Washington should this, Washington should that...

From Why Detroit Can't Keep Up

"Government -- or, more precisely, governments -- can help only if they grasp the way manufacturing companies work. The shakiest firms will need a tariff regime that permits an auto group to import components from the country where they are designed or most competitively produced. (The European Union's trade rules were a huge help in making it possible for Skoda to acquire components from VW Group companies, including the Spanish firm SEAT.) Federal and state governments should help jump-start a grid for electric cars, as Israel is doing. Most important, perhaps, Washington should move to stimulate innovation in entrepreneurial companies along the whole supply chain -- companies aspiring to provide new generations of components. "


The guy who wrote the above article is a complete idiot. Governments can only help if they grasp the way manufacturing companies work? What on earth -- Do we go to the polls to elect officials based on how they understand manufacturing? In that case, why don't we get politicians from the ranks of industrial engineering and operations research departments in various universities? It'd be one thing if we could dismiss this guy's article based on the simple fact that, hey, Washington has no clue how manufacturing works. Except, this no-talent-ass-clown keeps on going with lots of examples of government intervention in the marketplace.

How about Washington just do nothing? Where do these morons in the Washington Post get the idea that the government had the authority to tax us and then give it to for-profit corporations? And then not give those who were taxed ownership?

Washington should buy me a new yacht, because then I'd have a nice place to go and innovate so that I can come up with new products based on fancy R&D that other people pay for.

Does no one in Washington see how completely and totally unethical it is to rob from successful business people to give to a failed industry plagued with labor problems and engineering challenges? Or the fact that this a tremendous misallocation of resources?

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