On 3/27/20 7:48 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 3/27/2020 7:26 PM, Keyser Soze wrote:
On 3/27/20 7:19 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 3/27/2020 7:07 PM, Keyser Soze wrote:
On 3/27/20 6:19 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:


Apparently, after promising to
tool up to produce ventilators, GM started
demanding excessive up front money, jacking
the price per ventilator up and
producing less than was
originally promised.

Trump just punched back, invoking the
Defense Production Act to require General Motors
to produce the ventilators, like it or not.


That's it.

I am trading my GM Canyon in on a Ford.



We now lead the world in COVOID-19 cases, partly as a result of
Trump's zigzagging, lying, and stalling on coming up with real
responses to the virus. MAGA.

Hospital ventilators are not simple devices. If GM doesn't buy the
technology and dies and so forth, I wonder how quickly the auto
company can produce them in numbers.


Take a chill pill.Â* Or maybe you've already taken too many?

First of all, it's not like GM or Ford or Tesla has to start from
scratch. The POTUS under the Defense Production Act can order
the design drawings, manufacturing procedures, bills of material
with sources from any current manufacturer to be given to GM,
Ford or Tesla.Â* What the auto manufacturers bring to the table
is manufacturing capacity.

Second, I am surprised to see you dumping on the Donald in this
case.Â* It was GM (big business, remember?)Â* who was trying to
extort and take advantage of a national crisis.

Extortion is the byword of Trump. Have we spent $100 million yet on
his golfing weekends?

It's going to take GM and anyone else some time...weeks, months? to
start producing reliable ventilators.


Maybe we'll need them.Â* Hopefully we won't.Â* But knowledge has been
gained about how to be prepared and there's talk that even if this
cycle of covid-19 dies down, it may be back again ... or something
like it.

You are treating this as if it's business as usual.Â* It's not.
This is a national emergency the likes of which none of us have
seen in our life time.

Extraordinary measures are in order.

Two days ago the Dems were accusing
Trump of not fully invoking the Defense Act.Â* He was
criticized of relying on
the promises of GM, Ford and Tesla.Â* But now that GM is playing
games and he fully invokes the Defense Act, he's now being
criticized by the same people for doing it.

If there's anything
that can be used to dump on Trump you and your pals will take full
advantage of it.

It's a little disgusting under the circumstances.


What's your source for stating that GM is playing games? Trump or one of
his administration lackeys?