Comments on: GM CEO: "Business As Usual Is Over"

Automaker Makes Quick Exit from Bankruptcy; CEO Says Company Will Repay Taxpayers Ahead of Deadline

[darthcheney345]

I KNOW IT IS VERY DIFFULT FOR ALL YOU "MOUTH RUNNERS", BUT AT LEAST TRY DOING WHAT THIS COUNTRY IS SUPPOSED TO STAND FOR AND GIVE THEM A SHOT.
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Give them a shot?!?!?!? Are you on drugs?

We have them a "shot" for 100 years (GM was founded in 1908). Look how that turned out.

How much longer "shot" do you really think they deserve?

[incog-nito]

As long as "American" companies can wash their hands clean of obligations to stockholders and pensioners, and run to the government (i.e. taxpayers) for handouts anytime they're in trouble, as long as their top executives can give themselves huge bonuses no matter how poorly they perform, it will be business as usual.

Look for GM to bring their made-in-China and sell them in the States. The destruction of the middle class is nearly complete.

[darthcheney345]

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.

[darthcheney345]

Americans have a very tiny memory span. American forget and forgive everything that happened just last year. American never learn lessons from the school of hard knocks.
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You're right about that, there are probably still some people who say Bill Clinton was a good president.

[darthcheney345]

My first car was a Ford. All things considered, it wasn't bad. But then, I didn't drive it much. It had nowhere near 100,000 miles on it when I sold it.

But I know you're lying when you say you drove a GM with no problems.

Either you're lying, or you're too stupid to realize what problems you're having.

NOBODY owns a GM car without having MAJOR, LIFE THREATENING PROBLEMS.

And worst of all, when you take it back on the "bumper to bumper warrantee," they just shrug and tell you it isn't covered because it's a "known problem...."

GM is a terrible company, it deserved to go bankrupt and stop taking up space in the ecoomy so the free market could replace it with something better.

But the Democrats in their infinite wisdom have decided instead to try direct intervention and run the company themselves.....

This is the kind of thing that made the Soviet Union fall under its own weight. Remember the Trabant?

Hey, maybe GM will start making them again......

[darthcheney345]

My last but of advice, build a $17,000 plug in electric with a range of 200 miles per charge. You will change the world with this kind of car at this price and dominate the car industry once again.
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They did. It was called the EV-1. They built several thousand of them, and the people loved them.

Then they shredded all the EV-1's and sold all the patents to the oil companies.

Another reason to hate GM. No matter what they call themselves now that we own this crappy lying cheating stealing bunch of bandits, which means we own the worst business failure in history, and we had no say in it.

[johngarvey]

The problem with American industry is its implementation of quality control. Yes, it does require understanding of numbers, but the key to quality control is identifying when a situation that is not normal is present, and returning that process to a normal situation.
For example, we apply toothpaste to a toothbrush. We recognize when it becomes difficult to apply the normal amount of toothpaste, and we buy a new tube, so that we can return to the normal toothbrushing pro-cess.
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[eightsigma]

I drive GM, Toyota, and Nissan as rentals on business trips. For the last 5 years, the GM cars have been very close to the Japanese. Tight, responsive, no squeaks or rattles like the bad old days. Try renting an Impala. You'll be surprised.

[darthcheney345]

The world today is a global economy and unless we participate in it competitively we will be heading to the bottom with the third world countries
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Thanks to free trade, we ALREADY ARE heading to the bottom with the third world countries.

Isn't that what I said in the first place?

[South-of-Heaven]

GM will not prosper as long as the Suits are made up of non Engineering , non Designer hot air types.
the Marketting and Sales Departments should take a step back
and let real innovation lead the way,
Has anyone Driven a NISSAN lately?
the Transmission alone is a thing of Marvel.
you cant feel it. its just go and go faster.
Where is the Spirit of Innovation?
aparently its been lost, I own 2 Nissans and i will not
buy GM or American until i can feel the driving difference or until
i get a better car for my money.

