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Originally Posted by Brad Gosse
That money could be better used to retrain auto workers to learn new skills and trades.
The US auto industry is failing because of their own lack of innovation. The tax payers chose to put those companies out of work when they bought Hondas and Toyotas. Why should they pay more to keep people working for businesses that can't profit?
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Brad and all others who agree with this post, stop for a moment. Look at the label on your shirt, shoes, pants, computer, screen, keyboard and kids toys. And anything else you can grab. Then see how many say
"MADE IN THE USA." not a lot I bet.
Were all these companies and industries guilty of bad management and a lack of innovation? Or was it that a company in China could pay it's workers 50 cents an hour and get them to work 60 hours a week? Or something like it.
As for American and Western workers, that's you and me. So what ever you accuse them of you accuse yourself of. You would act no differently if you worked for GM. In fact look around you at this industry, run for our benefit or the benefit of the customers.
This whole recession and it could be a depression is because the West thought it was in some way superior to the East and that giving them all the lowly manufacturing jobs we did not want. While we can sell them technology, services, banking etc.
Well look at what happened. The Chinese are talking about putting a man on the moon, they already put one into space and putting up satellites, a friend of mine invented a new solar panel that's 20% more efficient than the present one so he patented it, the Chinese just stole the process. As for services, banking and insurance well they went down the tubes. We have the Internet and you can see how well we run that, it's a haven for pirates, scammers and free loaders. It could be making billions, it loses billions.
We need to wake up to the fact that as Westerners we have no right to rule the world. We earn the privilege or we lose it.
Yes we need to bail out GM and Ford and yes they need to be controlled. But you need leaders who have the balls to control them and not leaders with their noses in the trough. If the West had not given over it's industry so easily over the last 50 years we would not be in this situation. We might have a few less shirts and coffee makers but we would have a lot more jobs.