What America Needs: A Volkswagen

I was just reading up on how the United States is probably going to be bailing out, again, Chrysler because we don't want to lose more jobs. I'm sorry, but at some point you need to cut the cord and just let the company fail on its own. We're holding up a dying company model because we're afraid of losing jobs, jobs that are designed to create a product that nobody wants to buy. Let's face it. Chrysler stopped making viable cars a long time ago. Even Ford and GM have started to realize they're not as indestructible as they thought they were, and they're starting to make more useful cars (after decades of forcing suvs and mini-tanks down our throats).

So, what's the solution? Let Chrysler fail? Yes, kind of.

We should let Chrysler fail and then buy up the infrastructure used to make their cars. Then nationalize it. And create our own Volkswagen.

You see, back during the era of Nazi Germany, the Germans did one thing right. They invented Volkswagon, a company that was designed to give both jobs and cars to the common people of Germany. It also made military vehicles that they used to run over most of Europe, and but let's just kind of pretend that didn't happen, because not all history has to repeat itself. I mean, if we create a Volkswagen of our own, that doesn't mean we have to run over Canada and Mexico, no matter how appealing those ideas might be. Okay, I don't want to attack Mexico. All right, I don't want to attack Canada either; they're just so much fun to make fun of, even though they are our northern friends. Besides, we'd never be able to live without Canadian bacon.

But I see this as a win-win situation. We could start making our own version of Volkswagen back in the states, in Michigan, right where all those people keep losing their jobs. And the government would own the contracts. And we'd sell the cars, VERY CHEAPLY, to the American people. We could also make nothing but hybrids. Lots of them. And possibly cars that fly, because dammit, we were promised cars that would fly! Oh sorry, kind of getting off topic here.

This proposal would put people back to work, and it would actually benefit Ford and GM because it would force them to compete with a company that's owned by the government. That means they have to be efficient. Nationalizing the post office didn't do away with alternatives. As a matter of fact, FedEx and UPS do quite well on their own, even though they were invented AFTER the post office was nationalized. You could even say they're doing better than the post office. And that would be the goal. To do BETTER than the government, which if you're a Republican that would be a great thing. If you're a Democrat, you can be for this because you like government, and it would be in your best interest to make the government auto industry as efficient as possible.

This would spur competition between government and private industry. As long as we don't get stupid and use government laws to hurt the private industry competition, we might actually grow the competition and both would compete well with each other. And one day, if the Republicans ever figure out what they're doing and stop listening to Rush and Coulter, perhaps they might realize how to spin off the government company, and our Volkswagen company can survive on its own alongside Ford and GM, if they manage to survive themselves.

The business model, as is, isn't working right now. We need to do something to make things happen. We have too many naysayers who complain about everything and no one who wants to do anything to shake things up. We put a new president and party in office to shake things up, so let's do that.

And then we can all take coast trips in our new Volkswagen bug (named something else, obviously for reasons of patent and trademark infringement lawsuits), knowing that we did something to make America better. Anything else would be unpatriotic.

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