The Other American Auto Industry

weeklystandard.com - 12/13/2008

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Plenty of car makers make a go of it in this country--they're just non-union and not headquartered in Detroit. by Fred Barnes 12/22/2008, Volume 014, Issue 14

briefingroom.thehill.com - 12/12/2008

Mich. Gov.: 'Un-American' to Vote Against Auto Bailout

— briefingroom.thehill.com — Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D) said it was "un-American" for Senators to have voted against approving a... bailout of troubled automakers last night, saying their vote may cause a recession to become a depression. "It is unacceptable for this ... (more) Mich. Gov.: 'Un-American' to Vote Against Auto Bailout

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washingtonpost.com - 12/17/2008

The United Auto Workers as the Architect of U.S. Prosperity

— washingtonpost.com — In 1949, a pamphlet was published that argued that the American auto industry should pursue a different... direction. Titled "A Small Car Named Desire," the pamphlet suggested that Detroit not put all its bets on bigness, that a substantial share of ... (more) The United Auto Workers as the Architect of U.S. Prosperity

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blogs.wsj.com - 12/17/2008

Ethanol Industry Lines Up for Washington Help

— blogs.wsj.com — Stephen Power reports on energy policy. First, it was Wall Street. Then Detroit auto makers. Now, the... nations ethanol producers, who have hit a rough patch with the drop in ethanol prices, are seeking help from Washington. The Renewable ... (more) Ethanol Industry Lines Up for Washington Help

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RedState: Conservative News and Community: Things are tough all over

Booman Tribune: The Project to Kill the UAW

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Say Anything: America’s Other Auto Industry Is Thriving

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Righties in Denial
The Mahablog — Fred Barnes compares the noble and non-union automakers of the South with the bloated slackers of Detroit: The southern auto industry mocks Detroit. The transplants make money and aren’t asking for help from Washington. They aren’t asking for help from Washington because they are getting it from the states. For example, we learned recently that “Alabama has given more in tax subsidies per job for non-union jobs at foreign automakers plants in Alabama than Detroit is asking to save union jobs for American auto ...

Things are tough all over
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... during the recent presidential campaign. And it does so in the same hypocritical manner that it shills for Toyota. The media is not anti-GM, Mr. Fox, it is pro-UAW. And this hypocrisy is evident in the fact that the workers in the southern states who build Toyotas, the same ones that Thomas Friedman loves so much, are making less than half the hourly wage of the workers who assemble GM cars in Michigan plants. Those automakers in the south don’t have to fork over the generous benefits that their northern counterparts enjoy, either. Yet the ...

The Project to Kill the UAW
Booman Tribune — Fred Barnes explains the South's 20-year project to destroy the UAW. Their plan is on the cusp of completion, but we can still stop them and turn the tables on them by unionizing the southern automakers. We just need to avoid to total collapse of the Big 3 automakers long enough to pass strong pro-Union legislation. But if you want to know why Bob Corker and Richard Shelby are so keen to see Detroit die, Fred Barnes explains it.

Viking Pundit — Saturday, December 13, 2008 Car talk - It's going to be a demolition derby on Fox News Sunday tomorrow as Senator Bob Corker ( R- Cool Springs , TN ) faces off against Senator Debbie Stabenow ( D-Detroit , MI ). posted by Eric at 10:39 PM Comments: Post a Comment HOME

America’s Other Auto Industry Is Thriving
Say Anything — As the Big 3 belly up to the federal trough in Washington DC and demand that the taxpayers bail them and the union parasites attached them out of the hole they’ve dug for themselves foreign car manufacturers are thriving...and employing a lot of Americans. Drew Ferguson IV is a 42-year-old dentist whose family has lived in this town, population 3,300, “since God put us here.” To be precise, the family arrived eight generations ago. Ferguson went off to the University of Georgia, then on to dental school, after which he came back to West Point. He and his wife, whom he met in college, have four kids. A year ago, ...

VIA: Thursday, December 18 (Updated)
AMERICAN DIGEST — ... The Other American Auto Industry Plenty of car makers make a go of it in this country--they're just non-union and not headquartered in Detroit. ...