GMs Apology Falls on Deaf Ears

I am saddened for many of the employees and their families. But the GM Executives in the United States, brought the inevitable demise of their greedy, stagnant, ticky-tacky, automobile company, upon themselves. I know that GM has been successful outside of the US; that is why I say that. But, I think that too is only because the buyers in China for example, are not as concerned about electric or hybrid cars, as we are in the US. Michael Moore, who has tried to bring the truth about US automakers and their employee victims, to the public time and time again, said it best this morning in his Huffington Post Blog:

"It is with sad irony that the company which invented "planned obsolescence" -- the decision to build cars that would fall apart after a few years so that the customer would then have to buy a new one -- has now made itself obsolete. It refused to build automobiles that the public wanted, cars that got great gas mileage, were as safe as they could be, and were exceedingly comfortable to drive. Oh -- and that wouldn't start falling apart after two years. GM stubbornly fought environmental and safety regulations. Its executives arrogantly ignored the "inferior" Japanese and German cars, cars which would become the gold standard for automobile buyers. And it was hell-bent on punishing its unionized workforce, lopping off thousands of workers for no good reason other than to "improve" the short-term bottom line of the corporation. Beginning in the 1980s, when GM was posting record profits, it moved countless jobs to Mexico and elsewhere, thus destroying the lives of tens of thousands of hard-working Americans. The glaring stupidity of this policy was that, when they eliminated the income of so many middle class families, who did they think was going to be able to afford to buy their cars? History will record this blunder in the same way it now writes about the French building the Maginot Line or how the Romans cluelessly poisoned their own water system with lethal lead in its pipes.(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-moore/goodbye-gm_b_209603.html)"