#3655 of 3659 Re: Current Retirees [rockylee] by brightness04

Sep 19, 2006 (5:19 pm)

Replying to: rockylee (Sep 19, 2006 12:13 pm)

Where are people like my grandfather going to go ? to the guillotine ?
 
Find a productive job? just like everyone else? Guillotine is only a possibility if he follows Fintail into some kind of bloody revolution.
 
GM, can and should fully fund it's obligations. They have wasted billions in buisness deals that otherwise could of went to their pension obligations.
 
We have been through this several times a couple months ago. If not for the successful investments, GM would have run out of money long time ago, and wouldn't have the money to buy out your gradfather's contract. The thing about investments is that, some are winners and some are losers, you simply can not decide ahead of time . . . darn, don't we all wish we only keep the wins and never pay up for the losses?
 
General Motors, like GE, made choices.
 
That I actually agree. GM should have extricated itself from extravegant union obligations long time ago like GE did.

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• fintail (Sep 19, 2006 5:55 pm)
  • brightness04 (Sep 19, 2006 6:14 pm)

#3656 of 3659 Re: Cut Off? [rockylee] by brightness04

Sep 19, 2006 (5:25 pm)

Replying to: rockylee (Sep 19, 2006 12:51 pm)

People like my grand-dad aren't fit to work anymore and he requires a cocktail worth of pharmaceutical drugs to keep him "balanced" in his health.
 
Nobody is suggesting he has to work. Where is his savings? Where is his family? If his family is not willing to support him, why should the rest of us be drafted into slave labor to support him?
 
CEO's are paid millions a yr. in salary and if they can't work it all out then they should get the guillotine.
 
And the size of the applicant pool would be?
 
I don't understand why it's so hard to turn-around a company like GM.
 
At least you are honest on this one

#3657 of 3659 Re: Current Retirees [brightness04] by fintail

Sep 19, 2006 (5:55 pm)

Replying to: brightness04 (Sep 19, 2006 5:19 pm)

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• brightness04 (Sep 19, 2006 6:14 pm)

#3658 of 3659 Re: Current Retirees [fintail] by brightness04

Sep 19, 2006 (6:14 pm)

Replying to: fintail (Sep 19, 2006 5:55 pm)

#3659 of 3659 Aaaaand on that note.... by Karen@Edmunds HOST

Sep 19, 2006 (6:21 pm)