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Originally Posted by LARSONEM
Unfortunately, GM's problems began long before Rick Wagoner. For years GM was a big bureaucracy that could not move fast enough to get out of its own way. When they controlled market share, they didn't have to react quickly. They could have redundant product and divisions. In the beginning of Toyota, Honda, Nissian in this country, these companies were not a threat to GM. However as those companies produced product that was in demand, GM continued shooting themselves in the foot. Too many bean counters attempting to be involved in product development, when that should have been left to the engineering staff. I am not happy with GM's position today and I hope for the sake of this country, they can turn themselves around. I have always driven GM (with the exception of my Jeep Wrangler) and probably always will. GM has provided jobs for our family over the years, through a factory or a dealership. It amazes me the people who still have no faith, that this giant and once great company can turn around and be the envy of the automobile industry again.
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Well put.
People forget that manufacturing is a defense issue, it's a strategic necessity for the nation's survival.
We would indeed have been fighting off the Japanese and Germans in the hills, with our 30.06s and 30-30s in 1942 if GM, Ford, and Chrysler did not exist. The miracles of wartime production these and other corporations like our steel mills--now mostly DOA--created a force for freedom that could not be stopped.
And so today we are free to have this discussion, instead of living under brutal, totalitarian German and Japanese masters.
The overeducated/underintelligent
America-sucks New World Order products of the Harvard-Yale Axis who turn up their noses at all things American think we can live in a "service industry" age.
Smart as they think they are, they apparently don't know that someone has to actually produce things to support "service."
Since the Japanese government aids their auto industry, and restricts ours from entry there, I would say
turnabout is certainly fair play.
This is something one or both presidential candidates will probably get aboard with, if their handlers feed them the right trail mix some morning.