<![CDATA[Why Detroit Can't Be Trusted to Handle a Bailout]]>

1.0 link 147962 <![CDATA[Why Detroit Can't Be Trusted to Handle a Bailout]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/charles-h-green/why-detroit-cant-be-trust_b_147962.html Toyota introduced the Prius in 1997. 11 thoughtful years later, GM brings us--the Hybrid Escalade.

This level of cluelessness--culminating in private CEO jet flights to Washington to beg for money--is hardly random. It took 50 years of really bad management to get here. Both bankruptcy and bailout offer the same dismal prospect: a zombie-like return of the same poor thinking that made Detroit the East Germany of American business.

Consider one simple example--the way Detroit counts cars.

Ward's Automotive...

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