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corysub -> RE: I am so disgusted... (12/13/2008 6:27:44 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Owner59
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ORIGINAL: Aszhrae
Girl is far from being disgusted.
Honestly the big three did it to themselves. Priced themselves right out of the market, Union heads only really care about the union dues that they receive and each time the company shows a profit the UAW decides that its time to go on strike.
Awww, poor babies. Did it to themselves.
Did the unions force GM to produce 8 different Escalade models that won`t sell during 4 dollar gas times?
No one is selling cars right now.Every brand,even imports are down.
700 billion for bankers (who produce nothing)with no accounting and we can`t drum up a 14 bil. bridge loan for Detroit?
Something`s a miss.
To put things into perspective,we throw 14 billion dollars down a rat hole every month,in Iraq.
We can`t get that much to help out the big three?
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We could easily fall into an economic depression,if Detroit fails.
There`s an estimated 16 million more home foreclosures to come in the next two years.
Letting Detroit fail would only add to that.
I`m still quite amassed at the lackadaisical attitudes concerning out economic future.As if folks were some how immune to job loss,business loss,home loss,retirement savings loss,etc.
Dosen`t everyone have to eat,wear clothes,stay warm and dry?
Bankruptcy should be allowed to happen. The companies should restructure their business under bankruptcy protection, renogotiate union contracts, cut benefits the way all of us have seen companies cut benefits, and
the government should stay clear of designing cars!
A girl has a lot of common sense. Today's problem facing the big three is not due to the current economic slump. These companies having been making terrible cars, have dealerships with terrible mechanical skills in repairs or just have not seemed to care. The Japanese cars have been better styled have don't have the mechanical problems faced by buyers of American made cars. Things have gotten better but these companies having screwed up their business for decades. And they have had help in this regard! The unions demanded and received wage and benefit packages that made competition with foreign makers even more difficult. How many blue collar workers do you know have a package of wages and benefits that totals over $70 an hour! How many blue collar workers do you know have a "job bank" where if they are laid off they sit in a cafeteria and get 95% of their wages?? How many blue collar workers do you know can retire at 58 years of age!!!!!!! Gimme a break...the unions have done what they always do when they feel they can run over companies...they destroy those companies. The steel workers did that in Pittsburgh and steel and shipbuilding moved to Japan and Korea. The dock workers did that in NYC and the docks closed and moved to Baltimore or across the river to New Jersey. The NYC printers union went on strike after strike and you no longer have papers like the Brooklyn Eagle, The Herald Tribune, The Journal American, The Long Island Press, The Daily Mirror...and on....all closed!
The auto industry has also been strangled by a "green" Congress that even in todays depression like economy insists that any package be GREEN....so that Pelosi can "save the planet".. Americans can't save their jobs and the democrat leadership wants to save the friggin planet. These insane politicians on the left are infected with severe Algoreitis....and byy into the "we are destroying the planet stupidity" with MANDATES for milage on cars, electric cars, and on and on. No where else in the world are governments desiging the auto's to be made by their companies for consumers who will not buy them. Who the hell has the money these days to replace their internal combustion engine care .... ?:? We should be drilling for oil and building nuclear plants...but Noooooo, Pelosi wants to save the planet and so the hippies of the 60's and their kids march with nostalgic glee in lock-step.
The fault of today's auto industry problem cannot be cured by $14 billion. If you belive that..lets play some poker.
The industry should be merged..or at least Chrysler and GM.., a sabatical should be declared on auto mileage requirements, and the union should give back some of that pay package.
Lehman wasn't bailed out...IndyMac wasn't bailed out, Bear, Stearns wasn't bailed out...and these companies should not be given a dime of taxpayer money without the taxpayers being assured that Congress is going to be responsible in how the money is used.
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