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[frogcycle]

Put Bill Ford in charge of GM.

Yes, THAT Bill Ford.

The great-grandson of Henry. When he became CEO of Ford he started a big push to "go green." He is an environmentally-aware individual who "came in from the cold" to take over the company he and his family still own a big chunk of, and he was swimming upstream from day one, since the MBA "experts" wanted no part of hybrids and fuel efficiency when they could make more money at the moment on Navigators, what with all their successful lobbying for tax breaks. So Bill got kicked upstairs, and the rest is history. I bought their stock when he took over, watched it turn to shit.


I say let Bill take over GM, kick out the brain-dead morons who are clones of the ones that he caved in to at Ford, and do what he thinks is right. He could be the Lee Iococca of this whole mess.

And maybe merging the two companies would not be a bad thing. Spin off AC Delco, Motorcraft, the respective Engine Divisions, etc, consolidate them into companies with focus and get lean and mean, competing not with each other but with Japan, Europe, et al. Cut the number of nameplates to about a third, and concentrate on making the best possible version of each. USA Inc. needs to get back on its feet, and solidarity is the watchword.

As to concerns about lack of competition if they consolidate - they have plenty of competition from abroad. America and the American auto workers need a stable industry with a "Manhattan Project" mentality toward transportation in the next several decades.

These industries need to survive so they can be restructured. Going through a shutdown and mothballing of GM is not a logical step in that direction.