Posted by
AFIS Guy on Thursday, November 13, 2008 4:17:41 PM
Now the Dems want to bail out the Big 3 auto companies - I say let them go bankrupt!!!!! The problem with the Big 3 are all the unions (autoworker, steel, etc). When someone on an assembly line gets paid $78 an hour, something is wrong. When the first $2000 of the price of a new car goes to a retired person's pensions, something is wrong. GM, Ford, and Chrysler need to reorganize and their whole way of doing business needs to change. If we bail them out, we are just prolonging the problems that they face. They need to renegotiate their salaries, their pensions, even the type of vehicles they put out. Toyota came out with the hybrid Priuis TEN years ago!!! TEN YEARS!!!!!
I drive a 07 Dodge pickup V6, you tell me why it only gets 16 MPG when a similar V6 in a smaller car gets 25-30???? Are you really going to tell me that 16 MPG is the best they can do??? The US auto industry needs a complete overhaul, starting with the employees and all the way up to management and merchandise. If the government does bail them out, what they need to do is say from now on, any new employee needs to work under this set of benefits and retirement. Next, they need to "buy out" their older workers and replace them with newer workers under their new benefit package. Next, revamp their entire lineup and come out with more hybrids, more trucks and vans with better gas mileage, and newer technologies such as batteries. There will still be a need for bigger vehicles, try taking a vacation with three kids and suitcase in a small sedan. The Big 3 also need to come up with more hybrid minivans and small to medium pick-up trucks.
Again, I say let the Big 3 go bankrupt! Let them reorganize and start fresh. It worked with the airlines after 9/11 and it will work with the auto industry. The big stumbling block is that Michigan has a Democratic governor and now President-elect Obama owes so mush to the unions to get him elected that it will be close to impossible to change the way things are now. Funny how all the states with much corruption and financial difficulty have a Democrat for governor, isn't it? Something to think about in 2010 when 36 governors are up for re-election!