Would You Drive an American Car?

Now that I own a car company with the rest of my fellow Americans, I'm wondering, would you buy one?

Scrippsie Katherine Perry says she's ambivalent, which seems pretty sensible to me. Here she is in Fox News.

Katherine Perry, a 24-year-old recent graduate of Scripps College in Claremont, Calif., would put her pennies elsewhere. She currently owns a Hyundai because the company offered the best warranty at the time of 10 years, 100,000 miles, but if she made enough money to afford a Prius she’d probably prefer a convertible or something that is more aesthetically pleasing, she said.

"When I have enough money to buy whatever car I want, I will probably pick one that looks good, drives fast, handles well, and gets good gas millage. I don't care about anything else, including whether or not it's foreign or American," Perry said.

My prediction is that the Democrats will raise tariffs against foreign made cars so as to make GM, etc. more palpable. You read it here first.

Tiananmen Square's Twentieth Anniversary

I know we're not supposed to talk about this in China or elsewhere. We wouldn't want the Chinese to stop buying our debt, after all. Google blocks the conversation and I'm reminded of what Tom Friedman of The New York Times once said: "A country that blocks the Internet will never be a super power." Let's hope he's right or it's going to be a very dark century, indeed.