Posted on 12/16/2008 9:41:55 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
LOL!
No sheeet!
The UAW will outlast the big three by at least a generation, maybe longer. It will become our second Social Security Administration and will be protected in Al Gore's Iron-Clad Lock Box. Their time as auto workers will soon be over, but then they can move on to being served by the tax payer.
You miss the point, Pat.
Throwing money at the Big Three is about as useful as throwing money at a heroin addict. Unless the underlying behaviors that caused the mess in the first place are dealt with, all the government bailout money in the world isn’t going to solve the problems that plague them.
He makes NO mention of the UAW and other unions which made it unprofitable for U.S. corporations to continue to have manufacturing operations in the U.S.
THEY certainly aren’t the “fault’ of Republicans.
AND, the foreign manufacturers located their plants in the south to AVOID Unions, NOT because of some “economic Nationalism of Reagan”.
And it was Volkswagen that gassed all those Jews at Auschwitz.
Social issues aside, Pat is stuck in the 1950's, economically. The economic conditions that existed post WWII that allowed someone with a high school education to get a job at an auto plant that would support their family and take them to retirement are gone. The world changed and we can't undo the changes by passing a few laws.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
“I’m no Buchanan fan, but how is he wrong in this piece?”
He is wrong in two major respects: 1) free trade is good, and 2) corporatism is bad. When it comes to economic matters, Buchanan is purely and simply a statist.
Are there any workers still at Mitsubishi that built the Vals and Zeros that attacked Pearl Harbor? That was 67 years ago! While we’re at it, let’s quit buying Range Rovers because the Brit’s sicced the Hessians on us...
See my prior post, bailing our the UAW with my tax dollars is a bigger F U to America. If GM, Ford and Chrystler vanishes today, it will not affect our weapons manufacture. Can any of you even name a single weapon system contracted to one of the big 3 at the present time?
Paying people for years 95% of their salary to sit at home is beyond folly. Why I, who’ve worked my arse off, should be forced to reward this sloth and greed is bs. Furthermore, its nothing more than a bandaid applied to a severed leg, it’s not going to work.
The 1950’s weren’t so bad, my friend.
The “greatest manufacturing company in American history” is losing 2 billion a month, that “loan” would only keep them afloat for 7 months. Does Pat really think they’ll magically fix things in 7 months?! If they could do that they’d get a loan from a bank.
He’s advocating socialism.
That is precisely why the original Chrysler bailout was a a bad idea. It set a terrible precedent. Once you do it for one, everyone else is going to demand you do it for them as well. We should have nipped this thing in the bud way back in 77.
“The 1950’s weren’t so bad, my friend.
Depends on what color your skin was.”
I’ll take 1954 all over again. The good _and_ the bad.
And no apologies.
Sorry if this offends anyone...
- John
I’m no Buchanan fan, but how is he wrong in this piece?
Great question!
I read a lot of anti-Buchanan rants here....the same ones who regurgitate the failed Free Trade mantra, even when reality has dismissed their failed theories as moot.
But, Buchanan has quite accurately pointed out that the “Toyota Republicans” have screwed the GOP...esp if any GOP presidential candidate wants to win the industrial states....and voters in those states who are nominally conservative (except when it comes to their jobs)
And, the real message here...is that the same Senators who killed the auto bailout are from states that had no problem subsidizing foreign auto makers....they would rather aid a foreigner than an American
I wonder if those, who chide Buchanan for still being “in the 1950s or 1940s”....really prefer the economic situation of 2008?
And now they’re begging for money again. Long term mismanagement always leads to failure.
In the '50s? You mean when America was great, and respected in every corner of the globe, and feared by all enemies, or what was left of them at that point.
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Okay, Pat, the Gov. should intervene, but ONLY when necessary, or else Detroit might get cocky.
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