VivaGOBSH of Waterville, ME There was no reason to remove my comments, except that they may have upset the poor, poor Republi-CONS in the room. The fact is that Republicans try to blame unions when they have negotiated absurd trade deals that put American car companies at a severe disadvantage. The Republican party has also protected greedy HMO's driving up health care costs. The American car worker has to pay far higher health care costs than their European and Asian counterparts. Does it also make sense for American CEO's to make 400 times what workers make? How about shipping American jobs overseas? In Asia and Europe, the average CEO makes 40 times what their workers make yet, Republicans are so, so focused on "unions." It clearly points out that Republicans care nothing for workers.report abuse

RinoLand of Winslow, ME It's really too bad that people like Nazi...ah..er...I mean Nasar, have to live in a world surrounded by so many small minded people.

I sure hope he makes a habit of writing more letters so we all can benefit from his deep intellectual sophistication.report abuse

Going Rogue of Waterville, ME "like the trade deal with South Korea that only allows one American car into that country for every fourteen of their cars allowed into this market!"

I can't find where this was part of the actual deal... but Hyundai alone sold 772,500 cars in the US in 2007 while American manufacturers only sold 6,235 in South Korea, making the Hyundai/Big 3 deficit closer to 123/1.

While this is discouraging to say the least, you can't blame Koreans for favoring more-reliable, more economical Asian cars like Honda and Toyota. Also keep in mind that South Korea uses a progressive tax on imported autos to curb carbon emmissions. Surely you're not suggesting they cancel this effort, so what's the solution... Tax Hyundai and KIA in the same manner? I'm down with that.report abuse

tax payer77 of kingfield, ME z-fairer,

You best get used to standing in line at Wally world with the rest of the section 8 welfare cases. Without decent jobs, some of which are Union by the way, we will all be on the very crowded state of Maine welfare bus. Only problem is, everyone cannot ride the bus unless a few of us have jobsreport abuse