[DeTomaso] Now, how many of you have import marque cars sitting in your garages? (was: How can this happen in America)

[doug sedon]

i would prefer to buy a car (or anything, for that matter), from a company whose ceo's earn only 30 times what their employees make, instead of 300 times.  ya, i am a pinko commie, remember?  so, while i happen to think, cars sold in america manufactured by companies who are based in america, do not compare, for the most part, to cars made by non-usa owned companies, i likely still wouldn't wanna buy them even if i thought they weren't bad deals.  

but, what is sinking the american auto industry isn't the fact that their ceo's are overpaid, or even the fact that their product isn't as good.  (way too many hillbillies in this country that will buy anything as long as it's made in the usa.)  ;~)  it's the fact that the commie pinko auto trade unions were able to demand and get healthcare & retirement packages for themselves.  the rest of the commie pinko industrialized world, (ya know:  france, germany, japan, canada - pinko places like that?), well those pinko places all have universal health care, so the companies there don't have to pick up the tab...  if the usa had commie pinko single-payer healthcare, gm & chrysler would still be stong & turning a profit...  making that dreck...  :>)

ymmv,

doug s.,
'72 de tomaso panera
'78 ducati darmah
'85.5 alfa romeo gtv6 3.0
'95 buell s2 (america, love it or leave it!  yeah!)
'04 scion xb