Detroit is easy to hate but there’s more wrong here than how much can-do energy they wake up in the morning with. If they competed on features and quality they could never compete on price. Everything we do to keep the dollar strong makes it impossible to manufacture here.

Big corporations know very well how competition works and would like to avoid it at all costs.

Couldn't have a thought further from his mind

Nah man, that's not the purpose of unrestrained capitalism. The point is to get big enough that you can buy out all the competition, then make your product cheaper and cheaper once there's no one to compete against. It's a bit like an economical algae bloom.

They saw what happened in the 70s and said never again will they have to actually compete with better products

Michael Dunne has been competing the entire time, for the Chinese. His statements here aren't fear, they're shillery.