Now there’s another reason for NASCAR fans to hate Kyle Busch.
Unfortunately there is now a reason to hate Denny Hamlin, Joey Logano, Micheal Waltrip, David Ruetimann, Brian Vickers, Scott Speed, Marcos Ambrose and Jeremy Mayfield.
What do all of those drivers have in common? They all drive Toyota’s, that’s what!
With President Obama announcing that GM and Chrysler would not be receiving anymore bailout money because he was not satisfied with their re-organization plans, it makes me wonder just how some people are going to react.
Well I’ve already seen a taste of what some of the reaction is like, and it is not good. These are some of the comments that I found at Newsvine:
Are you kidding me. As a GM worker what should my pay be. Have you ever worked in a factory when it’s 110 degrees outside. And as for most GM parts are foreign made you are wrong. GM has the lowest forien content among any other manufacturer. I feel the gov’t is leaving the blue collor worker hanging while it gives AIG and other finacial instutuituions money for bonuses. I hope everybody who voted for the Masiah is happy. Hail Obama
Oh cry me a river hoss. I am a self employed construction worker who works in the most hot and humid working conditions. My wife works in a factory in the same conditions as you. She makes 16.50 an hour and doesn’t have near the benefits you do. But, she is working full time, and has never been laid off, and her company has never asked to be bailed out. I don’t know if this is true or not but I heard $1500 of every vehicle goes to pay for the retired workers health plan. Instead of shoehorning money out my pockets for bailouts, the UAW could back off a bit so that a once great enterprise can stay in business and you can keep your job.
Hoss32,
INdeed I have, worked for GE for a number of years, and union negotiations, the wages were pretty good, but not good enough according to the union, we could get more. Now the plants which took up several city blocks are all gone, and houses stand where I once did to do my work. And we built things that were and still are very much in demand, Electrical transformers, traffic signals, baseboard heaters, and ballast’s for lighting systems, all still in demand, but not from that plant.
I would love to see nothing more then you out of job.
That last comment is the most unpatriotic thing I have ever seen or read in my life! What kind of a person do you have to be to wish that someone, ANYONE would lose their job. What Jolie-884782 doesn’t get is that it doesn’t stop with the loss of a job. What Jolie-884782 is saying is that they want everyone at GM, Ford and Chrysler to lose their jobs, to lose their health insurance, to lose their homes, for their children to go hungry and for their loved ones to be put in harm’s way. That is what Jolie-884782 is really saying. What kind of a person do you have to be to actually wish that on innocent children?
Actually you don’t have to be a person – you just have to be a monster.
There’s a lot more that I found but I really don’t want to promote the schadenfreude that’s going on over there right now. I guess what really amazes me is that there are so many people in this country who are willing to jump up and down, dance a jig, and basically piss on the graves of blue-collar workers – usually all at the same time.
What a lot of people don’t get is what they are truly wishing for is for misfortune to befall total strangers who have never harmed them or their loved ones. Most of them only want to support their families, stay in their homes and keep their children warm, fed and safe. Why do some people seem to have a problem with that? I could spend a lifetime trying to figure out that answer, but it would take a philosipher who is wiser than you or I to figure it out so I won’t even go down that road.
So what does this mean to us? What does this mean to the workers who are already unemployed, underemployed and underutilized?
It means trouble, that’s what!
It means less jobs for us to apply to and the possibility that more people from the auto industry will be joining us at the local food bank. I’m not just talking about the assembly line workers that GM and Chrysler may let go, I’m talking about the people who work for their suppliers. See, if GM and Chrysler go down there is not going to be a big demand for parts, and if there isn’t a demand for parts then those parts companies are going to have to cut some of their employees loose. That means more unemployment all the way around.
Yeah I can hear some of you anti-American-worker, pro-cheap-crap-from-China-that-you-can-buy-at-WalMart-so-that-American-workers-get-fired dumbasses working it right now: “Yeah good, screw GM and Chrysler! Screw the UAW! Toyota rules baby! Kyle Busch rules! WHOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!”
Dial it down a little bit Cletus! If there are very few GM cars or Chrysler cars to be found, what makes you think that people are all of a sudden going to start buying Toyota’s?
They’re not! They are going to hang onto their Chevy’s, Ford’s, Chrysler’s, Saturn’s, Jeep’s, Mercury’s, Buick’s, Pontiac’s, Lincoln’s, Volvo’s and Dodge’s for as long as they can out of principle. They are not going to go out and trade in their American cars for a Toyota, Honda, Mitsubishi, Hyundai, Volkswagen, Lexus, Audi, BMW, Mercedes, Nissan, Suzuki, Mazda or Subaru. They are going to be more likely to run those cars off the road into a ditch then drive them!
And that’s one of my fears now. I am afraid that now we are going to hear stories of possible backlash against foreign car manufacturers and their owners, if not against the dealerships themselves. Remember a few years ago that there were some Hummer lots in SoCal that were being vandalized? There were some Environmental Terrorists who were going onto the lot at night, torching the vehicles and vandalizing the showrooms. What I’m afraid of is that we will now be hearing reports of the same thing happening at Toyota, Honda or BMW lots. I’m afraid that we are now going to hear reports of road-rage incidents against drivers of Hyundai’s, Nissan’s and Mazda’s being driven into a ditch by someone driving a Chevy, Ford or Dodge truck that’s three times their size.
I’m really hoping that we don’t see this because that really is not helping those companies, nor does it help the people who are either out of work or afraid that soon they will be out of work.
And what does this all mean for NASCAR? Does this mean that support for the teams is going to evaporate overnight? Personally I don’t want to see Dale Earnhardt Jr. behind the wheel of a Honda. I mean it is bad enough that Danica Patrick has to drive one in the Indy League, but I don’t want to see Honda, Mazda or Nissan at Talladega – that’s just wrong!
There is one thing we can hope for though – we can all pull for Chevy, Ford and Dodge to keep winning in NASCAR – like what happened yesterday. Did anyone see the last 20 laps of that race at Martinsville? Denny Hamlin (Toyota) looked like he was going to win another race in his home state, until Jimmy Johnson (Chevy) got up behind him, got his nose on his left quarter-panel and muscled his way into the lead and got the win.
If that’s not a metaphor for what might happen next I don’t know what is.
But here’s something else to consider:
Toyota came in second in the race and placed four cars in the top-20. After that it really dropped off because the cars that came in 38th – 43rd place…all Toyotas. Out of the 14 Toyotas that were entered in the race, only 5 placed in the top-25. How many did Chevy place in the top-10?
Seven.
Methinks that is a good omen right there!!!
Look at the who the points leaders are right now: Jeff Gordon (Chevy), Clint Bowyer (Chevy), Kurt Busch (Dodge), Jimmy Johnson (Chevy), Denny Hamlin (Toyota), Kyle Busch (Toyota), Tony Stewart (Chevy), Carl Edwards (Ford), Kasey Kahne (Dodge), Kevin Hervick (Chevy), David Reutimann (Toyota) and Matt Kenseth (Ford). Out of the top-12, 75% of the cars are American manufacturers.
Tell a NASCAR fan from the South that Japan makes a better car and that GM and Chrysler deserve to go out of business and you will be lucky if the only thing they will do is spit in your face.
That’s before they drive off in their Chevy Truck with their #3 sticker on the back window.
Thank the Unions for the demise of the Auto Industry. It just shows the gall of a group of people who think that balancing the budget is the responsibility of “someone else.”
And just think, the Unions are pushing “Card Check” so they can go in and ruin other industries as well. The Unions, at one time were a good thing for workers in this country. Now, that is no longer the case.