Video: Indiana Project Ed Mcnamara
By Cars.com Editors
May 14, 2009
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Cars.com interviews Ed Mcnamara from the Indiana project.
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(upbeat music) Hummer as a neighbor has been a very good neighbor because it brought many, many jobs to the area, which has created more business for all of our businesses around here.
And even though some of them may live an hour or two hours away, they do a lot of their shopping close to the plant on the way home or on the way in. Well, it plays out in the amount of purchases that get made. It plays out in the amount of people who now have buying power to get more things. It plays out in the automotive industry or with trucks and that stuff with people buying more of upgrading themselves because they know they've got a job and they know the job is paying them well, and they can afford all of these things now. I don't hear anything about people in town concerned about the plan or concerned about the commercial side, let's put it that way. I am not sure that there's a lot of people that realize the impact to the commercial side. I really don't think there is. I think everybody is gauging it on the military side and the military side keeps going because most of what you hear in town is about the military side. If we have visitors from Congress or they're all visiting the military side. I think the most of the people on the commercial side or the big majority of them, let's say that, think that they will always have a job anyway, because they can simply go back to the military side. I don't think the employees would care as much, but the only thing I would be thinking about is what the United States government does and what their rules and regulations then become because you just went through, if you read the papers on the last aircraft contract, that one company went with a foreign country as their partner and put in a bid. And there was an uproar in this country. I would say that 25 or 30 years ago, if it was a foreign country coming in to hit, there would be the biggest step roll you've ever seen. I think that the big three or automotive car makers in general have got to look at what the Japanese do and what the Japanese did. The Japanese put out cars that were actually lowering costs, better in mileage, fewer colors, fewer combinations, and American cars just kept on going and going and going, and they wanted everybody in the Cadillac and they wanted everybody in this big, big vehicle. And all of a sudden, the big, big vehicles and gas mileage became a major problem. (upbeat music) I don't think it's going to affect us. It'll affect us some, but I don't think it's going to affect us that much. I think with the military side, I think we had more of our customers are from the military side. I think the overall community, yes, you will get affected because that's a lot of money being pulled out of the community. (upbeat music)
