Posted on 03/27/2020 3:36:01 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
President Donald Trump invoked the rarely used Defense Production Act on Friday to order the Department of Health and Human Services to compel General Motors to manufacturer ventilators hours after he sharply criticized the company for slow-walking production.
"Our negotiations with GM regarding its ability to supply ventilators have been productive, but our fight against the virus is too urgent to allow the give-and-take of the contracting process to continue to run its normal course," Trump said in a statement. "GM was wasting time. Today’s action will help ensure the quick production of ventilators that will save American lives."
Trump, in a tweet on Friday, excoriated General Motors and its CEO, Mary Barra, for not moving quickly enough to produce needed ventilators amid the coronavirus pandemic and wanting “top dollar” for the contract.
“As usual with ‘this’ General Motors, things just never seem to work out,” Trump tweeted. “They said they were going to give us 40,000 much needed Ventilators, ‘very quickly’. Now they are saying it will only be 6000, in late April, and they want top dollar. Always a mess with Mary B. Invoke ‘P.’”
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It’s probably easier for an auto manufacturer to switch to tanks than to medical ventilators, though the cars do have fans.
Take a look the assembly lines are manned by robots and they are designed for a specific task not likely to be easily changed to another task.
Amen!
There are still a handful of companies here in the USA that can make the circuit boards. The company I work for - Vitesco (formerly known as Continental AG and before that Motorola) has made electronic circuit boards in the heart of Texas for over 30 years and can make just about any circuit board provided we have access to the schematics, engineering drawings, and raw components.
I don't know that kind of information off the top of my head so have to search it out. One source is quoted above.
Really going to go there? That would make you part of the bigger problem...
Yep - Government Motors has reaped so many benefits from prior government largess that they ought to be willing to pay for the opportunity instead of trying to wring extra profits out of a “public service”...
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