt. The shame of, in a way, selling out one’s own country during a time of nearly unparalleled crisis, by buying a third world automobile and then trying to justify it by blaming it on unfounded, inferior American quality.

There are no doubt people here who have purchased an American made car that turned out to be a lemon. They have a legitimate gripe and may never buy anything other than an imported car again.

But, all the jealousy, guilt, shame, anger or whatever else is the motivation, does not change the fact that we are all still Americans. Maybe, at the end of the day, we can stop sweating the small stuff and pull together to help fix what the politicians cannot.

By buying American again, or even consciously making an effort to buy American made again, right now, today, even if it hurts or costs more, we can make a tiny step forward in restoring our sorely-needed manufacturing base. Americans did it during the World Wars. Why not now ?

Given the pickle we are in, I don’t think you can consider it protectionism. Nor blind patriotism, or being foolish with your money. Right now, today, it just makes sense.

Please take a few minutes of your time to ask Jeff Bridges to use his clout as a major celebrity and publicly renounce the Hyundai commercials and jump on the American Made bandwagon.

Go here and NOW and help nip the stealth bombing of the American auto industry in the bud:

http://nicko62.websitetoolbox.com/post?id=3268355

If your Freedom of Speech is denied at Jeff Bridge’s site, go here:

http://www.HotAirDaily.com

Then, very politely ask Jeff Bridges to support the country that helped make him famous by dropping the Hyundai ads.

It’s not protectionism, or isolationism, or socialism, etc, etc.

Don’t let the nay-sayers get your goat.

HIE-YUN-DIE ~ Hyundai does NOT rhyme with Sunday in blue-collar America.

[paddyoh]

[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]

……the fact that organized labor was successful in acquiring substantial wages for workers who, for the most part, weren’t even fully able to properly thread a bolt through a hole…..[/quote]

In case you forgot, my original title for this forum was:

“Time for Jeff Bridges to dump Hyundai….”

The topic understandably turned to automobiles, manufacturers, etc. – which was fine by me. I’ve made it clear that I agree with Scarlett/Rt. 66 and her belief in buying American made cars, etc. She has made her case so thoroughly I honestly do not know what I can add to defend the documented quality of the American made automobile or the mass screwing of the American blue collar worker.

The bigger picture to me has become American apathy towards American Made goods – particularly cars manufactured in the U.S.A.

It just baffles me that there is so much venom spewed by Americans against American auto workers and American made cars. It would seem that much of that comes from outright jealousy that the American auto worker had the nerve to make a decent enough wage to own a home and send his or her kids to college. That jealousy is then channeled towards the American car itself.

Then there appears to be guilt. The shame of, in a way, selling out one’s own country during a time of nearly unparalleled crisis, by buying a third world automobile and then trying to justify it by blaming it on unfounded, inferior American quality.

There are no doubt people here who have purchased an American made car that turned out to be a lemon. They have a legitimate gripe and may never buy anything other than an imported car again.

But, all the jealousy, guilt, shame, anger or whatever else is the motivation, does not change the fact that we are all still Americans. Maybe, at the end of the day, we can stop sweating the small stuff and pull together to help fix what the politicians cannot.

By buying American again, or even consciously making an effort to buy American made again, right now, today, even if it hurts or costs more, we can make a tiny step forward in restoring our sorely-needed manufacturing base. Americans did it during the World Wars. Why not now ?

Given the pickle we are in, I don’t think you can consider it protectionism. Nor blind patriotism, or being foolish with your money. Right now, today, it just makes sense.

Please take a few minutes of your time to ask Jeff Bridges to use his clout as a major celebrity and publicly renounce the Hyundai commercials and jump on the American Made bandwagon.

Go here and NOW and help nip the stealth bombing of the American auto industry in the bud:

http://nicko62.websitetoolbox.com/post?id=3268355

If your Freedom of Speech is denied at Jeff Bridge’s site, go here:

http://www.HotAirDaily.com

Then, very politely ask Jeff Bridges to support the country that helped make him famous by dropping the Hyundai ads.

It’s not protectionism, or isolationism, or socialism, etc, etc.

Don’t let the nay-sayers get your goat.

HIE-YUN-DIE ~ Hyundai does NOT rhyme with Sunday in blue-collar America.

[Coronita]

[quote=CONCHO]….organized labor and all they’ve proved over the years is their ability to get $70k per year for a job a trained monkey could do (and probably do better).

