I usually hat Michael Moore. Not that he dosen’t make some entertaining documentaries about important subjects, but he’s just an enormous ass. BUT… he does have some good things to say about what to do with this failing auto maker that we all just bought. I think his way of connecting what’s happening now with the wartime industry of the 40s is really smart. Also he made me realize that we’ve made a switch this big before, from horses to cars. Now we can do it again, from cars to…
Just as President Roosevelt did after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the president must tell the nation that we are at war and we must immediately convert our auto factories to factories that build mass-transit vehicles and alternative-energy devices. Within months in Flint in 1942, GM halted all car production and immediately used the assembly lines to build planes, tanks, and machine guns. The conversion took no time at all. Everyone pitched in. The fascists were defeated