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I Made a Promise and I Stand By It « FOX Forum « FOXNews.comI have to be honest with you. I woke up this morning with a heavy heart. I went to sleep last night knowing that the auto bailout bill failed 52-35 in the Senate. I truly believe our representatives made the right decision. I am very much against any taxpayer money being spent on bailing out the Big Three. I believe in this so much that I even wrote a letter to the CEOs of Chrysler, Ford, GM and UAW chief Ron Gettelfinger on Tuesday
I promised to buy a car from each of the three Detroit automakers who chose to restructure rather than take bailout money. I stand by that promise.
The gubamint should just issue printing presses to anyone who wants one so they can print their own money.Sorry, my next door neighbor sells fords. He sold us our two cars and he's a good man. I will continue to try to keep people like him employed.
I think that if we are going to give $700 billion to the banks with no strings attached, then we should at least bail out the big 3 as well.
In truth, the banks never should have been bailed out, but it's hypocritical to bail out the banks with no strings attached and then turn our backs on the big 3 and any other company in this country that needs help.
defended the ridiculousness of his contract. He pointed his finger at the senators who voted against bailing out the Big Three. He acted like the victim not the cause of the failing U.S. auto industry. This guy is rolling the dice. His bet that money gets directed to Detroit through TARP or other appropriations. He is willing to risk the livelihood of the very members he represents on this bet. Mr. Gettelfinger, so far, craps.
The promise:
In my letter this week, I promised to buy a car from each of the three Detroit automakers who chose to restructure rather than take bailout money. I stand by that promise. I commend Ford and Mr. Mulally for removing itself from the process by stating that they dont need the funds at this time. My offer stands with you Ford, if restructuring is in your future rather than bailout money, I will buy a Ford, I promise.
Sorry, my next door neighbor sells fords. He sold us our two cars and he's a good man. I will continue to try to keep people like him employed.
I think that if we are going to give $700 billion to the banks with no strings attached, then we should at least bail out the big 3 as well.
In truth, the banks never should have been bailed out, but it's hypocritical to bail out the banks with no strings attached and then turn our backs on the big 3 and any other company in this country that needs help.
I disagreed with giving the money to the banks "no strings attached"; likewise, the automakers.
They need some restructuring, starting with some income evaluations at the executive level. These guys are getting rich for being failures? Something's wrong with that.
Your damn straight it is. I figure it for a blackmail of some kind. Congress has quickly learned that they had BETTER attach some strings to that bailout money real quickly.
I don't know about blackmail. Our economy really can't stand the impact of our auto industry failing. The unemployed of the industry, to include the trickledown all the way to the dealers would seriously screw us up.
At the same time, just forking over some money and saying "here you go," is bullshit. If our government is using MY tax dollars to purchase a piece of the industry, then I expect our Democratic government to do to the auto industry what it wants to do to steroids in MLB and provide some damned oversight.
No way those execs should be millionaires and get enormous bonuses for screwing up. The industry itself is broken. Throwing money at it so it can maintain the status quo is NOT a solution.
There needs to be some serious analysis of what's wrong, and restructuring in accordance with that and that includes that overpriced fat pig the union, and too damned bad if it hurts. And IMO, it should hurt starting at the top.
Sorry, my next door neighbor sells fords. He sold us our two cars and he's a good man. I will continue to try to keep people like him employed.
I think that if we are going to give $700 billion to the banks with no strings attached, then we should at least bail out the big 3 as well.
In truth, the banks never should have been bailed out, but it's hypocritical to bail out the banks with no strings attached and then turn our backs on the big 3 and any other company in this country that needs help.
It's basically a privatization vs nationalization argument. Screwing around with some middle of the road compromise may sound nice but you KNOW the numbers ever add up right.
A lot of Americans I know make a promise too.. Take the money? take the bailout? I promise never to even look at another car made by the big 3..
so go ahead and do it.
Idiots.