There are an awful lot of posts on this thread made during normal working hours (8-5 M-F). Say what you want about the overpaid spoiled stupid TRAINED MONKEY American autoworker, but one thing I’m pretty confident is that they don’t get paid to sit around making grade school insults at people they don’t even know on internet blogs.

I guess that’s all I have to say. This thread makes me sad.[/quote]

Hah…Well, hell, if I’m going to get paged at 2:30am in the morning, I think my company is going to cut me some slack if I’m in between a software build waiting for a team from india,europe, and the U.S. to finish their source code merge before I sign off of a release.

On an auxilary front…My immediate customers of my side gig pays for the finished software, and not the labor hours that went into it, half of which is coded in taiwan

Everyone’s junior at some point. My excuse is is have about 20 years to reach the maturity of some of the other late baby boomers on this thread, heh heh 🙂

…And…. funny you should mention desk jobs…

http://www.autoblog.com/2009/07/18/report-workers-with-union-desk-jobs-being-sent-back-to-factory/

In an action that is symbolic of the changes America’s auto industry is undergoing, the cushy “union desk job” is reportedly about to disappear for many. According to The Detroit Free Press, UAW bosses at post-bankrupt Chrysler and General Motors plants are informing hundreds of elected and appointed colleagues that their desk jobs are being sent back to the factory floor.

The Detroit 3 have always paid for union workers at each plant to support labor-management initiatives, conduct union elections, and handle grievances. Most of these “desk jobs” were not at the plant, and they were reportedly enved by those required to do labor-intensive work in the factories

Also, can you say job-bank program?

[Coronita]

[quote=CONCHO]….organized labor and all they’ve proved over the years is their ability to get $70k per year for a job a trained monkey could do (and probably do better).

There are an awful lot of posts on this thread made during normal working hours (8-5 M-F). Say what you want about the overpaid spoiled stupid TRAINED MONKEY American autoworker, but one thing I’m pretty confident is that they don’t get paid to sit around making grade school insults at people they don’t even know on internet blogs.

I guess that’s all I have to say. This thread makes me sad.[/quote]

Hah…Well, hell, if I’m going to get paged at 2:30am in the morning, I think my company is going to cut me some slack if I’m in between a software build waiting for a team from india,europe, and the U.S. to finish their source code merge before I sign off of a release.

On an auxilary front…My immediate customers of my side gig pays for the finished software, and not the labor hours that went into it, half of which is coded in taiwan

Everyone’s junior at some point. My excuse is is have about 20 years to reach the maturity of some of the other late baby boomers on this thread, heh heh 🙂

…And…. funny you should mention desk jobs…

http://www.autoblog.com/2009/07/18/report-workers-with-union-desk-jobs-being-sent-back-to-factory/

In an action that is symbolic of the changes America’s auto industry is undergoing, the cushy “union desk job” is reportedly about to disappear for many. According to The Detroit Free Press, UAW bosses at post-bankrupt Chrysler and General Motors plants are informing hundreds of elected and appointed colleagues that their desk jobs are being sent back to the factory floor.

The Detroit 3 have always paid for union workers at each plant to support labor-management initiatives, conduct union elections, and handle grievances. Most of these “desk jobs” were not at the plant, and they were reportedly enved by those required to do labor-intensive work in the factories

Also, can you say job-bank program?

[Coronita]

[quote=CONCHO]….organized labor and all they’ve proved over the years is their ability to get $70k per year for a job a trained monkey could do (and probably do better).

There are an awful lot of posts on this thread made during normal working hours (8-5 M-F). Say what you want about the overpaid spoiled stupid TRAINED MONKEY American autoworker, but one thing I’m pretty confident is that they don’t get paid to sit around making grade school insults at people they don’t even know on internet blogs.

I guess that’s all I have to say. This thread makes me sad.[/quote]

Hah…Well, hell, if I’m going to get paged at 2:30am in the morning, I think my company is going to cut me some slack if I’m in between a software build waiting for a team from india,europe, and the U.S. to finish their source code merge before I sign off of a release.

On an auxilary front…My immediate customers of my side gig pays for the finished software, and not the labor hours that went into it, half of which is coded in taiwan

Everyone’s junior at some point. My excuse is is have about 20 years to reach the maturity of some of the other late baby boomers on this thread, heh heh 🙂

…And…. funny you should mention desk jobs…

http://www.autoblog.com/2009/07/18/report-workers-with-union-desk-jobs-being-sent-back-to-factory/

In an action that is symbolic of the changes America’s auto industry is undergoing, the cushy “union desk job” is reportedly about to disappear for many. According to The Detroit Free Press, UAW bosses at post-bankrupt Chrysler and General Motors plants are informing hundreds of elected and appointed colleagues that their desk jobs are being sent back to the factory floor.

