In a fitting display of job losses in Michigan, I saw my first Granholm sticker this year. Fittingly, it was on a riceburner - a Nissan. It was an obvious democrat activist who owns that, since there was also Wes Clark and pro-abortion stickers there as well.
It never fails to amaze me how many "pro-union" and "pro-jobs" democrats drive foreign cars. Don't they know that each foreign car/truck they buy takes jobs away from Michigan?
And before someone attacks the quality of American cars and trucks, I've never had problems with my Ford.
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1966 Dodge Monaco
1973 Chevrolet Impala
1978 Chevrolet Impala
1975 Plymouth Duster
1984 Chevrolet Cavalier
1985 Dodge Lemon (charger)
1986 Mercury Cougar
1987 Buick LeSabre
1998 Saturn
1999 Mercury Sable
2000 Chevrolet Cavalier
2002 Ford Taurus
2004 Ford F-150
So, me neither! Other than the Saturn, I have done my part to support the economy of this great state.
Oh and yes, you're right Red. Until Ford does some scrub up on their social agenda, they will not see my name on the dotted line.
The folks at Brighton Ford are great though. They need to put pressure on corporate.
I might just have to end up buying another Dodge - wait a minute - aren't they German cars now?
I'm confused.
I almost agree with you dan, but your reasoning is totally wrong. How you can possibly take shots at Democrats for the situation is beyond me.
I have owned a foreign car once, but I was stationed in Italy. I bought it used from a service member and sold it to a service member when I left. My dad was a UAW member, and from him I learned never to buy a foreign car. The UAW and the Democrats are responsible for the middle class in this country.
There two points you are missing in this post, dan. One is minor and the other is huge. When I worked Downriver, there was a Toyota or Nissan plant in Flat Rock, I'm not sure which since I don’t know the difference between the two, but the chances are very good the bumper sticker you saw was on a car made in the U.S. However, I still buy U.S. cars, but the chances are also very good they are being built by low-paid, non-union workers outside of the U.S. To say primarily Democrats drive foreign cars is pure BS, and there is no fact or even myth too back that huge lie up.
The second, huge point is the reason that we have lost millions of high-paying manufacturing jobs under bush’s leadership is that companies are off shoring, and this administration is not only doing nothing about it, they are encouraging it. The drive is to find the lowest wages possible, and they are trying to turn the clock back to the days of the robber barons when workers earned slave wages and when they left for work they did not know if they would return hone or if they would return with all their limbs intact.
They are doing it via other countries, and people like you are supporting it by voting against their own economic self-interest.
Also, I have never seen a pro-abortion anything in my entire life.
It seems sad that people are punishing Ford for not discriminating and going after an untapped market. Why would you not buy a Ford because someone you hate for no reason drives one?
Been in any good boxing matches lately?
Mazda (partially owned by Ford)has a plant in Flat Rock. I wouldn't have fired off. There's a real elitist leftist culture that is extremely snobbish towards anything American. I'll bet that the highest proportion of foreign cars is in an area with a high percentage of limosine liberal types. Since gambling is illegal online, I'll buy the dinner and a beer of the first person that shows me documentation that the most foreign cars in this state is in either Ann Arbor (or related areas such as Scio Township), Southeastern Oakland County (Royal Oak, etc), Kalamazoo County, or the East Lansing area.
As for Ford marketing to gays, I really don't care one way or the other on that. What consenting adults do is none of my business. As long as they don't push for tax money paying for it, big deal. I may get some heat for that comment, but I don't care. Besides, I'm from a Ford family. That trumps all.
The manufacturing jobs have been leaving for years. It's partly Bush's fault. It's partly Bill Clinton's fault. Both parties are at fault on this issue. I've always been against NAFTA, GATT, Most favored trade status with Chine and anything else related to it. I really miss Jesse Helms in the senate as he was the best fighter on this issue there. Until both parties turn things around on this, we're still going down the bad road.
