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Five Reasons Not to Buy American Cars

Yes indeed, why purchase goods designed, engineered and produced by your Country. It's FAR smarter to send your dollars overseas to be converted to Yen and Euros and Yuan. We don't make anyhting else here, so why should we make cars and trucks? Great logic. Let the Chinese make them. We can still offer each other our 'Services' and be a 'Consumer' driven economy. You DO understand that our #1 export is wealth right? The boats pull away from the California coastline empty - only because the dollars can go back over the wires. Keep it up, keep rooting against the men and women who live in your country. Maybe brush up on you Chinese too, as you may soon have to speak it. Moron.

Turning Japanese: The Audacity of Reality (Part 3 of 3)

Ya Jim - I think your comment is correct - I'm not advocating protectionism. My point is - do you really want to argue about Free Market Capitalism in your market when your domestic companies are competing with others that are protected? Death to the domestics while the protected Japanese prosper? How does that help the U.S.A?


On Feb 02 10:33 AM Jim Quinn wrote:

> Bankruptcy would allow the US car companies to come out debt free
> and right sized to compete in the global marketplace. They wouldn't
> go out of business. If the entire world decides protectionism is
> the way to go, this will be THE GREATEST DEPRESSION.

Turning Japanese: The Audacity of Reality (Part 3 of 3)

Good article - but I think you've missed an important point. You want GM and Ford and Chrysler to fail - but you also point out just how much of our GDP depends on consumer spending. It seems that the Japanese car makers currently have the competitive advantage - is this perhaps a by-product of 2 decades of Japanese Government protectionism via currency manipulation? Cars are one of the last things here in the good ole' USA that contribute to the GDP outside of consumer spending. You really want to keep giving those industries away under the guise of 'free market capatilism'? You're headed for 90%+ consumer spending for the GDP - and that (in my opinion) makes you a 3rd world country. It sure isn't free market in Japan! (The #1 importer of cars in Japan (heavily taxed and tarrifed) is Mercedes Benz - and their Market Share in Japan is a 'whopping' 1.6%!) Give up our domestic industries under the arguments of 'free trade' and 'capitalism' to countries that don't play the same way - and you may as well be losing a ground war to them. Wake Up!!!

Bail Out Capitalism, Not Detroit

Yes - the 'American' way out responsibility - bankruptcy. Stick the retirees, the suppliers and shareholders with the bill. They'll figure it out - and in the mean time everything will be made in China and Vietnam.

Walk away from your responsibilities - not up to them. It's the American way. Say your sorry and stick someone else with the bill. Nice.

Impact of GM Destroying the EV1

If you really did watch the documentary - you'd note that Honda, Toyota, and Ford also crushed their Electric cars. One landfill documentary even caught Honda's getting crushed with their window stickers still in place (but the batteries were removed). GM made the biggest gamble - and they lost the most. Fact is that America wasn't interested. Unless you think that Honda and Toyota just mindlessly followed GM's lead - and abondoned the EV when they really shouldn't have. All are driven by profits, and the EV vehicles were not going to generate any. I know that when the media looks for a punching bag - GM is the first choice. Maybe take a breath - do a little more research - and realize that your article shouldn't single out GM. It's easy to make this argument in the beckdrop of $4.00+ Gasoline. But face it - when it was $1.25/gallon - it didn't make sense. CARB could have and shold have stayed the course. GM, Honda and Ford don't profit from gasoline - oil companies do. Times have changed. Government had their chance to help force the change - but when the pocketbook economics don't make sense at the kithchen table level - we don't buy into them. I don't have a lot of faith that a $40,000 small electric car will strike a cord all that quickly with mainstream Americans......

Why Auto Stocks Are an Easy Short

Dude - you're 19. What cars in the past decade have you even sat in? My guess - Mommy and Daddy have import cars, you grew up in California and couldn't even find the Chevy or Ford dealership in youe neighborhood. (You know - the dealerships that have been selling cars for a lot more years than you've been alive). God Bless the internet - any moron can post their opinion. Get a clue - or at least grab a fact or two. Do us all a favor - and stick something I imagine you might have clue about - typing away at your nerdy computer. BTW - I'll see if someone can send you the I Love Japan and I Love Germeny bumper stickers you wanted....