The Detroit 3 have always paid for union workers at each plant to support labor-management initiatives, conduct union elections, and handle grievances. Most of these “desk jobs” were not at the plant, and they were reportedly enved by those required to do labor-intensive work in the factories

Also, can you say job-bank program?

[Coronita]

[quote=CONCHO]….organized labor and all they’ve proved over the years is their ability to get $70k per year for a job a trained monkey could do (and probably do better).

There are an awful lot of posts on this thread made during normal working hours (8-5 M-F). Say what you want about the overpaid spoiled stupid TRAINED MONKEY American autoworker, but one thing I’m pretty confident is that they don’t get paid to sit around making grade school insults at people they don’t even know on internet blogs.

I guess that’s all I have to say. This thread makes me sad.[/quote]

Hah…Well, hell, if I’m going to get paged at 2:30am in the morning, I think my company is going to cut me some slack if I’m in between a software build waiting for a team from india,europe, and the U.S. to finish their source code merge before I sign off of a release.

On an auxilary front…My immediate customers of my side gig pays for the finished software, and not the labor hours that went into it, half of which is coded in taiwan

Everyone’s junior at some point. My excuse is is have about 20 years to reach the maturity of some of the other late baby boomers on this thread, heh heh 🙂

…And…. funny you should mention desk jobs…

http://www.autoblog.com/2009/07/18/report-workers-with-union-desk-jobs-being-sent-back-to-factory/

In an action that is symbolic of the changes America’s auto industry is undergoing, the cushy “union desk job” is reportedly about to disappear for many. According to The Detroit Free Press, UAW bosses at post-bankrupt Chrysler and General Motors plants are informing hundreds of elected and appointed colleagues that their desk jobs are being sent back to the factory floor.

The Detroit 3 have always paid for union workers at each plant to support labor-management initiatives, conduct union elections, and handle grievances. Most of these “desk jobs” were not at the plant, and they were reportedly enved by those required to do labor-intensive work in the factories

Also, can you say job-bank program?

[Coronita]

[quote=CONCHO]….organized labor and all they’ve proved over the years is their ability to get $70k per year for a job a trained monkey could do (and probably do better).

There are an awful lot of posts on this thread made during normal working hours (8-5 M-F). Say what you want about the overpaid spoiled stupid TRAINED MONKEY American autoworker, but one thing I’m pretty confident is that they don’t get paid to sit around making grade school insults at people they don’t even know on internet blogs.

I guess that’s all I have to say. This thread makes me sad.[/quote]

Hah…Well, hell, if I’m going to get paged at 2:30am in the morning, I think my company is going to cut me some slack if I’m in between a software build waiting for a team from india,europe, and the U.S. to finish their source code merge before I sign off of a release.

On an auxilary front…My immediate customers of my side gig pays for the finished software, and not the labor hours that went into it, half of which is coded in taiwan

Everyone’s junior at some point. My excuse is is have about 20 years to reach the maturity of some of the other late baby boomers on this thread, heh heh 🙂

…And…. funny you should mention desk jobs…

http://www.autoblog.com/2009/07/18/report-workers-with-union-desk-jobs-being-sent-back-to-factory/

In an action that is symbolic of the changes America’s auto industry is undergoing, the cushy “union desk job” is reportedly about to disappear for many. According to The Detroit Free Press, UAW bosses at post-bankrupt Chrysler and General Motors plants are informing hundreds of elected and appointed colleagues that their desk jobs are being sent back to the factory floor.

The Detroit 3 have always paid for union workers at each plant to support labor-management initiatives, conduct union elections, and handle grievances. Most of these “desk jobs” were not at the plant, and they were reportedly enved by those required to do labor-intensive work in the factories

Also, can you say job-bank program?

[paddyoh]

In case you forgot, my original title for this forum was:

“Time for Jeff Bridges to dump Hyundai….”

The topic understandably turned to automobiles, manufacturers, etc. – which was fine by me. I’ve made it clear that I agree with Scarlett/Rt. 66 and her belief in buying American made cars, etc. She has made her case so thoroughly I honestly do not know what I can add to defend the documented quality of the American made automobile or the mass screwing of the American blue collar worker.

The bigger picture to me has become American apathy towards American Made goods – particularly cars manufactured in the U.S.A.

It just baffles me that there is so much venom spewed by Americans against American auto workers and American made cars. It would seem that much of that comes from outright jealousy that the American auto worker had the nerve to make a decent enough wage to own a home and send his or her kids to college. That jealousy is then channeled towards the American car itself.

