You really dont think the Japanese government would buy American cars for government use do you ???? Even if Japanses cars were totally inferior to american cars they still would not buy american cars over their own. What an idiot you are. By the way, American cars still outsell Japanese cars so your idea that the big three dont make cars that people want is false.......

The government buys or leases cars every year for all the many government agencies. They should "spread the wealth" around and buy from GM, Ford and Chrysler.

That's two bad ideas in one week by our new President: (1) directing that the gov't buy GM autos; maybe the old ones would last another year ? (2) Having the corrupt ACORN organization take part in the 2010 census. Both moves need to rescinded for the good of the country.

4-09-2009 @ 5:19PM

rwilliart5295 said...Unless you don't own a car at all I don't get it! Why not buy the cars they need anyway. We damn sure should be buying American. Most people do care what happens to American workers and American companies.

news flash bud most people care about American workers and companies true but to hell with a bunch of money hungry backstabbing Union Workers

Who is the idiot who wrote this column?

The vast majority of taxpayers don't care about what happens to GM or Chrysler? Really? So whats the line of reasoning behind that airheaded statement? That everybody who previously owned one of those company's cars will just go out and buy a Honda or Toyota to compensate? That if one or both of those corporate giants ( who by the way literally helped create middle-class America!) bite the dust, every displaced auto worker will move to Tennesse or Alabama to work for Hyundai, Honda, Toyota or Mercedes? That somehow all will be okay even though both of those companies and their related suppliers employ around 3/4 of a million folks? Really?

I never thought I would see the day when middle class America would have so thorough a war waged against it. Bumbling financial institutions can fly on privately owned Learjets into Washington, put on a minor song-and-dance routine and receive $800 BILLION dollars in taxpayer-funded aid with virtually no oversight. Two of the Big Three ask for less than a tenth of what their Wall St. distant cousins did and have to jump thru rings of fire wearing gasoline drawers and holding a cup of nitroglycerin. Amazing.

I care about what happens to GM & Chrysler. Because of this extreme slowdown in the industry and the economy, I was laid off two wednesdays ago from my job at a steel processing plant. THATS why the majority of taxpayers care about the future of these valuable players in the auto industry. Because it has or will hit close to home.

You have obviously aquired your education under the direction of Sentor Shelby. When you loose your job, please return to class and pay attention. Once in the unemployment line you may be humbled into admitting your ignorance.
The point is To Buy American Save America.
Zac Bissonnettee China is waiting for you

WE should be buying foreign auto's only to help prop-up their economies.This country has way to much money, and should do what it can to support competition,and spread the wealth throughout the world.

G.M. should go under. they have earned it. bad cars in the 70s 80s and 90s and horendous customer service, unions screaming buy american as if they will kisk your a** if you dont. good riddance. move over and let someone start another car company or two

WELL ALL I CAN SAY IS~~~THE US TAXPAYERS SHOULD BE WORRIED IF GM AND CHRYSLER GO UNDER!! YOU KNOW WHY? CAUSE IF THEY DONT THE UNITED STATES WILL COLLAPES AND THE Y WILL FEEL THE TRICKLE DOWN EFFECT THAT IT CAUSES BECAUSE THEN CHINA OR SOME OTHER COUNTRY WILL REALLY OWN US! YOU THINK IM KIDDING? NO IM NOT! AND I REALLY DONT WANT TO KNOW HOW IT FEELS TO BE UNDER A COMMY GORVERNMENT EITHER.. KEEP BUYING FOREIGN CARS AND SEE IF YOU WILL BE HAPPY WHEN WE GO UNDER!

Bloggers are not journalists,they are just a$$holes with opinions just like the rest of us. Check some facts. Most Japanese nameplate cars are built in North America by American workers in Right to Work for Less states. Legacy costs are about 8% of a vehicles cost whereas ADVERITSING is about 60%. Engineering and R&D is 1%. Where is bailout money going? Marketing, because the sheep that are American consumers will buy anything that's promoted on tv or online. The gov't purchases products by low bid. Who's going to bid lower than a company who is owned by the Gov't. Low bid is why the flags that fly from federal buildings are made in China? Think about it when you drive your GM or Chrysler to Walmart to buy all the foreign made shit that yopu have in your house.

You have obviously acquired your education under the direction of
Senator Shelby. When you loose your job, please return to class and
pay attention. Once in the unemployment line you may be humbled into
admitting your ignorance.
The point is To Buy American Save America.
Zac Bissonnettee China is waiting for you

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I have a 2005 Pontiac with over 107,000 miles on it. Only problems was a corroded wire connector for the abs, brakes still worked, just not the abs. Pontiac fixed without blinking their eye. Only other problem was a bad body molding, also fixed without any hassle at all. Know people with VW's that have constantly been in and out of the shop with half the miles of my car. Toyota owners with the same and much more hassles from the dealership. I don't know how Ford stays in business with the way their dealerships opperate. Chrysler either just for the poor product they frequently put out. Not to mention ugly. So I think GM is a good buy, just wish they hadn't made the new Pontiacs so boring to look at.
Anyway, at least with the government buying cars they aren't just giving them free cash like the banks. Having been in the Air Force, chances are they could use a few new vehicles.
Oh and did I mention I have a 1994 GMC 2500 with the 6.5 turbo diesel with nearly 270,000 miles on it that runs great as well? I think GM's biggest problem is making damn good quality vehicles, so you don't have to get a new car ever 3 years.

Absolutely our government should buy American! Their doing so puts Americans to work. Hate mail? Please. What does the writer advocate, the government buying Japanese cars? Duh.

Balogne. Obama is buying GM cards to suck up the union, as usual. It's all about maintaing control in Washington.

I've bought and driven GM cars since day one, is there a problem since the 1990s, not to hard to see, but should America's big three not exist and all we have is German and Japan cars? HELL NO!!

At last, a President who encourages us to buy Ameican made products. At one time *Quality* was a considered a value that our country. Because of the over run of poor quality goods which have flooded our goods from other countries, we have forgotten what craftsmanship and exacting workmanship entails. It's high time we begin to work on manufacturing quality goods again again. We will start feeling better about ourselves if we regain just this one value.

Just another sparkling example of Government efficiency!

More right wing garbage. Taxpayer money should go NOWHERE else but to American companies. They just want to break the Unions, at any costs. Wait til Card Check gets passed! They're quaking in their shoes over that, so much so, their ads are nothing but lies. It was Labor that built this country and made it great, it was the CONS that ruined it.

Either the author owns Ford stock or is advocating the purchase of Hyundai, Honda, Kia, etc. It would appear (since there are no facts in evidence) that the government is authorizing the agencies to purchase budgeted vehicles scheduled for acquisition by June a little earlier. Government agencies purchased budgeted vehicles two months early from a USA company that could use the business now. I can't figure the reason for the writer's outrage.

What an idiot writer.
It's people like him that are selfish and don't give a damn about other Americans.
Of course the government should buy American cars..In fact Americans should start to realize that if GM,Ford, Chrysler go under, so many people will be laid off and be without benefits.
American Cars are good now, Foreign hype is all made up by Advertisers.
Tell this Jerk who wrote the article to move to Canada.