Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Auto Crash 2008

There is a cause an effect for the world-wide auto industry.
If they drop interest rates to rock bottom then you will get a surge in car sales. That is what happened since 2001. Then the housing market crashes, and all of those new cars that were bought on "home equity" needed to be sold ASAP. Then top it off with a gas crisis that dropped the "used SUV" market so low that people are snatching up their favorite Hummers for 1/3 the cost. Why by a SUV at full price when you can get a perfect used one for way below blue book. Ford and Chevy sell the bigger cars, well, when the gas crisis hit the first cars to go were the Fords, Chevys, and those hemi Dodges. There are so many used cars out there right now at great prices. The internet has destroyed new car sales as well. Websites like E-bay, Craigslist and Car Trader has taken the worries out of selling a car. It used to be expensive to put your car in the newspaper, now it is free, and you get as many pictures as you want. That makes it unfair to the automakers. Right now I can either get a 2003 BMW for $12K or a brand new 2009 Cavalier...yah, let me think that one over...

A REAL JOB STIMULUS PLAN

A REAL JOB STIMULUS PLAN



I am an engineer with several inventions, of which one I have a patent on. When the time of the year came in 2005, I stood in line with a thousand other inventors in San Francisco for a chance to make their invention a reality.

The crowd was a bunch of fascinating people with ideas for all kinds of great inventions, inventions that would work if they were only given the chance. This was of course the TV show “American Inventor.” A show that gave one person out of several thousand a fraction of the amount of money required to start a business to make their product.

If you take those people and give them the funds to create and market their inventions, you will see millions of jobs created! All across America there are people with inventions which, if they had the funds, would create manufacturing jobs in their area to build their dream!

I was one of those guys that had a great product, I submitted the design to over 6 companies, paid thousands of dollars for a prototype, and is left with nothing but rejection from the USA manufacturing companies. They don’t care about making your product because it is not per say a heart valve they make for $10 and sell for $750. I also found out that 85% of the products on the shelf, where my invention would sit (if it had been given the green light), were made in China.

Then I did my own estimation. What would it take to get every one of these people in line up and running? What if each one of these individuals would be given $1,000,000 to start their product development? The stimulus plan would need $1 billion of the $900 billion for the thousand people in that line of inventors. Each inventor, to get there project going, would need to hire drafters, design manufacturers, design injection molds, buy milling machines for the molds, hire an assembly crew, a packaging crew, a marketing crew, telemarketers, infomercials, the list of jobs created for one persons design is vast!

The stimulus plan is not working, because the wrong people are getting the money. You can’t give $100 million to a government branch, they will make one performance art center in a town and that will hire 50 people for nine months, then the project is built. I know this because I am the cost estimator for these projects. If you give the money to the government, there will be a laundry list of waste that doesn’t create anything but larger government down the road.

There needs to be invention and ingenuity that is promoted in this package! Money that goes toward building new technologies and giving those with real dreams and ideas to get their product out on the market! This is what America was built on! This is what can change America!

Bring back the design. Bring back the manufacturing. Bring back the marketing. And you will bring back the jobs!