The War Between The States

You would think accountability would be on the short list of things that needed to happen to the Big 3 Automakers, but as far as I can tell, it's business as usual for these rich boys and their clan. Our Representatives and our Senators are SUPPOSE to represent the will of the people. Our people spoke. Our congressmen acted and our President over rides the wishes of the people and their elected officials giving the "Big 3" AKA UAW their bailout monies anyway.

In a move to prop up the Big 3 for another year or so, our wonderful president has taken it upon himself to save the corrupt big 3 with 25 BILLION dollars of PREVIOUS bailout monies (approved by congress for housing market bailout). The  monies the Big 3 has received is supposed to be a "LOAN". NOW the UAW president is whining because it (The Loan) came with stipulations of payback. Ron Gettelfinger (UAW president'e) in turn has stated he will re-negotiate the contract with President'e Elect'e Barry Obama. Since the stipulation of this illegal "Bailout" is that it must be paid back to the tax payer.

The UAW is crying foul. With $70.00 per hour worker wages and 31.00 per hour for employees that have been laid off and sitting at home (12,000 of them at Ford alone). I would say THAT is a sweetheart deal. I bet EVERYONE wishes they had a job like that. I know I certainly do.

BUT...Listen boys, it's time to grow up and start WORKING for what you get. It seems these boys have this mentality of entitlement. Like we OWE them something? For what? Because their Company name is American? It is American in name ONLY? In 1994 I bought "American". I purchased a brand new Ford Escort. From day one it was a lemon. It was in the shop every other week. It leaked oil. They couldn't keep the air conditioner charged and THEN I wrecked it.

While I was waiting on my fender, hood and doors to arrive at the body shop, I learned that my "American" car was not American at all. It was built and shipped BACK into the states from MEXICO. Your Chevy trucks are built in CANADA! Ford has just recently opened a new plant in BRAZIL South America. I dunno about you, but that doesn't sound very American to me.

Why couldn't they have put those plants in the South and helped US out. Nope they want FREE labor. They have done NOTHING for us here in the South. So why reward them with our money? We went out and convinced car manufacturers to locate to the area. Our quality products have been rolling off the assembly lines here in the South for decades.

Now to the point I wanted to make in this weeks blog entry. Here in Mississippi, we have worked really hard to draw business into our state. We have subsidized a new Nissan Truck plant in the delta, and a new Toyota plant that is in being built in Tupelo. It is on hold at present. Our economic development folks do an outstanding job of getting business into the state. Alabama has 3 or 4 car manufacturers in including Mercedes Benz. Georgia , Tennessee, Kentucky and the Carolinas all have car manufacturers in their states because of aggressive economic development programs. All of our manufacturing facilities are doing just fine. We are slower than normal, but you do not hear this whining and complaining from the South about needing billions of dollars for our car manufacturers. No bailouts for us. No deadbeat employees sitting at home collecting a wonderful 31.00 per hour 40 hour a week check for doing nothing (AKA Jobs Bank).

Most of the Southern Senators voted AGAINST the big 3 bailout because that 25 billion dollars will be used for political gain from the UAW union. The UAW pours millions of dollars into the Democratic Party. Why would our people vote for something that is organizing and funding the enemy. The UAW is a direct link to the Democrats 3 million strong. My question is HOW are they able to funnel monies into the Democratic Party when some of their employees are republican? Is that fair and by giving them this 25 Billion dollars you know some of it will be in democratic hands by sundown.

And you ask WHY the Southern states did not back the bailout of GM, Ford and Chrysler. Now you know. We have never received ANY help from the North. We have been low rated and kicked around. Dubbed backwoods farmers and rednecks. The war between the states has begun again, but THIS time, We ain't doing just Cotton for ye old yankees anymore. The South is a manufacturing powerhouse now.

When the North needs a job in one of our state of the art facilities owned by Toyota, BMW, Hundai, Nissan, Honda, Mercedes Benz or Mitsubishi, I would have to say NO WAY. Reason is. We still work here. We don't do the 31.00 bucks an hour to sit your ass at home. Besides. We are building the best cars on the planet. Hey detroit and ALL of the NorthEast deadbeats. We TOLD you the South was gonna rise again. And here we are.

Yee Haw

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