When Fear Rules the Day
by: Guest
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Our Government lacks the courage to stop giving aid to the three big American auto dealers. If these were to topple, America would suffer much pain and damage as thousands lost their jobs. Yet, unless the auto-industry within our borders adopts energy efficiency and starts producing smaller, more competitive cars, no amount of alms giving will save them.
Now they want to install a "Senate Oversight Committee" in the industry to ensure that American taxpayer dollars aren't being spent on a doomed project. But what baffles me is that... even if the industry totally reorganizes, even if entire manufacturing plans are re-tooled, workers are retrained, and designers are re-schooled, this alone would cost huge amounts of further taxpayer dollars.
I don't know what the Senate is thinking but to my eyes it seems easier to just drop the whole bloated thing and start from scratch. Why don't we sacrifice one or two of the Big 3 (sell their property in order to pay most of the debt), induct the surviving employees into the one that was spared, and restart that one off with leaders and engineers hired from overseas in places like Japan, the Netherlands, Germany, where auto-makers are currently the world's leaders?
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I'm a taxpayer who is increasingly wondering where all those numbers on my paystub are going?
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