Comments on: American Industry: Saddle Up

By: Zeke

Zeke — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 03:33:52 +0000

“The greens’ efforts to drag us back to the false utopia of deprivation”

Well put.

By: Clayton E. Cramer

Clayton E. Cramer — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:05:54 +0000

The problem is that most businessmen, at least once they get above a certain size, are pretty committed leftists (or more accurately, fascists in Birkenstocks).

By: Old Soldier

Old Soldier — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:26:21 +0000

Eric – Government is the biggest customer in the country. Most business leaders aren’t brave enough or stupid enough to take them on.

By: Kay

Kay — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:06:50 +0000

Brian, that’s the power of fleet sales…Even Lyons of FoMoCo congratulated this achievement by GM (while Ford was downsizing their company for inevitable recession 2 years ago)-for being the number one manufacturer of rental cars in the world…

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 03:47:27 +0000

GM has some very advanced state of the art plants which are as good or better than anything their competition has, the problem is the plants are located outside of the USA, because to construct such a plant within the US would put lots of UAW workers out work. Dont assume that the GM management doesnt know how to compete, the problem is they are trying to compete when their hands are tied. GM hasnt been allowed by the government to run their plants autonomously for decades.
The media reports that GM produces cars no one wants is lunacy. The are the 2nd largest producer of vehicles in the world last I checked… Toyota only just recently overtook them.

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 03:08:20 +0000

I’ve often complained that business, with the exception of small business, doesn’t take a more active role in politics. I used to work for FedEx and Fred Smith wojld often complain loudly about the mess Washington made of the economy but Fred would NEVER talk to FedEx employees and customers about the impact of anti-business legislation. If I were Fred I would have actively talked to my employees about the negative impact an Obama administration would have on FedEx and by extension their jobs.
Instead of quietly retreating offshore, stalling growth, laying people off or sleeping with the enemy (GE, Duke Energy) business needs to aggressively confront the socialist politicians who don’t seem to have any clue as to where the money for their social programs comes from. I simply cannot understand how a company’s employees vote for politicians whose agendas are harmful to their employers. Heck, just look at what the UAW did to Detroit.

By: Jimbo

Jimbo — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 01:43:16 +0000

One good way to force the government to avoid socialism is to boycott GM and Chrysler. Americans need to understand that it is wrong to force taxpayers to subsidize loser companies with overpaid union workers. One very easy patriotic act any American can do is to swear off buying any GM or Chrysler products until they are denationalized. These companies desperately need to increase their market share in order to become profitable enough enable the govermnet to sell their shares. You can bet that the Treasury department will go all out to use hidden, unfair subsidies to make GM profitable at the expense of their more efficient competition. We can’t let that happen. The best way to crush our arrogant bureaucrats is to boycott “Government Motors”!

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 01:22:26 +0000

Good article, I bailed out of CA about 2 years ago because while I loved the State which had always been my home I could see where it was heading. I only wish I had sold the property there at a better time, now I am still linked to the “Golden State” through their ability to tax my property. But at least I got there hands off my income and sales tax revenue.
I know why Alex moved to Asia, I spend a good chunk of time for work there as well and I can tell you competition is alive and well here and its amazing what it can produce. Asia will soon beat the US at its own game by a health use of capitalism, while the US takes the course through socialism. In addition taxation where I am at in Asia is very low. Taxation is just a modern method of turning citizens into slaves for the government.

By: Gozer the Carpathian

Gozer the Carpathian — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 01:01:30 +0000

There’s an interesting thought. A kind of reverse boycot if you will. All of the businesses who are fed up with all of this crap just close. One week would probably be enough. But you get enough people just closing up shop and saying, “I’m not serving anyone I’m closed.” People wake up and realize that, “Hey those evil business people are where I get everything I have!”

Could you imagine the chaos that would cause? No way it’d happen but it’s an interesting idea.

By: karlinsync

karlinsync — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:45:59 +0000

Right on. It is long over due that people need to start lashing out at minority groups dictating to the majority. This country is in a free fall because our Congress leaders refuse to lead for all of America! The environmentalist are taking our land. We buy oil from hostile countries when our US reserves would make us less dependent. It is just an insane Democratic agenda to kiss up to the minority. Look at California as your guide.