Posted by
Mark The Plumber on Saturday, November 29, 2008 12:00:00 AM
Welcome back to my Around the Horn: The Great Washington Debate section! At The Patriotic Gun, my priority is to investigate, instigate and satirize power politics, conservative and liberal censorship and conservatism in every new ways - more than anyone -
if not no one - can ever possess.
Today at
http://www.patrioticgun.blogtownhall.com, I'd like to tell bloggers around the globe how the auto industry is making some stuff up of ideas to improve motor vehicle manufacturing. On Friday, venerable carmaker General Motors (GM) (NYSE: GM) confirmed that
it is pulling the plug on three prolific consumer brands, including their longtime automotive plate Pontiac - which in turn is patterned after the famed Indian chief and whose long-running advertising slogan "We Build Excitement" has been the cornerstone of this truely global motor
vehicle brand through the decades - immediately following the country's first auto industry bailout since the 1980s.
Over the years, Detroit - known as "Motown" - has been the county seat of Michigan's industrial revolution for decades and is now one of
the leader motor-car manufacturing centers in North America, with Missouri, Virginia and California currently on the auto industry's global
long list of countries and territories where carmakers' automobiles and car/truck types are imported and exported.
Aside from Pontiac, GM also is pouring cold water over two other brands in the motoring aftermarket before year's end: Saab, a Swedish
motor car company with a long and reputable history of automotive innovation; and Saturn, whose corporate tagline "A Different Kind of
Company. A Different Kind of Car" preceded the current "Rethink." advertising campaign focusing on their own line of cars and sports utilities (SUVs) with the "hybrid" deposition.
To me, the bailout of the automotive aftermarket remains to be seen and heard by many people. The truth was, I had experienced driving
across the countryside in my mother's SUV, proving motorists can't judge a vehicle by their looks. But motorists can judge a vehicle by a
multitude of tourists who love driving their autos to some exotic excursions and cheaper vacation destinations.
Auto industry anlysists are worried how the bailout of GM could lead to distraction.
A proposed settlement on how to save the motoring aftermarket was approved earlier this week.
After all, Pontiac, Saab and Saturn are the remaining GM automotive brands on their way out, while existing brands under the GM umbrella, such as Chevrolet and Buick, respectively, continue to be built and sold nationally and internationally at least for now.
End of story, but not quite.
Whew!
How can the auto industry bailout cost billions and billions of dollars by 2015?
Screw you, Rick Wagoner! You're not the only GM CEO scaling back 75,000 workers earlier this year.
What hath GM wrought?
I kid you!
But to whom the motoring aftermarket may concern about unemployment? That's the question! Investigative reporter/recording artist Greg Palast ditched the plain truth about the auomotive industry bailout earlier this month and pondered why auto industry executives can spoil a
scheme to detonate GM and two other Detroit mainstays, Ford Motor Company and Chrysler LLC, at year's end because of sluggish SUV and 4x4 sales and motor vehicle recalls through the years.
I kid you!
So the next time you drive a new or existing model car, truck, van or SUV, look at the automotive plate before you drive.
I guess my parents will take the passenger bus someday... NOT!
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