This way of thinking has continued with Bush and Clinton. Clinton, a democrat nonetheless, had both parties backing further attacks on government restraints on corporate profit making. It's a "you scratch my back I scratch your back process". These corporations give millions of dollars to campaigns to get the officials elected. Once in the official does what he can for the corporation. .
Greider brings up a point of whether there is a separation of party lines. The truth is that it has nothing to do with politics anymore and all to do with money. There is definitely no difference between democrats and republicans when it comes to money; they all see the same thing, green. Ford as an example has many friends in congress and the senate. This includes Fred Upton, R- Michigan who is chairman of one of the hearings against Ford. Wouldn't we all wish to have such friends in high places?.
We ask who is responsible. Someone walking down the street takes out a gun shoots and kills someone. He ends up in jail for a really long time. What's going on here is that Ford basically murdered over 100 people and they are getting away with it. Where is the justice, do we see any executive being sent to jail, I don't think so. There are a lot of people responsible, but nobody to take the blame. Obviously Ford has to be the main miscreant; it is their product. Still they do not stand-alone. The government has wronged the comsumer by deregulating the system. Over the last 20 years the NHTSA has its budget cut by a third. How can we realistically think that they will do the proper job? On the other hand in a sense the NHTSA is a puppet branch of the auto companies. The most difficult and almost unbelievable group responsible for this debacle is the UAW. The UAW is the union for autoworkers. The problem is that they don't represent the workers in any sense of the word. They march to the sound of the auto makers drumbeat.