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Trump invokes Defense Production Act to force GM to make ventilators after stalled talk
Fox News ^ | March 27 2020 | Louis Casiano

Posted on 03/27/2020 3:44:09 PM PDT by rintintin

President Trump said Friday that he had directed Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar to require General Motors to begin making ventilators under the Defense Production Act to combat the coronavirus pandemic after negotiations with the automaker had stalled.

"Our negotiations with GM regarding its ability to supply ventilators have been productive, but out fight against the virus is too great to allow the give-and-take of the contracting process to continue to run its normal course," Trump said in a statement, adding: "GM was wasting time."

Experts say the U.S. is hundreds of thousands of breathing machines short of what it likely will need to treat a rapidly rising number of COVID-19 patients. New York, Michigan, Louisiana and the state of Washington have been singled out as virus hot spots in the U.S.

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1 posted on 03/27/2020 3:44:09 PM PDT by rintintin
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we gunna have tens of thousands of unused vents sitting in warehouses for next 20 years.


2 posted on 03/27/2020 3:46:39 PM PDT by corkoman
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To: rintintin

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3829037/posts


3 posted on 03/27/2020 3:47:54 PM PDT by caver
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What fumblethumbs at GM botched this PR opportunity?


4 posted on 03/27/2020 3:48:10 PM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: rintintin

wth?


5 posted on 03/27/2020 3:48:45 PM PDT by LibertyWoman
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To: corkoman

He’s going to share with other countries. Probably make a deal with them. Regardless, he said ‘give them to countries that need them’ - something like that.


6 posted on 03/27/2020 3:48:51 PM PDT by ncpatriot
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To: corkoman
"we gunna have tens of thousands of unused vents sitting in warehouses for next 20 years."

That would be a great problem to have.

7 posted on 03/27/2020 3:49:50 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: rintintin

Ass wipes

They can’t make cars


8 posted on 03/27/2020 3:52:43 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: corkoman

Did not New York just “find” 1,000 of them?


9 posted on 03/27/2020 3:53:31 PM PDT by Fungi
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The balls on GM to haggle on price when they have already been bailed out once.. step up you sorry company!

Government Motors will never get a dollar from me.


10 posted on 03/27/2020 3:54:00 PM PDT by willyd (I for one welcome our NSA overlords)
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“we gunna have tens of thousands of unused vents sitting in warehouses for next 20 years.

yep ...


11 posted on 03/27/2020 3:57:16 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: corkoman

And masks, gloves, hand sanitizer and TOILET PAPER!


12 posted on 03/27/2020 3:59:01 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: rintintin

First we bailed them out

Then they tried to overcharge POTUS on ventilators

Then he had to order them to do this.


13 posted on 03/27/2020 3:59:23 PM PDT by BlackAdderess
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Remember the financial crash of 2008. Yeah, the one that Obama used to steal GM from the stock and bond holders and give the corporation to the union. Yeah, that one. The American taxpayer took it in the shorts when that deal was done. Now GM has to be forced by the President to make ventilators. Ford got no help. Chrysler was given to Fiat. But GM was put on life support and now they are being forced to do today what they should have gracefully done yesterday.
GM—make the damn ventilators.


14 posted on 03/27/2020 3:59:54 PM PDT by Saltmeat (69)
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To: P.O.E.

“What fumblethumbs at GM botched this PR opportunity?”

Not good advertisement for GM, but GREAT advertisement for the Defense Production Act, i.e., any other company thinking about screwing around should have second thoughts now ...


15 posted on 03/27/2020 4:00:16 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: corkoman

What’s a few trillion dollars between friends.


16 posted on 03/27/2020 4:03:44 PM PDT by wgmalabama (Piss on China. They nuked US and Europe with a bio weapon. Payback time.)
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To: Nifster

Back in the financial crisis, GM took Govt buyouts, Ford didn’t.

I bought Ford stock. Big loser. Karma is a joke!


17 posted on 03/27/2020 4:03:46 PM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim (I'll be good, I will. I will.)
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Message sent: Don’t mess with this President. He doesn’t suffer fools.


18 posted on 03/27/2020 4:04:04 PM PDT by weston (As far as I'm concerned, it's Christ or nothing)
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To: corkoman

Who want to depend on a Government Motors vent?


19 posted on 03/27/2020 4:05:46 PM PDT by Theophilus (Ich bin ein Hong Konger)
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we gunna have tens of thousands of unused vents sitting in warehouses for next 20 years.

Better to have them and not need them than to need them and not have them. I can think of bigger wastes of government money.
20 posted on 03/27/2020 4:05:56 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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