Just say no to Government Motors and Obamacars

[WillowTree]

I confess to something you already knew Edict.. I will never buy a gm or a chrysler,, this corruption just rolled right over the backs of hard working Americans took what they owned cause well, just cause they wanted it for the corrupt uaw,, so yep,, I cop to being dumb as dirt,, won't never buy a gm..

Well that's your right, isn't it?

Nothing wrong with putting your money where your mouth is, Willow.

I wish more people would do that, to be honest.

So many of us give lip service to things which in real life we don't really support.

In my case, obviously, I don't care about the GM bailout so I won't care what the structure of GM is when I'm deciding what car to purchase.

But I certainly won't fault you FOR CARING either.

I make a LOT of choices about how I spend my money which are based on my political views.

Given that, how could I fault you for doing the same?

Thank You!

 

[editec]

Well...you're welcome... I guess.

I didn't give you anything that wasn't yours by right to begin with.

I am a REAL liberal, Willow.

What that really means is that I understand that not everyone is like me, doesn't want to be like me, and shouldn't HAVE to be like me.

That's what liberal tolerance really is, ya know.

Your right to swing your fist is absolute until it reaches my nose.

 

[Gunny]

I have driven exclusively Dodge/Chrysler/Jeep vehicles for my entire adult life.
I enjoyed and gotten good service from all of them and yet have decided that I won't buy another as long as the federal government ( that includes the UAW ) owns the companies. I think that the way these companies with the government have treated the dealerships is appalling. How many of you will continue to purchase GM or Chrysler products?


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Just say no to Government Motors and Obamacars

By: Hugh Hewitt


The DNA of America is coded with private enterprise and individual risk-taking and reward. The idea of the government owning businesses of any sort is not merely bad economics, it is terrible government. Buying a GM or a Chrysler is consenting to a massive leftward lurch in the American form of government, a "buying-into" a bought up company, and one gobbled up in a series of transactions which pummeled the private investor while protecting the pols and their union supporters.
Any American who values their traditions of free enterprise and political freedom will urge the federal government to disinvest itself from these companies immediately. The federal government can quickly put its controlling stake in the companies on the market and do so at whatever price makes the market.
New, private sector leadership can then decide how best to proceed in the new world of rising government mandates on gas mileage and hybrid design. The billions sunk into these companies will only be partially recovered by a quick reconversion of the government's ownership into private stock, but so, too, will the bleeding of tax dollars end and, more important, so will the experiment with American socialism.




Just say no to Government Motors and Obamacars | Hugh Hewitt | Washington Examiner

I agree. I currently own a GMC. Best truck I've ever had. If and when it gets replaced, it will not be by anything the government owns, sells, nor dictates.

I'll buy a Toyota first.

 

[alan1]

good old american capitalism where decisions are made by out of touch executives.

it wasn't that complicated. American cars are just cheaply made. you sit in any American car, even a Cadillac and it just screams CHEAP ! ! ! at you.

now there is nothing wrong with cheap cars when they sell for $15,000. but when a cheap car is being sold for $70,000 now you have a problem !

70% of Toyota's sold in the US are built in the US, that makes them American cars.

 

[Gunny]

good old american capitalism where decisions are made by out of touch executives.

it wasn't that complicated. American cars are just cheaply made. you sit in any American car, even a Cadillac and it just screams CHEAP ! ! ! at you.

now there is nothing wrong with cheap cars when they sell for $15,000. but when a cheap car is being sold for $70,000 now you have a problem !

70% of Toyota's sold in the US are built in the US, that makes them American cars.

The trucks are built here in town. You'd THINK we'd get to knock off the transportation cost included in the final tally since they have to drive it a "whole" 20 miles.

 

[alan1]

it wasn't that complicated. American cars are just cheaply made. you sit in any American car, even a Cadillac and it just screams CHEAP ! ! ! at you.

now there is nothing wrong with cheap cars when they sell for $15,000. but when a cheap car is being sold for $70,000 now you have a problem !

70% of Toyota's sold in the US are built in the US, that makes them American cars.

The trucks are built here in town. You'd THINK we'd get to knock off the transportation cost included in the final tally since they have to drive it a "whole" 20 miles.

It's called negotiation.

 

[Steve Jobs]

Could never bring myself to own an American car anyway. Honda/VW/Mercedes FTW!