Friday, November 14, 2008

Automaker Bailout? It is unfortunate that the big three auto companies have come to this especially since this problem has been inherited from their past generations. It was hard 20 or 30 years ago to for everyone to foresee how all this would unravel, but it is what it is. 40 years ago it took 4 times the employees and 4 times the space to generate the number of vehicles to satisfy North American consumer demands, but now competitors have moved in and built more modern factories with flexible manufacturing systems and reasonable labor costs. The Big three are trying to make adjustments as fast as they possibly can, but there are many difficult decisions that have to be made in order to resurrect these great companies. Throwing money at them will provide temporary life support, but it will not provide the transplant they desperately need.
History - Big production required big plants and big workforces; Today-flexible manufacturing and streamlined workforces determine sustainability. 5 years ago the bigger the vehicle the better was the rage, but since our national government cared more for environmentalist exaggerated views than our energy policy, Big vehicles went into the tank and the auto companies were left with the bill for their investment. During their hay day, the labor force was desperately needed to maintain sales and production. Now we are left with labor costs that are out of balance and not compatible with the market. I don’t believe that feeding more money into the “Big Three” will return leaner results. It would be more like feeding the obese supersized cheeseburgers and french-fries hoping they will loose weight. Since a diet won’t work, what they need is liposuction.
Politics - Most Democrats are pursuing the executives saying the executives need to start a diet by personally costing their companies less. Most Republicans want the liposuction buy going to the bankruptcy hospital. Who is right? Let me ask you. Would you want to work at a job that you are going to get a pay cut at especially if someone else is willing to pay you what you are worth? Who would take their place? People in low demand? People that are not worth very much because they don’t know what they are doing? I am not talking about those failures at AIG either, they are responsible for their actions over the last 10 years, the current bunch of auto execs have not been on the job more than 5 years and inherited a bunch of bad decisions from the past. What about removing costs that are dragging these companies down. Like unused real-estate, excessive labor costs & Legacy costs that they had to sign up for to keep their labor force in place? These are three costs that their competitors don’t have to deal with. If you remove these three costs, the American Automotive companies become an attractive investment again.
So when it comes to Automaker bailout, just say no, liposuction please.

Monday, November 10, 2008

Repower America?

Repower America?

Sounds like a good idea right? Please don't be fooled. This organization has bought into the fact that we humans are able to destroy the environment that God created for us. Global Warming only works out when variables are tweaked in the computer models of those with a political agenda. This is the greatest lie that the public has ever believed. Farmers Almanac has predicted 100 year warming and cooling trends for century's, recent studies over the last few years actually prove that the polar ice caps are expanding not contracting.


So why the lie? Consider that Al Gore and a few of his chronies stand to benefit in the Billions if not trillions of Dollars if this organization and others like it are successful. They have have set up trading companies for carbon credits. Carbon credits are what you pay when you produce the bi product of carbon dioxide and release it to the atmosphere. T Boone Pickens talked about a great transfer of wealth to the Arabs, which I am not in favor of either, but this transfer of wealth will dwarf what we give to Arab countries. This will transfer an abundance of wealth from our pocket to extreme liberal activists and destroy a huge part of our economy. RepowerAmerica.com may as well be DestroyAmerica.com. If you want your electric bill to increase exponentially over the next 10 years and put millions of people out of work, then this is the organization for you. One blast from a volcanic eruption produces more carbon that we could dream of producing in our measly little power plants and automobiles. How vein are we to believe we could destroy God's creation. If you want to believe in common sense and preserve what has made this country great then you need to be careful with this organization or any other green organization that is out there.


I am not for pollution. Acid Rain was a real affect of dirty smokestacks 40 years ago. The new plants produce a small fraction of the pollutants that once went out the smoke stack and recycle much of the byproducts that they have pulled out of the exhaust air, but what environmentalists want to do here is just wrong. Unfortunately our President Elect has said he has bought into this. Why? I have my suspicions and none of them preserve our way of life. I would suggest that you pray and call your congressmen as much as possible to keep this from becoming a reality.

If you want to wreck our countries economy, this is about the best way to do it. Everything we do uses energy, even the Internet uses a substantial amount of energy. If this plan is successful, energy prices will be too expensive to make automobiles, Electronics, Furniture, and the like. All this production will go overseas where more reasonable energy policy exists. What is scary is that I Googled this company an their is not one negative site. The deception continues. Don't be fooled.