The auto companies need help. Let’s face it. The CEO’s are loaded right, they don’t need to beg for their own money. They are asking for the cash to fix problems and save jobs for Americans. We can turn around the country by starting with companies that actually contribute to jobs, cars, and industry. Not like the corrupt banks. Be fair people.
Here is a video that explains how GM will be using the LOAN, not a bailout.
John Stewart sums it up well with the use of a AMC Gremlin!
From plants to parks. From dealerships to driveways. From gas stations to grocery stores. What happens in the automotive industry affects each and every one of us. In fact, the collapse of the U.S.-based auto industry wouldn’t just impact the more than 239,000 Americans directly employed by the Big Three. One out of every 10 people in America is employed in a service that is related to the U.S. auto industry. If a plant closes, so does its suppliers, the local stores, the hot dog vendors, and the local restaurants. The effect would be devastating in ways of which you never have thought:
Nearly 3 million jobs would be lost in the first year alone – with another 2.5 million to follow over the next two years
Personal income in the United States would drop by more than $150.7 billion in the first year
The cost to local, state, and federal governments could reach $156.4 billion over three years in lost taxes, and unemployment and health care assistance
Domestic automobile production would more than likely fall to zero – even by international producers, due to supplier bankruptcies
The credit crisis that is affecting us all is wounding the U.S. auto industry in many different ways. Carmakers can’t get loans to restructure and to produce new advanced technology vehicles. Suppliers and dealers can’t get loans for routine business, and customers can’t get loans for new cars.
Change is coming. We need to try new things in this world. This current government and the McCain government will not make things better. It’s not socialism it’s Americanism. We have to level the playing field so that we can concentrate on the betterment of life not the worry of the loss of jobs, homes and 401ks.
We cannot grow in an environment of war, fear, bailouts and financial disasters. I only hope for a unified America, but we are more divided now than the civil war. Red vs Blue needs a vacation.
