Tom_Sussi's Blog

To streamline the market we need to focus on energy-effcient vehicles? Says who? The enviromentalist who never worries about towing, hauling, or need for space?

It is true that there is a plefera of vehicles, the company that can put one to market the CHEAPEST and pass that savings onto the customer wins!

GM and FORD are now having to lay in the bed that they made with auto industry unions. More revenue goes into pension than active worker pay. What you have is a micro example of a national system also in the very same trouble. Not as many people paying into a system that slowly has more people taking from a system than giving. (Social Security)

They never listened to the consumer and could have saved themselves. The Liberal Unions and the Moron thinking at the top is the reason. I have no sympathy except for the workers but even they didnt fight back.

Unions supporting Obama.... you sure you want to hire inexperience.... your flint pals hired Stuck on Stupid for 40 years.

Lower prices for the average consumer not enegry effcient vehicles. Those so called hybreds are so expensive normal people cant afford them.

The unions did not ruin automakers. That's absurd. In fact, the automakers broke down the unions years ago. They are paper lions.

Come on now Tom... of all people in the world of investigation of business... you're wearing your liberal bias on your sleeve again.

But OK lets go to the next level:
How much of the price of enviromental impact studies, insepections, etc. goes into the price of that car? While enviromental concerns are important, we ALL know its literally on the level of extortion now days.

From having to reconfigure air conditioning systems in vehicles for example to find out that the ozone layer is NOT having any issues to begin with!

We force safety standards into cars by federal law, but can't bring ourselves to federally mandate seat belts?

Forced ethanol and mixed fuel systems that burn faster, and eat through the gaskets of the engine?

We seem to have an ongoing glass wall when it comes to the issue of outsourcing. While labor is cheaper outside of the US, and unions almost non-existent, the "left" will NEVER talk about the elephant in the room... that being OVER regulation, Hyper enviromental protection and outright extortion of industry in America by the enviromental/global warming proponents. Our system is easy enough to understand.. industry will always seek production at cheaper level, instead of destroying American industry with enviromental policy for "the planet" we should have taken it worldwide! Kyoto was simply a tool to cripple western industry and give India and China a free pass, and now everyone is simply working over there. THAT to me is evidence of using climate for a national shakedown, but unable to take it past the waters edge.

Mind you we STILL can't get an equal debate on Global Warming.

All of the above is a larger picture of the failure of some industry in America, and until the "left" stops trying to squelch the truth of the matter, then don't expect business to put forth the effort either.
Had the auto industry been successful then the "left" would be going after them as they did tobbacco, microsoft, big drug, big oil, and now the new head on the block.. big speculator..

Labor & management both got greedy....and how can a US company compete with overseas manufactures paying sweat shop labor rates and no envior-regulations? We have lost our manufacturing base and our economy can't survive with just service jobs.

Tavares, let me understand what you are saying. Correct me if I am wrong. You are saying that the big 3 are going under because of president Bush? The fact that the UAW demanded all the employees be paid three or four times their worth has nothing to do with the increase in prices, right? Also the fact that they cut corners in every conceivable place by using inferior material had nothing to do with it, right? Yeah, I guess you're right, blame it all on Mr. Bush. Meanwhile, all the thousands of former UAW workers are retired and earning more in a retirement pension than most people earn by working 40 hours a week. Coulda fooled me.