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- "Business As Usual Is Over"
They're counting on, (relying on?), the all new 2010 Camaro to get them out of the hole they dug themselves into.
A $30,000, two door, gas guzzling sedan, that doesn't seat a family comfortably, can't haul any cargo bigger than two grocery bags, and gets 16 MPG.
Basically, they're pushing this useless gas guzzling vehicle, like they pushed their USEFUL gas guzzling SUV's.
Good luck with that. - Reply to this comment
- What an idiot!
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- STOP FREE TRADE NOW
The jobs you save may be your own.
NO MORE BAILOUTS, STIMULUS, OR ANY OTHER BILLON DOLLAR GIVEAWAYS
Obama is a total failure. His intention is to destroy the USA and reduce us all to slaves and homeless starving beggars.
One more "stimulus" could be all it takes to push us over the brink to irrecoveralbe economic disaster.
STOP GIVING AWAY BILLIONS OF DOLLARS OUT OF OUR POCKETS AND STUFFING IT INTO THE POCKETS OF THE UTRA WEALTHY POWER ELITE
Do you HEAR me, President Obama???? - Reply to this comment
- by RTSTool July 10, 2009 4:47 PM PDT
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lovegetpeace is a die-hard, hard core communist subversive. Just look at his login name, that is straight out of the CIA handbook for subversive activities.
I've learned from experience that you can not reason with lovegetpeace. He always pulls out some communist propaganda from his little red book, no matter what you say.
If somebody checks his IP address, I have no doubt he's posting from China or some other hotbed of communism.
Like the Obamabot compound. - Reply to this comment
- Hey that's a good idea for a new business.
Instead of a tow truck, drive around in a truck with a heavy duty battery charger powered by a diesel electric generator.
You can name your price to recharge a stranded electric car.
LOL! Too sweet.
I'm sure the big companies are all over that one already. - Reply to this comment
- The new gM will have real financial problem within 5 years, they are waiting for that wonderful Volt by Chevie lol this 40 thousand battery with wheels maybe okay for city dewellers,but for the folks in the suburbs and country its not wort a crap. I visualize miles upon miles of cars off the road looking for a charge, no more service stations just plugin areas, which could be a good thing. A new shopping center could feature "Shop & Plug" then the consumer could load up all that they bought if there is room in the cab lol.
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- At a news conference, CEO Fritz Henderson said the revamped automaker will be faster and more responsive to customers than the old one. It will generate cash and repay billions in government loans ahead of a 2015 deadline.
"As of today, business as usual is over at General Motors," Henderson said, adding that everyone at the company "must be prepared to change, and fast."
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Henderson can issue one order that will help GM 1000%. Effective immediately, there will be no more limos for all GM executives. Effective immediately, all authorized GM employees will go to the nears GM plant, select a GM car or truck and personally drive that vehicle for at least 18 consecutive months. At the end of the period, that employee will submit a formal detailed written report to the GM Quality Department as to how the vehicle performed, any problems, etc. The GM QD will use those reports to help turn out better vehicles. - Reply to this comment
- Seems like you forgot about Bush my good man.
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Obama is making Bush look good.
How many of the companies that Bush bailed out are bankrupt now?
Remember, it was Pelosi who wanted to bail out GM, not Bush.
And why is it, the only way you can defend Obama is by saying he's as bad as Bush?
LOL! Look at all the comments here. Everything good about Obama is something that WILL happen, according to them. But everything that ALREADY HAS happened is Bush's fault. ROTFLMAO!
I'll start believing in your messiah AFTER he has a few ACCOMPLISHMENTS that have ALREADY HAPPENED.
So far, you messiah's miracles are all just PROMISES, PROMISES, PROMISES... - Reply to this comment
- by RTSTool July 10, 2009 12:51 PM PDT
Buy Ford since they make the best Trucks on the planet and they didn't take a bailout. Write your congressman and fight for putting a Big Tarriff on companies who want to send our jobs overseas. If not, one day we will be slaves to China.
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I keep seeing more and more posts that oppose free trade and advocate a tax on imports, a.k.a. tariffs.
By 1918, the USA had become the most prosperous and powerful nation in the world. And we did it with TARIFFS as the primary source of income for the federal government.
Income tax was unconstitutional until the Sixteenth Amendment was ratified in 1913. Up to then, we had tariffs instead of income tax.
TARIFFS ARE THE SOLUTION to our problem.
And yet, Obama adamantly opposes tariffs an any other kind of protectionism.
When will Obama wise up and see that tariffs are the solution????
History is against free trade. Free trade will drag us down to a third world slave labor nation like China.
Tariffs made us in industrial superpower. Tariffs will build back our economy again. - Reply to this comment
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- Wouldn'T it be a wiser approach to put your collective brain power together and figure out a way to become competitive in a global economy???
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OK, let's try that.
YOU think of a way to compete with slave labor without becoming slaves ourselves.
Get back to me when you figure out something.
I won't hold my breath.
- Name something that is in fact really made in the US from parts made in the US !
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Tbanks to 18 years of free trade globalization and the New Economy, NOTHING is made here anymore.
THAT'S THE WHOLE POINT.
If you want to bring jobs back, we have to stop free trade.
Free trade is destroying our economy.
- Wouldn'T it be a wiser approach to put your collective brain power together and figure out a way to become competitive in a global economy???
- by lovegetpeace July 10, 2009 12:55 PM PDT
Before WWII, America was nobody.
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You need to brush up on your history. That is totally incorrect.
By the end of the 1800's, the USA was THE world's industrial superpower. When we started building battleships and airplanes, we became the world's military superpower, too.
By 1918, we were the most powerful and prosperous nation in the world.
