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Jewish World Review May 4, 2009 / Iyar 5769 Detroit Opens Up the Hood By David Broder http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | When I was in high school, my parents gave me 15 shares of General Motors stock, worth maybe $600, and a lecture on investing in America. This is a great company, they said, and now you own part of it. Hold on to it, and your investment will grow. They had that confidence, even coming out of the Great Depression, because they knew how deeply entrenched General Motors and its products were in the American way of life. It wasn't just Dinah Shore singing the jingle: "See the USA in your Chevrolet." Yanson Chevrolet was just down the street from my dad's dental office, and when parts started wearing out on one year's model, Burt Yanson would offer him a trade-in, and a new Chevy would go into our garage. I never sold that GM stock, partly out of respect for my parents and partly because I could witness the steady conversion of its dividends into additional shares and the rise in the stock price from year to year. Now, all the accumulated shares of some 60 years are worth less than what my parents paid for the original 15. As a taxpayer, I, along with millions of others, am now a creditor of GM and Chrysler. But looking at both of them, what I feel is mostly regret. The American automobile industry is a victim of altered circumstances and self-inflicted wounds — maybe more the latter than the former. When I started visiting Detroit regularly as a political reporter in the late 1950s, local mentors were already discussing the parochialism of the Big Three executives and their families, living the good life in their suburban enclaves. As long as they were competing only among themselves, they were fine. But when the world came knocking at Detroit's door, they were caught napping. My parents never thought of buying anything but an American-made car. Nor did I — until the Army sent me to Europe in the early 1950s and I saw the early-model Volkswagens and Renaults and Fiats, little, cheaply made vehicles that ran forever on a tank of gas. I bought a used Fiat Topolino — a Mickey Mouse car — to use on weekend passes, and though it was so underpowered it barely made it up a sizable hill, it served its purpose. But I sold it when my tour of duty was over, and I bought a Plymouth here at home. By the time John Kennedy was in office, we had four young sons. Hauling them and their supplies to our summer cabin in Michigan became the real transportation challenge. Nothing else had the same roominess and economy as the Volkswagen buses — high-standing boxes on wheels that started showing up about then. We bought a succession of them, used. Their fan belts snapped as easily as rubber bands but were cheap and easy to replace. And then came the Japanese, quickly overcoming a reputation for shoddiness and challenging Detroit on its home turf. It wasn't just Japan signaling that times were changing. George Romney (Mitt's father) began turning out sporty Ramblers at the Nash plant in Wisconsin and stole a chunk of the economy market from the Big Three. By the time the Republicans held their national convention in Detroit in 1980, it was clear that the American auto industry was in real trouble. We stayed in a rented house in Grosse Pointe during the convention, and our neighbors were candid about the worries they heard at work. It is now almost three decades later, and the surviving companies and their dealers, creditors and workers finally are making the desperate adjustments this deteriorating situation requires. Can the Big Three survive? I certainly hope so. But when I see what has happened to the city of Detroit — the homes boarded up, the streets emptied, the newspapers starved — I have to wonder. This industry has ignored so many warning signs. Can it still respond? Every weekday JewishWorldReview.com publishes what many in the media and Washington consider "must-reading". Sign up for the daily JWR update. It's free. Just click here. To comment, please click here. Previously: 04/30/09: Specter the defector 04/26/09: Stop Scapegoating: Obama Should Stand Against