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

[Ken Green]

It would be interesting to see where the billions given to GM are actually going.  My suspicion is that most is going to the UAW as payback for political contributions.  They bought the White House, and now are getting a 10,000% return on their investment, at our expense.  In many cases, it amounts to a transfer for wealth from lower paid to higher paid workers.  Doesn't seem very liberal to me.
 
Ken

--- On Mon, 5/25/09, Robert Simpson <R.Simpson35 at Verizon.net> wrote:


From: Robert Simpson <R.Simpson35 at Verizon.net>
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: detomaso at realbig.com
Date: Monday, May 25, 2009, 7:17 PM


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

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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?
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> -----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)
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> 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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