To: manalagi who wrote (57739 ) 7/6/2009 2:52:25 PM From: tejek Read Replies (2) | Respond to I will be damned. You would prefer that we help the foreign companies grow in this country rather than our own. Are you an American citizen Foreign companies grow in this country? Are you aware that many parts of "domestic car companies" are built overseas hence depriving American labor to do the job? Are you aware that Toyota, Nissan, BMW, Honda, Hyundai have plants in the US, employing American workers? Or you think that Volvo that is Ford owned has pplants in the US? You would prefer FIAT coming to the US and exporting their small cars to the US while the cars are made by Italians, rather than Toyotas and Hondas have plants in Kentucky etc. I am for American made products, but you prefer products made outside American borders. Are you an American citizen? If mso, why do you prefer that foreign labors do the job for GM and Chrysler? As for Proposition 13, well, I am all for that. That is a good law. At first lawmakers were complaining that revenues would be cut. Yes, it was, but then the real estate boom in California produced a windfall in property taxes. Lawmakers then spent money like drunken sailors. Now, that real estate does not appreciate but rather decline in value, people asked for downward adjustment and receipts decline. No more caviars for those lawmakers, but rather have to get used to rice and beans. Good thing it will take 2/3 to repeal Prop 13. Let it stand for eternity.
