Second Thoughts on the Auto Industry

Our Auto Industry, in all reality, is the true child of America's Democratic Capitalistic (in a good way) Industrial Revolution, This is not a happy child. This child has been abused and molested and encouraged to follow the wrong path.

We would put a real child in foster care and try to heal them. But there are those who would recommend throwing away the decrepit buildings and facturies along with the CEOs and employees all in one.

Our American Auto Industry, as opposed to our banking industry, is more than an industry, it is the embodiment of American ingenuity and spirit of accomplishment. Putting men and women on those lines working on those cars used to be a proud profession. If any money, unlike that in the banking industry, was to be given to the auto industry, or "loaned" to them, it could be done in that spirit of growth and gleaming leadership in the world.

I don't have the exact answers, but an incentive program would not be difficult to achieve and I'm not so sure we can depend, or should depend, on the current leaders of that industry to come up with that plan. If I went to a bank for a loan, well, if I went to what we used to think was a bank for say a small business loan, I'm pretty sure the bank wouldn't let me dictate the terms of that loan. Why do we want the auto industry to come up with the terms of this loan?. We do it. We ask our government to form it and insist on investement specifically in updates and factury repair while the development departments are working on the new designs. We start now, on an unprecidented edict for innovation and change. We reinvent the industry and don't stop until we are considered the best in the world, again. We spend our money where we need it spent, out of a responsibility to family and a commitment to communities, and save our working families supporting that industry.

Save the auto workers, save the world.