How about that? Big and Bigger Governments new program to make automobiles more affordable is working.
Cash-for-Clunkers
Who would've guessed that making cars more affordable would encourage Americans to buy them. Certainly not the Detroit automakers otherwise they would've thought of it 30 YEARS AGO!
While car prices have been sky-rocketing to pay for fender rivoters' pension plans and free healthcare America has been sinking further and further into oblivion. We get all panicky when someone uses the phrase "socialized medicine" but nobody says a word when they socialist based United Auto Workers union (UAW) runs roughshod over the American auto indutry. The socialst UAW has run the auto industry and the American economy into the ground.
Compare socialism to the UAW. In both the workers get free healthcare, guaranteed pensions plans, and paid when they don't work (laid off workers get 95% of their take home pay and benefits).
The UAW workers are a financial burden. The foreign auto-makers have proven that it's possible to make affordable cars on Amercan soil. American auto-makers just don't seem to have a clue how to do it. They could stop over-paying the UAW employees for doing jobs just about anyone can learn how to do in a matter of weeks. In a November 18, 2008, New York Times editorial, Andrew Ross Sorkin showed that, counting benefits, each UAW worker receives $74 per hour while Toyota workers receive about $44 per hour.
The whole assembly line technique was invented by Henry Ford. Henry Ford wanted the factory to be filled with what he called "Farmer Machines". They were called "Farmer Machines" because they were supposed to be so simple to use that he could take any farmer out of the field and have them productive in two weeks. The auto industry is no different today. Why should UAW workers be making the same money as highly educated people with Bachelor and Masters degrees for doing jobs so simple any High School can do them?
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Monday, August 3, 2009
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Obama channels McCain in Michigan
Obama’s speech in Michigan today was supposed to be a Townhall. Could it be that it was changed so Michigan citizens could only listen to him read from a teleprompter and not ask him questions?
In his speech he told Michiganians “some of the jobs that have been lost in the auto industry and elsewhere won’t be coming back,” calling them, “casualties of a changing economy.” Hmmm, about 1 year ago John McCain told the same people almost the same exact line. He went on to get his butt kicked in the primary by Mitt Romney. Maybe it’s not a good idea to tell a state with 14.1% unemployment that their jobs ain’t coming back.
He stopped short of telling them that if they wanted to continue to work in the auto industry they might want to consider moving to Huntsville Alabama (Toyota plant), Lincoln Alabama (Honda), Kansas City Missouri (Mazda), Smyrna Tennessee (Nissan) or West Point Georgia (Kia). Hmmm, they seem to be making more cars in the south than in Detroit. Maybe GM, Ford and Chrysler should outsource to the south instead of overseas.
In his speech he told Michiganians “some of the jobs that have been lost in the auto industry and elsewhere won’t be coming back,” calling them, “casualties of a changing economy.” Hmmm, about 1 year ago John McCain told the same people almost the same exact line. He went on to get his butt kicked in the primary by Mitt Romney. Maybe it’s not a good idea to tell a state with 14.1% unemployment that their jobs ain’t coming back.
He stopped short of telling them that if they wanted to continue to work in the auto industry they might want to consider moving to Huntsville Alabama (Toyota plant), Lincoln Alabama (Honda), Kansas City Missouri (Mazda), Smyrna Tennessee (Nissan) or West Point Georgia (Kia). Hmmm, they seem to be making more cars in the south than in Detroit. Maybe GM, Ford and Chrysler should outsource to the south instead of overseas.
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Greed in America
It never ceases to amaze me how greedy Americans have become. The cliché, “Money is the Root of all Evil’, is more obvious now than at any time in American History.
If it wasn’t for Greedy CEOs of such firms like Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, Citigroup, etc… and the list goes on America would not be facing the worst economic disaster since the Great Depression. This is the result of many factors that made it just to tempting to resist grabbing the brass ring when the brass ring was practically handed to these CEOs.
