Drinking the Kool Aid of auto assassination will make Jonestown look like a temper tantrum at a kindergarten birthday party.
Drinking the Auto Industry Assassination Kool Aid
Will Surely Destroy Us
Would the National Economy Really Benefit if 3 Million Were On Welfare?
November 23, 2008
By: Dave Rogers
A wave of politically-motivated mass insanity seems to be sweeping the country.
So many people are entranced by the idea that the auto industry should be eliminated, that somehow that will purge us of our current economic woes.
Drinking the Kool Aid of auto assassination will make Jonestown look like a temper tantrum at a kindergarten birthday party.
If we didn't have the Big Three (politically correct term Detroit 3) we'd have to invent them to replace the three million jobs.
The American auto buyer is "extremely fickle," commentators on MSNBC's Squawk Box said Friday.
But fickleness about car brands doesn't translate to self-inflicted economic destruction. Or does it?
A friend from Florida writes that his wife's Toyota Avalon is a wonderful car they haven't had a bit of trouble with. All things being equal, why not buy a Buick, or a Chevy?
Enlightened self-interest should play some part in selection of a vehicle, in my opinion.
First, the Asian automakers are, and have been, heavily subsidized by their governments in a blatant attempt to undermine our economy and grab market share. World War III has just moved to a different battlefield than Iwo Jima or Guadalcanal.
Secondly, there is no fair trade. And free trade is apparently just for the other side, not for U.S. manufacturers. Last time I looked one Asian country sold 80,000 cars in the U.S. and allowed just 8,000 of our cars into their country.
When dolts like Sen. Richard Shelby of Alabama jump on national television and spout absolute garbage about letting the auto companies go bankrupt, it reminds me of the mentality of Southerners who seceded from the Union and fought the Civil War. For what? To perpetuate a long discredited failing labor system that exploited one race of humans so the elites could remain in pampered elegance.
Oversimplification, maybe, but the parallels are too stark to completely dismiss the conclusion.
The motivation of Southern senators too eager to see the backs of the last UAW member headed for the last roundup raise real suspicion in this aspirant to the punditocracy.
We in the North have been in an extended war with the South over control of the manufacturing base: Union vs. non-Union, American companies vs. Asian companies, Progressives vs. Neocons, etc.
You really don't have to be Wolf Blitzer or Anderson Cooper to figure this out. Toyota is huge in Alabama, so the demise of the Big Three wouldn't bother Sen. Shelby a bit, apparently. Where is the concept of the common good? The pulling together we had in World War II? The "come let us all reason together."
There is little reason in this madness of "letting the auto industry go."
We ARE the auto industry!
Without those 3 million jobs we are all on the dole.
What is more expensive, welfare for 3 million people or saving jobs with a loan workout for $25 billion?
The Shelby driven Kool Aid mentality that would not support the most important industry in our nation deserves to be let go. Sadly, the people of Alabama probably think he's the greatest. They keep reelecting him and others like him who could care less for the nation's economic well being.
Regionalism, state's rights, rally around the good old boys. Give Ft. Knox to the bankers based on three sheets of paper and kick the honest working man in the teeth. Giving away $700 billion without a plan is so ridiculous it defies imagination. The twisted thought patterns never die.
We have met the enemy and he is us!!!!