QUOTE(Derek Seymour @ Apr 29 2009, 03:31 PM)
I'm your huckleberry...
It is indicative of the b.s. ideology that those administrations promoted to the American people. Buy Buy Buy, Use it up in 2-3 years throw it in a land fill and Buy Buy Buy!!!! Unsustainable growth leading to an inflated economy built on projections of sales and profit that didn't exist. It goes back to the conservative trickle down models that were devised in the 40' and 50's when a bunch of hacks read John Maynard Keynes and decided that supply side economics is what we should base our economy on.
Love him or hate him Carter saw the writing on the wall and wanted to bailout/regulate the auto industry. The Carter administration actually did what we are doing today but with Conrail, turning it into a very profitable company that was considered a prized asset by the mid 80's. However in 1980 we got Ronald "Government is not the solution to our problems, government is the problem," Reagan and all that was filed in the round bin and we went back to supply side economics. However this time it was called Trickle Down Economics. But we all know what trickles down right.... yep.....
right on the face of the middle and working class. Thanks guys way to crap on the people that built this country.
And that's enough from me because this is a fun site for entertainment... not politics.. and I don't want to
on the playground
I agree with what you're saying here. I'm not [no offense] old enough to remember the Carter administration- namely because I wasn't born yet-, but I never fully understood how car manufacturers managed to stay in business when they were producing waaaaay more cars than they were selling. It's not like they're making bread and have a guaranteed sales clientele.
A big name dealer around here is Karl Chevrolet in Ankeny- this place has at least 20 acres full of brand new Chevy's; and I just don't get how they can stay in business, because while they may do better than most dealers around here, it's not like they've got somebody buying a new car every single day. If you ask my dad he'll tell you that it's because Karl himself has ties to the mob, but I doubt if even the mob can finance this place.
You know it really does bother me that a lot of people are going to [or already have] lose their jobs thru this ordeal, and that it's come down to discontinuing brands of cars to keep the industry going. But all in all the auto industry is responsible for its own demise. They kept approving people who aren't financially responsible to buy cars on their credit, and now they're up shit creek without a paddle because of it. I remember hearing on the radio about two months ago that car loans 30+ days past due make up for something like 7 billion dollars of our debt. What were they really planning to do with that bailout money they've been begging for? Straighten themselves out financially, or scream out to the American public "HEY! We've got money now! Go to your local dealer for pre-approval today!"
Personally I think it's the latter. But that's just me.