Comments on: political parapraxis / detroit bailout http://adswithoutproducts.com/2008/12/08/political-parapraxis-detroit-bailout/ Tue, 29 May 2012 17:04:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: adswithoutproducts http://adswithoutproducts.com/2008/12/08/political-parapraxis-detroit-bailout/#comment-1094 Fri, 12 Dec 2008 11:37:58 +0000 http://adswithoutproducts.com/?p=746#comment-1094 I will respond to Jane’s response (in the trackback) the very second I have a second to do anything other than mark papers! It’s coming soon – term ends today!

I like Jasper’s idea.

]]> By: Two Views: On Nationalization http://adswithoutproducts.com/2008/12/08/political-parapraxis-detroit-bailout/#comment-1092 Thu, 11 Dec 2008 05:51:27 +0000 http://adswithoutproducts.com/?p=746#comment-1092 [...] Jane Dark: Over at the sud­denly and excel­lently renascent Ads With­out Prod­ucts, the sud­denly and excel­lently erst­while CR has been making a vital record of the guilty [...]

]]> By: Jasper http://adswithoutproducts.com/2008/12/08/political-parapraxis-detroit-bailout/#comment-1072 Mon, 08 Dec 2008 15:32:20 +0000 http://adswithoutproducts.com/?p=746#comment-1072 The solution here is rather simple, and therefore unthinkable. The problem is neither the high (and deserved) wages of the workers, nor exactly the bumbling missteps of management. It’s the impossibility of profit in a manufacturing line that can always be produced cheaper elsewhere. If we want those jobs, and we want cars produced here, there’s only one answer: make the bailout a loan to the workers so that they can buy the companies from the shareholders. They can use whatever (small) profits they make to pay it back and research the design of cheaper, more fuel-efficient cars. How many environmentally-conscious engineers do you think would sign on for to be a part of that project? Quite a few, I’m guessing.

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