As for boxing matches, I can't believe that Matt Ferguson made such a big deal about it. I got a laugh out of that more than anything else. It was fun. It was a challenge. I got to see some friends from college. No harm no foul.
Hmmm, I see Granholm stickers all the time and mostly on American made cars. Your fantasy blog is really interesting.
Hey Red, what you right wingers never seem to get is the difference between Free trade and Fair trade. Clinton was a fair trader and the auto industry was doing great. Bush stripped all the fair trade provisions and now we have a mess with trade and the auto industry suffers, because of George Bush. Don't believe me? Start listening to the auto industries CEO's. By the way, they don't blame our Governor, infact they praise her!!
READ, UNDERSTAND AND LEARN!
Communications Guru, are you really Mike McGonegal?
Clinton was no fair trader. He signed NAFTA and GATT. As for the auto industry CEO's, they messed things up badly as well. Jacques Nassar was so bad that he's a legend.
Patrick - Communications Guru is formerly known as kevins.
Well, Mr. Communist, prove that I have my “…head in the clouds on this Bush thing.” Are you honestly saying that eight years of some of the best economically prosperous times this country has ever had under Clinton was because of someone else? Are you saying that the first balanced federal budget in years – that is now showing record deficits under bush – was because of someone else? Now who has their head in the sky and is trying to rewrite history. As Bluzie says so well, thee is a difference between Free Trade and Fair Trade. Enjoy your fantasy dream, but in this economy with the middle class fast disappearing it’s much better to be in a fantasy world than the real one.
No Mr. Flynn, I am not Mike McGonegal, I am a campaign volunteer for Mike, and I run the campaign blog. I suggest and welcome you to come and visit us and join in the debate. We don’t censor anyone like this blog does, and it’s a free speech zone – again, unlike this blog – and we do not bar anyone from posting. Kevins was kicked off this blog, BTW.
I have no idea where or how you created this myth that Democrats, working class people, drive foreign cars. How about some proof? Then calling places like New Jersey liberal elitist is ridiculous. And dan's, crack about “limousine liberal types” is a nothing more than a myth picked from hatemonger like sean hannity.
But everyone is really missing the point; it’s not what kind of car is bought or what party drives more so-called foreign cars, but where the cars, and other manufactured products, are made.
I thought I read that Keith recently had a head injury, and now I see the proof. Maybe it’ I’ve experienced your “facts” before on this blog, and I have learned just because you say it’s so don’t make it so. There are just as many middle class Americans that are Democrats as there are republicans, and I would venture to say more are Democrats.
I hear your myths, and again you failed to back up one of your so-called facts. And again, you missed the huge, huge point that the problem is where the cars and their parts are being made.
Also, Kevins was kicked off this censored site.
Kevins was not kicked off. That is a bald faced lie by a bald faced liar.
If kevins was kicked off, communications guru would also be kicked off- the same person.
Kevins was kicked off this site. That’s a bald face lie told by a bald faced liar. Show me the last time Kevins posted.
"Show me the last time Kevins posted." 7/22/2006 10:49 PM under the screen name Communications Guru.
Sorry dan, another lie. The last time Kevins posted was 6/20/2006 5:16 PM.
Communications Guru, you suck.
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Thank You. From you, that’s a compliment, and keep working on that vocabulary.
This just isn't true! Michigan has not lost jobs to right to work states!!! What kind of mosters are you? Don't you enjoy your healthcare, your vacations your weekends? You are leading the people of Michigan off a cliff with your anti union talk.
If you cannot honestly understand where the Bush administration has heavily contributed to global warming then you guys really are in extreme denial. Certainly you have all not lost your minds and are still believing in this farce of a president?
Certainly you see the massive debt that is making our country grow weak. He's responsible for this war that is costing our soldiers lives, innocent people's lives and 6 billion dollars a month! No we cannot just leave Iraq now, we can agree on that, but if you do not hold him and his cabinet responsible than you cannot call yourself true Americans.
If I were a democrat, gosh I would keep my mouth shut about Iraq.
Names? What names???? Not that I don't privately, but I haven't called him a name.
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