A letter to the Boston Globe Editor regarding the auto bailout which I had to share

[DS1]

I just picked up the paper so I could transcribe it:

Save the company, lose the brain trust

General Motors needs a bailout. We need its constructive capacity to work for a better America. But the management and marketing segment that has been getting it wrong for decades should face the judgment of the market. We do not need the people who dismantled the Los Angeles light rail system merely to increase the market for their inefficient products. We do not need the people who decided to profit from adding lead to gasoline, thereby polluting our air. We do not need the people who decided to put a military vehicle on public roads. We do not need the people who helped kill the electric car.

The stockholders have been largely wiped out, and the workers are being thrown overboard. What GM seeks to bail out intact is exactly the part that should be cut loose.

Public monies should serve the public purpose. We need energy-efficient transportation that the country and the planet can afford.

Stephen Strickler
Lexington, MA


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:applause:

Just to reiterate: This is about the management and marketing clowns, not the workers building the cars.

I figured there would be a link, but what's 75 cents?
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/letters/articles/2008/11/18/save_the_company_lose_the_brain_trust/

Feel free to comment!

[rwheeler31]

1. Did you listen to the hearing today?

[DS1]

3. I did not get a chance, no.

[GCP]

2. That's part of why I love living in MA

The smart people who live here!

[DS1]

5. Anything south of New Jersey is too right-wing for me

even if the states did just swing blue.

Remember driving through South Carolina, and seeing all the Bush stickers? In 1991? Ugh.

That just threw a thought into my head. All those hotel rooms, where you walk past and the doors are wedged open and you can see inside... I wonder if that's some kind of puritan bullshit. We're not doing anything wrong in here!

Actually, my golden rule is south of Mass, the State Troopers in CT are too fascist for me. I could live in MA, VT, WA, MI, and maybe parts of CA.

[ellaydubya]

4. Amen!

This is so right on- let's get back on course!!! We Americans can do it- and the corporate America bigshots better wake up before they find themselves without jobs AND bonuses. Enough waste and crazy money-making schemes- let's bring common sense back. The people need work and there is lots of work to be done.:toast: :think: :thumbsup: :kick: :fistbump:

[HEyHEY]

6. We used to have a fully electric train going from Downtown Vancouver to Chilliwack

That's about 100 miles or so. In 1950, Shell Oil bought it and closed it so the highway had to be built. these companies made their beds and they can fucking lie in them. If they want extra monies to develop alternatives and diversify to environmentally friendly transport ideas, then great... if not, fuck off! That's just a bad investment.