Originally Posted by
chi town brat
The government wants me to bailout homeowners who were greedy and too illiterate to read through a mortgage and figure out that they would not be able to afford the payment in years to come.
Now the government wants me to bailout auto manufacturers who didn't learn any kind of lesson from the 70's and who only look ahead when they start to fail.
The thing is, as treekiller brought up, many of the Big 3 now have cars that are not dinosaurs and actually do have good mpg and good service records. But due to pushing and pushing and pushing the dinosaurs no one seems to give a damn about them.
Ever notice how much advertising you see on Japanese cars as compared to Japanese dinosaurs? Yet another marketing lesson the US automakers failed to attend class on.
I’m tired of working to bail everyone out of something I didn’t support.
In the end the economy is broke as hell and everything is set to fail.
Here is something all of us gearheads can identify with:
When our car starts having a problem that we can’t figure out what are we told not to do? To not just go and throw money at it to fix it.
I think the government needs to learn that.
Thanks for all the input guys.
As for this comment, I agree with you alot on almost all of what you said, but with a mind-set like that, think of what will happen. If you let all those who made mistakes, (some more then others) if you just say its not my problem, I didn't do that, then the who country will fall together.
Ford and chevy go out alone, do you know how many employees will be with out jobs. The bail out is to help everyone, but I do not agree with CEO's not spending there money to save there own companie, they shouldnt be taking any BS bonus or paid vaction trips, that BS.
It sucks that we have to pay for the mistakes others made, but alot of these people were tricked into buying these house, the miss lead, the miss educated.
But we have to stop thinking about ourselves and think as a people, as a nation, as a whole.
Just IMO