sounds compelling to me On Tuesday, June 2, 2009, Vivec <[email protected]> wrote: > > "It is with sad irony that the company which invented "planned > obsolescence" -- the decision to build cars that would fall apart > after a few years so that the customer would then have to buy a new > one -- has now made itself obsolete. It refused to build automobiles > that the public wanted, cars that got great gas mileage, were as safe > as they could be, and were exceedingly comfortable to drive. Oh -- and > that wouldn't start falling apart after two years. GM stubbornly > fought environmental and safety regulations. Its executives arrogantly > ignored the "inferior" Japanese and German cars, cars which would > become the gold standard for automobile buyers. And it was hell-bent > on punishing its unionized workforce, lopping off thousands of workers > for no good reason other than to "improve" the short-term bottom line > of the corporation. Beginning in the 1980s, when GM was posting record > profits, it moved countless jobs to Mexico and elsewhere, thus > destroying the lives of tens of thousands of hard-working Americans. > The glaring stupidity of this policy was that, when they eliminated > the income of so many middle class families, who did they think was > going to be able to afford to buy their cars? History will record this > blunder in the same way it now writes about the French building the > Maginot Line or how the Romans cluelessly poisoned their own water > system with lethal lead in its pipes." > > http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/message/index.php?id=248 > > think he's off base with his views? > >
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