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Obama bound to destroy American auto industry

GM should be assuming room temperature by early next year.  So what does the new president-elect have in store to help sotp the hemorrhaging of jobs and money from Motown’s auto industry?  Oh, just reversing a Bush executive order that will now cost the auto industry tens of billions of dollars that they don’t have…no big whoop.  Notes Open Market:

Since twenty-one percent of new cars are sold in California, this means that the auto makers would need to spend billions of dollars to comply. According to the WSJ, “The auto industry is the nation’s largest manufacturing sector, accounting for almost 4% of U.S. gross domestic product. It employs about 2.5 million people directly or indirectly, and spends tens of billions of dollars a year in research and development.” Yet granting California’s waiver would certainly significantly harm if not sink this industry, since actions to increase the CAFE standard in the past have caused many of the problems Detroit is now having.

So sayeth The One: “Hey, Michigan, thanks a bunch for your electoral votes!  In return, I’ll take what’s left of your economically ravaged state and savage it on the altar of the Church of Mother Gaia.  And you know what?  You people will keep voting Democrat, won’t you?  Say goodbye to the few jobs you had left here.”  If I didn’t know any better, I’d swear that liberals are economic illiterates!

Michigan in general, and Detroitistan in particular, typify the definition of insanity: Doing the same things over and over yet expecting different results.


November 10, 2008 - Posted by crushliberalism | Obama, economic ignorance, environuts

13 Comments »

  1. Detroit doesnt need ballsack’s help running the industry into the ground. GM doesnt seem to be able to build a car Americans will buy, Ford cant seem to design one so they go back to the 60s to rehash them. Chrysler cant seem to build one that lasts thru the warrantee. GM try building a car with a back seat an adult can sit in the back seat for at least an hour and still get out of at the end of that hour. Ford try bringing some of the stuff you make in europe here. Chrysler stop competeing with yourself by making vehicles for dodge that compete directly with 3 vehicles that jeep makes. Jeep stop making 3 vehicles that are off the same platform but have different bodies.

    Comment by WMD_Maker | November 10, 2008

  2. Add Pelosi and Reed to the killing of Detroit.
    I hear the price of horses is starting to go down, may invest in one before too long.

    Comment by dtmf | November 10, 2008

  3. dtmf – not a bad idea. I’ve never been too fond of horses, but they did serve as reliable transportation for hundreds of years. And they’re a lot easier to eat than a car, if things get really bad :-P

    Comment by PabloD | November 10, 2008

  4. That’s true PabloD.. just keep plenty of salt on hand just in case. ;)
    When you get bored:
    http://dtmf.wordpress.com/2008/11/11/november-10th-2008-stealth-strategy-to-steal-your-guns/
    The next 4 years is not going to look so well for us..

    Comment by dtmf | November 11, 2008

  5. The problem with horses is that if you are not using them they still cost you in upkeep. Also the road apples are a MAJOR problem. Before the widespread use of the car NYC had a very big problem with what to do with all the crap, same problem as today just a different source.

    Comment by WMD_Maker | November 11, 2008

  6. Has anyone here been through downtown Detroit lately? I have. It’s a graffiti covered, burned down, boarded-up wasteland. Buildings are full of bullet holes. Trash litters the roads and freeways. Churches now have to employ security guards to make sure their ornaments aren’t stolen for the copper content. On election night, at 11 pm when Obama was announced as the new president elect, the city was lit up with a firestorm of bullets in celebration.

    I don’t think many there really care about the environment.

    I heard a rumor that in one plant they were tarping off sections of the building to cut down on heating costs. When it comes to this, I think we’re all screwed.

    Comment by Marla | November 11, 2008

  7. Marle Detroit is just a euphamism for the auto industry. A very small percentage of cars are made there anymore. I think you would find that more cars are made in Ohio, Texas and Cal than Michigan. True the exec offices are still there but that is because the office workers ARENT UNION. Detroit the city has been nothing more than a black hole since the late 60s. I saw where in the late 90s Detroit was the number one city for revegitation among the major cities. I guess the carbon from burnt buildings really helps the siol.

    Comment by WMD_Maker | November 11, 2008

  8. I understand that WMD. I was speaking about Detroit the city, as referenced in the original post.

    I know there is little direct production and assembly in this area. Much of this area is still highly dependent on parts and components manufacturing, and automotive industry support business, however. The eastern side of Michigan is not economically diverse enough to take another hit. The metro Detroit area generally determines the election result in this state due to the population size. It is ironic that an area so dependent on a single industry would vote in a way that would make their own situation even worse. Or maybe it’s not ironic at all, maybe it’s just proof that socialism in the form of entitlements means that the given majority in an area can freely vote on idealism and not reality because they don’t have to worry about feeding themselves.

    BTW, metro Detroit has had record population growth in recent times, opposite of a national trend. Seems that when people don’t have to busy themselves with jobs and work, they have plenty of time to procreate.

    Comment by Marla | November 12, 2008

  9. I’ve worked in the Detroit area off and on since the 80s. It is the only place where I ran into peole who had good paying jobs but were only working so they could get unemployment for 6 mos.

    Comment by WMD_Maker | November 12, 2008

  10. WMD I think you’ll find that kind of manipulation wherever you find generous benefits packages.

    I used to work with single mother victims who carefully plotted out losing their bonus/incentive pay in order to keep their entitlement benefits. They were more than capable, in fact, these ladies should have jobs in accounting firms. $50-$75 per week in extra pay for performing well on the job < several hundred per month in food assistance, rent assistance, utility assistance, free lunch, medical/dental/vision coverage… also in Michigan, there are programs to purchase a car, repair your car, and get free car insurance. And while earning that extra would entitle them to receive child support payments, well, if your baby daddys don’t pay anyway, it’s a duh equation. I think this employer purposely kept the pay structure with these bonuses in place just to keep a solid turnover of warm bodies employed.

    It’s not as though I feel this was the right thing to do, in their cases, they would have been foolish to take such a loss. I felt like a sucker during my employment there, putting in that extra effort for the extra pay, and I’ll pay again when tax time rolls round. Such is life when you marry the gainfully employed father of your children.

    Comment by Marla | November 12, 2008

  11. “Such is life when you marry the gainfully employed father of your children.”

    Thats LEGAL in Michigan?!?!??!

    Comment by WMD_Maker | November 12, 2008

  12. The auto industry bailout is just the tip of the iceberg. Obama and the Dems sold their collective souls to the unions to get elected…and now they’re going to make the taxpayers pay the price of the payback.

    Comment by Kanaka Girl | November 12, 2008

  13. Marla – sad but true. We have given people incentives to be lazy moochers, while people who follow the rules and have enough pride to work hard get stuck paying the bills for the moochers.

    Comment by PabloD | November 13, 2008


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