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Originally Posted by SilverTurtle
I maintain that we need to institute some protectionism policies in the auto industry... taxing the import companies and making it almost impossible for them to sell cars here... these are the practices the Japanese government imposes on the US manufacturers when they try to sell cars in Japan... it makes it almost impossible to sell cars made outside of the country inside the shores of Japan... and all but completely blocks US auto manufacturers from buying any kind of Japanese plants or land to build cars there... its time to we took this game seriously and give the American public an idea of what they are facing by buying cars made by former Axis power countries.
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This idea is ridiculous to me. You want to keep foreign competition off our shores. So you basically want to take our very diverse automotive landscape and reduce it by more than half?
Does that sound utterly insane to anyone else? I’ll be honest and say Chevy/GM has a few cars I would personally buy and I don’t like any of Ford or Chrysler’s line up enough to purchase. You can’t force people to buy something if they don’t want it and there is an alternative they would prefer. Buying a car is a very big purchase and shouldn’t be maid in haste just to be patriotic. Not to mention the fact that foreign competition has helped force the Big Three to improve their product quality. If Chevy wasn’t trying to out do the imports, and that means anything not made state side, we might not be seeing things like an independent rear suspension on the new Camaro. The problem isn’t competent competition its homeland product stigma and production costs.
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Originally Posted by SilverTurtle
and as for KBH's generic response to everyone's letters: that wench doesn't know anything about our economy... that letter was something one of her aides typed up to respond to the huge number of emails, letters and calls that her office is getting in support of the auto manufacturers... if she was really in the know about our economy, she'd be on a commercial talking about how bad of an idea it is to be throwing money to the banks... Heaven knows she's not afraid to get on TV and touting when she's doing something right.
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I don’t think anyone expects a U.S. Senator to individually reply to every e-mail, phone call and/or letter they receive. Being that every person who contacted her in support was basically saying help get them the money, I don’t see what the problem is with an auto response stating her position. As someone else said just be glad you even got a response.