America makes good trucks, but unfortunately for American car companies, they are set up to build those trucks.  GM has been racing (no pun intended) to get cars that people actually want to buy into the market.  Since no one is buying trucks (and if you recall GM makes a good deal of trucks) they are attempting to step up production of small cars.  The most recent attempt to crank out more fuel efficient cars has come in the form of extra shifts at an Ohio GM plant.

The “keep the plants” open mentality seems to be across the board, with Ford adopting a similar strategy.  Perhaps this is why Ford, GM, and Chrysler want $50 billion from us, the tax payers.  They want us to pay their workers to stay some extra hours and put out a few more small cars for them.  This all just seems like “too little, too late.”  Why are American car companies never ahead of the curve?  A friend of mine had a good idea as to why.  Her family hails from Michigan, and her father, rather then staying to work at a tire factory, took off to join the Army and escape Detroit.  This is what is happening across the board.  The labor unions make it impossible for the car companies to hire anyone, and all the bright, talented people in the state leave.  If you can’t get a job, and the car companies can’t change with the times (since it is still pro-union turn of the century thinking that prevails) who can blame them for leaving?  Until the employment/union structure changes, nothing else will change for the better.

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