GM looking more like a junkyard dog - by Roger Franklin, The New Zealand Herald
The name of the long-dead Detroit industrialist Alfred Sloan still comes up from time to time in political debate - and when it does, the quote that has become his memorial is likely to be delivered with a heavy slathering of irony.
'What's good for General Motors,' said the man who built the car company, 'is good for America.'
See, say union reps and foes of globalism, that's how the system has always worked. Big companies expect Washington to do their bidding, which it usually does.