I was sitting and thinking about how furious I was about the fact that our own Federal government now owns part of two of the largest manufacturing entities in the United States of America. The decisions and behaviors of this government are unconscionable and the Federal government has no right to take my money and invest it in General Motors, Chrysler, or any other company for that matter. What is really scary is that the government is making the playing field uneven and could quite possibly harm Ford in the process. How do you compete with a government that can set its own rules
I was raised a Chevy man. I owned a Chevy truck at 16 and a Chevrolet Camaro at 18. The quality and workmanship employed in the manufacture of Chevrolet products slowly deteriorated to the point where it was no longer good for me to invest my money. Over the last five years GM has worked to rectify the situation. Their engineering department has brought them back to a point of competitiveness with higher quality products that are worth owning and driving. Cadillac is once again a great luxury option, their trucks are great performers, the Chevrolet Volt is a neat solution to lessening our dependence on petroleum products, and the new Camaro brings back great memories of an American tradition. I was thoroughly excited at the prospect of owning a new Camaro or even a Chevrolet truck/SUV here in the next couple of years.
All of GMâs past mistakes and poor financial decisions have finally caught up to them. Chryslerâs story is not much different, aside from the fact that we need to bail these losers out a second time in the last 40 years. This brings me to the point of this petition.
Please join me in signing this petition. I refuse to set foot into a General Motors or Chrysler showroom as long as they are publicly owned by the Federal government. I refuse to purchase a General Motors or Chrysler product as long as the Federal government has any stake in either company. These companies should have never been given my money in the first place and I refuse to give them anymore of my hard earned dollars. I believe strongly in capitalism. Government has no right to decide who to bail out and who to let fail in the private sector. This type of behavior is not permissible in the United States of America. If I choose to buy American I will buy from a company that either produces cars in America or has refused to take a welfare check from the government.
For the record I do not work for Ford or any other automobile manufacture. I am in education. I am just an angry middle class citizen who is fed up with the direction this country is headed in. I refuse to lie down and allow this country to be ruined by a bunch of politicians and idiots who have never had to meet a payroll in their life!