Thank You Senate Republicans

Attention Senate Republicans, I would like to say, on behalf of all freedom-loving Americans... thank you for not caving to the pressure, thank you for seeing the light, thank you for not buying the drama. The American taxpayer is tired of subsidizing failure. We are tired of fear and panic driving Washington to our wallets. We are tired of being led to the dried-up watering hole of Socialism. These bailouts have to stop. The big 3 don't need them. What they need is to either fail or survive on their own, just like the rest of us. They need to renegotiate their union contracts and find a way to make cars for a reasonable amount of money.

It costs American car manufacturers over $70.00 per hour to produce a car while it costs Honda and Toyota under $50.00. There is something wrong with the math here. Last year GM and Toyota sold the same number of cars, 9.37 million worldwide. GM lost $38.7 billion while Toyota made $17.7 billion.(1) That looks like a failure in leadership to me. It looks like someone down at GM doesn't know when to say "no."

I can't imagine having any respect for a company that can't control its own budget. You can try to blame the unions for being greedy if you want, and they ARE greedy; but it was management that accepted the union deal.

I look at the big 3 like I would any panhandler. I wouldn't mind giving you some money if I didn't think you were going to buy crack with it. The "crack" in my analogy is big union pay-offs. It's like anesthesia for Capitalism.

If the CEO's of these companies take my taxpayer dollars to fund their failure, I'm going to have a difficult time buying any of their products. In fact, I may organize a boycott of their products until such time as they start acting like a responsible company. I can promise you this: I WILL NOT purchase a government-produced car.

It seems to me, the sure-fire path to failure is for these CEO's to take the taxpayers money and let a "car czar" tell them what to manufacture. The only way these companies are going to make it is if they take responsibility for their actions, restructure their companies, and start making sense. That is, producing what America wants to buy, not what either the carbon-Nazi crowd or the "car czar" wants them to.

So, again, thank you Senate Republicans for sending such a sweet message; come January 21st, you will all be missed... for 2 years.

(1) http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_121008/content/01125111.member.html