That would be THIS guy.
or perhaps THIS one
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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“GM should have been broken up years ago.”
The market broke them up - no more olds, pontiacs, saturns, hummers...
I wouldn’t trust them. The seems will be misaligned, the tolerances will be loose. Hell, the UAW will probably walk out.
“Not good advertisement for GM.”
but GREAT advertisement for the Defense Production Act, i.e., any other company thinking about screwing around will have second thoughts ...
Didn’t Bozo pack the Board of Directors of GM?
Generally a ventilator is controlled by a microcontroller, basically a computer on a single chip.
The British designed ARM controller is used in a lot of medical gear.
The ventilator is a simple device as medical equipment goes.
Actually one controller could operate several ventilators at the same time.
It’s sort of a computer controlled bellows with I/O from various medical sensors like O2 sat, pressure, volume delivered and many more...all with watchdog circuitry operating to make certain nothing goes awry.
An automaker should be able to produce such a device in short order since they have very qualified EE’s and good assembly line workers.
I’m certain you could round up a team of freepers that could do the design...we have a lot of talent here.
That’s great! UPer’s saving the day!
The Godfather.
First he made then an offer they couldn’t refuse.
When they refused, he told them either their Brains or their Signature would be on that Contract.
Does the GM CEO own a Horse? Just asking for a friend.
Damn. We should put you in charge.
“I’ll look into it but I don’t understand why the companies that make ventilators can’t be funded to make more.”
Typically it’s because their labor unions drove the work to China. You know, to stick it to The Man.
Ford definitely made them there. I can’t say I recognize the plant floor but GM made engines for them so the photos may be GM.
I think they are aware of the poor quality. The problem is that the US government bailed them out. If they had gone through a restructuring, they might have been forced to rethink their quality and start building a quality product.
“Not good advertisement for GM.”
Nothing like a little public shaming from POTUS crucifying them for inaction during the pandemic. I love it when he calls them out like that.
I wonder how long it took them to switch to making tanks in WW II.
“Apparently Trump is taking this covid-19 stuff seriously.”
Nah, everybody says he’s an incompetent know-nothing boob. (yes /s)
Like inflating your lungs to 10 bar?
That would be THIS guy.
or perhaps THIS one
From the first paragraph: "In February 1942, Fisher Body completely stopped making auto bodies and began assembling the famous M-4 "Sherman" tank in its No. 1 plant in Flint. The operation eventually moved to Grand Blanc and would turn out 11,358 tanks by 1945."
December 7, 1941 to February 1942 - from making cars to assembling tanks in two or two and a half months!! Wow. How could they possibly do that without CAD, email, Slack, Google Docs, or mobile phones?
35 years in the Senate must make you qualified for SOMETHING, no?
He should rescind the order. Assuming Dyson’s offering was a surprise and can replace what GM was supposed to deliver, PDJT should tell GM to go pound sand. Thank you very much, there are companies more agile and creative. Ford didn’t have a problem, why would GM.
I thought the engines for the B-24 were the Pratt & Whitney Twin Wasps - No?
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