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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? |
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