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Detroit, 3:23 PM
Tue Nov 24
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11/08/08
11/07/08
Someone to inflate your tires, someone who cares
Your own presidential Jesus
Ties to radicals like Ayers, someone with flair....
11/07/08
11/07/08
Throwing money never puts a fire out.
11/07/08
While Toyota made the Prius and every non-domestic automaker came out with hybrid's, GM built Tahoe hybrids. TAHOE HYBRIDS! No one is going to purchase a "Hybrid" that gets 24 mpg highway. It's just not gonna sell.
I think if the impotent 3, I'm trademarking that, want anymore bailouts the CEO's should resign. That's our money being handed to you to make cars we want. Obviously you havent been doing the job to this point, why should we trust you to do it right the 2nd/3rd time around? Want a bailout Impotent 3? Then have the CEO's resign. They'll either stop begging for our cash or they'll start making changes, QUICK.
11/07/08
Or having the Michigan fat-asses pay more than a $15 co-pay when all that consumed pork turns into a triple by-pass.
Oh wait, he loves Unions and doesn't see that they are killing these car companies. They can't spend money on innovation because its going to legacy union workers, and thats exactly where all the money Hussein gives them will go.
"But they need their union! Or the company will hurt them"
Look at all the foreign car factory plants in America, none have Unions, but their workers are well taken care of. And no foreign companies will go within 400 miles of a plant that does. Yet they make better cars and aren't falling out of the sky. Hmph, maybe something needs to CHANGE!
11/07/08
With the Automakers, it should be survival of the fittest, and right now, GM seems to be putting on a few pounds (or they've been putting them on for 10 years and are now being forced to do wind sprints)
I'm not totally against Washington bailing out Detroit, but in a way that totally doesn't screw over taxpayers, and that forces GM to change and transform, so that in 40 years or so, in the next credit crunch (Yes, this has happened before, see Martin Van Buren), GM will be somewhat prepared, and have somewhat, well, competent management.
11/07/08
How to change this? Not an easy one.
11/07/08
The Union members are at least as screwed as everybody else these days.
11/07/08
I am fully aware of the history of Unions and the marked influence they have in transforming American factories into something humane. While I haven't read "The Jungle" by Upton, I am fully aware of its contents and more importantly its influence.
HOWEVER, Unions aren't what they used to be and and become more and more a way for Union bosses who exert mafia control over a workforce to get rich without spending a single say on the manufacturing floor. The Union as a whole strangles the company while telling them they need more air.
Fix it? No, scrap it! If the people resist, then move. If Union laws prevent moving (they probably do). Dump the company, start a new one and eventually the Union ideology will die once the entire northern midwest is unemployed and hungry. Then move the new company back and conduct business like foreign companies on our soil.
11/09/08
Don't get me wrong; it is their nature to seek profit and cut costs but they have to be limited somehow.
11/07/08
;)
11/07/08
Pick up the receiver, Obama, I will make you a believer.
". . .reach out, touch faith!"
11/07/08
See him on the interstate
We've got the American Jesus
He helped build Rick Wagoner's estate
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11/09/08
(What did I just say? That makes sense, doesn't it?)
11/07/08
11/07/08
That makes one of you.
11/07/08
...that was a lot of acronyms, wasn't it?
11/07/08
11/07/08
He wont, all i see is a man full of hollow promises..
11/07/08
11/09/08
He's just a politician after all. I get the sense that he's an extraordinarily intelligent one, and he's got the whole charisma thing going for him. He just needs a little luck to help us out here.
11/07/08
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11/07/08
Importing cars (or car designs) from other countries requires cooperation with those darn Yurp-eans, and that's hurtin A'murican jobs.
No matter how sane it sounds, Americans will cling to their guns, religion and Tahoes
/sarcasm
11/07/08
It's the fuel efficient part the big three has trouble with.
11/07/08
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11/09/08
11/07/08
First, inane news about the First Dog.
Then, "Keeping you informed. This is CNN."
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11/07/08
The petro industry got started on it's profits orgy before Hurricane Katrina...... you can't tell me these morons didn't have a single adviser in the board room saying "You know guys, it might bode well for us to add some 30+ mpg cars to the lineup in case this lasts a while".
3 years later? "Hey look, a Hybrid Tahoe that greenies still won't buy because it's still a f*cking Tshoe and no one else will buy because gas costs $800 an ounce!" Or a Volt that costs twice what it should.
I should add that I don't blame them for offering lines of big trucks and SUV's (I bought one!) but they should have been smart and worked on diversifying their product lines so that if the bottom fell out of the truck/SUV market, they'd still have something to sell.