Michael Moore posted to his blog his thoughts on the future of General Motors. A Michigan native, Moore is quite critical of GM management over the last thirty years. He describes their decisions to off-shore labor to Mexico and therefore reduce the buying power of the American middle-class as a huge blunder that will be viewed in retrospect in the same way as the Roman decision to "cluelessly poisoned their own water system with lethal lead in its pipes."  

Moore notes that instead of despair at the death of GM he feels "joy" because "you and I and the rest of America now own a car company!" The rest of the editorial then describes how the government could save the manufacturing capacity of GM, and thousands of jobs, by re-imagining America’s transportation system. This would involve re-building and updating the vast public transit system that one day existed in this country and that GM played an important part in destroying. I doubt very much that Moore’s vision will come to pass. It is too bad too because I can think of no better end to GM than the revitalizing of the public transit system that GM and the American car helped destroyed.