Originally Posted By charming husband <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/car-company-us-loan-builds-cars-finland/story?id=14770875" target="_blank">http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/...14770875</a> thanks prez-U.S. gives another company millions and millions only to look foolish again, this time as the company takes it overseas. another great job.
Originally Posted By RoadTrip <<Henrik Fisker said the U.S. money has been spent on engineering and design work that stayed in the U.S., not on the 500 manufacturing jobs that went to a rural Finnish firm, Valmet Automotive.>> Obama doesn't look foolish. America doesn't look foolish. You maybe do.
Originally Posted By charming husband wow-attack the poster and not the info-good job road trip. as far as fisker claiming how the US benefits from that huge loan all of us gave his car company-where once again is the accountability? the prez needs to learn that if you use a situation for press releases (just like the solar company in the bay area) and it turns out to be a bomb-you earn the bad press.
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder There's nothing to look bad about. This is grasping at straws.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 That wasn't a fail either. And certainly saving GM and Chrysler wasn't. Grasping at straws indeed. Though unquestionably the noise machine will attempt to make this look bad, and some people will lap it up. RT has already pointed out the salient point: "Henrik Fisker said the U.S. money has been spent on engineering and design work that stayed in the U.S." The money stayed here. End of "scandal," unless you're hell-bent on finding one.
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder And I'll fill in why the OP feels insulted. Because he knows he should be. Because this is a bogus criticism and he knows it. Because his ideology, which is fracturing his own party, forces him to march lock step with the Limbaugh-led lemmings driving towards the cliff. Because he is unable to admit for a moment this black man might be doing something right.
Originally Posted By Donny Cash for clunkers should have been for vehicles only built in the united states. Thats where President Obama failed.
Originally Posted By charming husband "Because he is unable to admit for a moment this black man might be doing something right." yup-when ya got nothin' to say make it a racial issue. lol.
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder "yup-when ya got nothin' to say make it a racial issue. lol" Prove me wrong.
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder "Cash for clunkers should have been for vehicles only built in the united states. Thats where President Obama failed." What an idiotic thing to say. Financially, the program was an unmitigated success. You don't like it because it was Obama, no other reason. When a previous Cash For Clunkers program was done by the first President Bush, by the way, no such caveat was implemented. We'll wait while you look up "caveat" and "implemented".
Originally Posted By Donny I don't care if it was Regan himself , I think it was bad on the President's part to not make it as beneficial to American made products as possible.
Originally Posted By RoadTrip <<I don't care if it was Regan himself , I think it was bad on the President's part to not make it as beneficial to American made products as possible.>> You tell me Donny... WHAT is an American made car? They build some Dodges in Canada, some Fords and Chevys in Mexico. Meanwhile, most Japanese manufactures build some cars in the United States. Do we support Mexican workers just because Ford owns the plant? Do we penalize American workers just because Toyota owns the plant? That is the MAJOR problem with many Conservatives... everything to them is black and white. The world ain't like that any more Donny... it is a complicated place with MANY shades of gray.
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder "I don't care if it was Regan himself , I think it was bad on the President's part to not make it as beneficial to American made products as possible." You don't think things through much, do you? Every single CFC transaction saw money go into American coffers.
Originally Posted By Donny Roadtrip notice I didnt say American car companies.I know that some Honda's are more american then some Dodges.So what I want is as Cars that are as American as possible.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 That would have been unworkable in the real world, Donny. That would mean that, say, my Honda built here would be eligible, but your Honda built in Japan (and maybe your dealership in a different town didn't have US-built Hondas, or you simply didn't ask) wouldn't be. How is that fair?
Originally Posted By Donny Sounds good to me.Sorry I want cars the employee the most Americans as possible
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder "How is that fair?" How is that possible? For someone whose party wants as little regulation as possible you sure want a lot of it here.
