Alec Baldwin, Please Shut Up

17 May, 2009

Baldwin wrote a decently thought out essay for the Huffington Post. However he forgot one major stakeholder in the downfall of the Detroit automakers: THE CITIZENS of Detroit and Michigan as a whole. About the big three he says:

pull the plug.

Pull the plug on the million people still in the city? On the millions still in the suburbs? On the millions still in the middle of the mitten - in Flint and Saginaw who already lost hope?

And worse yet:

I'm in the market for a new car now. I'll probably get a hybrid from a Japanese company, manufactured at a transplant factory in the American South.

Without getting into how evil the southern states were for giving the corporate welfare to Toyota and Honda to build the plants that killed Detroit, questions still remain. What's wrong with a Ford hybrid? A Malibu hybrid? Or, how about an escalade hybrid? The only reason Baldwin gives for not buying an American car is the same reasons Ralph Nader became famous - because they were shady as far as regulation. But he gives no reason to distrust the newly installed heads at GM or Chrysler (now that they are run by Fiat).

So, in the end, it comes off like he wants to punish the workers of the big three - for the actions of their FORMER bosses.

And that is just wrong.