now that we have the FRENCH and JAPANESE moving in on trying to take apart one of our All-American industrial giants, do you think maybe its time some of the people in WASHINGTON, namely GWB and the congress wake up and smell the fact that our policies have threatened to wipe out some of our most prized US businesses?

i.e. will this light a fire under BUSH or will he sit back and let it happen?

No beacuse people are too ignorant to realizewhat is going on. Most are cheering that we will finally have GM that can build better cars, since no one in America knows how to build cars and weneed to be saved by the japanese and French....

people do not care anymore .. if they did do you think NAFTA, the selling out of US tax and private dollars to toyota would be tolerated for so long? We live in the age of apathy ... and I am not sure what will it take to change that ...

Igor

If the American people agreed with Regfootball, someone like Dick Gephardt would be President now. Many people work for and financially benefit from foreign owned companies and embrace globalism.

i got no problem with globalism, the problem i have is foreign companies getting pandered to and getting too much support in America in preference over American companies. People want US companies to fail. Our politicians do not speak up in support or promotion of US companies.

As long as career politicians keep getting into political office.. The answer is a big, nasty, fat NO.

It wont matter if its a Republican, Democrat, GWB, Al Gore, etc etc, as long as the stereotypical politician keeps breathing and living NOTHING will get done. Or at least nothing major, bits and pieces maybe to appease the base but nothing more.

rest assured, if GM and Ford go down on Bush's watch, there is gonna be hell to pay. Maybe not from contemporary yuppie society, but you might just see action from the working classes.

Our Pres and other political leaders have done nothing to step up and encourage support for our two biggest automotive US companies.

I am not suggesting handouts, I am merely suggesting public words of support and encouragment in their efforts to turn their ships around. Hell, that might be 1/10 of what Japan, Inc. does for their car companies in part of a global economic war offensive.

Edited July 4, 200619 yr by regfootball

or maybe he wants exxon to buy GM

rest assured, if GM and Ford go down on Bush's watch, there is gonna be hell to pay.  Maybe not from contemporary yuppie society, but you might just see action from the working classes.

Our Pres and other political leaders have done nothing to step up and encourage support for our two biggest automotive US companies.

I am not suggesting handouts, I am merely suggesting public words of support and encouragment in their efforts to turn their ships around.  Hell, that might be 1/10 of what Japan, Inc. does for their car companies in part of a global economic war offensive.

I agree 100%. What' wrong with some support for the HOME team.

Don't ever use the names Renault and Alliance together like that it gives me flashbacks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Just my ignorant opinion:

Nissan is a better brand than most, and it's got a decent amount of

RWD/V8 cars so they're not evil like Honda or a lot of other brands

that are sharpening their claws *cough, toyota COUGH-cough* so

let me just say that I think a partnership with Nissan & Renault

might not be the worst thing, and perhaps it might be a beautiful

thing. I think the Chrysler 300C & Dodge Charger are proof enough

that in 2006 foreigners appreciate what American cars should be

better than most Americans who think the Avalon is a great full size

sedan and the Ridgeline is a pickup truck.

:twocents:

Edited July 4, 200619 yr by Sixty8panther

Don't ever use the names Renault and Alliance together like that it gives me flashbacks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

LOL

i would have no problem with GM forming alliances with Honda or BMW or VW.

Nissan brings nothing to the table that enhances GM, aside from those awesome v6 engines which seemingly are starting to be equalled by others. The Renault component of the whole thing makes me ill.

If GM is gonna band with any other makers, at least it should be one we can get something out of, and it should be to destroy Toyota. I can easily support Honda if it measn the outright destruction of Toyota eventually.

Edited July 4, 200619 yr by regfootball

GM is not in the position to form an alliance with anybody right now, thanks to their stock price. Alliance is when two roughly evenly valued companies agree to cooperate.

Bush and the money loving Republicans don't care, they buy tons of foriegn stuff. The GOP ladies/wives decide where they $$ goes and they want Lexuses. I am pretty sure Ann Colter drives an import and not an Impala.

I'm pretty sure Ann COulter drives a Mercedes-Benz 770-K Hybrid that runs on the blood of Hitler and pure hatred for rationality. It even has a radar system that automatically runs over liberal children and cute puppies. And it has dual, lighted vanity mirrors.

And it has dual, lighted vanity mirrors.

As a straight man, its of my opinion that she clearly doesn't use those.

As a straight man, its of my opinion that she clearly doesn't use those.

Hard to use them when they shattered the first time she sat in the car.