Not a wrong take. Most likely outcome is Trump goes the “National Security” route, and since the Supreme Court won’t get to it for at least 18 months, the wall dies on the grapevine.

“She took the loan and the extra savings and just paid the whole thing off right away.’

3rd: Currently a Prius owner (it does what it needs to), and assuming Tesla doesn’t belly flop, I fully intend to move up to a Tesla in a few years. Basically waiting to see if anyone else comes up with more attractive options (cost, performance, charge time, range, etc).

Pretty much this. You can never afford to put all your eggs in one basket, because it takes time to change course once market conditions change.

The Government is just a reflection on the people who vote. While it’s easy to treat “the Government” as a boogyman, the truth is far crueler:

Hey, you all voted to treat the US government like a business. You got exactly what you voted for.

This Congress didn’t vote to authorize the wall, the last one did. This Congress is willing to pay to increase funding for border security, but not the wall.

At this point, the best thing for Europe is for the UK to got “no deal” and for it to go so badly, no one ever seriously considering going that route again.

Simply put: Jobs, and well paying ones for that. There’s a reason why most of the US’s economic growth is centered in cities, and that’s because that is where the people who make (and as a result, spend) the most money.

The *real* underlying problem is how states budget, specifically the fact they can’t deficit spend.  They have to borrow money to cover any revenue shortfall.  As a result, rather then deficit spend in the short term to re-pave decrepit roads in order to save money down the road (no pun intended), they just keep…

That’s a bit much; see the response France just had over a much smaller (~$0.20) increase caused.

That’s what will eventually need to happen to be honest; Tesla’s doing a lot of that out of their own pocket, and that’s the main reason why I believe Tesla is going to “win” the EV wars.

But we’re not talking about a guy who committed a murder or is an immediate threat to society at large; is there any justification that the guy needed to be arrested NOW, instead of maybe 6 hours later?

Waterproofing is NOT hard.

You know, if only there were some mechanism for employees at the Ohio plants to strike back at GM, possibly by hurting them in an economic manner in order to put pressure on GM not to go through with this action.

“Why not build EVs in that plant, and why not promise to make all EVs intended for the U.S. market right here in the U.S.?”

The problem with Democratic leadership is they don’t want to be seen as the ones who “shut down the government”; we’ve seen this over and over again. So they cave on issues for the greater good, on the expectation it will win them elections in the long run.

The problem is there really isn’t a viable way to increase manufacturing in a way that’s profitable. Simply put: Wages, benefits, and costs are too high in the US to support a manufacturing base; that’s why the US has been moving more toward services. The idea that you can have a large base of manufacturing jobs for…

Disagree.  It’s not just the cost to keep GM running, you have to consider the effects that loss of employment would have on the greater economy.  GM going bankrupt would have cost the economy a ton more then the cost to keep it up and running.

I’ll say it again: While I disagree about GM outright giving up Sedans, they are absolutely correct to slim down.