What's Good for GM is Good for the Army.

[elleng]

By Wesley K. Clark

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/16/opinion/16clark.html

[susanna]

1. K&R. n/t

[Historic NY]

2. I agree with the General, we need to help the General out...

and to help it chart a new course.

[ksimons]

3. don't agree with the article myself, but he makes good points

I don't see cruise ships being built in America anymore, but miraculously we have a navy, and new ships and submarines.

I don't see computers being built in America anymore, but we have an advanced first warning system and computer networks that run our Pentagon.

Those military contracts nowadays are porked up and spoon-fed fatty giveaways to the car industry. Tell you what, cut the contracts in half, give them to Toyota, tell them to build 'em in America, and you'll get a better product which would cost less and be 10x safer for our troops. If Clark thought more about American soldiers in harm's way and less about how things used to be done, he'd probably consider who is making the better product and would be best suited to help our troops - not who happens to be a throwback to the 'good old days' when corporations weren't greedy pigs gouging on American tax dollars.

Enough history Clark - we are in today's world, not yesterday's.

[elleng]

4. General Clark ALWAYS thinks about American soldiers

in harms way; you've seriously insulted him by suggesting otherwise.

Maybe you should write him, and ask why he thinks 'his' way would be better than 'yours.'

[ksimons]

6. maybe I just did by posting here

:)

[madrchsod]

5. toyota trucks?

they are built in the usa and why should we have our tax dollars support a foreign corporation? toyota trucks do not cost less and are not any safer than an american truck.

[ksimons]

7. Hmmmm...

... let's see. Toyota is still in business and employing their American workers and the big 3 are in debt, about to collapse and begging for BILLIONS of your tax dollars while still outputting crap no one wants to buy.

Who's the responsible company here? The 'American owned' one who is killing off their employee's livelihoods and hurting the US economy, or the 'foreign owned' one who pays their executives & workers reasonable salaries and will be in business now and 10 years from now, helping the US economy.

I dunno, you got me. What's the difference?

[ToolTex]

8. Let me see. Good for GM and the Army? Bankruptcy sounds a good answer.