Your Government (until January 3, 2011 edition).

Plus, if Ford can hold out for another week or so, the government won’t be able to afford it anyhow.

I have some experience to back this up. At one time I worked for a major package carrier not named Fedex. I saw how massive the operation was and the mind boggling amount of technology they put into the package routing infrastructure. The fact that they could do this and turn a good profit, even with the onerous Teamsters hanging around thier neck and yet not be competitive with many USPS products leads me to think that the USPS is taxpayer subsidized and if forced to compete in the real world under real business conditions, they would fail.

Veeshir, all I can say is LOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!

Mostly I despair because I have no confidence that Americans will be buying cars at the same rate they were in past years. This GM experiment isn’t doomed because of Federal Government involvement (though I await new and interesting ways they’ll mess with the innovation and changes needed by the business,) it’s doomed because the market has changed from an easy-credit living large economy toward one where eking out a living is both popular and all that’s affordable. We can pretend things will be like they were in the past, but the days of maxed-out credit are over. And cars and homes are just the first and loudest canaries in the economic coalmine.

Now as we all know, the Government of this fine country hates competition and thinks that the primary way to fight competition isn’t to make better product at a lower cost but to hire more lawyers and pass more laws to hobble the competition. If thats not bad enough one of the largest owners in “The New GM” is the UAW, which as it turns out also has big nasty contracts with the Ford Motor Company. Thats right kiddies, a part owner of one company is providing labor to its last remaining competitor and the entity that is in charge of ensuring that labor contacts are enforced fairly just happens to be the other majority stakeholder owner of “The New GM”.

I know what you’re thinking, that this cant possibly work. Well if thats what you think, you are probably right, it cant possibly work and yet as much as we want the worst to be over, the worst has yet to come, for what you see here is the Government in charge of something rather simple, the industrial manufacture and distribution of automobiles. How can it get worse? Well this same “rats nest”, spaghetti logic nonsensical command economy “workers-owning-the-factory” process is about to be applied to the people who provide us medical care.

Oh yes, that will work out fine, because what could possibly go wrong.

As Mr. Green is known to say on occasion: “Sleep Tight”.