Democrats

Just How Wal-Mart Have We Become?

November 4, 2007 ⋅  E-Mail Article ⋅  Print Article ⋅ Post a comment

Supposedly we hate Wal-mart because they import the majority of their product while neglecting American made products. Well what do we think the Big Three auto companies are doing nowadays, they are Wal-Marting their procedures aren’t they? They are laying off in America and hiring outside of America. They are cutting American suppliers loose while upping their foreign supplier business. Maybe we should be calling them the Big Three Mart. When a company says it is an American company nowadays, just what does it mean?

Take Ford, Chrysler, and GM. They all say buy American made cars made by American workers but in reality a large majority of their cars are made outside of the U.S. and many of their suppliers in America have been let go for cheap labor and product outside of America. Take the recent announcements by Chrysler, Ford, and GM regarding layoffs and plant closures. If you look carefully you will notice that all of the layoffs, firings, and plant closings were in North America and not outside the country.

The Big Three have laid off so many American workers that their overall global workforce is starting to come up to the levels of foreign car makers such as Honda, Toyota, and others. Do the Big Three just pay lip service to the American motto while at the same time selling out the American worker? I also find it amusing that these idiots who are running the Big Three think they can get rid of American workers and yet still sell the same amount of vehicles.

Maybe someone should tell these dummies that it is the faithful American autoworkers who buy the American made cars, if you get rid of the workers you are losing the customers and a laid off or fired worker will most likely not buy a car from someone who laid them off or fired them and neither will their family. If you want to sell in America you have to build in America and as the Big Three cut workers in America foreign car makers are creating jobs in America and this is why they are outselling their American counterparts.

Chrysler LLC is slashing as many as 12,100 jobs and eliminating four vehicle models and the funny thing is that they say it’s a global market but all they are firing are American workers, where are the Latin, European, or Asian layoffs or firings? Where are the foreign plant closings? And Chrysler is not alone. While Ford and GM close plants in the United States they are still seeking more work and factories outside America. They want to sell Americans their cars but not give them their jobs, come on now, how hypocritical is that? We support the American workers now lets see our American companies do the same.

Chrysler stated that between 8,500 and 10,000 hourly jobs, 1,000 salaried jobs and about 1,100 contract positions would be eliminated between now and the end of 2008. Michigan alone stands to lose approximately 5,000 hourly jobs and most of the 2,000 salaried and contract jobs from Chrysler’s latest downsizing. Why aren’t foreign jobs and factories feeling the heat?

Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm has been feeling the heat for job losses in Michigan but Michigan has lost 285,000 net jobs since 2000 because of the shrinking auto and manufacturing industry and the state now has the highest unemployment rate in the nation at 7.5 percent. Today it’s Michigan’s problem but tomorrow it will be yours. Your job most likely supports an auto manufacturer or some type of manufacturer and if these manufacturing jobs keep leaving eventually they won’t need your support and then you won’t have a job.

It’s time American legislators enact legislation that protect American jobs. We don’t need protectionism we just need protection. It’s time the next President and Congress address this problem and they need to do it soon. 2008 cannot come fast enough. We all want jobs so let’s elect a President and Congress who will provide and protect them.

Related Posts