Re: Perception

[Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 29 Apr 2005 farna@xxxxxxx wrote:

> I'm surprised Bart! I have to agree with you on this one, at
> least about the big vehicles that GM/Ford are pushing nowadays.

Ford and Chevy are burning the furniture to heat the house -- it's
current mega-corporation bahavior in all industries; suck the cash
out ASAP the future be damned. Tax loopholes that allowed truck
chassis to be turned into luxury cars in cooperation with politics
and good marketing instead of long-term research and building of
reputation (and perception of practicality). Plus plain-old out of
touch and bloated management. The huge employee health expenses
that really are hurting them aren't due to "people using
healthcare too much" as implied by Newsweek (as if!) but
insurance-industry-driven artifically high healthcare costs, more
corporate profiteering. American ingenuity still exists, but not
at that scale of business.

We're screwed.