How…you ask. Well, when a CEO makes more money by being fired for poor performance than by a yearly salary plus bonuses and stock options there seems little incentive to maintain a high level of integrity and to move the corporation to greater profits. At my level, if I don’t perform up to standards I would be escorted by security to the door, my final paycheck would be mailed to me and I would have to make an appointment to pick up my personal items. When a CEO and/or Senior staff Vice Presidents are Fired, they get hefty paychecks to ease their pain and embarrassment.
The two biggest examples of how Greed has taken over America are 1) the Governor of Illinois where he was caught trying to sell off a Senate Seat to the highest bidder, 2)are the labor unions, specifically the U.A.W. who have single-handedly bankrupt the three major Auto Makers.
I am having a hard time understanding the thought process behind the Union Members thinking that by being steadfast and not willing to re-negotiate the contract with GM. It seems to me that these members only have two choices, 1) re-negotiate and keep on working or 2)allow GM to completely shut down and be out of a job for possible a very long time. Perhaps someone can explain this to me. Oh….now I know -- GREED.
This Greed, unfortunately is costing all working Americans because it is their and my TAX Dollars that the Unions Members want, regardless of the consequences to US the TAX Payers. I am angry and resentful and YOU as TAX Payers should be also.
GREED…SELF CENTEREDNESS…and SELFISHNESS is why America is headed for the Second Great Depression.
If it wasn’t for Greedy CEOs of such firms like Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, Citigroup, etc… and the list goes on America would not be facing the worst economic disaster since the Great Depression. This is the result of many factors that made it just to tempting to resist grabbing the brass ring when the brass ring was practically handed to these CEOs.
How…you ask. Well, when a CEO makes more money by being fired for poor performance than by a yearly salary plus bonuses and stock options there seems little incentive to maintain a high level of integrity and to move the corporation to greater profits. At my level, if I don’t perform up to standards I would be escorted by security to the door, my final paycheck would be mailed to me and I would have to make an appointment to pick up my personal items. When a CEO and/or Senior staff Vice Presidents are Fired, they get hefty paychecks to ease their pain and embarrassment.
The two biggest examples of how Greed has taken over America are 1) the Governor of Illinois where he was caught trying to sell off a Senate Seat to the highest bidder, 2)are the labor unions, specifically the U.A.W. who have single-handedly bankrupt the three major Auto Makers.
I am having a hard time understanding the thought process behind the Union Members thinking that by being steadfast and not willing to re-negotiate the contract with GM. It seems to me that these members only have two choices, 1) re-negotiate and keep on working or 2)allow GM to completely shut down and be out of a job for possible a very long time. Perhaps someone can explain this to me. Oh….now I know -- GREED.
This Greed, unfortunately is costing all working Americans because it is their and my TAX Dollars that the Unions Members want, regardless of the consequences to US the TAX Payers. I am angry and resentful and YOU as TAX Payers should be also.
GREED…SELF CENTEREDNESS…and SELFISHNESS is why America is headed for the Second Great Depression.
Saturday, November 15, 2008
Auto Bailout
How about this?
Instead of the Government GIVING our money to the American Auto Industry how about if they give our money to US to buy American made cars?
The American Auto makers are about 3-million cars short of what they thought they’d sell this year. Divide that by the $25B our Government is thinking of giving to the auto industry and it comes out to about $8,333 per car. How about letting Americans buy American cars with American tax dollars to help out American auto makers?
Put the $25B into an account. For each American that buys a new American made car the Government pays the first $8,333 of the price of the vehicle. This way, Americans can afford to buy new cars, the American Auto makers sell their unsold inventory while also getting the money they need to do business.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Instead of the Government GIVING our money to the American Auto Industry how about if they give our money to US to buy American made cars?
The American Auto makers are about 3-million cars short of what they thought they’d sell this year. Divide that by the $25B our Government is thinking of giving to the auto industry and it comes out to about $8,333 per car. How about letting Americans buy American cars with American tax dollars to help out American auto makers?
Put the $25B into an account. For each American that buys a new American made car the Government pays the first $8,333 of the price of the vehicle. This way, Americans can afford to buy new cars, the American Auto makers sell their unsold inventory while also getting the money they need to do business.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
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