Time for Jeff Bridges to dump Hyundai

[paddyoh]

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Marney Rich Keenan

Buying American cars: It’s finally catching on

Sales of cardigans at J.Crew have soared ever since Michelle Obama wore an ivory sweater with sequins to 10 Downing Street. Now, if she’d only buy a Chrysler.

I stole that joke from “Saturday Night Live.”

But, here in Detroit, where bumper stickers read “Want Change? Buy American,” driving a foreign-made vehicle is becoming an anathema.

A prime example is my brother-in-law, Joe Keenan, an interior-design consultant with expensive taste. For years, he has driven a Jaguar, but since Ford sold the brand in 2008, he’s now in the market for a Lincoln MKS. (His first choice, a hybrid Ford Fusion, has a lead time of seven months.)

Because the decline in the auto industry has led to severe cuts to Detroit’s arts and cultural institutions, Joe says he can’t, in good conscience, contribute to the downturn.

In January, the GM Foundation, the charitable arm of the struggling car maker, told groups like the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Michigan Opera Theater and Mosaic, a youth theater group, not to expect any funding this year. Late last month, Chrysler Foundation followed suit, announcing that it, too, would suspend its arts philanthropy. The Ford Motor Co. has said it expects its giving to fall by about 40 percent from last year.

“Everyone in this town that drives a foreign make should write a check to the DIA or the Detroit Symphony and then another check to a local charity to make up for the lost funds from the Big Three,” Joe says. “People in this town don’t realize how much support the auto industry contributes to the arts and to the needy.”

Dr. Bruce Garretson, an ophthalmologist with offices in Royal Oak and Rochester, has bought BMWs for almost two decades. This will be the first year he will buy an American-made vehicle. “Although I prefer the way a BMW drives,” the father of two college-age sons says. “I believe that supporting Detroit is more important than my personal taste given our current economic condition.”

Even though Dr. Diane McShane of Birmingham was in the market for a used vehicle for their family car, the internist says: “My husband would not look at anything except an American car. We bought a Pacifica.”

Reflecting a similar trend, a statistic has been making the e-mail rounds lately that has galvanized consumers to buy local. According to the Michigan Department of Agriculture, the projection is: “If every household started spending just $10 per week of their current grocery budget on locally grown foods, we’d keep more than $37 million each week circulating within Michigan’s economy.”

In 2003, Ryan Anderson of Lincoln Park says he saw the writing on the wall. The following year, he started the Web site buymichiganproducts.com. “I just figured if people would start pumping their money into the local economy, we just might improve,” says Anderson, a Web site development and software consultant.

The site provides a directory of Michigan-made products and company listings and also is sponsoring a buy-Michigan pledge calling for spending the extra few bucks expected in paychecks from the economic stimulus package on in-state products.

The 36-year-old says: “The site was running steadily until about six months ago, when traffic shot up dramatically. Last month, March 2009, was our best month ever.”

Who knows? One visit to the site and you might be eating Kellogg’s brand cereal from Battle Creek and Jiffy Mix muffins from Chelsea for breakfast, Koegel’s deli meats from Flint for lunch and Romano’s pasta sauce from Shelby Township for dinner with a glass of Merlot from St. Julian in Paw Paw or a glass of milk from Guernsey Farms in Northville.

Now, if we could just get the members of President Obama’s auto task force to dump their personally owned foreign-made vehicles.

In February, Detroit News Washington Bureau Chief David Shepardson reported only two of the eighteen policymakers own American-made vehicles.

Unfortunately, that track record is no laughing matter at all.

[email protected] 313-222-2515

Ladies and gentlemen. Please go here and NOW and help nip the stealth bombing of the American auto industry by Hyundai:

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.

It’s just plain old common sense. Don’t let the nay-sayers get your goat.

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

[Rt.66]

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.

[Rt.66]

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.

[Rt.66]

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.

[Rt.66]

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.

[Rt.66]

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.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

[quote=Rt.66]

The Gov. is complicate in this. [/quote]

Rt.66: Did you mean “complicit”? Ha, ha! You’re a goddamn genius, Gump!

Oh, this is too much. Yeah, you really know how to drive home a point and you use really powerful words to do so.

The government is complicate in this! Ha, ha. Hoo. Thank God I was sitting down.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

[quote=Rt.66]

The Gov. is complicate in this. [/quote]

Rt.66: Did you mean “complicit”? Ha, ha! You’re a goddamn genius, Gump!

Oh, this is too much. Yeah, you really know how to drive home a point and you use really powerful words to do so.

The government is complicate in this! Ha, ha. Hoo. Thank God I was sitting down.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

[quote=Rt.66]

The Gov. is complicate in this. [/quote]

Rt.66: Did you mean “complicit”? Ha, ha! You’re a goddamn genius, Gump!

Oh, this is too much. Yeah, you really know how to drive home a point and you use really powerful words to do so.

The government is complicate in this! Ha, ha. Hoo. Thank God I was sitting down.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

[quote=Rt.66]

The Gov. is complicate in this. [/quote]

Rt.66: Did you mean “complicit”? Ha, ha! You’re a goddamn genius, Gump!

