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- A factory job is not a right. A company is not an institution. Companies have gone in and out of business since the beginning of companies. If this one is supposed to go, let it go. Another one will take its place. And if it doesn't, well, maybe there were too many of them in the first place. It's sad, it's heartbreaking, but that's our system.
Obama has a plan to help GM get through this. It may work, but then again it may become a noble but failed experiment. I hope for the former. But I'm practical about the latter. Britain and France have both been down this road, after all.
I say we try to let the patient recover. But if it becomes obvious it can only live on life support, we should do the merciful thing and pull the plug.
I wish GM and Pres. Obama the very best of luck. - Reply to this comment
- Well, now the super rich that are using slave labor in third world countries might find themselves in a real perdictament. They're going to need to share and pay real wages to somebody so there can be consumers to buy their products. That's what is causing this whole mess in the first place, the love of money. People who have more then 50 generations of their family could ever spend study demographics and pay their employees just enough to survive. Either share or their going to surround their grandchildren with a large peasant population.
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- It so sad and funny to see all the desperate posters trying to change the subject by talking about Bush. to hope we forget about Obama is a big huge failure.
Obama push you off a tall building, you say Bush Bush Bush Bush while you fall down.
Posted by oiaf17 at 8:26 PM : Jun 1, 2009
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Yeah, you almost had me there until you said "Obama push you off a tall building..."
Bush had eight years to mess up the country; you really are delusional if you think Obama or anyone else can fix it in a little over four months.
Once again: What is the republican approval rating right now? Down around 24%?
Hang in there, oiaf17; it has to get better for you. Just hang in there... - Reply to this comment
- WHAT!!??
The makers of the screaming '65 396 Dodge Hemi-in-the-
-rear-view-mirror Vette,,,,BANKRUPT,,!!??
Say it aint so!!!
But maybe they SHOULD go down the toilet,,,,all the way down!
Because the very next year GM took the 396 from the corvette
and stuck it in the Cheville.,,,,
Then,,,the bastarrds started to make the corvettes look pretty,
I dont know what the '62 vette would bring now,,,,
,,,probably a McMansion.
It was a motorcycle with two wheels,,,dont remember it's
engine,,,,never able to catch one to ask the driver. - Reply to this comment
- When people need to use GPS devices to get home from work, do you take guidance from those same people. America is full of morons
Posted by illegalsneednotapply at 8:04 PM : Jun 1, 2009
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You are right! Some of my conservative friends use GPS devices in their huge SUVs when driving to work or to the car dealer to get their vehicle serviced.
In spite of most of them having high-paying jobs, I guess they are morons, too. - Reply to this comment
- It so sad and funny to see all the desperate posters trying to change the subject by talking about Bush. to hope we forget about Obama is a big huge failure.
Obama push you off a tall building, you say Bush Bush Bush Bush while you fall down. - Reply to this comment
- And how many has he just continued on with?
Posted by taebok at 7:48 PM : Jun 1, 2009
Bush was a big failure. Obama is a big huge failure, sometimes because he keep doing Bush failure. - Reply to this comment
- Do you even realize....
Posted by bajajohn1 at 7:44 PM : Jun 1, 2009
Do you even realize, that had nothing to do with the news item, and you are just trying to divert attention from Obama is a big huge failure who is destroying the American workers. - Reply to this comment
- Give King Barry time.
Posted by valh1 at 7:53 PM : Jun 1, 2009
More fear-mongering, I'm sure. Only someone delusional would think that Obama has a "plan," as you describe. Maybe "many" of you believe that, but nearly twice as many don't believe it.
On the other hand, where were you when King George tried to curb your Constitutional rights?
Where were you when he declared war on a country that did not attack us?
Where were you when King George spent billions and billions of the taxpayers' money on his personal war with Saddam? And his war, and its cost, still rages on.
Of course Americans, your children and grandchildren, will be paying for King George's "war policy" for many many years.
