Internet Scout Project. American Indian Education Links. Digiteen Dream Team. Admit It: They Don’t Like Us. Commentary If you held a vote on helping the American auto industry, I’d bet Detroit would lose. My experience is that most Americans dislike Detroit and its three auto makers. Older folks have a grudge: They owned a Detroit car a couple decades ago. They had problems; the company didn’t care; the dealer didn’t care and they took a beating on the trade-in.
Detroit may be “born again,” but that doesn’t matter to millions of disaffected consumers: They were betrayed once and that was enough. Younger people just believe foreign brands have better quality. The fact that Americans actually buy more foreign brands is proof of the disdain our citizens have for Detroit’s offerings. And the typical American doesn’t feel Detroit auto workers’ pain. They remember stories of union workers laughing about how they deliberately left Coke bottles inside door panels. And they believe Detroit brought the troubles on itself, which is true, and don’t see why they, the taxpayers, should bail them out. Transplant » twitter is –