NOTE TO THE AMERICAN AUTO INDUSTRY

Dear Mr. CEO of GM, Chrysler, Ford,

The bottom line of your current situation is this: If you had been building vehicles with comparable quality to those of Honda, Toyota, and Nissan you wouldn't be having the problems you are. GM, your last CEO's ad about quality says it all. "If you don't like your new GM car you can return it within the first 90 days".

Yeah right, the first 3 months is a real quality indicator. What about 2,3,4,5 years down the road when the imported stuff hasn't required anything but oil changes and your junk needed thousands of dollars worth of repairs?????

You are getting exactly what you deserve for your build it cheaper - planned obsolescence engineering.

So, now that we, the American taxpayer, own a large part of you, we want you to focus on real quality instead of how much your bonus is going to be this year!!!

Here is a quote from me, your blogger, back around 2000 or 01: "When a corporation or company starts running their business based on this quarter's profit or loss, this year's profit or loss, and their stock price, they make short sighted decisions that may help the current bottom line, but hurts them in the long run". My bosses answer? "When you're the CEO you can run this company however you want to."

Imagine the satisfaction I got when this was repeated almost word for word several months later by Alan Greenspan, who was the head of the Federal Reserve at the time.

Strive to make a difference in our country, and therefore your life,
Dumb Farmer (Who drives an American made vehicle)