Michael Moore and what killed GM from Planck's Constant

Interestingly, Michael Moore is just as happy to see GM go bankrupt ¹ as I am, but for different reasons. Sadly, the poor fool doesn't even want to admit that the Unions finally killed the auto industry as they killed every other business they unionized.

Now comes comrade Moore with suggestions on what GM should be doing instead of making cars: building bullet trains just like the ones in Japan.

That's hilarious! Excuse me, you poor, deluded moron: the reason we don't have bullet trains in America is because of Unions. Unions do not want trains to go from New York to Florida in less than six hours; they want it to take 24 hours so that 3 shifts of workers can be feather-bedded.

As I explained in my article, GM Bankruptcy would be a good thing:

In 2005, an investigation by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) revealed that Amtrak lost nearly $245 million from fiscal year 2002 to fiscal year 2004 on food and beverage service. The Amtrak Inspector General (IG) recently found that for every dollar in food and beverage sales, Amtrak incurred over two dollars in expenses. According to the IG, Amtrak also pays its food service workers 3.5 times the average restaurant industry wage. Amtrak covers up these huge losses by burying its food and beverage expense figures in various accounts while reporting only the revenue figures.

Now why would any business pay 3.5 times the average industry wage? Unions. And because of unions Amtrak will never have enough money to invest in real high speed trains. Until we get rid of unions we will continue to ride in pieces of crap that Amtrak is stuck with.

While Europe has increased train ridership and reduced the need for cars on its highways or for planes in the air we continue to allow unions to hobble our entire transportation industry.

Oh that Michael Moore, "let unions build high speed trains" - what a sense of humor!

Notes

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Huffington Post, Goodbye, GM
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.

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I request an honest and sincere consideration of the following suggestions:

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3. Announce that we will have bullet trains criss-crossing this country in the next five years. Japan is celebrating the 45th anniversary of its first bullet train this year. Now they have dozens of them. Average speed: 165 mph. Average time a train is late: under 30 seconds. They have had these high speed trains for nearly five decades -- and we don't even have one! The fact that the technology already exists for us to go from New York to L.A. in 17 hours by train, and that we haven't used it, is criminal. Let's hire the unemployed to build the new high speed lines all over the country. Chicago to Detroit in less than two hours. Miami to DC in under 7 hours. Denver to Dallas in five and a half. This can be done and done now.