Wednesday, November 26, 2008

A Car Wreck Made in Washington -- Can Democrats afford to let Detroit succeed?


The wrong folks were in the witness chairs in last week's congressional hearings on auto doom. A fantastic moment was Massachusetts Rep. Stephen Lynch assailing Rick Wagoner about whether GM was asking China for a bailout too. The implication seemed to be that GM can't afford its inflated UAW pay packages because it's squandering money to build cars in China.
Mr. Wagoner mildly answered that GM's China operations are profitable. They actually help to underwrite the massive losses in the U.S.

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