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

[Will Demelo]

Bob, you hit that right on the head. The big three are out for what every 
other company is out for. Profits. Any way they can get them.
Will

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Simpson" <R.Simpson35 at Verizon.net>
To: <detomaso at realbig.com>
Sent: Monday, May 25, 2009 10:17 PM
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] [SPAM]Re: Now, how many of you have import marque 
cars sitting in your garages? (was: How can this happen in America)


> To be honest, I think what I have in my garage is only a small part of the
> problem.  When GM and Chrysler take billions of dollars in taxpayers money
> and then GM announces they are going to move much of the manufacturing 
> over
> seas, there is a problem.
>
> The big three are international companies who's main concern is baseline
> profit and answering to shareholders.  The big three don't behave as one
> would think an "American" company should.  Should an "American" company 
> make
> cars in Mexico and Canada, import them to the US and then say "Buy
> American?"
>
> Now GM is talking about having China build vehicles for export to the US 
> to
> keep costs down and profits up, all with the assistance of OUR tax dollars
> and the tax dollars of our CHILDREN, GRAND-CHILDREN and GREAT GRAND
> CHILDREN.
>
> Maybe we should focus on manufactures who employee Americans, 
> manufacturers
> who provide a livable wage, health insurance and retirement. GM and Ford 
> do
> emplyee Americans but Toyota, Volkswagen and BMW employee thousands of
> Americans too, I would rather support them, than a company running to 
> China
> or a company building assembling cars in Mexico for sale here under the
> banner of GM or Ford.
>
> My .02 cents.
>
> Bob
>
> 3468
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <pantdino at aol.com>
> To: <detomaso at realbig.com>
> Sent: Monday, May 25, 2009 6:36 PM
> Subject: [SPAM]Re: [DeTomaso] Now, how many of you have import marque cars
> sitting in your garages? (was: How can this happen in America)
>
>
>> That's my understanding, too.  No company can survive paying for full
>> health care for its workers and its retirees, especially when they
>> "retire" after 30 years.  A friend's brother retired at 52 with full
>> health care for the rest of his life. How can they afford that? They
>> can't, as we have now learned.
>>
>> Why should he be able to retire at 52 when the rest of us have to work
>> until 65 or 67?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: doug sedon <sedond at yahoo.com>
>> To: de tomaso digest <detomaso at realbig.com>
>> Cc: fresnofinches at aol.com
>> Sent: Mon, 25 May 2009 5:21 pm
>> Subject: [DeTomaso] Now, how many of you have import marque cars
>> sitting in your garages? (was: How can this happen in America)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
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