Comments on: American Industry: Saddle Up

By: Web tricks

Web tricks — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 17:02:46 +0000

I couldn’t agree with you more..

By: La thailande

La thailande — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 20:16:45 +0000

An all round good piece..

By: Corporation

Corporation — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 04:53:27 +0000

Extraordinarily well executed read!!

By: Jesse dziedzic

Jesse dziedzic — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 13:50:55 +0000

This makes perfect sense to me…

By: Zeke

Zeke — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 03:33:52 +0000

“The greens’ efforts to drag us back to the false utopia of deprivation”

Well put.

By: Clayton E. Cramer

Clayton E. Cramer — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:05:54 +0000

The problem is that most businessmen, at least once they get above a certain size, are pretty committed leftists (or more accurately, fascists in Birkenstocks).

By: Old Soldier

Old Soldier — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:26:21 +0000

Eric – Government is the biggest customer in the country. Most business leaders aren’t brave enough or stupid enough to take them on.

By: Kay

Kay — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:06:50 +0000

Brian, that’s the power of fleet sales…Even Lyons of FoMoCo congratulated this achievement by GM (while Ford was downsizing their company for inevitable recession 2 years ago)-for being the number one manufacturer of rental cars in the world…

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 03:47:27 +0000

GM has some very advanced state of the art plants which are as good or better than anything their competition has, the problem is the plants are located outside of the USA, because to construct such a plant within the US would put lots of UAW workers out work. Dont assume that the GM management doesnt know how to compete, the problem is they are trying to compete when their hands are tied. GM hasnt been allowed by the government to run their plants autonomously for decades.
The media reports that GM produces cars no one wants is lunacy. The are the 2nd largest producer of vehicles in the world last I checked… Toyota only just recently overtook them.

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 03:08:20 +0000

I’ve often complained that business, with the exception of small business, doesn’t take a more active role in politics. I used to work for FedEx and Fred Smith wojld often complain loudly about the mess Washington made of the economy but Fred would NEVER talk to FedEx employees and customers about the impact of anti-business legislation. If I were Fred I would have actively talked to my employees about the negative impact an Obama administration would have on FedEx and by extension their jobs.
Instead of quietly retreating offshore, stalling growth, laying people off or sleeping with the enemy (GE, Duke Energy) business needs to aggressively confront the socialist politicians who don’t seem to have any clue as to where the money for their social programs comes from. I simply cannot understand how a company’s employees vote for politicians whose agendas are harmful to their employers. Heck, just look at what the UAW did to Detroit.