As for our auto industry, everyone recognizes that years of bad decision-making and a global recession have pushed our automakers to the brink. We should not, and will not, protect them from their own bad practices. But we are committed to the goal of a re-tooled, re-imagined auto industry that can compete and win. Millions of jobs depend on it. Scores of communities depend on it. And I believe the nation that invented the automobile cannot walk away from it.
BARACK OBAMA, Address to Joint Session of Congress, Feb. 24, 2009
“Turns out that nation was Germany, so bankruptcy ahoy!”
“But we are committed to the goal of a re-tooled, re-imagined auto industry that can compete and win.”
I think he’s also been in charge of the Chicago Cubs.
“And I believe the nation that invented the automobile cannot walk away from it.”
That’s right, Mr. Jeopardy President. And Germany is doing just fine without any help from you.
From the late 70’s I had always driven GM and Ford, with a smattering of Mopar. My last vehicle is American made: Its a KIA.
I will never again buy a government motors vehicle, nor a union pile of crap ford. In fact, as much as europe should be buried under a volcano, I will probably buy a German car. Just don’t tell the relatives with the tattoos.