Be sure you read this one.
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> entary_by_michael_barone/detroit_automakers_a_relic_of_the_past> >
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> Excerpt:
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> "Obama's presidential campaign was an entrepreneurial enterprise whose
> success owed much to harnessing individual initiative through an
> innovative management structure and creatively using emerging
> technology. The campaign, as well as the candidate, helped inspire
> under-30 voters, who preferred Obama by an unprecedented 66 percent to
> 32 percent margin -- as opposed to his 50 percent to 49 percent margin
> in those 30 and over.
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> But keeping the Detroit Three in their present form, with their
> extravagant health care benefits and the union's 5,000 pages of work
> rules, is an exercise in preserving in amber the America of the past. "
Obama probably owes the unions a big favor, in the same way the Bush family owes the Saudis, and most presidents owe the defense industry.