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Big 3 Vow To Slash Workers, Exec Pay In Return For Federal Lifeline; GM Seeks $18B To Survive
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- AND it''''s safe to ride the bus here. Mostly.
Posted by txgrouch2007 at 09:54 PM : Dec 02, 2008
Hahahaha, yeah, right.
That''s probably the ONLY thing that''s safe to do in TEXAS!:) - Reply to this comment
- I''m am GM and I only need 18 billion dollars by March or I will go under that sounds alot like the Govt to me? I wonder if they will have to print more money or just take a check?
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- Thank GOD Chambliss won in Georgia! The US Auto industry needs to fail! I''m no GOP, but I agree that GM, FORD & everybody else created this mess. Let them figure out how to fix it. After all, what has that industry ever done but sponsor sporting events & screw consumers with inflated prices and interest rates?!
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- Automakers vow to slash workers? I thought the bailout was to prevent that? "Okay give us 25 billion dollars and we''''ll layoff everybody?" What kind of crapp is that?
Posted by BRdeckard at 10:02 PM : Dec 02, 2008
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It''s *** for sure & these bailouts are the biggest joke ever. Why we are not a nation pounding down the steps of Congress I have yet to figure out. - Reply to this comment
- Maybe in Texas they do, but not where people have a REAL winter.
Posted by erasmus606 at 09:45 PM : Dec 02, 2008
That''s why we live in Texas, eh.
AND it''s safe to ride the bus here. Mostly. - Reply to this comment
- Fire all three of those chumps and bring in some real leadership, or no cash.
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- stick a 1957 body on a 2010 chassis. And have it work..
Posted by william609 at 09:46 PM : Dec 02, 2008
What 2010 car has a chassis?
You been into the moonshine again. - Reply to this comment
- Them ''''like a rock'''' commercials should read ''''like a god damned moocher''''.
Posted by william609 at 09:15 PM : Dec 02, 2008
I drove a Chevy for a while. Far too often, it really was "like a rock:" it couldn''t move under its own power. - Reply to this comment
- Well, you must be a city girl then, because most folks know cows mostly feed themselves.
Posted by RowdynTex at 09:37 PM : Dec 02, 2008
Maybe in Texas they do, but not where people have a REAL winter. - Reply to this comment
- Its a waste of money bailing out these weasels. They''ve had a CENTURY to plan for better cars...better ALTERNATIVE FUEL cars. And they ignored the future. Again: GM CRUSHED thousands of the highly acclaimed EV1. Citizens LOVED it. Say NO to the bailout of Detroit.
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- And if you seem to think I''''m on here 24/7, how would you know if you''''re not here too?
Posted by RowdynTex at 09:26 PM : Dec 02, 2008
I don''t have to be on here 24/7 to know that you are. I can come on once a day and know that. After I read the articles and scroll through the comments, your name is always there. Morning till night. Not that it''s any of my business of course. I was just curious as to how the cows got fed.:) Have a great night. - Reply to this comment
- I find sad that not one of them included their resignation. After all, it was their leadership that sent their companies down the toilet.
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- I did too, Donnie, but I make sure it sits down at the barn and is driven only when I need to move hay and cows around, and I''''m danged careful when I do...
Posted by RowdynTex at 09:05 PM : Dec 02, 2008
I''m wonderin'' when them poor old cows get fed. They must be starving. You''re on here 24/7. - Reply to this comment
- Oh, come off it. We had prosperity then because we had a VERY uneven playing field - IN OUR FAVOR. We cleaned up.
The rest of the world was still rebuilding its industries after we helped demolish them in WW2, in a war we didn''''''''t start but we sure finished. They were buying stuff from us to rebuild.
We had prosperity until they finished rebuilding. Then we had old WW2 vintage factories, and they had shiny new ones with the latest technology.
They started beating our pants off. And they haven''''''''t stopped since.
Posted by txgrouch2007 at 09:02 PM : Dec 02, 2008
WE AGREE AGAIN!!! But they caught up with us. Now its our turn to play catch up. - Reply to this comment
- I''''ll say you were driving, you''''ll say I was. Ted will say Mary Jo was driving. Mary Jo - well, she''''s dead, she won''''t say nuttin''''.
How can they prove anything?
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Posted by txgrouch2007 at 08:59 PM : Dec 02, 2008
WE AGREE AGAIN!!!
But they caught up with us. Now its our turn.
But I really must go. - Reply to this comment
- I drove a VW Beetle for 15 years and it looked like new when I sold it, and ran like a charm.
Why doesn''''t somebody design one like that?
Posted by RowdynTex at 08:59 PM : Dec 02, 2008
They did - it''s called the Toyota Tercel. My ''96 is still running like new.
They don''t make it anymore. - Reply to this comment
- We need to embrace new things like we did in the 50''''s and 60''''s.
Posted by machineguy at 08:58 PM : Dec 02, 2008
Oh, come off it. We had prosperity then because we had a VERY uneven playing field - IN OUR FAVOR. We cleaned up.
The rest of the world was still rebuilding its industries after we helped demolish them in WW2, in a war we didn''t start but we sure finished. They were buying stuff from us to rebuild.
We had prosperity until they finished rebuilding. Then we had old WW2 vintage factories, and they had shiny new ones with the latest technology.
They started beating our pants off. And they haven''t stopped since. - Reply to this comment
- I''''ll say you were driving, you''''ll say I was. Ted will say Mary Jo was driving. Mary Jo - well, she''''s dead, she won''''t say nuttin''''.
How can they prove anything?
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Posted by txgrouch2007 at 08:59 PM : Dec 02, 2008
ROTFLMAO - Reply to this comment
- Nice dream, Grouchy, but prison time doesn''''t seem worth it. However accountability would simply be nice.
Posted by RowdynTex at 08:55 PM : Dec 02, 2008
I''ll say you were driving, you''ll say I was. Ted will say Mary Jo was driving. Mary Jo - well, she''s dead, she won''t say nuttin''.
How can they prove anything? - Reply to this comment
- WHAT other car makers?
The Big 3 drove them all out of business years ago.
But if there are any, then only the Big 3 get the bailout. The others are too small to bail out.
If they start bailing out small companies, then pretty soon they''''ll have to bail out individual citizens. And we can''''t have that.
Equal treatment is like avoiding conflict of interest. Nobody cares anymore.
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Posted by txgrouch2007 at 08:57 PM : Dec 02, 2008
One last post tonight. Toyota makes cars in the US. I think (not sure) Mercedes does too. - Reply to this comment
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