Need a Little Help
19 May 2009
by BILL WADDELL A week ago I was presented with the blogging ranter's worst nightmare - a challenge to either do something about the problems pla…
Blind To The Whole
15 May 2009
by BILL WADDELL So GM announces that 2,600 dealers are going to fall by the wayside, and Chrysler is giving the heave-ho to almost 800. That will ta…
Mike Says Put Up or Shut Up
13 May 2009
by BILL WADDELL After one of my recent rants on the devastating impact Wall Street is having on our manufacturing base, a reader by the name of Mike,…
The Epitome of Waste
12 May 2009
by BILL WADDELL I was thumbing through the Chrysler bankruptcy filing and came across a few numbers that are worth sharing. The great thing about Ch…
Stickin' It To The Grandkids
8 May 2009
by BILL WADDELL The fact that we are borrowing money from future generations and spending it like drunken sailors on shore leave is well documented.…
The Irrelevance of the Economists
6 May 2009
by BILL WADDELL Several years back one of my sons played on a little league baseball team that happened to be losing 15 or 20 to nothing, which happe…
The Lean Gospel
4 May 2009
by BILL WADDELL For several years I have been concerned with the question of why the big publicly traded companies find it so difficult - often impos…
So Fair An Opportunity
1 May 2009
by BILL WADDELL In 1864 some Union soldiers with mining experience dug a long tunnel and placed a huge cache of dynamite under the Confederate lines…