About Me

Name: AFIS Guy
Biography
Loading...

Create Your Own Blog Find Other Townhall Blogs

Comments

Blog Roll

 

Bailing out the Big 3

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!
Email ItEmail It | Print ItPrint It | CommentsComments (0) | TrackbacksTrackbacks (0) | Flag as offensiveFlag as Offensive

Need to stop Obama from stopping drilling

Posted by AFIS Guy on Wednesday, November 12, 2008 12:31:14 PM
     My two biggest fears of an Obama Presidency was (1) he would stop drilling and (2) pull out too quickly from Iraq.  Looks like he is already working on number one.  This week the transition team of Obama's came out with plans to undo some of President Bush's executive orders, one has to do with stopping drilling in Utah.  This is just the first step.  Today Utah, tomorow the rest of the continental shelf. 
     We, the people, need to keep contacting our representatives, both Republican and Democrat, and let them know we do not support this this and that drilling must go on!  I fear that four or eight years from now (if Obama is re-elected) that this country will be that much behind in our energy independance.  If Clinton did not veto ANWR drilling in 1995, we will not today be saying "if we only started ten, thirteen years ago we would have that oil by now!"  And for those who say drilling will take ten years from now, remind them of ANWR and that ten years is the high number.  It should only take two to three years of actual exploration and extraction, most of the time is spent trying to get permits and through all of the red tape involved.  That also needs to get streamlined as a precursor to drilling. 
      I urge everyone to keep calling, emailing, whatever it takes to contact your Congressman and Senators and let them know what we want!  We also need to keep writing letters to your local newspapers editorial boards, keep blogging, leaving comments on all of the major newspaper and internet sites, do all of these things to let our voices be heard.  Let Obama and the Democrats fear being a one term President and losing control of Congress if this doesn't happen.  The media will not report this, we have to get the message out ourselves.
 
Email ItEmail It | Print ItPrint It | CommentsComments (0) | TrackbacksTrackbacks (0) | Flag as offensiveFlag as Offensive

A historical look at the last election

Posted by AFIS Guy on Tuesday, November 11, 2008 5:22:51 PM
Hi Gang!  This is my first blog and I hope you like what you see here.  Here I go:
 
     For all of those who are disappointed over the results of the last election and are trying to blame either Governor Palin or Senator McCain, just stop right now.  History has shown us that in a time of economic crisis, the party in charge of the White House has always lost the next Presidential election.  It happened in 1980 when Carter lost to Reagan, in 1992 when Bush Sr. lost to Clinton, again in 2000 when Gore lost to Bush W., and now when McCain lost to Obama.  The irony of it is that any other Democrat versus any other Republican would have won by about 20 percentage points.  Obama, with all his baggage and socialistic tendencies, was probably the worst candidate the Dems could have run, even with the Media completely in the tank for him and his $700 million plus war chest, he still only won by 6 points.  McCain, like him or not, was our best shot at keeping the White House. 
      Also, if past history is any indication, the party out of power almost always regained some seats in Congress the following mid-term elections.  Newt and the Repubs took over in 1994 and even the Dems took control back of Congress in 2004 after W. got reelcted, so there is some hope there! 
     But alas, here comes the bad news.  We in the Republican party need to have a close look at why we lost elections and need to look to new leadership for the party.  Unlike Dems, we kick our bad apples out (ex Foley (R) vs Jefferson (D)) and go find new ones.  No longer can we be the party of the Foleys, the Delays, the Stevens; our party has to be the party of the Bobby Jindals, of Michael Steeles, of the Sarah Palins.  We need to find new blood waiting in the wings to take on Congress in 2010.  I urge our conservative brothers to have hope and that we must come together to find these new blood that will resurrect our party to the greatness it once was.
Email ItEmail It | Print ItPrint It | CommentsComments (5) | TrackbacksTrackbacks (0) | Flag as offensiveFlag as Offensive
« Previous12Next »