ROMNEY REALLY AN AMERICAN MOTORS EXPERIMENTAL ROBOT THAT WENT WRONG

by R J Shulman

DETROIT – (PTSD News Service) – The Post Times Sun Dispatch has learned that back in 1962, when American Motors was a struggling number four behind GM, Ford, and Chrysler, CEO George W. Romney had a revolutionary idea to make his company more competitive.  Romney planned to replace expensive union workers with robots.

Built out of unused Hudson and Nash parts, the prototype robot, called the AMC 999 was designed to build the Rambler station wagon.  However, instead of making cars, all the robot could do was fire people and steal their pensions. 

“I made the robot in my own image,” wrote George W. Romney in a secret 1987 memo obtained by the Post Times Sun Dispatch, “I know I should have deactivated Willard as I called him, although he soon got the nickname Mitt because he couldn’t keep his mitts off other people’s property.  But instead, I sent him out into the world. What harm could he do?  It was not like he was going to get into a position of leadership where he could harm people.”

When confronted by the Post Times Sun Dispatch, Mitt Romney vehemently denied he was the AMC 999, and said, “Corporation are people, Corporations are people, Corporations are people, Corporations are people….”