Journey in Instruction

While I watched the Sunday shows this week, the theme of globalization seemed to emerge.

Meet the Press

2:45 into the video below

David Gregory asked GM CEO, Fritz Henderson, “Do you expect and would you like to see President Obama encourage the country to buy American cars?”  Henderson responded:

“Um… no, actually.  I think consumers should buy exactly what kind of car they think meets their needs and that excites them. And as I look at it, it is our job to provide that, not necessarily have it mandated or otherwise encouraged.  I think we have fantastic cars and trucks and we’re going to win in the marketplace not just because we’re a U.S. company.”

Face the Nation

2:20 into the video below

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Bob Shieffer asked the Treasury Secretary, Timothy Geithner, if he thought unemployment could go as high as 10%.  Geither responded:

“Well again, Bob, it depends how effective we are in moving and why it is so important that we move with countries around the world.  You saw the president this week in London move with countries around the world to make sure that they’re moving with us.  You know, in past recoveries, the world sort of depended on the American consumer to spend the world into recovery.  And that is not a healthy balanced way for us to do this.  We need countries around the world moving with us.”

This Week

The last 0:30 of the video

http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=7261357

Participating in George Stephanopoulos’s roundtable, Richard Haass, President of the Council on Foreign Relations, commented on the possible responses to the North Korean missile launch:

“We shouldn’t kid ourselves, George.  There is no solution to this — whether it’s sanctions or diplomacy or whether it’s missile defense.  Welcome to the 21^st century.  This is a world in which power, and in many cases in nasty forms like proliferation, will become more dispersed, more distributed.  This is the future of the world.  This is history coming to us now.  We can’t solve it.  We can perhaps manage it at times.  But this is going to be a messier, more difficult world that the United States at best can influence.  We can’t dominate it.  We certainly can’t control it.”

p.s. CBS wins for easiest video to embed.  NBC’s embed code appears to break if you switch between visual mode and HTML mode in Wordpress.  I didn’t see an easy way to embed ABC News.  Anyone have a legit method?