Comments on: Michael Moore Has Plans for GM

By: vivo

vivo — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:34:21 +0000

The problem with the auto industry is that if you build what people want you may be building the wrong things. You need to be flexible and quick to correct your mistakes. That’s no easy task for such a complex business.

One of the solutions is smart engineering design. People are going to buy the best available design. Look at computers. They get better all the time and you don’t go asking people about what’s best, you design it, look at Apple.

The brain power is there, what we need is leadership and great management. Do they teach that in school?

By: Joe Bison

Joe Bison — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:23:52 +0000

Just remember that state control socialists
such as Moore see things as enhancing central
control or not. As morally superior beings
they know what is best for you.

Automobiles-personal freedom of mobility choice
and free enterprise-bad
Guns in private hands-possible challenge to
state authority and dictates in the future-
very very bad
Abortion/Gay issues-destroy traditional
Christianity as a moral competitor to the
state-good for now
Powerful unions-undermine free enterprise-
good for now(will deal with later-remember
no real competitors to central authority)

The latter day Soviet Union is where control
freaks(never met a Marxist that wasn’t) want
to put you. But this time with better people
in control, Moore for example, things will
turn out right this time. Sounds like a
good gamble doesn’t it? What’s the worst that
could happen? As an ideologist with no
experience Moore sounds totally qualified.

By: Proud Infidel

Proud Infidel — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:13:24 +0000

The Michael Moores of the world will guarantee the following: Small, uncomfortable, under-powered, over-priced, unsafe, politically correct Obamamobiles and Goremobiles that no one will want or buy. I thought one of Fat Mike’s criticisms of GM was that they have made the wrong vehicles for years. So forcing the government and UAW-owned GM and Chrysler to manufacture more cars that no one wants will solve what? GM and Chrysler will prove to be nothing but endless money-holes for taxpayers until such time as the government/UAW butt out!!

By: Amitabha Mukhopadhyay

Amitabha Mukhopadhyay — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 04:44:08 +0000

It appears America is heading to a huge crisis from where it would be very difficult to come out. Five years down the line American economy would be a much smaller one with permanent unemployment to great chunk of its working population. All these happened because of wrong and romantic approach to problems that could easily be solved with conventional method.
First GM went for bankruptcy because the cars it made and sold could not justify the type of compemnsation it paid to its employees. But the present approach to downsize it for making electric cars would be remembered as a towering mistake in the years to come. People in general would not go for buying high priced, limited mileage electric cars for many many years to come.
Regarding bullet trains it would remain a handicapped project for all the years to come. The huge landmass with widely scattered and low population density would not make the bullet train venture a success for many decades to come.
America would do better if it would stick to the way it was doing earlier with only incremental changes in all spheres of economic activities. The twenty million Americans who have lost their jobs because of delay in helping banks and other companies in a serious and compassionate way- well it would be extremely difficult for those unfortunate Americans to get back their jobs.
All these madness of climate change is wrong as actually the world temperature and sea level are going down. For a glimpse into the world of future transportation please visit the website http://www.eloquentbooks.com/MegalopolisOne2080AD.html

By: Banned by Huffpo

Banned by Huffpo — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 02:19:43 +0000

Michael Moore . . . didn’t he star in “Supersize Me” and stay fat? Wasn’t that the happy ending, he found fast-food, fell in love, and lived happily ever after?

(He) Sure looks like it.

By: wayne

wayne — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:30:17 +0000

Two words – Soylent Green

By: myth buster

myth buster — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:40:38 +0000

To be honest, Obama didn’t break GM or Chrysler; they were already broken. Obama did, however, seize control of them, and he is probably seeking to destroy Ford because he doesn’t control it.

By: myth buster

myth buster — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:38:13 +0000

eon, one problem with your post: Ohm’s Law states that thermal losses are proportional to amperage squared, so a low amperage source is exactly what we want in order to send electricity over long distances. That’s why we use transformers to raise the voltage on power lines to 25,000 volts.

By: The UnPatriot

The UnPatriot — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:34:02 +0000

Just returned from a trip to Europe, France specifically. I have been riding the rails on the continent for a score plus years and can describe both the good and bad of them.

On this occasion, a scheduled train actually saved the day for me as I was required to make a day trip from Pergignan to Marseille. All other options were either too expensive or too inconvenient for all involved. The cost was fairly reasonable. And, actually the SNCF refunded me 23 euros (as opposed to charging me an extra 10) when I changed my return ticket to an earlier train. I do not know what level of subsidy the trains receive in France but I only assume it is significant. I am, nonetheless, amazed at how reasonably efficient and comfortable (particularly the TGVs) are.

Contrast that with even the first class Amtrak between NYC and Washington. The price is not exceptionally different but the quality of the ride is really unbelievable (in favor of Europe).

I, personally, would love the OPTION (I will still keep the car of my choice) of a working, reasonably priced train system in the US. For enumerable reasons, it just won’t work – especially if the folks like MM are placed in charge. If that happens the inefficiencies of that system will make both Amtrak and GM look like the Japanese Shinkansen in comparison.

– The UnPatriot

By: "progressive"watch

"progressive"watch — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:32:29 +0000

Barak Obama has broke Chrysler and GM and he’s going to get Ford. He wants to make it so that we can’t supply our own military