Prosecutions 04/23/09: A Bravura Opening 04/13/09: Why the Center Still Holds 04/09/09: Being a sports fan just got a whole lot better 04/06/09: A Bipartisan Bill Worth Celebrating 04/02/09: Obama's Muscle Moment 03/30/09: Warning: Congress is about to perform a cover-up on the most serious threat to America's economic future 03/23/09: Mr. Cool's March Madness 03/16/09: End of the honeymoon 03/08/09: Education's Chance of a Lifetime: Reforming Education With Sufficient Resources 03/05/09: Running on empty 03/01/09: Illinois' Mr. Clean 02/26/09: Obama rolls the dice 02/22/09: New Eyes On Bigger Prizes 02/19/09: Betting on bipartisanship 02/16/09: Just the Start 02/12/09: Biden in the House 02/09/09: The GOP Faces the Blue Wall 02/06/09: A cabinet loss and gain 02/02/09: The votes Obama truly needs 02/02/09: It's no joke to Illinois 01/26/09: Dynasties in decline 01/22/09: Born to build bridges 01/19/09: The call that Bush didn't make 01/15/09: Diplomacy that heals 01/12/09: An early drubbing for Obama 01/09/09: Tales From Longworth 01/05/09: Missing A Few Sages 01/02/09: Illinois Outdoes Itself 12/29/08: The GOP Goes South 12/15/08: Health Reform's Moment 12/11/08: Long Path to a Fall in Illinois 12/08/08: Rescuing a college education 12/04/08: The danger of holdovers 11/31/08: Addressing the States' Dire Straits 11/28/08: Good time for a brainy president 11/24/08: Rising Hope For Fixing Health Care 11/19/08: A Force for Good — but Not at State 11/17/08: GOP has work to do 11/13/08: Obama's good start 11/10/08: Governors Know Best 11/06/08: The Task Ahead 11/03/08: The Amazing Race: I thought 1960 was the best campaign I'd ever cover. But 2008 has that election beat 10/30/08: What We've Learned About McCain 10/27/08: A New England Brawl 10/23/08: Blue Sparks in Red Ohio 10/17/08: Obama's Assurance Policy 10/14/08: Live from the Pennsylvania frontlines 10/12/08: The proposals that could bind Obama 10/09/08: What do we really know about them? 10/06/08: The uplifting debate 10/02/08: Economics Exam in Michigan 09/28/08: McCain out-pointed Obama 09/26/08: Credibility Test for Congress 09/22/08: A debate's high stakes 09/22/08: Down days for McCain 09/15/08: The Next President's Due Bill 09/11/08: GOP celebration and Dem gloom are premature 09/08/08: Can we count on change? 09/03/08: Palin's Learning Curve 09/02/08: How Palin could help 09/02/08: What Happened to the Obama of 2004? 08/26/08: The Women Hit Their Mark 08/25/08: The Joe I know … and what it means for McCain 08/21/08: In N.H., a Deal to Close 08/18/08: Obama's Well-Oiled Machine 08/14/08: Pros and Conventions: Useful Ideas From the Stevensons and Friends 08/11/08: Rivals in Search of Trust 08/07/08: A Way Back to the High Road? 08/04/08: A Slate To Revive The Senate 07/31/08: When Congress Works 07/29/08: Management 101 for Senators 07/24/08: Obama's success abroad was pure luck 07/21/08: Obama's success abroad was pure luck 07/17/08: Governors offer real world wisdom. Obama and McCain would be wise to listen 07/14/08: Foes and allies strive to peg a shifty Obama 07/10/08: Fixing How We Go to War 07/07/08: Decider on the High Court 07/03/08: One Nation No More? Civics Needs a Boost, but Our Identity Endures 06/30/08: Dumbing Down the Presidency 06/26/08: Voting's Neglected Scandal 06/23/08: Why don't we know what makes Obama tick? 06/19/08: Foreign Policy's Best Hope 06/16/08: Perot, Back On the Charts 06/16/08: The Many Gifts of Tim Russert 06/12/08: Why Hillary played the womyn card 06/08/08: Eclipsed by the Adventures of Hillary 06/02/08: Obama in retreat 06/02/08: Reality vs. the Mythmakers 05/29/08: Hamilton Jordan's Message to Obama 05/27/08: Let the Veepstakes Begin 05/19/08: The mental exercise of placing Obama in the Oval Office requires more imagination than did moving Reagan from the silver screen to Pennsylvania Ave. 05/15/08: For Obama, a Lost Moment 05/12/08: The price of delay 05/08/08: Phoniness and inevitability 05/05/08: Winning by destruction: An insider reveals the Hillary game plan 05/01/08: Candidates' high-mindedness is rooted in religiosity; but Hillary and McCain don't have hater as inspiration © 2008, by WPWG

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