Posted by RhysW on 12/13/08
Last updated 12/13/08

As I listen to Denis Kucinich's House floor speech, It occurs to me that his argument for saving the auto industry is the perfect argument for allowing them to fail. I'll get back to this in a moment because, this is a hard sell here in Michigan, my father works at Ford. I've worked at Ford. My uncle just retired from Ford. For other people around here, their father works at GM and their brother and cousin. The auto industry really has been our lifeblood.

However...

I want a flying car. I want to go to the driveway and fly to Krogers, not drive. GM will NEVER get a Hummer to fly, and some could argue that it wouldn't be wise to be in a flying Ford.

Back to Dennis.

All the energy, all the rubber and all the steel he wants to direct into Detroit's cars will NEVER make them fly. For Dennis, good man that he is, the thought of steel jobs vanishing is abhorrent. Steel, he would demand, must be mandated at 40% ingredient to every car. This will save steel jobs, he might argue. I argue, if that much steel were in every car, they wont be able to fly.

I want a fiberclass, carbon-steel, thrilithium star trek material flying car. If someone can invent one, I know of a city in Michigan with a bit of spare manufacturing capacity, some unemployment and a little assembly know how. You're invited, fly on in.

Posted 03/14/09 Todd A Carter Ann Arbor, MI

Rhys, I am with you 100%. However, just as the public and government ignore economic physical laws at our peril, we cannot ignore physics. (I know I'm preaching to the choir, here.). Until we find the Higgs bosun, or whatever controls gravity, I think we are stuck with ground cars. There is just not enough lift available in a size that will fit in a standard garage. So, these are the constraints that we must obey, or we all will need to live in airport communities. I am closer to a physicist than an economist, at least it interests me. Economics has seemingly been built on sand for so long, that it only attracted magicians. And ah the magic they have used to keep us all enthralled. (Enslaved?) Well, the true laws of economics are coming home to roost. Too bad we've forced them to be carrion birds, instead of the eagles that is their nature. Cheers. Todd