Tired of Bail Outs
I don’t usually like to get political or even serious in this blog, but I just received a news flash that the Federal Government (Read me and you) is going to give $25 Billion (that’s 25 thousand, million) to the auto companies. That’s our money, mine and yours. Personally that will cost me over $400!!!! It costs our league roughly $25,000 for the players alone, assume each has a mom and a dad and that means that the parents and kids of our league just paid $75,000 to bail out an industry that is completely responsible for their own demise!
Do you know what our tiny league of 300 players could do with $75,000!!!!! We could put lights on the field that doesn’t have them and host state tournaments that would bring INCOME into our league, our city, out county, and our state, because nobody visits the greater Orlando area without dropping a couple grand!
This is insane! As many of you know, I have been rich, I have been poor, and I have been in between. I will be that way all my life, it is the nature of my character. I have presided over failed businesses and successful ventures, that’s life. This shtick about the economy will collapse w/o the auto industry is total crap.
The fact is, they spend to much to produce a car, their benefits and pension plans are ridiculous, and they pay their workers too much. Did you know that I heard on the TV the other morning that it has $2,000 in costs in a car vs. their competitors because they have so much overhead! And we, the ones struggling and wondering if we can even afford to buy our kids Christmas presents are going to just give them $25,000,000,000!!!!! Insanity.
Want to bet me who has contributed most to all the campaigns of those in Washington?
Yeah, yeah, fill me up w/ BS about how we can’t exist w/o them.
Isn’t that what they said about Eastern Airlines?
Isn’t that what they said about General Electric?
Let me ask you something, has your life changed drastically since we stopped manufacturing television sets in the United States? My answer is YES! I can afford a BIGGER BETTER SET!
I don’t have the facts in front of me but I would hazard a very confident educated guess that a lot more money is spent on electronics than cars and they are ALL made outside of the United States. I would also bet that the electronics industry makes a TON more money now than they did when the product was manufactured here! Why? Because we ship the low pay jobs overseas, and we use the cheap products to turn ridiculous profits on things like service and programming!
Oh, that means the lower income worker has no jobs. What? You think that there are no construction or cleaning, or local assemble, or custom cabinet, or electrical jobs created though the service industry? How far do you have to drive to get to an AT&T or Sprint store? You think those buildings simply rose from the ground through divine intervention? It seems like it because we are SO DAMN GOOD AT BUILDING THEM! Why? Because we pay per job so people want to finish them fast! Not per hour so people want to move slower!
Obviously, I am very passionate about this. Maybe the auto dealers need to go bankrupt. Get rid of all their obligations, move down here to FL where labor is cheap, and compete like the rest of us have to do. Or maybe we can pass the BAIL EVERY BAD BUSINESSMAN ON THE PLANET OUT BILL and have a fund for everyone that fails in business. Hell, I will be the first in line!
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