No, I do mean the Big 3. I am talking about the States that are so dead set against a loan for the Big 3, but yet want to use subsidies to try to entice foreign automakers to open plants in their State. These are the very same States that need to TAKE more than they give in Federal dollars. Well, I say it is time we stopped subsidizing their lifestyles.

If Alambama ($1.63 for every $1 paid) , Kentucky ($1.51 per $1 paid) and Tennessee (a mere $1.21 per $1 paid) want to continue to thrive, let them do it on their own money. Why are we giving them money, they should either “evolve or die.” Sure, you can blame it on the fact that I am from New Jersey (which takes in $0.65 for every dollar, the lowest in the Nation), a State where we lost our last GM plant in 2005. But it is more than that.

These Senators want to play political games with people’s jobs, their lives, our economy with little more than a thinly veiled attack on the union workers, the union itself for daring to stand up for workers, and the Big 3 which don’t have factories in their States (well, except I believe Kentucky). They forget what it was like when they tried to throw hundreds of millions of dollars at Toyota in 2005, only to have Toyota opt instead to put the factory in Canada because, 1. Canada effectively subsidizes the workers with free healthcare, and the abysmal expense of having to train illiterate workers in Alabama.

Fine, if they want to play these games, then it is time to stop subsidizing their efforts. Let them find the money within their own budgets to try and lure jobs to their State rather than having them cripple American companies with my tax dollars.

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