Quote Originally Posted by Dave Severson View Post
Ok, then it would be good news that 1300 workers, plus however many employees of suppliers, etc. are all laid off from now til April 23???? I'm quite sure that now the burden of paying their unemployment checks will go to the rest of the taxpayers, boy are they lucky!!!!!
That's the emotional way to look at it. However, the real problem was/is the foolhardy decision to waste their labor, and our tax dollars on this fiasco in the first place. If the free market were allowed to allocate the labor and resources, these folks might have been employed doing something that the consumer wants, rather than something they are clearly demonstrating they don't. A hundred years ago the marketplace, in it's wisdom, chose gasoline powered vehicles over steam or electric powered ones. Not by government choice, not with any bribes ($7500 "tax credit, now proposed to jump to $10k since, obviously, the $7500 wasn't a sufficient bribe), but by the decision of thousands and thousands of self interested consumers. Well, now, millions of self interested consumers are still saying NO to electric vehicles, and for most of the same reasons as their forefathers a hundred years ago.