GOP Senators Voice Opposition To Auto Bailout

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Originally Posted by LiquidSwordz

What have auto makers done "creatively" to combat the Japanese auto-industry? Foreign auto-industry in general... NOTHING! Saving these auto-makers would be a waste of our TAX dollars!

3 million people will lose jobs, but who's to blame for that? Of coarse its the auto-makers, because they have failed miserably to be "competitive" in a competitive world!

Don't blame congress for not passing the bill, because that would show your ignorance, in this situation.

The automakers have done more than you know. Blame at this juncture, if we

must place it where it should lie has to be with NAFTA, CAFTA and congress

most assuredly must share responsibility. Every other country has import

tarrifs. Every other country knows enough to care for their own

manufacturers that actually produce vital goods.



What do you drive? How has lifting import tarrifs changed what Americans

buy and drive? What do you really know about what they have or havent

done? Nothing. Thats what. You trust the media to report what the three are

doing in their r and d departments but not about anything else?


Good heavens people?! These companies actually manufacture a product.

These companies employ millions, and so do their suppliers. It is incredibly

hard for factories and industry to stay in this country and still make a profit

with all the regulations, taxes, EPA stipulations and on and on but they have

kept many here, thank god. How many of you even look to see where

products are manufactured before you put your money down? You talk talk

talk about people needing to wake up but how many are willing to when

the sentiments of individuals on this site have shown disdain, contempt and

worse about the automakers here today? How many of you had or have a

relative that works for one of the three or one of their suppliers? Dealerships,

mechanics, and the like? Are any of you aware of GM's 30 miles/30 minutes

supplier requirement? I dont know if they still have this in place but they did

and the result was a boom in the suppliers building local factories which

employed masses of people. It was the lowest unemployment our state ever

had.



The 700 billion is already allocated for this purpose. It is sheer madness to

say its great for AIG, who makes...nothing, but not for companies employing

millions of people nationwide. We werent using our constitution when

congress decided to become a banking institution, something that clearly

violates the consitution. Bush has thrown out most other aspects of it with

executive orders. Why are all of you acting so viscious and tyranical about

the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ now? Because congress treated them so

ungraciously that you all must too? And people put themselves above dogs

when in reality they are jast as ready to follow a pack leader to decide how

they will react about a situation. Pack mentality.



This may be Bush's only act of grace while in office.