{"id":173,"date":"2008-11-17T07:33:17","date_gmt":"2008-11-17T11:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/2008\/11\/17\/disingenuity\/"},"modified":"2008-11-17T07:33:17","modified_gmt":"2008-11-17T11:33:17","slug":"disingenuity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=173","title":{"rendered":"disingenuity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read this Reuters <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/topNews\/idUSTRE4AG0Y620081117?\">story<\/a> today on Americans being against helping Detroit&#8217;s Big Three.<\/p>\n<p>This is the self-same America that just authorized $700 billion (with a &#8220;B&#8221;!) dollars to bail-out struggling financial services companies.<\/p>\n<p>Now $25 billion is too much to help keep hundreds of thousands of jobs around?<\/p>\n<p>That seems to be a double standard. If it&#8217;s OK to bail-out the finservs, then it&#8217;s OK to bailout the auto makers. If it&#8217;s NOT OK to bailout the automakers, then those finserv bail-out funds should be revoked.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, while I am a Ford Guy\u2122, I don&#8217;t want to see the government providing aid to anyone that&#8217;s made bad business decisions. If they fouled themselves selling things people [apparently] don&#8217;t want, or for more than those people are willing to pay, they need to cut prices, change manufacturing, introduce new models, something.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m in London currently, and have seen a host of Ford vehicles I&#8217;ve not seen stateside. Coupes, sedans, minivans &#8211; all cruising around the city, with the drivers [apparently] happy. Certainly it can&#8217;t be <strong>THAT<\/strong> difficult to switch what side the steering wheel is on to bring all those models to the US?<\/p>\n<p>If fuel economy is why people buy the Japanese brands, then bring the fuel-efficient Euro models to the states.<\/p>\n<p>Ford &#8211; and I presume the others, but haven&#8217;t noticed them here yet &#8211; needs to do next-to-nothing to get all these cars to consumers in the States.<\/p>\n<p>No government hand-out &#8211; just a new manufacturing theory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read this Reuters story today on Americans being against helping Detroit&#8217;s Big Three. This is the self-same America that just authorized $700 billion (with a &#8220;B&#8221;!) dollars to bail-out struggling financial services companies. Now $25 billion is too much to help keep hundreds of thousands of jobs around? That seems to be a double &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=173\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">disingenuity<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,22,33],"tags":[],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-ideas","category-politics"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=173"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}