Please get your facts straight, and stop your "hate America" propaganda. - Reply to this comment
- Seems like you forgot about Bush my good man.
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- Buy Ford? I just threw a mass airflow sensor at this ranger I've been stuck driving. This never happened to my S-10.When i went to automotive college all the teachers except one made fun of Fords poor design and now that I've driven a Ford Lately i see why.
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- Good friends of mine had a Toyota Tercel. The engine valve seals disintegrated and the engine drank oil like it was going out of style, this was at around 90K miles. It was a common problem with those cars, google it up. Toyota never lifted a finger to help anyone with this problem.
Most 70's American cars were junk. The reason why was that the emissions standards came in full force and engine designs that muscle cars were built around in the 60's were detuned and loaded down with a ton of garbage in the 70's. And transverse engine designs became the rage which required all new transmissions which were mostly paper miche garbage. The transverse design saved assembly time since the engine and trans could be assembled out of the car then just lowered into it on the line.
Meanwhile the Japanese were coming in with 4-bangers mostly using tried-and-true rear wheel designs with manual transmissions. Conventional wisdom was that Americans wouldn't give up their large vehicles to buy rice-burners so the domestic automakers did everything imaginable to continue the large car designs. Conventional wisdom turned out to be wrong. You would have been far better served in college by something like a Datsun 510 or 210 at that time.
Of course, conventional wisdom also said during the gas hikes of the early 2000's that Americans would get sick and tired of SUV's and jump into small cars with a vengence. Conventional wisdom was also wrong about that, too. Even today, while most are buying small cars, not a lot of people are buying cars at all. Nobody really knows what will happen when the economy comes back and people have money to spend again. - Reply to this comment
- Frankly the auto dealer network as itis now is a millstone around the factory's neck. If they could figure out how to get rid of the dealers they would in a split second. So many other companies nowadays have dispensed with their dealer networks and are now selling direct. The business I work in, computers, did so years ago. 15 years ago my employer was a Compaq dealer - and today, most of the service work we do is on HP computers that were bought direct off the HP website by their owners.
This partnership with Ebay is stupid, it's just Ebay angling to become another dealer. What's needed is for a fundamental shift in how people buy cars. Too many people today still purchase cars as impulse buys. They walk on to a new car dealer lot thinking they will just browse, and the next thing they know some slick-talking salesguy has suckered them into a deal they think they want at the time - then get home and start thinking "Oh s h i t what did I just get myself into"
Instead of that the GM dealers could simply keep a selection of factory demos of the models for sale, then the buyers decide what model they like then order it online, in the dealership, or at home. Then the car is made to their spec, shipped out, and a few weeks later they get it and it's exactly what they wanted. Unfortunately, the car buying public isn't ready for that yet. - Reply to this comment
- Next time, try reading the whole article before commenting. It said that dealers would still distrubute the cars sold on E-Bay.
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- Are you on drugs, or what?
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- Obama is the worst president in 100 years.
Obama hates the U.S. worker. He is using free trade to destroy the U.S. worker.
STOP FREE TRADE NOW
The job you save could be your own. - Reply to this comment
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- Seems like you forgot about Bush my good man.
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Obama is making Bush look good.
How many of the companies that Bush bailed out are bankrupt now?
Remember, it was Pelosi who wanted to bail out GM, not Bush.
And why is it, the only way you can defend Obama is by saying he's as bad as Bush?
LOL! Look at all the comments here. Everything good about Obama is something that WILL happen, according to them. But everything that ALREADY HAS happened is Bush's fault. ROTFLMAO!
I'll start believing in your messiah AFTER he has a few ACCOMPLISHMENTS that have ALREADY HAPPENED.
So far, you messiah's miracles are all just PROMISES, PROMISES, PROMISES...
- Seems like you forgot about Bush my good man.
- The destruction of the middle class is nearly complete.
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Yes, thanks to Pelosi who first demanded the GM bailout, and to your messiah the almighty Obama.
Obama is a total failure.
Obama hates the middle class. His intention is to destroy the middle class.
Obama is just the next lapdog for the ultra wealthy power elite.
Obama is the worst president in 100 years. - Reply to this comment
- haha it blacked out t.o.w.e.l heads, the favorite repug word for muslims.. It was YOU guys chanting DEATH DEATH DEATH about Obama!
Arent you ashamed of that?!? - Reply to this comment
- This is good news allthings considered.. Too bad it makes Obama look good, what? The fascists will have to look elsewhere for a boogie-man; and votes for that matter..
Stupid republicans, isnt it you guys who claim the '**********' are chanting'death to america?'
'kill him!' 'traitor' 'commie!'
LMAO that convention will go down in history as one of ugliest anti-american travesties of american political history!!
Ha, its good times again in the USA!!
Like the 90's with clinton, we can bhe happy again; no neo-nazi republicunts trying to round us up to be shot..
Anyone else notice how light and breezy the news has been lately?
And thats with a historic recession going on??
Good thing we elected Obama.. I havent been this optimistic in years..
I thought he was gonna 'take away our guns' and 'roll out communism', eh??
Stupid morons,go put on your white robes and kill yourselves already!! We intelligent, wealthy, happy, well-fed and secure americans, we true patriots, dont need your FEAR anymore!!!!
No more fear!! Vote no on republicunt scum and keep the prosperity going for ALL americans, not just the top 5 percent, the ONLY segment of the population to get RICHER for DECADES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Reply to this comment
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- haha it blacked out t.o.w.e.l heads, the favorite repug word for muslims.. It was YOU guys chanting DEATH DEATH DEATH about Obama!
Arent you ashamed of that?!?
- haha it blacked out t.o.w.e.l heads, the favorite repug word for muslims.. It was YOU guys chanting DEATH DEATH DEATH about Obama!
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