In medicine you learn triage. You tell the minor injured shut up and wait, and you walk over the dead, because if you don’t they will waste resources and time and others who might of lived( in this case Ford ) die.
Colonel let squad listening posts/ observation posts get run over and wiped out so that the brigade can survive.
The upper Mid West has gone through many economies, and can so again.
Having GM/Chrysler is like having a dead arm soaked in antibiotics attached to you. Yeah, you got a arm, sort of, but you aren’t going to be productive.
The GM/Chrysler clown posse circus is tying up labor, talent, money, politics and mostly, as in your case, imagination. No one will think, strive, do or make the alternative while these living dead are stinking up the place.
What you are basically advocating is a three state public housing welfare zone. Like, urban Detroit, only bigger. That, is so so pathetic.
Speaking of ‘saving’ and ‘revivals’ and government/private partnerships, how are the smaller experimental socialist petri dishes of Detroit, Gary, Flint, Saginaw, Toledo, Cleveland doing?
So, even though you have a hundred examples, over three decades of government failure, wasted TRILLIONS....you are advocating the same thing.
You got to be on the teat somewhere in this picture.
......What you are basically advocating is a three state public housing welfare zone. ....
The word advocating implies favoritism or positive attitude.
I do not advocate the midwest states becoming welfare enclaves. You made the welfare state description, it is probably a good one. When I project current events, that is what I see in the future is disaster if GM fails, but I am certainly not in favor of such a turn of events.
Although I am not well verse on Euro things, I believe the same condition exists in the European Union. Some are very very shaky. Portugal comes to mind.