Michael Moore: Barack Obama Must Do What Roosevelt Did

"General Motors had to do what Roosevelt told them they had to do. The same thing has to happen now. President-elect Obama has to say to them, 'yes, we're going to use this money to save these jobs but we're not going to build these gas-guzzling, unsafe vehicles any longer. So, we're going to put these companies into some sort of receivership and we, the government, are going to hold the reigns on these companies. And they are to build mass transit, they are to build hybrid cars, they are to build cars that use little or no gasoline, because we're facing a national crisis.'" -- Michael Moore on Larry King Live, Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

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[MrHochstapler]

Too bad Obama doesn't have Michael Moore as adviser!

[realomon]

AUDI is paying this year over 6500 euro as a bonus for every employee as a bonus. this means sharing the companys success with everyone working in the company. maybe US. corporations should copy that.

[exenrontexas]

In the late forties the US built a NUCLEAR POWERED airplane using Thorium instead of uranium or plutonium. Thorium is radioactive and a reliable source of long term energy and very hard to make into weapons, if not impossible. SO when not use THORIUM as a source of electricity to power cars. It is cheap, plentiful and the US has lots of it. There are several videos on the subject on youtube. Search for liquid thorium flouride energy. Power plants are cheap and easier to build too.

[piax00]

@th3giv3r and japanese products turn out to be some of the most marketable. there is a different value system here and you see it in the results; and more factors come into consideration as far as incentive goes. depends really on what you are comfortable with -- the sight of one thriving entrpreneur amidst a sea of homelessness and unemployment, or a democratic business process among engaged, literate people performing different functions and contributing actively.

[piax00]

@th3giv3r germany;s economy is the strongest right now and they managed to make it work for themselves. they don't have the rates of unemployment that the US has. and given that their educational system is of a high quality and practically free you will hardly find semi-literate janitors. you don't have to be a will hunting to know what's moral, what is fair, to demand accountability, to know what the market wants, etc. Japanese companies also practice consensus decision-making.

[th3giv3r]

@piax00 For your social democracy, the janitor should have to pay for all of his supplies, then, his uniforms, the property taxes and all the other costs that the capitalists incur. How does that sound?

[th3giv3r]

@piax00 You don't need to explain this. You need to justify it. How is an entrepreneur in a free society to have any incentive to endeavor to start a business if even the sub-literate janitor gets a say in how his capital is to be allocated? Employees are paid for their time and service to the company. Now, if the janitor turns out to be a Will Hunting, well then, by golly, good for him, but he may not be choosing to work to his strengths and that's his choice but don't tell me he deserves a say

[piax00]

@th3giv3r It just means that if people really owned the companies they worked in, then they would be in a position to make decisions, even the janitor could sit at meetings. This is called social democracy, and it is being practived in germany. And if you were part owner of a company, would you fire yourself? i don't think i need to explain this.

[th3giv3r]

@piax00 How the hell does that make any sense?

[piax00]

@th3giv3r hello. i don't think the 14 million unemployed right now laid themselves off. in many companies in germany, even the janitor gets to sit in meetings and decide if someone ought to get a raise.

[th3giv3r]

@piax00 Hello, "stocks"?