Where Is My Bailout?

All American workers and consumers are essential to the American economy. When will the government bail us out?

Screw Ford!

The past is past. Is that what we should tell someone serving a life sentence for murder? The past is past, and the future will suck if we continue to reward incompetence and failure.

From Ford CEO on bailout opposition: Past is past:

Ford Motor Company chief executive Alan Mulally defended his company Tuesday against charges that Ford caused its own problems and said bailing out Detroit was essential to the U.S. economic recovery.

CNN’s headline is misleading. Nowhere in their article do they actually quote Mulally saying “past is past.”

I still say: “Screw Ford!”

If the government wants to give money to an auto maker they should give it to somebody like this, on the condition that they make their cars more affordable. Let’s try rewarding competence for a change.

Ford is a dinosaur. It deserves to become extinct. Chrysler and GM as well. Let them go bankrupt. Make more room for the innovative car companies. The ones that can make a profit without the government's help. Isn’t that how capitalism is supposed to work?

Once upon a time Ford was an innovative company. A company that was partially responsible for the bankruptcy of many buggy and wagon manufacturers. Back then, did the government try to bailout the buggy and wagon manufacturers? I don’t know. If they did, it was a stupid thing to do. You can’t stand in the way of progress and innovation.

"Screw them"

From Saving Detroit by Greg Saunders:

When it comes to bailing out the auto industry, count me in the “let them starve” camp. The auto industry has been outsourcing American jobs for 25 years now with little regard for the devastated communities they’ve left in their wake (seriously, re-watch Roger & Me sometime). The big three have also used their lobbying might to oppose every environmental regulation in their sights. And on top of all of that, their cars suck. Bailing out the auto companies whose single-minded devotion to SUV’s made them blind to the hybrid revolution is like bailing out a record company that hasn’t had a hit since “The Macarena”. Screw them.

Read the rest here.

Screw them, let them starve, and let me get this straight.

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Let Me Get This Straight

The big three automakers (Ford, GM, and Chrysler) are hurting because they don’t know how to sell cars anymore. To me, this means that they aren’t that important to the economy anymore. Or at the very least that their importance is diminishing.

The big three automakers (Ford, GM, and Chrysler) are hurting because they don’t know how to sell cars anymore. To the United States government, this means that they are so important to the economy that taxpayers should bail them out.

The taxpayers no longer want their products, why should we be forced to give them our money? So that they continue to produce automobiles that we no longer want to (and/or can’t afford to) buy?

If the feds are going to force us to give our hard-earned money to the automakers, can’t we at least get a new car in return?

It makes no sense to reward incompetence and failure. We did that already with George W. Bush and look what we got in return. More incompetence and failure.