Karma

well done!

You right. What goes around comes around. American car companies needed that type of innovation but gave less and less to the public until the Japanese surpassed us. I think the car companies would be healthy today if they hadn't slacked off while chanting "American cars are the best in the world" when they were actually getting crappier by the year. Does anybody remember how shoddy American cars were in the 1970's? That's when they enacted the "Lemon Law" because so many cars suffered breakdowns to the point where the car was worthless as a car but was expensive to own because everything kept breaking.

Ford did not receive or even ask for a bailout, and GM got a loan, which it paid back almost immediately. Chrysler was the only one of the Big Three to get an actual bailout.

OP, I agree with your comments, and would add that the secret to getting government bailouts is the old "too big to fail" logic that both the government and banks use, when determining who gets additional funds. Tucker, like many small business owners, never got his company to the size, where it became "too big to fail" and thus would have a much harder time receiving investment or bailout funding.

I'm not really following you. 70 years ago a man that embodies everything we say America stands for, perseverance, hard work, ingenuity, and most of all following his dream, was crushed by larger companies that produced inferior products by throwing money at our government.

today those same companies are running themselves into the ground and ask the government to bail them out and the government complies.

That isn't karma. Karma would be those companies failing and Tucker's grandchildren buy them out for a song and make millions.

THAT would be karma, but instead Tucker got screwed and the big 3 continue to be in bed with politicians.

And yet today they are STILL trying to crush the little man as much as they can even while they are being bailed out by tax money.


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Applied Science? All science is applied. Eventually.

Man you Americans can be a pathetic bunch....
The film was not historically accurate.

The Tucker project failed because it was underfunded.
And no the big 3 did not conspire to wreck Tucker, Ford gave him Free steering wheels for the car.

The original engine was a dud, the prestomatic transmission did not work, forcing him to use a modified Cord gear box.
Then they were charged with fraud as the cars were more conventional than in Tuckers grandiose claims.

I don't get you Americans... you roll out the patriotism bs when it comes to wars based on lies, and invasions of sovereign nations.
But will not support your own car makers.... car makers with a long and proud history of innovation and classics.

Eat the Neocons.