Friday, November 07, 2008

Big Crash In The US Auto Industry?

Let Them Eat Cake...


Sorry folks, but of all of the industries out there including the "mortgage" industry and the "banking" business, I have even less respect for the "automobile" industry.

Whether you know it or not, the American Automobile industry has screwed the American public time and time again--most noticeably in their responsibility for lobbying congress and paying local officials to dismantle local and regional mass transportation in the post WWII era in an effort to put an automobile in every driveway.

All of those quaint trolleys and streetcars you see in pictures of pre WWII American Cities?

Gone courtesy of General Motors, Henry Ford, and the United Auto Workers.

Now fast forward through time to today (and forgetting the crappy, worthless, unreliable vehicles GM and Ford were selling the post 70's "Arab oil crisis" American public up through the 1980's), and America finds itself with garages full of gas guzzling SUV's WHICH THEY DEMANDED TO BE ALLOWED TO BUY every two or three years and then what happens???

GASOLINE PRICES GO THROUGH THE ROOF, and the economy slows just slightly, the Automakers demand Government intervention with taxpayer dollars to avoid bankruptcy, and regular Americans are forced to adopt the same policies I've been employing for the past twenty years.

Here's my little secret...

Drive what you got in your garage, and fix it when it breaks, and keep driving it until THE WHEELS FALL OFF and can't be put back on with bolts or bobby pins or bailing wire or super glue.

Unlike my teen aged years and early twenties, today my ego and self worth/image are quite comfortably separate from the cost and appearance of the conveyance in which I arrive at any given gathering on any given day.

And when you want some shits and grins, I suggest that you can always go out and rent yourself a Limousine and arrive in style at the restaurant with your guests like I'm doing this Christmas.

Got it?

Any questions?

Then that will be all...

for now...

Dammit.

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