General Motors and Ford, Sinking Like the Titanic?

General Motors and Ford, Sinking Like the Titanic?
Sad news of epic proportions, the slow demise of Titans General Motors and Ford. For almost a century, these two companies have been the bellwether for how the country as a whole is doing, and if their present crisis is any indication, we’re all in a lot of how water. Thanks George, for your brilliant grasp of Economics 101, but then, you probably used Daddy’s money to help you get out of that course also, didn’t you?

Ever been to Detroit? Regardless of your social standing, you don’t drive foreign-made cars up there. No sir, you drive U.S. made cars and trucks. It’s kind of like being patriotic, buying the products that your neighbors and relatives help manufacture. Pity, that our government doesn’t do more to promote such U.S. brand loyalty, and that we, as a nation, are so willing to ship our dollars abroad while our own people are starting to feel the pinch of this idiocy.

As General Motors and Ford go, so goes the country. Well, how goes the country? Gee, do you think Dubya’s going to tout GM and Ford’s economic health at his little State of the Union address, or will he, à la “you’re doing a great job Brownie” casually forget to mention the Titanic sinking of these two harbingers of things to come?

Elizabeth G.