I woke up yesterday morning and read the headline GM may go bankrupt. Excuse me, what did I just read? The first time I heard this I actually laughed at how ridiculous this sounded. Unfortunately this has become a reality that we must seriously understand. This is the very company that I have watched and loved since childhood. Come on, the old school Camaro, or the Trans Am, and of course the legendary Corvette! The Blazer, the Tahoe, the Yukon! The Silverado, the Avalanche the suburban, and of course Cadillac convertibles, trucks, and sedans, this is General Freeking Motors! Let’s not let this company go bankrupt, or let this legendary brand disappear. A bankruptcy would be yet another brutal blow to its ability to sell cars. Eventually the negative media needs to butt out and we need to see cars move. The frenzy of sensationalist media around a GM bankruptcy would cripple GM’s ability to sell cars.
As you look around our country we begin to realize just how regionalized this country has become. So many people rip on Detroit, the whole midwest and the big 3 with no mercy. It’s as if people have dreamed up this idea that a GM bankruptcy will not affect them, and it is indeed a dream to think those thoughts. Well I’m sorry if I am in the minority of people that not only still care about our American Automotive Heritage, but I live for it! I love American cars, and Trucks. Heck, I love cars, period. Since I have been a little boy I have loved seeing the new cars that Motown pumps out. I love seeing that new model truck and the ever so slight curves on the hood that a company tweaks in a given model change year. I love American Cars, and I love GM!
Oh how quickly we forget just how philanthropic this great company has been. GM has literally been one of the most philanthropic companies in the history of the world. They have single-handedly kept community not for profits and government private development authorities and so many more alive. They have sponsored cancer causes, Aids causes, and they have fed people all around the world. Now all of a sudden in a moment where the whole country is locked up in total fear thanks to our sensationalist media and a somber society, we want to abandon this company? I’m sorry but I will go down swinging before I sit back and watch this happen.
The thought of not driving my Silverado into my family’s deer camp, and not seeing Chevy Trucks and GMC trucks in the drive of our deer camp makes me sad. The thought of life without GM makes me sad. It should make our whole country sad, but apparently we have all lost our minds. We have obviously forgotten what this great company has done for us in America and how many of our fellow Americans rely on GM.
I know there are many that say we should allow GM to go bankrupt. Some even say that we should allow GM to go out of business, period the end. Surely nobody could be that out of touch with society and human decency, and the patriotic spirit that would always protect what is important to America. Have we become so regionalized that we have forgotten about what this company means to us in America?
– A concerned sportsman