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The automakers will eventually pull themselves out. |
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I moved to Detroit and lived there for a year in 2006. My fiancee has family that have worked for
Chrysler for up to 30 years and GM for up to 28 years. Suffice it to say, they are all overpaid,
and will happily tell you so themselves, and they don't even make the really big dollars. Moreover,
I have been renting vehicles on a monthly basis for the past 2 years. This means, I have been
driving the newest American vehicles, from SUV's to cars, for the past 2 years. I am here to tell
you that every time I rent a vehicle I end up having to swap the vehicle out for another one, and
sometimes another and another till I get one that doesn't break down. Frankly, it's pathetic. The
fact is, the elite upper corporate crust of the Big 3 have needed a reality check for a very long
time. They've not tried to be competitive and don't even appreciate the American consumer enough to
make sensible offerings that provide any value at all. Not even to save themselves. Seriously, how
can a company, an industry, do the same thing so wrong for so dagnabit long? I say, let go of the
strings and allow old bones to rest still in their majesty. America can innovate again and industry
can be reborn anew. I'll be damned if I subsidize another executive retreat I'm not even invited
to. No, not even a Dollar Menu cheesburger. Sorry. |
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True.
What we need to do is, manufacture those itty-bitty cars like the electric one I saw the other day
on the highway.
It was tiny in size, and had only ONE wheel in the front.
Yes, you did hear me correctly: ONE wheel in front. |
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Maybe should not have to repeatly do this but, there countless jobs in the "Big Three" Automakers.
What you also don't understand about gas guzzers is they have changed. Cadilliac which for years has
been viewed as the biggest maker of gas guzzers has now introduced a hybrid Escalade and it is on
the market. They have been making them and we need to help them make more, not harm them. Doing this
will help our economy and make America a strong industrialized nation. |
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The US car manufacturing industry will eventually be run out of business if they continue with the
same ineffective standards. The foreign market will eventually overun them. Do we really want all of
our vehicles imported? That's the question that I don't really know. Is there any benefit to having
domestic vehicle producers? Toyotas production line is much more effiecient and runs and much lower
cost than the American producers. I say let them sink or swim (if they do sink I hope it's gradually
with). I don't believe giving the auto companies much money for this particular situation. |
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The US car industry needs to reach it's natural capitalist conclusion. Just like the UK industry a
once thriving sector of the economy must be left to die, so the economy can be structurally
strengthened. In the UK we realised this in the 1980s, you in the US are 20 years behind and 20 more
damaged by it. You are destined to lost the car wars, the earlier you surrender the earlier you can
move on to the next fight and have a better chance of winning it. The UK moved on early and tried
it's hand in the services industry, because of that the LSE became at least as successful as the NY
and Tokyo exchanges and London became a bigger financial centre than Frankfurt or Paris, our
historical rivals.
It will hurt, but it's the right thing to do in the long term.
EDIT: It has come to my attention that now may not be the best time to give the economy a short term
shot in the arm, but this should be done at the first opportune moment. |
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I guess it’s just a matter of whether or not the burden out weights the cause. Will the U.S
economy suffer even more without its large automakers? I can only agree on the basis of what I know,
and what you stated. |
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Dude, for your thing about fuel efficiency, that didn't matter decades ago. The only reason it does
now is because the prices sky rocketed after Katrina. We should do everything we can to keep
business in America strong and by cutting thousands of jobs will only make our crisis worse. |
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17 Nov 2008 21:10
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