Sheboygen has no balls

something to chew on..........
> Friday, April 17, 2009
> Commentary
>
> Jerry Kroth
>
> We hear about General Motors' struggling, bailouts and
> bankruptcy, and we
> hear about how Toyota, Honda and Nissan will fill the
> vacuum created by any
> GM or Chrysler bankruptcy.
>
> But what we don't hear ought to pique your interest:
> Last year Japan
> imported a whopping 8,000
> <http://solidnet.uaw.net/modules.php... ;
> Fords. That's right, 8,000 Fords were sold in Japan
> while Toyota alone sold
> 2 million
> <http://solidnet.uaw.net/modules.php... ;
> automobiles here in America. Honda sold a million.
> According to Frank
> Fillipo of Autoblog, poor GM only sold 2,000 cars in Japan
> last year.
>
> Why? The average GM car in the United States costs about
> $25,000, but in
> Japan the same car costs $50,000. A big mark up, plus tons
> of other
> obstacles and restrictions. No one calls that
> protectionism, but that is
> exactly what it is.
>
> There is an overwhelming pressure to keep foreign imports
> out of Japan,
> whether its so-called "inferior" American cars,
> "infected" Washington apples
> or "tainted" American meat. Eleven Saturn
> vehicles were sold in Japan -- a
> car made jointly by the U.S. and Japan -- and a piddling 12
> Rolls Royces. I
> guess Rolls Royce is considered inferior as well.
>
> Peter Mandelson, the European Union's external trade
> commissioner, said last
> week that Japan was "the most closed developed market
> in the world and that
> imbalances ... were truly staggering." The social
> pressures within Japan and
> the complex layer-cake of bureaucratic restrictions keep
> all imports
> marginalized, not just our cars.
>
> To be specific: The Japanese car market of 4.5 million
> vehicles begrudgingly
> allowed 6 percent of their car market to be made up of
> non-Japanese
> manufactured vehicles. In South Korea, the situation is
> even worse. It
> imported 9,000 U.S. cars but sold 800,000 cars in ours. If
> you think a Kia
> outperforms a Malibu, good luck.
>
> Imagine a refreshing change -- a new law requiring that
> Japanese and Korean
> car manufacturers only allowed to sell the same number of
> cars in the United
> States that they reluctantly import into their countries.
> In other words,
> the playing field would finally be leveled.
>
> GM,
> <http://solidnet.uaw.net/modules.php... ;
> Ford and Chrysler would start filling the vacuum created by
> the sudden
> absence of Toyotas, Nissans and Hondas from American
> showrooms.

If Japan
> could only sell to us what it purchased from us, it would
> be limited to 5.5
> percent of the U.S. car market and not a fraction more, and
> Korea would be
> limited to a mere 2 percent.
>
> Thousands of American jobs would be saved; thousands more
> created. The Rust
> Belt would experience a renaissance.
>
> Instead of Detroit, let's have Toyota City take it on
> the chin for a change.
>
> Sure, the Japanese would protest that they had to start
> letting their
> showroom dealers start selling Fords and Chevys at
> competitive prices. Maybe
> a trade war would start; maybe they'd cash in their
> T-bills, but it is just
> as likely that the bigwigs of Toyota, Nissan, Honda and Kia
> would hurriedly
> ask parliamentarians to open markets to allow more American
> cars to be sold
> there so more of their cars could be sold here.
>
> Maybe Congress and the media are opposed, but in the days
> of Jimmy Hoffa and
> Walter Reuther, a healthy strike by autoworkers and
> sympathetic truckers
> could shut our country down until we saw some real action.
> Maybe its time to
> clog the turnpikes, slow interstate commerce to a crawl,
> and demand that
> fairness in trade finally be implemented. If now is not the
> time, well, just
> how close does the patient have to get to death before we
> decide to stop the
> bleeding?
>
> Jerry Kroth is an associate professor of psychology at
> Santa Clara
> University in California and a former Detroiter.

Head Games wrote:

If Japan
> could only sell to us what it purchased from us, it would
> be limited to 5.5
> percent of the U.S. car market and not a fraction more, and
> Korea would be
> limited to a mere 2 percent.
>
> Thousands of American jobs would be saved; thousands more
> created. The Rust
> Belt would experience a renaissance.
>
> Instead of Detroit, let's have Toyota City take it on
> the chin for a change.
>
> Sure, the Japanese would protest that they had to start
> letting their
> showroom dealers start selling Fords and Chevys at
> competitive prices. Maybe
> a trade war would start; maybe they'd cash in their
> T-bills, but it is just
> as likely that the bigwigs of Toyota, Nissan, Honda and Kia
> would hurriedly
> ask parliamentarians to open markets to allow more American
> cars to be sold
> there so more of their cars could be sold here.
>
> Maybe Congress and the media are opposed, but in the days
> of Jimmy Hoffa and
> Walter Reuther, a healthy strike by autoworkers and
> sympathetic truckers
> could shut our country down until we saw some real action.
> Maybe its time to
> clog the turnpikes, slow interstate commerce to a crawl,
> and demand that
> fairness in trade finally be implemented. If now is not the
> time, well, just
> how close does the patient have to get to death before we
> decide to stop the
> bleeding?
>
> Jerry Kroth is an associate professor of psychology at
> Santa Clara
> University in California and a former Detroiter.

Well put! I wish that this could be publicized to all!

Disgusted in Mendon wrote:

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Well put! I wish that this could be publicized to all!

Yah, that was pretty well put.

Head Games wrote:

Despite Gettelfinger’s willingness to limit executive pay, the union boss said the UAW will not be giving anymore concessions to ensure the automakers’ survival. Moreover, Gettelfinger is steadfast in his stance that the UAW had nothing to do with the Big Three’s current financial situation.
Denial, and no, not that river in egypt.

its obvious you spend alot of time surfing for information....maybe you should put some of you effort towards a decert if your so unhappy

Head Games wrote:

As usuaul your wrong. The union never saved my job. As a matter of fact it was the Company through EAP, that saved my job. BEFORE the union was there. Been sober over ten years. nice try though. Mental midgets.

Been sober 10 years and the Union has been there 12 hum something isn't right here. Better get your facts straight before you open your big trap.

As usaul, the mental pygmies reading into stuff. I got into trouble before the union was there, not after. Not that it matters. Get YOUR facts straight. LMAO!

UAW is a joke, just ask the 360 people in Covington, VA that was affected by the lear plant closing in 05.

blacklabel wrote:

UAW is a joke, just ask the 360 people in Covington, VA that was affected by the lear plant closing in 05.

UAW is not a joke management won't let the UAW give us all the same contract and let us nego the local stuff...if anything its the working bodies weakness ie Wauseon IAC to have the balls to improve theirselves rather then bend over

FRANCO wrote:

<quoted text>UAW is not a joke management won't let the UAW give us all the same contract and let us nego the local stuff...if anything its the working bodies weakness ie Wauseon IAC to have the balls to improve theirselves rather then bend over

You are just proving my point too..........