Yesterday I noted Scrappleface’s plan for a Detroit bailout (“Make Better Cars”).
Last night at dinner a friend suggested a bailout plan B in the same spirit. One person noted that the United States in fact has a very successful and prosperous automotive industry–it is just located in places like Alabama and South Carolina now instead of Detroit.
To which another person observed that maybe that provides the roadmap for Detroit’s new bailout plan:
First, get many billions of dollars of taxpayer dollars to tide them over for a couple of years.
Second, get card-checked enacted.
Third, send some burly fellows to Alabama and South Carolina to “persuade” the workers there to join the UAW.
Voila–once we make foreign manufacturers as inefficient and sclerotic as the Big Three then the problem is solved!