I heard the Death Bell Toll today for my home state. Saturn the last great GM hope is closing.
Why? Because we buy foreign, Because when cash for clunkers hit, money went to Japan and Korea. More than America? Not by much but yeah.
And who bought the cars? the over 100K crowd of course.
Were we all shocked, not me, and not because Japanese cars are better, but because the American People are not.
The American public could not get over their own selfish self centered narcissism long enough to save their own industry. And therefore save the country.
The bitching and moaning about bailing out the Great Auto makers was intense. Why? I don't know, didn't we want jobs? Taxes? Houses? How are we going to have them without work?
So we picked up the hammer and put in the last nail in the coffin.
But Whoa is me I need Heath Insurance, there is NO tax money from the great America corporations to support it, but GIVE ME GIVE ME GIVE ME.
Some critics of the program warned that because it let consumers buy domestic or foreign cars, Clunkers could end up spending more American tax dollars to help foreign companies than American ones.
And in fact, foreign automakers -- and foreign auto factories -- have gained somewhat more from the program than domestic automakers have. http://money.cnn.com/...
In the first half of 2009, domestic manufacturers sold only 45% of all vehicles. In the same period last year, the figure was 48%.
So Tell me, why, why Why WHY bother, to do all this work, demand all these changes, if WE do not have to change.
If WE do not have to have some American Pride? If WE do not have to change an BUY AMERICAN first.
Please stop, think, if you want to keep your job, your home, your state, think locally, buy locally, globalization, is corporate America selling your a load of crap.
Profits form the foreign car factories DOES NOT STAY HERE AND BENEFIT YOU OR ME AT ALL. Chinese clothes, toys, IKEA, etc..
I think I need ot move to a country that is coming out of recession, hey like Japan!