Comments on: Feeding Time

By: Matt Davies

Matt Davies — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 11:25:50 +0000

Purity is right. I should have known better about Maggie, of course. My memory of the wars between her and the auto unions served to awaken my juvenile political awareness – Though evidently it didn’t awaken too much awareness.

She inherited the precision machine known as British Leyland. Then crushed it.

By: Purity

Purity — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:16:02 +0000

Ummm. Margaret Thatcher didn’t nationalise a thing in her whole life Matt.
British Leyland went publicly owned in 1975…4 years before the glorious revolution.

By: Lalas

Lalas — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:46:34 +0000

Matt—You are definitely one of the best cartoonists out there. The art on this is absolutely freaking BRILLIANT! Make sure not to put your hand in that gaping maw.
Bravo!

On a less adulatory note… I agree that this will be a long and expensive can-kicking adventure. However, if Universal Health Care becomes a reality, once we get past the initial cost of that, it could help bring down the legacy cost of union promises. I also fear that this situation might further weaken the unions as the whole taxpayer base is now eyeballing them. If we’re ponying up to keep GM afloat, even pro-union folks like myself will be demanding concessions in hopes of avoiding the debacle of which you speak.—L

By: Mimi Glueck

Mimi Glueck — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:00:56 +0000

Absolutely the perfect cartoon for the GM -government deal! I just read the newspaper and was thinking that all of us will be saddled with the worker’s needs for many years ahead. Great Cartoon!

By: Steve C.

Steve C. — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:00:32 +0000

Now explain to me why a car company can’t fail?
It’s their own fault for not allowing competition with smaller manufacturers. remember Tucker?
all but 2 or 3 of his cars are still on the road. go figure…