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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (434917)12/3/2008 7:29:54 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (2) of 1574685
 
Secondly, I am surprised the author compared Eastman Kodak/upstate NY to the auto industry. Its not a very reasonable comparison.. We're talking the difference between a gas station and the Pentagon

No your not. The three car companies are bigger (even just one of them is), but not by any stretch of the imagination does the difference resemble that between a gas station and the pentagon.

And the point isn't about the scale, but the principle. Do something foolish on a bigger scale and it just makes it worse.

Eastman Kodak employed 60k; from what I understand the auto industry and its vendors employes well over a million people

GM (the biggest of the three) employs 266,000. That's less than four and a half times more. And the many of GM's employees don't work in the US.
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