John D

Why Is U.S. Transportation a Losing Investment?

BRAVO Well Said !! It's too bad you weren't in congress to lets them know - i'm pretty sure they've had the doors closed a long time and have no idea whats going on in their own backyard - "Buy an Import and drive North America into Depression"



On Dec 17 11:09 AM 67 Valiant wrote:

> The Japanese government has been subsidizing all their major industries
> in the form of lower taxes, kickbacks, tariffs, etc. since 1946.
> We can't LOAN, (yes loan, it's not a REAL bailout, it's a frickin'
> LOAN for chrissake) a little operating cash to any of our major industries
> without a major amount of screeching and wailing, which is why the
> Japanese and Germans are going to be the only car companies left
> for us to choose from. The big three have repeatedly made the cars
> that all the loudmouth Ralph Nader, tree-hugger types have screamed
> for over the last three decades and nobody ever buys them. Talk about
> quality is at least two decades behind the facts. It's just the media
> selling newspapers and getting TV ratings.
>
> Something else to chew on:
>
> The fastest growing automobile market on earth is China.
> There are currently 30 some odd car manufacturers in China.
> The average market share of most of these companies is less than
> 2%.
> The car company that is far and away viewed by the average Chinese
> car buyer as having the highest quality is.......General Motors.
>
> The car company with the largest market share, 30 percent, yes that
> is NOT a typo, 30 percent of the Chinese market is......GM.
> And who is American car companies greatest competition? The Japanese.
> Why don't the Japanese have the biggest share of the Chinese market?
> Well, they inconveniently invaded China in the 1930's, created a
> holocaust that the Nazis would have been impressed with, (anybody
> here remember Nanking?) and no adult Chinese in his right mind will
> buy a Toyota, no way, no how. Who was the only country that came
> to their rescue? The good old US of A, flying Curtiss P-40 Warhawks
> powered by GM Allison engines firing Oldsmobile built cannons. <br/>
>
> And America, dumb idiots that we are, is going to allow this industry
> to go down when we could simply loan them some cash and MAKE MONEY
> DOING SO LIKE WE DID WITH CHRYSLER IN THE 1980's. Pitiful. Just pitiful.
> We will save investment banks but not our largest and most American
> industrial base. Morons.
>
> Something else to think about:
> The country with the healthiest industrial base has won pretty much
> all the major armed conflicts in history. Those countries that let
> their base erode have a name: Losers.
>
> One more thing:
> One of the main gripes quoted in the major media these days (and
> we all know how diligent and accurate they are) is that GM got where
> it is by making cars people don't want.
> If this is so, then why is it that GM vehicles in aggregate have
> consistently sold more volume than any other car manufacturer in
> the world EVERY SINGLE YEAR since they took over the lead from Ford
> somewhere in the 1940's ? INCLUDING THIS YEAR!!!

Why Is U.S. Transportation a Losing Investment?

So basically, the credit and financial sectors screw up ROYALY - the government throws BILLIONS at them - No Questions Asked - the Auto sector gets caught in the middle after taking much burden off the tax payers for the last century - now that they cannot support the workers with health & pension anymore - we should just throw them and all of those families that will lose everything to the dogs ....Hhhmmm - More weapons of mass destruction right here in the good old USA - Help the world BUT screw our own - "Buy an Import and drive North America to DEPRESSION"