Posted by Les Stanford Chevrolet Cadillac in Dearborn, Michigan seems to think Shelby-as-bogeyman might move some cars off the lot.
More here in the The Hill’s Briefing Room.
Thanks to reader E.
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Shelby is against extending benefits for laid-off textile workers and equal pay for women. Yet we keep electing him to office.
He’s a natural-born car salesman.
Shelby reminds me of the guy who sold my sister a car and told her it was leaking oil because it was designed that way for a purpose.
He said the leaking oil kept pressure from building up in the engine.
Had to be a Shelbyite.
The truth hurts, but the facts speak for themselves and Senator Shelby told the truth. Moreover, the snide comment about “southerners” re-enforces this transplanted Yankee to offering the following perspective than we have come to know, understand and love: American by birth and Southern by the Grace of God.
The chickens have come home to roost. Deal with it.
Russ,
As a “transplanted Yankee,” I wouldn’t expect you to understand that Southern goes well beyond just accent or cultural references, or even the meal you eat after church on Sunday. Southern is a mentality that all are entitled to the same respect and dignity, regardless of race, creed, or economic status. With all due respect to Senator Shelby, he seems to have forgotten that there is more at stake in the failure of American auto manufacturing than the mere restructuring of a business.
As Leonidas correctly noted, closing plants has an enormous impact on communities. Just travel down to south Alabama, and you will see the effect that outsourcing the Textile mills has had on the region. Those mills were once the eceonomic lifeblood of the Wiregrass. Now counties like Covington, Escambia, Conecuh, and Dale are covered up with Meth and joblessness. (If you don’t believe there is a correlation, talk to the Sheriff of Covington County).
Before annointing yourself spokesman for an entire culture and way of life, you might stop and make sure that you aren’t merely repackaging your previous (Yankee) biases in “southern” dialect.
I haven’t seen any chickens come home to roost. However, I have seen empty henhouses because Shelby and company let the chickens be stolen and sent overseas.
Economists are wringing their hands over the prospect of double-digit unemployment.
Chamber County, Alabama, has 19 percent unemployment now. Cotton-mills that ran for over a hundred years are boarded up or being dismantled.
Shelby doesn’t seem too concerned with that.
Oh, he talks a good game. So did that band of Gypsies who once paved my driveway.
Like Shelby’s, their work didn’t stand up to examination either.
I think Shelby believes he’s protecting Alabama’s auto industry. He doesn’t seem to get the interconnections here — if the Big Three go under, can the suppliers be far behind? Then what happens to our auto companies?
“our” auto companies are already telling their suppliers “see ya next model year maybe” while cars overflow the storage lots and offering buy outs and a gentle RIF is taking place. The temps all three car makers hire are already going and if not gone.
Its hard to compete with workers whose idea of middle class luxury is a house with separate sleeping quarters for adults and children, running water, a flat screen tv , a kerosene stove and school uniforms so their children will not run a punch press for outlanders.
Though, if things go on they way they are, maybe we’ll wind up with a level playing field. Which should make the greens happy. Less consumption, less production, fewer green house gases.
One wonders – how are the greens and the UAW in the same political spectrum?
I don’t pretend to know if Sen. Shelby’s motivations are pure or not (although I bet that there is at least a “little politics” in his decision not to support the auto bailout). What I am certain of though is that the end result of not voting for the auto bailout is correct.
I want American corporations to succeed but not at the cost of the free market system. If you make a good product at a competative price your product will sell and you will make a profit. If you cant compete in the free market – move over and let somebody else take over.
The labor unions appear to have killed the goose that laid the golden egg and corporate greed/mismanagment has made scrambled eggs with the golden egg.
Mixed metaphores aside, STANDUP, I’m glad to see a conservative spread the blame. Problem is, what do we do now?
Running the companies out on a pole does not help anyone. Bailing them out does not help anyone if they aren’t willing to fix the endemic problems that got them where they are today. It seems that Obama’s administration wants to help those who will help themselves, a policy my mother used to advocate. Not sure I can argue with that.