06-05-2009, 10:17 AM
So.. something dawned on me this morning as I was reading about Penske buying the Saturn Brand from GM.
As I thought about what was going on with the car companies and our economy here, I thought about another time where the government stepped in to make changes to a large company.
That company was AT&T. It was forced to break itself up into smaller companies due to antitrust regulations.
As I watch the car companies begin to break themselves up to survive, I begin to wonder if history will repeat itself and if the car companies will end up consolodating back into giant companies once again.
Who is to say that in 5 years, that GM won't just buy Saturn and Hummer back from the companies they are selling to today?
As I thought about what was going on with the car companies and our economy here, I thought about another time where the government stepped in to make changes to a large company.
That company was AT&T. It was forced to break itself up into smaller companies due to antitrust regulations.
As I watch the car companies begin to break themselves up to survive, I begin to wonder if history will repeat itself and if the car companies will end up consolodating back into giant companies once again.
Who is to say that in 5 years, that GM won't just buy Saturn and Hummer back from the companies they are selling to today?
What you know you can't explain, but you feel it. You've felt it your entire life, that there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad.