This Is The Gist Of It
From the New York Times:
To the Editor:
As a Massachusetts Democrat who is ecstatic about the election of Barack Obama, I never expected to side with Mr. Romney and disagree strongly with President-elect Obama’s first major policy push.
Our country’s economic health is not going to thrive in the long term by supporting an anemic and poorly managed automobile industry. What the American auto industry needs instead is an overhaul to become lean, competitive, smart and mostly a contributor to rather than a detractor from an energy-smart future.
A bailout will provide no incentive to do just that and will ultimately cripple the industry by encouraging it to head down the same wrong path it has been on for far too long.
Mr. Obama campaigned on a platform of change; let us hope that future policy directions of the new administration will work toward real positive change for the American automobile industry.
Jennifer Hyde
Newton, Mass., Nov. 19, 2008
I’d like to thank Jennifer Hyde. I meant to write something like that, though more itemized with business reasons and lingo, but I’d like to thank her for writing this and the Times for printing it since it’s my thought almost exactly. I’m writing a novel here, I can’t reassemble and rewrite something I had already written. I have no time.
P.S. I hate jazz with all its annoying brass. Why is Starbucks playing it?
November 20th, 2008 | Category: General
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