Besides, GM, Chrysler, and Ford didn't fall on their arse in the past 120 days; part of it had to start when Bush gave huge tax breaks for people to buy huge vehicles. - Reply to this comment
- All republican thoughts, policies, lies and mismanagment, from social, environmental to fiscal, have been rejected outright by the American electorate. Last report there were only 23 % of Americans supporting the Repubs, so they are a minority indeed. If judging these posts is any guage, one can easily see why they have been rejected.
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- Blame the last eight years of Sheer Republican Incompetence and Lies for the current economic woes facing America. Bush rejected CAFE standard upgrades many times...yet the foreign competition kept improving their's....sort of like keeping one's car maintained at optimal operating levels and the Republican's decided not to change the oil.
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- Do you even realize....Darth Cheney just admitted there was no link between 911 and Iraq....he also said there was no Al Qaeda link in Iraq either....bunch of liars...whooey...what are your repubs going to do....for years you have brainlessly repeated the lies...man...
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- Chinese creditor: How are you going to pay us back?
American consumer: uh...well...uh I can flip burgers at McDonalds. - Reply to this comment
- GM...?
Didn't they hone the art of "planned obsolescense?
In the '50s didn't they build cars that literally fell apart so they could sell more?
Well, it looks like they inadvertently planned their own obsolescense.
Didn't GM and Chrysler, during WWII, switch on a moments notice, from building cars and trucks to building military equipment for the war effort? And they did that with 1940s technology.
American vehicles are dinosaurs. Why can't GM and Chrysler and Ford switch to a new technology and build things that are needed in the 21st century? Like mass transit? Why don't they put their plants and workers to productive use.
They could if they could only get their heads out of the sand. But a taxpayer bailout is much easier...too easy. - Reply to this comment
- Far as I'm concerned both the dems and repubs are full of @#$%
Posted by taebok at 7:35 PM : Jun 1, 2009
What wrong with Democrats? I never see you criticize them. - Reply to this comment
- Wait a minute..just wait a minute there boy...Obama was not running GM...fact is, it was a bunch of Republicon wearing coats and ties...that doomed that company....trying to blame Obama....what a little sap you are boy...
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- Millions of people who have RV's have a Saturn because they are so light weight and easy to pull. We morn the loss of a great little company. We havea 1997 Saturn that runs great and get's 33mpg. We don't need to buy a Chinese car that Obama will be pushing us to buy later this year when China imports it's Chinese car that is being made south of California in Mexico. Even one of the Ford models is being made in Mexico. We would never buy a car made by the Chinese. The Chinese government want to take over our country and our stupid politicans have let them. Many of the plants that make products, used to make their products in American, then they shipped them overseas and jobs along with it. American's, stop buying foreign goods...Buy American. Buy American. Be an American, buy American goods. With the closing of many of the GM auto plants, a Depression is just over the hill...soon all of us will pay the price for the greed of the CEO's and the corrupt, greedy politicans. Obama: How are Americans going to buy a home when you don't have a job and the only home you have to live in is your foreign car.?
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- they know that flippin burgeers is not enough to pay back all of this 'stimulas' money.
Posted by whitemale08
We will make them happy by modeling our government after their and then all debt will be forgiven. The chinese will be our fatherland
Posted by illegalsneednotapply at 7:31 PM : Jun 1, 2009 --
exactly...wait till democrats wake up and realize 'health-care reform' actually means AUSTERE CUTS in health-care to pay back China. - Reply to this comment
- Posted by mccain08nc at 7:19 PM : Jun 1, 2009 --
we weren't overpaying true American workers, you like to malign and call 'unskilled', we were paying over-educated idiots like you for taking our car loans and turning into ever more and more worthless credit-default swaps and sticking them into people's retirement funds for your stupid college boys on Wall street. - Reply to this comment
- Does any one realize Bush had a 90% approval rating in September of his first year?
Posted by mccain08nc at 7:19 PM : Jun 1, 2009
Was that before or after 9/11? - Reply to this comment
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