[eightsigma]

I drive GM, Toyota, and Nissan as rentals on business trips. For the last 5 years, the GM cars have been very close to the Japanese. Tight, responsive, no squeaks or rattles like the bad old days. Try renting an Impala. You'll be surprised.

[John_Merritt]

GM CEO: "Business As Usual Is Over". That is truly rich, coming from a person who has directly been responsible as Rick Waggoner in tanking this company. You guys should have said this five years ago, when everyone else was TELLING you to change the way you were conducting business.

The audacity of ignorance. Them for thinking we did not feel the same way, is ignorance. Good Job Fritz.

[RTSTool]

Sounds like lovegetpeace is getting a little offended by pride.Yes, I'm proud to be american.You say we were nothing before WW2.Wrong, we have been fighting tyranny for 233 years. Remember, we defeated the most powerful army in the world when we had nothing but our spirit.Something you will never know about.What are you a communist? Or maybe a Socialist.Where are you from?

[hankvreeland]

by darthcheney
Yah, that free trade globalization left us competing with third world slave labor nation.

Actually, we come in No. 13 on the Quality of Life index. The world today is a global economy and unless we participate in it competitively we will be heading to the bottom with the third world countries

[lovegetpeace]

I hope this "American buying habits and lifestyle As Usual Is Over"

[darthcheney345]

by hankvreeland July 10, 2009 8:17 AM PDT
The main reason we have lost manufacturing supremacy is that we have priced ourselves out of the world labor market.
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Yah, that free trade globalization left us competing with third world slave labor nation.

It's REAL HARD to compete head-to-head with slave labor when you're trying to maintain a decent standard of living with at least a few shreds of dignity intact.

But Obama is VEHEMENTY opposed to any trade policy other than continuing this same free trade globalization. Obama HATES the U.S. worker. He is doing his best to reduce us all to slaves and to rob us of the last shreds of dignity we have left.

[darthcheney345]

What little commie intern and ACORN employee is running this OBAMA PROPAGANDA SITE, anyway?
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Probably the same commie intern who blocked me from VIEWING comments on the auto industry if I posted my proposal for saving the economy.

Yes, I saw the comments - I posted mine - suddenly I couldn't see ANY comments anymore. Not even the ones I saw before I posted.

Oh, ya right, that was a SERVER PROBLEM cough cough ahem ahem hem...

BTW, I am now seeing that very same proposal being made by others and SUPPORTED by liberals and conservatives alike. Until I point out that Obama has repeatedly expressed his adamant opposition to it....

[gramps1941]

Assembled in Canada or Mexico for the most part with parts manufactured all over the world.

[choctaw3]

GM will never change!!They are under the idea that they could possible never ever do anything wrong, little alone build poor vehicles, and now they have the tax payers money and the governments blessing, to just continue on their merry old way, with there heads in the sand!! Why change?? Just ask for more money!!

[gramps1941]

I saw the 'speech' by the Ceo. What I heard was a whole slew of tired old business speak. Stuff everyone gets in motivational seminars and such.
GM will not succeed until they understand that the Cadillac CTS is not what American consumers want or need.
When GM learns to build an all wheel drive, lo emission, hi mileage car such as my Subaru Impreza or a front wheel drive lo emission hi mileage car like my wifes Honda Civic without all the gimmickry and BS, then, they may begin to recover sales.
Going to sell cars on E-Bay? You have to be kidding me? What kind of cockamamy idea is that? Who would provide dealer service. Joe's Garage? News Flash: The big dealers put Joe out of business long ago.
It seems as if the same old mid level 'managers' have the same old tired ideas which are basically designed to dupe consumers and suck off the government at the same time.

[South-of-Heaven]

Lets hope Designers have a better say and better compensation than the new Suits..........
Suits cant Design but the company is built around them
that is insane

[ayatoldya]

"Business as Usual is Over"

The same executives that made poor business decisions, inhibited innovative ideas, and sucked the company dry and into bankruptcy are still running the company.

Nothing will change. GM will continue to build cars designed to break down in 5 years. GM will still figure they will make more money selling spare parts than they will selling new cars.

Rid GM of its real problem. Rid GM of all its executives.