I HAVE HAD IT!

On Tuesday I did some campaigning for David Magliulo who is running for Mayor of Sterling Heights. While passing out some literature to this one man, he criticized me for driving a foreign car. I knew he was bad news from the moment I saw him. He had this eternal ticked off look about him. When he mentioned about the car I drive, I told him that I'm sorry he felt that way and left. This has been going on for a while now. I think people are catching on to who I am and what I believe in. There were two other instances when union guys intimidated me (although indirectly) for driving a foreign car. The first came last year while I was running for the Charter Commission in the summer of 2008. Some guy placed a union bumper sticker on the back of my car. Then last winter, somebody placed a piece of paper saying 'buy American' on my front windshield. Okay, I get it! You want me to buy American. Now I hope to give my side of the story just to let you know that I'm not such a bad guy.

My car is a 1991 Toyota Celica with over 180,000 miles on it. It gets me to where I need to go, but I didn't buy it. My mother handed it down to me after she bought a Chrysler. This car is the first foreign car I've had. My first car was a 1994 Pontiac Grand Am. This proves that I have bought American. But my current car is all I have, and I'm flat broke just like everybody else. My car is all I have to my name, and I'm stuck with it.

But why should I buy an American car to begin with? Two out of 'The Big 3' are owned by the government, and we all know the horrific track record the government has in running and ruining everything like the Post Office, welfare, entitlement programs, education, and so on. And the other car company owns a football team, the Detroit Lions, that has lost 29 of its last 31 games. If I'm going to buy a new car, I'd like to see better performance than this. But this has nothing to do with just buying American. It has to do with union control. The unions run 'The Big 3.' And when we buy American cars, the unions take a lot of that money. And 99% of all political contributions from the unions go to the Democratic Party. In other words, you are making a de facto contribution to socialism when you buy American cars.

I hate being cajoled into buying something. If you Soviet Union thugs want me to buy American,
earn my trust! I have the right to make choices as an American because it is the American way.
Besides, the Democrats don't want us to drill for oil here in America. It would be pointless to buy an American car if I can't put American fuel in that car. I want to be inspired to buy American products, and you Soviet Union thugs are failing miserably in that category. And I don't want you to come anywhere near my car. It is mine. You don't inspire. You just intimidate. But I don't cave in to that. If just one person would come up to me and say, 'Mr. LaRouche, I would love for you to buy American cars because they are the best in the world. And we won't use your pay-
ments to advance a socialist agenda,' I might consider it. But for now, consider me a frustrated customer. 'Nuf said!

G.J. LaRouche
29 October 2009