$14B to save US automakers? Screw them, the US should just buy Porsche or Mercedes...

oh... no my thread is dying a slow death :)

Hi w67. I read the thread and I figure you were the poster before reading your name.
I guess that it´s a bit out of topic, that´s why it´s dying....
Anyway, I´m back from Vietnam, almost no cars there, just bikes. Like in a video game, you just cross the street hoping you´ll make it to the other side. Which is like mostly everyone in America is feeling like, anyway.

Hmmmm my grammar in the last pharagraph...English as a second language, before someone sends me to school...

You mean frogger :) Yes I knew this was gonna die a slow death.... should've posted this on Rennlist....

Welcome back!

I like you w67th....bump.

Why doesn't the government just buy 200,000 cars that cost $25,000? It would only cost $5 billion and they could sell the cars to somebody else for pennies on the dollar and get some of the $5 billion back.

After watching these bankers who produce little of value for society and simply skim (alot) off the top - you have to really have a appreciation for people who generate value with their hands. I simpathize with their plight even if their leaders took them down a dark alley...

mildly_shriveled... Coming from an immigrant family that worked most of my teen years helping out my family with my hands... I absolutely appreciate the hard work ethos... however I have a real problem with these unions that negotiated themselves right out of a job (airlines, autos, steel workers etc...). You wanna milk the cow... but you don't want to milk it so much it dies of thirst:)

I proposed that most of the $700B tarp should've been used to pay for health care premiums for the US pop for the next several years... one of the benefits would have been that the car companies could have used the cash savings on its health bills to save itself...

Really wouldn't it be cool if we purchased porsche and just let GM... make 10MM units/yr for $25K.... we'd keep the industry going, get my carz for $25K (a pop) and actually produce products the market wants... :) THE RAMBLINGS OF A MADMAN!

YO waverly.

w67th, I hear you. I would like to see them get dragged into bankruptcy so that they can renegotiate those archaic union contracts - maybe publically pants some of those union leaders - and they can do Waggoner while theyre at it. The unions are the flesh eating bacteria of that industry that has eaten its host. I have a carrera and it is well built with quality materials the way we used to make them in the days of Harley Earl - no gimmicks or bullshit - self parking feature - extra cupholder and lighted vanity - just solid engineering -

kill all the lawyers and the unions!