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Old 09-01-2012, 04:46 AM   #49
KXRM
 
Drives: 2011 Mustang GT
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Location: Fort Worth, TX
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Originally Posted by naSSty1 View Post
Honestly? it sounds like a lot of you know nothing about what the auto industry has done for this country. General Motors converted all of its production to the Allied war effort and delivered more than $12 billion worth of goods, ranging from airplanes to tanks, marine diesel engines, trucks, machine guns, and shells. No other manufacturer delivered as much material to the Allied forces. Here is a list of the WWII General Motors War Material Production 1940-45:

198,000 Diesel engines for tanks & landing craft
206,000 Airplane engines
13,000 Complete bombers and fighter planes
97,000 Aircraft propellors
301,000 Aircraft gyroscopes
38,000 Tanks, tank destroyers and armored vehicles
854,000 Trucks, including amhibious DUKWs
190,000 Cannons
1,900,000 Machine guns and submachine guns
3,142,000 Carbines
3,826,000 Electric motors
11,111,000 Fuses
360,000,000 Ball and roller bearings
119,562,000 Shells
39,181,000 Cartridge cases

Honestly, I would bail them out too.
We should have probably let Jerry Sandusky off too, he did all those charitable things for children after all. I know my analogy is a little dramatic but the past deeds, especially from 70 years ago are just not enough to warrant the travesty that has been happening the last 30. As others have commented, they got paid for all that so it's moot.
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