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Originally Posted by pound
The big three produce X number of cars per year. That means there is consumer demand to buy X number of cars. There is also a minimum amount of labor required to produce those cars. If one of more of the big three go away people will still want to buy X number of cars. Someone else foreign or domestic will step up to meet the demand for these vehicles and they will need to hire people to do it and will need to buy parts from suppliers. Just because a company is closing its doors doesn't mean there is no demand for products that they sell. Take a look at the airlines. Plenty of them have gone under, and their competitors filled the demand for flights and had to hire people to provide those flights. Also, I'm not retarded.  |
Everyone keeps comparing the Airlines to the Big 3.
This would be like Boeing and General Dynamics going out of business, not Conti, American or United.
The airlines sell a service. Services can be recreated elsewhere.
If you stop production of the actual air planes themselves, then where is American gunna be able to purchase it? What about the suppliers to Boeing? What abotu the military implications? What about the steel mill workers who supply the metals for airplanes?
The Big 3 going under would put this country into an economic tail spin farther and faster then it is in now. That would mean that more people would have less money to buy things, be it that the other import automakers can kieep up or not.
People are also not going to just be honky dorry about this either. There will be a massive, probably mostly from the mid west, hatred for import auto companies. Dont be upset if you drive a Camry in kansas city, and you come out to a smoldering wreck.