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.