Then there appears to be guilt. The shame of, in a way, selling out one’s own country during a time of nearly unparalleled crisis, by buying a third world automobile and then trying to justify it by blaming it on unfounded, inferior American quality.

There are no doubt people here who have purchased an American made car that turned out to be a lemon. They have a legitimate gripe and may never buy anything other than an imported car again.

But, all the jealousy, guilt, shame, anger or whatever else is the motivation, does not change the fact that we are all still Americans. Maybe, at the end of the day, we can stop sweating the small stuff and pull together to help fix what the politicians cannot.

By buying American again, or even consciously making an effort to buy American made again, right now, today, even if it hurts or costs more, we can make a tiny step forward in restoring our sorely-needed manufacturing base. Americans did it during the World Wars. Why not now ?

Given the pickle we are in, I don’t think you can consider it protectionism. Nor blind patriotism, or being foolish with your money. Right now, today, it just makes sense.

Please take a few minutes of your time to ask Jeff Bridges to use his clout as a major celebrity and publicly renounce the Hyundai commercials and jump on the American Made bandwagon.

Go here and NOW and help nip the stealth bombing of the American auto industry in the bud:

http://nicko62.websitetoolbox.com/post?id=3268355

If your Freedom of Speech is denied at Jeff Bridge’s site, go here:

http://www.HotAirDaily.com

Then, very politely ask Jeff Bridges to support the country that helped make him famous by dropping the Hyundai ads.

It’s not protectionism, or isolationism, or socialism, etc, etc.

Don’t let the nay-sayers get your goat.

HIE-YUN-DIE ~ Hyundai does NOT rhyme with Sunday in blue-collar America.

[paddyoh]

In case you forgot, my original title for this forum was:

“Time for Jeff Bridges to dump Hyundai….”

The topic understandably turned to automobiles, manufacturers, etc. – which was fine by me. I’ve made it clear that I agree with Scarlett/Rt. 66 and her belief in buying American made cars, etc. She has made her case so thoroughly I honestly do not know what I can add to defend the documented quality of the American made automobile or the mass screwing of the American blue collar worker.

The bigger picture to me has become American apathy towards American Made goods – particularly cars manufactured in the U.S.A.

It just baffles me that there is so much venom spewed by Americans against American auto workers and American made cars. It would seem that much of that comes from outright jealousy that the American auto worker had the nerve to make a decent enough wage to own a home and send his or her kids to college. That jealousy is then channeled towards the American car itself.

Then there appears to be guilt. The shame of, in a way, selling out one’s own country during a time of nearly unparalleled crisis, by buying a third world automobile and then trying to justify it by blaming it on unfounded, inferior American quality.

There are no doubt people here who have purchased an American made car that turned out to be a lemon. They have a legitimate gripe and may never buy anything other than an imported car again.

But, all the jealousy, guilt, shame, anger or whatever else is the motivation, does not change the fact that we are all still Americans. Maybe, at the end of the day, we can stop sweating the small stuff and pull together to help fix what the politicians cannot.

By buying American again, or even consciously making an effort to buy American made again, right now, today, even if it hurts or costs more, we can make a tiny step forward in restoring our sorely-needed manufacturing base. Americans did it during the World Wars. Why not now ?

Given the pickle we are in, I don’t think you can consider it protectionism. Nor blind patriotism, or being foolish with your money. Right now, today, it just makes sense.

Please take a few minutes of your time to ask Jeff Bridges to use his clout as a major celebrity and publicly renounce the Hyundai commercials and jump on the American Made bandwagon.

Go here and NOW and help nip the stealth bombing of the American auto industry in the bud:

http://nicko62.websitetoolbox.com/post?id=3268355

If your Freedom of Speech is denied at Jeff Bridge’s site, go here:

http://www.HotAirDaily.com

Then, very politely ask Jeff Bridges to support the country that helped make him famous by dropping the Hyundai ads.

It’s not protectionism, or isolationism, or socialism, etc, etc.

Don’t let the nay-sayers get your goat.

HIE-YUN-DIE ~ Hyundai does NOT rhyme with Sunday in blue-collar America.

[paddyoh]

In case you forgot, my original title for this forum was:

“Time for Jeff Bridges to dump Hyundai….”

The topic understandably turned to automobiles, manufacturers, etc. – which was fine by me. I’ve made it clear that I agree with Scarlett/Rt. 66 and her belief in buying American made cars, etc. She has made her case so thoroughly I honestly do not know what I can add to defend the documented quality of the American made automobile or the mass screwing of the American blue collar worker.

