{"id":8185,"date":"2011-08-23T20:21:43","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T00:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henrypayne.com\/?p=8185"},"modified":"2011-08-23T20:21:43","modified_gmt":"2011-08-24T00:21:43","slug":"payne-detroit-maserati-truck-exporter-to-the-world-the-michigan-view-08-23-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/2011\/08\/payne-detroit-maserati-truck-exporter-to-the-world-the-michigan-view-08-23-11","title":{"rendered":"Payne: Detroit, Maserati truck exporter to the world (the Michigan View 08.23.11)"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2009, Barack Obama picked Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne to take over Chrysler – for free. The terms?\u00a0Import the 40 MPG<\/a> Fiat 500 in order to educate Detroit’s heathens on how to make a fuel-efficient small car.<\/p>\n

Two years later, Marchionne is poised to announce that Fiat will export a Detroit-made Maserati SUV to the world.<\/p>\n

The extraordinary turnabout is a testimony to Marchionne’s smarts and Obama’s blind green ideology. The Fiat owner has learned that Detroit makes the best trucks in the world ” so good, in fact, that the Chrysler Cherokee will be the platform for the iconic Maserati brand as it exports big-margin SUVs around the globe.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Fiat cannot make Obama’s little 500 affordably in the U.S. with UAW labor. It is assembled in Mexico. The Maserati truck ” a vehicle class publicly despised by Obama ” will be built right in downtown Detroit employing UAW workers, the very workers Obama claims to represent.<\/p>\n

Oh, the irony.<\/p>\n

“It’s more jobs for America,”\u00a0thrilled<\/a> UAW President Bob King on the news that the Maserati SUV will be a global export. “It’s more jobs for the Detroit community. It’s more jobs for Michigan and Ohio – for the whole Midwest. It’s great news.”<\/p>\n

But if Brarack Obama had his way, there would be no Maserati SUV. There would be only Mexican-made tin cans. You can’t make this stuff up.<\/p>\n

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In 2009, Barack Obama picked Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne to take over Chrysler – for free. The terms?\u00a0Import the 40 MPG Fiat 500 in order to educate Detroit’s heathens on how to make a fuel-efficient small car. Two years later, Marchionne is poised to announce that Fiat will export a Detroit-made Maserati SUV to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,87],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8185"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8185"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8187,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8185\/revisions\/8187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}