Hey, I thought dems were for the American working man, how can this be true?

Question

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,317728,00.html

OK, prove it wasn't a prius... I thought so a fact is a fact regardless of the source.

I am not pretending to care about anyone but myself... I am meerly asking about the fallacy of dems caring about anything other then politics.

Answer 1

Balanced Budget? I visited the grave of the last President to reduce the Total Federal Debt. Clinton's "surplus" did not count the Money taken the Social Security Trust Fund.

Answer 2

The Prius, the most popular gas-electric hybrid in the United States, gets a combined 46 mpg in city and highway driving. The Prius and the 2008 Honda Civic hybrid, which gets a combined 42 mpg, are the only two hybrids sold in the United States today that would meet the new mileage requirements set for 2020.

But I thought they were for Union WORKERS? Boy was I wrong.

Answer 3

"The Prius, the most popular gas-electric hybrid in the United States, gets a combined 46 mpg in city and highway driving. The Prius and the 2008 Honda Civic hybrid, which gets a combined 42 mpg, are the only two hybrids sold in the United States today that would meet the new mileage requirements set for 2020."

Perhaps that is why.

Answer 4

What does driving a Prius have to do with American auto workers? Is buying any foreign product a slap in the face of domestic workers?

If American auto makers want to tap into the efficiency market they can do so. It has absolutely nothing to do with the workers, just the cars.

Answer 5

Neither Democrat or Republican have strengthen the protection the US worker.

This one has been weakened through the years it is called The Wagner-Connery Act

The National Labor Relations Act (or Wagner Act) is a 1935 United States federal law that protects the rights of most workers in the private sector to organize labor unions, to engage in collective bargaining, and to take part in strikes and other forms of concerted activity in support of their demands.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagner_Act


http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=Max%2BRafael%2BWaller&ei=UTF-8&y=Search&fr=yfp-t-501&xargs=0&pstart=1&b=1

Answer 6

I thought it was Republicans that where rooting for "free trade"?
As your type always says, if Americans cars where sold for a cheaper price, more people would buy them.
Now you want to cry.

it appears toyota hires many Americans in America.

Toyota Motor Corp. produced more than 1 million vehicles at its North American assembly plants last year, and the Japanese automaker isn't slowing down.
Fujio Cho, TMC president, said Tuesday during a brief stop at Toyota's North American manufacturing headquarters in Erlanger that his company, now this country's fourth-largest automaker, will continue to produce as many vehicles in the United States it can sell.
“Our policy is to make vehicles that customers want. As Toyota's sales in the U.S. increase, so our local production will increase, too,” he said through an interpreter.
http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2000/05/24/fin_toyota_boss.html

I'm not really in favor of it, but it is your type, that keeps saying they make sooo many of them here.

Maybe they were trying to impress the republicans, by using something that wasn't American union made.

Answer 7

Toyota manufactures quite a few cars right here in the United States. Maybe if the American car companies designed a halfway decent car, then Toyota wouldn't be kicking the bejesus out of them. I thought you neocons were all about free market competition?

Answer 8

Most Japanese cars sold in the USA are make here in the USA. They just aren't union made (that's why they are so much cheaper). All the big 3 American auto makers need to do to be competitive again is get rid of the unions. But since the union leadership owns a big piece of the Democratic party anything they want the Dems will push for.

The other big owner of the Dems is the insurance companies. Why else would they have passed all the laws that only benefit insurers?

Answer 9

They still are , But they have not had much a chance in the last 10 yrs . Think about how many jobs was lost in the last 10 yrs auto industries have been so bad . Do you think we will ever have a balance budget again. And guess who did that ? How soon we forget.

Answer 10

Congradulations some one has woken up to the fact now take the next step and try to understand neither party has the interest of the American working/tax paying citizen.