Comment Re:Problems. (Score 1) 318
Who paid for the advertisements that said "Buy BIG.", the TV ads that had a FATASS SUV climbing a mountain? GM and Ford paid for these ads.
Did GM & Ford tell Congress that the tax rules favored working trucks and that some car buyers were taking unfair advantage of this? GM & Ford kept right on truckin'.
GM & Ford were here in the 70's when we all learned that oil would be scarce someday. GM and Ford said "BUY BIG" ?
Ford put up two billion dollars for the advertising for the Taurus in the 80's. That was for the "advertising", not R&D or other stuff. In 2003, Congress voted to put two billion in Hydrogen fuel cells for cars. Those two billion at Ford brought in lots of money, but Ford didn't use it for R&D for Hydrogen or anything except profits.
Follow the money. GM & Ford are FATASS socialists waiting for handouts.
They also have a built-in whipping boy in the auto-worker retirement contracts. What about lowering the top salaries to be at most twenty times the lowest salary? That's not the kind of socialism we like. We like the socialism that has the government bailing us out everytime we screw up.
