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That's exactly why I'm scratching my head listening to Obama talking about healtcare reform.

:D This company is toast. The only thing yet to be determined is how much government money is sunk into this black hole before the US moves towards fiscal conservatism.

I love watching people freak out when they don't get their food!!!! It's like that basic human instinct to survive kicks in and people lose their heads. Hell, half of them are one 8-piece away from the ER and they're still pissed.

This problem will eventually take care of itself, but unfortunately in the mean time, the US tax payer will offset the structural problems with this industry. The fact is there are WAY too many manufacturers, brands, models and dealers to fit the lower demand. If Ford and GM each...

Not really, as many of the questions were regarding the economy and spending....

Who said that I'm shorting anything dumbass? Also, you're talking about two seperate issues. I believe the market might do very well short to medium term, considering we are selling out our future to keep consumers speding right now. All of this borrowed money will be paid back somehow...

Oh, do you not see anything wrong with the money that is being spent? And Obama wants to add free health care into the mix?? Where will this money come from? Oh, that's right.... it comes from future productivity.

I was speaking with someone who is fairly high up in one of the foreign company's US headquarters recently. She told me that they expect that between 50-65% of all dealers in the US (domestic and foreign) will close in the coming years. There has been a paradigm shift in people's mindset as...

If the country goes the way of Obama, then the beginning of the end is surely here. If his radical spending (Bush's spending which was complained about is a drop in the bucket) pushes people to take action, then we could buy ourselves another 20 years or so before we face a similar "do or die"...

Well, all I have to go on is history and so far, the US always comes back after looking into the abyss. Hopefully that trend continues, but it's certainly not guaranteed.

Yes they do. It's easy to fall into the trap of thinking we're about to collapse though. I have to fight these feelings myself and I'm generally pretty positive about the US.

That pretty well sums it up I guess. My only hope is that the American electorate has been pushed to their breaking point and people will wake up and find this unacceptable (both parties are to blame).

It's very easy (I find myself doing it too) to look at all of the lazy, incompetent, corrupt people around you including politicians, every sector of business, all sectors of government and everyday Joe Sixpacks........and think these people are f*cking it up. That leads you to think all of...

Is this really surprising though? This money has to come from somewhere regardless. Either you pay for it with cash reserves, raise taxes or by printing money (which means we pay for it via inflation). In any event, we pay. Do I have that right?

Not only are consumers getting tight with their cash, but I've seen first hand many major medical, biotech, pharmaceutical companines that dramatically changing the way they look at expenses and spending in general. This thing isn't over yet, and we are watching a paradigm shift, in my...

I read the book.....I'm very conservative.......the book was definitely not a left leaning book overall and probably tended to go towards conservatism, IMO.

Scientists make a lot of claims and 99.9% of them end up being wrong. Hopefully this one works out.

That's why these morons clamoring for European style socialism drive me crazy. These countries that already have this style of government are in just as much if not deeper sh*t than we are. These types of bubbles/corrections/depressions are only made worse by governmental spending and...

Government is completely out of control at all levels, IMO. They will push rates until there is a fiscally conservative revolt.

Thanks, I'll look into that...