Oh, this is too much. Yeah, you really know how to drive home a point and you use really powerful words to do so.

The government is complicate in this! Ha, ha. Hoo. Thank God I was sitting down.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

[quote=Rt.66]

The Gov. is complicate in this. [/quote]

Rt.66: Did you mean “complicit”? Ha, ha! You’re a goddamn genius, Gump!

Oh, this is too much. Yeah, you really know how to drive home a point and you use really powerful words to do so.

The government is complicate in this! Ha, ha. Hoo. Thank God I was sitting down.

[paddyoh]

Would it not be ironic if, after the auto bailout, the American car companies went all-out on building small, quality, gas-sipping econo-boxes and nobody would buy them because gas became “cheap” again ?

After all, they only built larger cars because people WERE buying them until the price of gas sky-rocketed. And it WAS the last administration that de-nutted the fuel economy standards so there was no incentive to “go green”.

How many foreign companies do we need to give corporate hand-outs to….to build factories in OUR country…on OUR DIME, to compete against OUR industry ?

When is enough, enough ?

Where do we draw the line ?

I say no more freebies to entice any more foreign car companies that end with the letter “A” or “I”.

And if you DO want to sell your goods here, they have to live up to the same non-toxic standards as the American companies and can’t be built in sweat-shops or with child labor.

Go here and do something to help out our blue collar workers who are losing their jobs in droves:

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

If your Freedom of Speech is denied at the Jeff Bridges site, go here:

http://www.HotAirDaily.com

Then, very politely ask Jeff Bridges to support the country that helped make him famous. Ask Jeff Bridges to drop the Hyundai ad campaign.

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

[paddyoh]

Would it not be ironic if, after the auto bailout, the American car companies went all-out on building small, quality, gas-sipping econo-boxes and nobody would buy them because gas became “cheap” again ?

After all, they only built larger cars because people WERE buying them until the price of gas sky-rocketed. And it WAS the last administration that de-nutted the fuel economy standards so there was no incentive to “go green”.

How many foreign companies do we need to give corporate hand-outs to….to build factories in OUR country…on OUR DIME, to compete against OUR industry ?

When is enough, enough ?

Where do we draw the line ?

I say no more freebies to entice any more foreign car companies that end with the letter “A” or “I”.

And if you DO want to sell your goods here, they have to live up to the same non-toxic standards as the American companies and can’t be built in sweat-shops or with child labor.

Go here and do something to help out our blue collar workers who are losing their jobs in droves:

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

If your Freedom of Speech is denied at the Jeff Bridges site, go here:

http://www.HotAirDaily.com

Then, very politely ask Jeff Bridges to support the country that helped make him famous. Ask Jeff Bridges to drop the Hyundai ad campaign.

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

[paddyoh]

Would it not be ironic if, after the auto bailout, the American car companies went all-out on building small, quality, gas-sipping econo-boxes and nobody would buy them because gas became “cheap” again ?

After all, they only built larger cars because people WERE buying them until the price of gas sky-rocketed. And it WAS the last administration that de-nutted the fuel economy standards so there was no incentive to “go green”.

How many foreign companies do we need to give corporate hand-outs to….to build factories in OUR country…on OUR DIME, to compete against OUR industry ?

When is enough, enough ?

Where do we draw the line ?

I say no more freebies to entice any more foreign car companies that end with the letter “A” or “I”.

And if you DO want to sell your goods here, they have to live up to the same non-toxic standards as the American companies and can’t be built in sweat-shops or with child labor.

Go here and do something to help out our blue collar workers who are losing their jobs in droves:

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

If your Freedom of Speech is denied at the Jeff Bridges site, go here:

http://www.HotAirDaily.com

Then, very politely ask Jeff Bridges to support the country that helped make him famous. Ask Jeff Bridges to drop the Hyundai ad campaign.

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

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Would it not be ironic if, after the auto bailout, the American car companies went all-out on building small, quality, gas-sipping econo-boxes and nobody would buy them because gas became “cheap” again ?

After all, they only built larger cars because people WERE buying them until the price of gas sky-rocketed. And it WAS the last administration that de-nutted the fuel economy standards so there was no incentive to “go green”.

How many foreign companies do we need to give corporate hand-outs to….to build factories in OUR country…on OUR DIME, to compete against OUR industry ?

When is enough, enough ?

Where do we draw the line ?

I say no more freebies to entice any more foreign car companies that end with the letter “A” or “I”.

And if you DO want to sell your goods here, they have to live up to the same non-toxic standards as the American companies and can’t be built in sweat-shops or with child labor.

Go here and do something to help out our blue collar workers who are losing their jobs in droves:

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

If your Freedom of Speech is denied at the Jeff Bridges site, go here:

http://www.HotAirDaily.com

Then, very politely ask Jeff Bridges to support the country that helped make him famous. Ask Jeff Bridges to drop the Hyundai ad campaign.

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

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