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D.  The U.S. Government

Congress and the President should enact and sign legislation that (1) monitors, and makes publicly available, all post-office holding speech income, of elected and appointed officials and civil servants, and (2) repeals the antidumping statutes.

The Office of the United States Trade Representative should busy itself with investigating bribes by foreign corporations to foreign governments and identifying and tearing down barriers to free trade. It should not busy itself with erecting or maintaining trade barriers domestically or pushing any product or category of product internationally. See Reliability Table and Charts, B. The Present Situation, 9.  Internationalizing “Made in U.S.A. << Trash”: Defining the Barshefsky Legacy.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology should not award the Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award to any manufacturer for whose products and those of East Asian competitors there are readily available data on one or more indices of quality. This is akin to national suicide. See Reliability Tables and Charts, B. The Present Situation, 8. The Cadillacs, the Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award and an Epitomization of the Quality of Goods Manufactured in the U.S.

E.  Shareholders of the Big Three

Shareholders of the Big Three have two primary concerns. First is loss of earnings occasioned by reliability improvements. Second is a multibillion or low trillion dollar fraud action.

With regard to the first, there appears little or no justification for the Big Three manufacturers to have improved reliability or durability. Firstly, from Table II, we see that Chrysler has had the lowest or second lowest Reliability Index Average of all manufacturers, for which there are data, for our entire history of data, but its market share has grown from 1993 to 2000, while the market shares of both Ford and General Motors have declined. Secondly, from the bipolarity Charts II – VIII, we see a great gulf between the Reliability Index Values and Averages of the Big Three and those of the Reliable Two; however, in Table VII we see only a glacial drift in the new passenger vehicle market shares from the Big Three to the Reliable Two.

Nonetheless, from Table IV we see that the Big Three have significantly improved the reliability of certain models, notably certain pickups. See section Reliability Tables and Charts, C. Trends and Currents, 2. The Big Gainers. Shareholders should insist on hard data that show specific earnings that have accrued from such reliability improvements and also lost earnings from lost sales of replacement parts and replacement vehicles that have accrued from the same reliability improvements. If the two combined yield a net loss of too many billion, management should be fired.

With regard to the second concern, with the gulf in reliability shown in Charts II through VIII, none of the Big Three should make any reference to, or suggestion of, quality in any advertisement, in the absence of a clear, demonstrable need for doing so. This simply invites a fraud action of nearly immeasurable proportion. Hence, it would seem prudent for shareholders to fire any and all management involved in the creation, approval, and/or oversight of any advertisement referring to, or suggesting, quality in any of the Big Three products, unless a clear need for such an advertisement can be demonstrated.

F.  Prospective Jurors

In a legal action, an injured party vs. one of the Big Three, there are two competing considerations that you may wish to weigh. One is that with reliability numbers like those in this review, any person who buys a Big Three vehicle should, arguably, be deemed to have accepted any and all risks of ownership of such a vehicle. The other is that nearly all buyers, or the great bulk of the buyers, of Big Three vehicles are, arguably, hapless nitwits, the defendant Big Three manufacturer knew, or should have known, this, and consequently there was an extra duty on the Big Three manufacturer to design its vehicles so that a hapless nitwit might not injure himself/herself in the operation of his/her vehicle. Where you come down on these two thoughts may decide the case for you.

 G.  Hopeless Romantics, Eternal Optimists, Dedicated Do-Gooders and the Lone Civic-Minded Newspaper

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