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Meet the GOP's wrecking crew Why did a small group of Southern Republicans turn the auto bailout into a demolition derby? Introducing the senators who hate unions and love foreign cars.
  • In the imaginations of the Southern Senators

    the folks up in Michigan must be lazy good-for-nothings that only leach off the domestic automakers because of the cursed unions. Have the Senators gone into the plants and talked with the workers there? Nowhere do I sense a commonality with the workers, despite our shared citizenship, our human connections to family, community, and country.

    I sense a regional and parochial fixation among these politicians, as well as the obvious partisan and ideological coloration. They are willing to gamble with literally a few million jobs, a few million families, and further gamble that such a loss of jobs would not push the economy past a tipping point into a hopeless depression. This because the seem to be unable to be Americans, and human beings, first.

    If the argument goes that GM is too far gone already, what is called for is bold outside-the-box thinking. Why not forcibly merge GM with the Silicon Valley green car company startups like Tesla, and combine the economies of scale that the Silicon Valley people obviously need with the radical redesign thinking that GM obviously is lacking? And make the Silicon Valley people the top management, because it's ideas that have real value in the long run.

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