Hugh Hewitt Calls for Boycott of General Motors: I Tend to Agree

Hey I seem to be out in front of trend again. In this case it is a brewing boycott of General Motors and the unfair bailout where secured bondholders were robbed so that the US Government, Canada, and the UAW could control a private company.

But there isn't any alternative, every dollar spent with GM is a dollar spent against free enterprise. Every car or truck purchased from Government Motors is one not purchased from a private car company that competes fairly against all other car companies. Many are rightly afraid that the government will do to automobile production what it has done for Amtrack and the Postal Service, but the risk is much greater than a federally mandated lemon.

I agree that anyone that wants to buy an American car while GM is majority owned by the Feds should buy a Ford. It is just that simple. If you object to the idea of a Government Motors then it is time to "Drive the Ford Difference." That also means when you rent a car you ask for a Ford as well. Buying or even driving a government-made GM is dooming Ford and making the auto choice in the US only between foreign cars (which will still be well made) and government cars (which will be like Amtrack.)

The Soviets didn't have a choice of what government owned car company to buy a car from. We still have Ford. They are one car company that isn't controlled by Unions, Canada, some 31 year old kid with his first government job named Brian Deese, or some other Beltway insider that doesn't know a balance sheet from a bed sheet.

You wouldn't really be hurting the workers at GM because they are now employees of the US government and are thus basically exempt from firing. About the only thing you will have to worry about is the inflation caused by the government shoveling more money into GM to keep churning out the Chevy Amtrack or new Dodge SPA (Socialist People's Automobile.)

Plus owning a GM car might doom you to going to the Department of Motor Vehicles for parts and service. Now that is a dystopian future that will keep me in a Ford or a Import car for the rest of my life.