The bigger picture to me has become American apathy towards American Made goods – particularly cars manufactured in the U.S.A.

It just baffles me that there is so much venom spewed by Americans against American auto workers and American made cars. It would seem that much of that comes from outright jealousy that the American auto worker had the nerve to make a decent enough wage to own a home and send his or her kids to college. That jealousy is then channeled towards the American car itself.

Then there appears to be guilt. The shame of, in a way, selling out one’s own country during a time of nearly unparalleled crisis, by buying a third world automobile and then trying to justify it by blaming it on unfounded, inferior American quality.

There are no doubt people here who have purchased an American made car that turned out to be a lemon. They have a legitimate gripe and may never buy anything other than an imported car again.

But, all the jealousy, guilt, shame, anger or whatever else is the motivation, does not change the fact that we are all still Americans. Maybe, at the end of the day, we can stop sweating the small stuff and pull together to help fix what the politicians cannot.

By buying American again, or even consciously making an effort to buy American made again, right now, today, even if it hurts or costs more, we can make a tiny step forward in restoring our sorely-needed manufacturing base. Americans did it during the World Wars. Why not now ?

Given the pickle we are in, I don’t think you can consider it protectionism. Nor blind patriotism, or being foolish with your money. Right now, today, it just makes sense.

Please take a few minutes of your time to ask Jeff Bridges to use his clout as a major celebrity and publicly renounce the Hyundai commercials and jump on the American Made bandwagon.

Go here and NOW and help nip the stealth bombing of the American auto industry in the bud:

http://nicko62.websitetoolbox.com/post?id=3268355

If your Freedom of Speech is denied at Jeff Bridge’s site, go here:

http://www.HotAirDaily.com

Then, very politely ask Jeff Bridges to support the country that helped make him famous by dropping the Hyundai ads.

It’s not protectionism, or isolationism, or socialism, etc, etc.

Don’t let the nay-sayers get your goat.

HIE-YUN-DIE ~ Hyundai does NOT rhyme with Sunday in blue-collar America.

[paddyoh]

In case you forgot, my original title for this forum was:

“Time for Jeff Bridges to dump Hyundai….”

The topic understandably turned to automobiles, manufacturers, etc. – which was fine by me. I’ve made it clear that I agree with Scarlett/Rt. 66 and her belief in buying American made cars, etc. She has made her case so thoroughly I honestly do not know what I can add to defend the documented quality of the American made automobile or the mass screwing of the American blue collar worker.

The bigger picture to me has become American apathy towards American Made goods – particularly cars manufactured in the U.S.A.

It just baffles me that there is so much venom spewed by Americans against American auto workers and American made cars. It would seem that much of that comes from outright jealousy that the American auto worker had the nerve to make a decent enough wage to own a home and send his or her kids to college. That jealousy is then channeled towards the American car itself.

Then there appears to be guilt. The shame of, in a way, selling out one’s own country during a time of nearly unparalleled crisis, by buying a third world automobile and then trying to justify it by blaming it on unfounded, inferior American quality.

There are no doubt people here who have purchased an American made car that turned out to be a lemon. They have a legitimate gripe and may never buy anything other than an imported car again.

But, all the jealousy, guilt, shame, anger or whatever else is the motivation, does not change the fact that we are all still Americans. Maybe, at the end of the day, we can stop sweating the small stuff and pull together to help fix what the politicians cannot.

By buying American again, or even consciously making an effort to buy American made again, right now, today, even if it hurts or costs more, we can make a tiny step forward in restoring our sorely-needed manufacturing base. Americans did it during the World Wars. Why not now ?

Given the pickle we are in, I don’t think you can consider it protectionism. Nor blind patriotism, or being foolish with your money. Right now, today, it just makes sense.

Please take a few minutes of your time to ask Jeff Bridges to use his clout as a major celebrity and publicly renounce the Hyundai commercials and jump on the American Made bandwagon.

Go here and NOW and help nip the stealth bombing of the American auto industry in the bud:

http://nicko62.websitetoolbox.com/post?id=3268355

If your Freedom of Speech is denied at Jeff Bridge’s site, go here:

http://www.HotAirDaily.com

Then, very politely ask Jeff Bridges to support the country that helped make him famous by dropping the Hyundai ads.

It’s not protectionism, or isolationism, or socialism, etc, etc.

Don’t let the nay-sayers get your goat.

HIE-YUN-DIE ~ Hyundai does NOT rhyme with Sunday in blue-collar America.

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