What an opportunity!
The labor unions and the Democratic Party have given the Republicans a gift. Both have decided that the big three US automakers are too big to fail. It will not be long before the Democrats will pass an additional $25,000,000,000 to help these relics of capitalism prosper.
All Republicans would like to see the big three automakers prosper. If the US automakers can produce cars that people want at an attractive price then they should have the ability to stay afloat and continue to provide solid products from their US workforce.
Moderate conservatives like me take a more pragmatic view of the current auto makers situation. Here is my take on this current event:
By the middle of last year Chrysler, Ford, and General Motors finally breached the 50% point in US automobile market share. Their combined market share has been on a steady slide south since the 1970s.
Even in very good economic times you wouldnt liquidate a US manufacturing industry that produces 50% of every new car sold in America. In today’s dismal sales forecast of 12 million new vehicle sold in the US the big 3s share would equal close to 6 million cars and trucks. You can bet it takes a huge work force, supply chain, and general infrastructure to produce that many vehicles.
I heard an ultra conservative commentator actually say on Fox News that if they go under these workers and sales would be absorbed by other manufacturers. He is correct about the unit sales but just about every automaker today has a bit of overcapacity in it factories. Those workers would be hard pressed to find a similar manufacturing job.
Imagine 3 million more workers trying to find employment in todays job market.
Now if we do bail them out (which is going to happen no matter what conservatives think) and we can wait another 25 years then the market share of the big 3 US automakers maybe small enough at that time to liquidate the entire industry. It is a whole lot easier to absorb workers in an industry with a 2% market share vs. one with a 50% market share. So why is this an opportunity for Republicans? It should be just the opposite. As a free marketing leaning organization we look like we are backed into a box. In our box of tricks is
let the market place decide, and government has no business being involved with private enterprises. Both true but
Its way over due for Republicans to look at the message they are sending to the American public. I know its hard for ultra conservatives to imagine but government does have to take an occasional stand.
The opportunity for the Republicans is to take a stand and wrap an effective message around conserving as many of todays jobs as humanly possible and at the same time move the economy forward in order to create new jobs.
Notice the above paragraph mentions jobs and jobs. The current Republican message of bailout and handouts is nowhere in the statement.
In this case the bailout will preserve most of the jobs in the short term, and in the long term after the companies goes through their respective bankruptcy proceeding it will preserve many of the current jobs as well.
Heres the kicker both the bailout and bankruptcy are going to happen, you might as well be a part of the solution that comes from these events. Also maybe, just maybe, if we can get these old relics of capitalism into the next decade then they may be able to hold on to their market share. How will they hold on? Because just about every car in the world is going to be replaced with something more fuel efficient in the very near future.
What a gift, what a message As a Republican, even though I oppose the additional monies on a fundamental basis I do see where in this case it will sustain the badly needed automobile jobs in the near term and give the auto makers a chance to hire and train the workers that will retool our US automobile industry.
Wow Republicans talking about jobs and job growth while they are helping to shape a legislative bill they don’t really like.
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