NO Auto Industry “Bailout!”

Decisions Have Consequences

by: jb williams | published: 11 14, 2008

American auto makers have not been competitive with foreign car makers for decades. All three major U.S. auto makers have been on the ropes for more than 40 years now and all three have received tax-payer funded government “bailouts” in the past.

From the moment that corrupt labor unions took over control of the U.S. auto industry, the end of that industry was certain. Like all other manufacturing industries that have already left America for “free-market” havens, the auto industry must leave now too. Unless that is, it is prepared to reform itself to a “free-market” industry capable of competing with the world on the basis of “value.”

Yes, I am aware of how many jobs are at risk. Are the unions aware of how many jobs are at risk?

Yes, I am aware of the fact that I am suggesting American auto manufacturers will have to learn to build better products for less money. Are unions aware of the fact that auto makers are forced to adapt to ever changing market conditions, which always include finding new ways to build better products for less money?

A taxpayer bailout of the auto industry amounts to nothing more than a taxpayer rebate to the unions that have bankrupted industry after industry in the manufacturing sector. For what purpose would American taxpayers want to “share their hard earned wealth” with an industry that has been headed out of business for decades, just to keep corrupt labor unions flush with cash and political power?

No... The buck stops with the people responsible for the disaster and in this case, it is the labor unions who have forced American auto makers into an uncompetitive corner that they will never escape without forcing labor union thugs out the door.

My grandfather and his father were union workers. Both of my uncles were union workers. Some of my cousins are union workers. Almost 30 years ago, I was a union sheet metal worker.

The company my grandfather, two uncles and I worked for was once very successful. They were in their third generation American family ownership when I worked there. Today, that company is 1/3 the size it was when I worked there and it is owned by Japanese, after the labor union broke the backs of the family who had built it from nothing over three generations.

I loved the work. I came to hate the union and after four years in that union, I quit and never looked back.

For decades labor unions have been allowed to force industry out of this country and for what? To keep millions in dues flowing into the most corrupt organizations in our country, who then take that money and give 100% to leftist politicians who promise to keep the money flowing to union thugs?

Union thugs have intimidated, beaten, threatened and even killed average American citizens to keep that money flowing.

No... If American taxpayers ever hope to regain control of their runaway federal government, they had better draw the line in the sand right here and right now.

If the unions can’t be reformed to legitimate organizations truly interested in protecting workers’ rights instead of bilking industries out of business, then they must be broken up.

The auto industry will never become competitive with foreign makers so long as labor unions rob them blind in contracts and hold them hostage via walk-outs and violent strikes any time employers disagree.

American taxpayers had better take a real close look at the brink of disaster facing not only auto makers, but many other industries currently under attack by tax-happy leftists seeking only power for themselves through pandering to union thugs.

No “bailout” for the auto industry! It’s time for real “change” and real “reform” in America.

They days of crippling the free-market with thug trade agreements must end! Give the auto industry “freedom” or give it death!

You, the taxpayer, are footing the bill for ALL of this nonsense. Most of us knew that the Wall Street “bailout” was a mistake before they did and not the people who did it are figuring that out. Must they bankrupt you before you will take a stand? 

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