United Automobile Workers of America (UAW)

Replying to: lemko (Apr 14, 2009 12:01 pm)

Replying to: imidazol97 (Apr 14, 2009 9:17 am)

GM cars are designed to fail in 6 -7 years. Yes, there are anomalies but the vast majority are gonners at that point and that was the plan.
 
Some car companies decided to circumvent that type of build strategy. They are the more successful companies at this time.
 
Now, GM and Chrysler are gonners.
 
Regards,
OW

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Replying to: lemko (Apr 14, 2009 12:01 pm)

Lemko, look on the bright side. There is always going to be jobs burying the dead!
 
Like GM and C...R.I.P.
 
Regards,
OW

Housing prices so low? Low, or simply now realistic? Just because some idiots bought in to an artificially inflated market 2 or 3 years ago and are now upside down does not mean prices are now too low. IMO they still have a little ways to fall until they are realistic compared to incomes and sustainable debt
 
You are right on with this comment. What shouldn't be happening is that honest, thinking people should be paying for all the dumb actions of people previous? Like banks folding, etc. So we bail 'em out and get into worse and worse national debt.
 
And a recession, jobs get even scarcer, then talk of inflation rears it's ugly head.
 
Do these people buying McMansions with not enough income expect the mortgage brokers and banking loan officers to really look out for them, financially?
 
"Umm, wait a minute while I read this fine lawyer-eeze here. I don't feel comfortable singing anything until I've read it and have time to discuss it with my spouse."
 
Instead, are they hoping that a meteorite will drop on their property, and the media will come, and offer $5 million for the rights for their story, all of this in order to pay for their humungous-sized mortgage payment they've agreed to when they went ahead and signed on the dotted line?
 
Oh, and rocky and others about J.Stockton and K.Malone. Their head coach at Utah, Jerry Sloan, is an advocate of "Sloan-Ball." Basically it means simply this. If you don't have a clear path to the hoop, make one with your grabby-butt arms. Forearms to the face are just fine. If you get caught, I'll sit you for a while, then get ya back out there.
 
Malone and Stockton were nasty, thugs-r-us NBA players. Payton and Kemp were real honest-to-goodness great NBA ball-players. Gary Payton and Michael Jordan are your two best NBA guards in the history of the game. Everyone knows why I would pick MJ for one of the slots. But I pick Gary because, if he wasn't picking your pocket and sprinting to the hoop to kiss it off the glass for two, he was glued to you strongly, making it tough for you to shoot, much less pass the ball anywhere. Why do you guys think Seattle had the best team record of any NBA team in the 1990's? Gary passed the ball accurately, and could hit a lay in after he blew past you, and he could shoot the 3-ball, and hit a 15-20 foot jumper regularly. GP and MJ are your two best guards ever.
 
Kemp was the master of the dunk, done furiously to take your morale away. Great, talented players who were fiercely competitive in the fine manner of George Karl. Oh, how I Ioved the glorious NBA 90's in Skiddattle.

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Replying to: cooterbfd (Apr 13, 2009 2:19 pm)

No, Gary. Anyone not involved in a dispute between a union and the employer who choses to stick their nose in where it doesn't belong is a scab, and worse than a child molester.
 
I don't think you can get worse than a child molester but a scab is right down there with them.
 
-Rocky

Replying to: dino001 (Apr 13, 2009 2:31 pm)

What does that mean? There was a job offer, a guy with five kids took it. What does he care if some fat union bosses have some dispute with the guy who offer him a job?
 
He will care when he's headed to the hospital and now can't feed his 5 kids because he was trying to steal someone else's job. You have to be a complete moral low-life to scab.
 
Last time I checked it was the company owners who pay the rent or mortgage on those properties and machines. Unless you contribute to those payments, you if you chose not want to work there for the offered pay, it's your privilidge not to, but it's not your business who is allowed on that property and in what capacity. Pick up that mortgage/rent payment and then you might.
 
That is one flaw in our legal citizen. In other countries it is "illegal" to cross a picket line and if you did you would end up floating face down in some river.
The company owner would of never paid the rent or mortgage without the people under he/she. It's called a balance of power.
 
-Rocky

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Replying to: cooterbfd (Apr 13, 2009 2:29 pm)

Very well said cooterbfd!!!
 
-Rocky

Replying to: dieselone (Apr 13, 2009 2:51 pm)

What? Because I prefer how a Honda Accord v6 handles/drives over a Malibu and appreciate how smooth and refined the engine is I'm brainwashed? Reliability isn't my first concern. The car has to feel right first. To me, that's usually where I part ways with GM products. They just don't feel right to me in a few key areas.
 
Okay if it feels better to you that is one thing but saying it's a better car by trashing the Malibu based on some biased baught and paid for journalist with an agenda is another.
 
If you look at every quality reporting agency out there and avg. the scores the Asian cars are still on top overall. That doesn't mean they are better in every category or that the domestics are crap. The difference is small overall. But I appreciate and value those small differences, particularly powertrain refinement where Honda flat out excels whether it's a lawnmower, motorcycle, marine outboard, or car, they are always among the highest rated products in every area they compete.
 
I will gladly put our Ecotec which was designed by Honda up against Honda's 4 bangers. I will also glady put our Wards Automotive Top 10 3.6 "High Feature" Direct Injection V6 against anything Honda makes also.
 
That said, I've never owned a Honda anything.
  
Rock, don't get to high on your high horse, because I know you liked your Acura TL, I think you apprecaited it's refinement, quality, styling and performance. Where you brainwashed?
 
The Acura TL was indeed a good car. You had to keep her reved up to have any sort of power but it was a good car and fun to drive. It was at the time arguably the best ELLPS car on the market due to the technology you got with it. However that isn't the case anymore because the CTS is the best ELLPS on the market despite Acura making some big improvements this past year to there 2009 model year. I have compared them both and if I had the money to buy a car in that segment it would be the CTS. You get more for your money going Cadillac. I purchased that car because GM, would do nothing to a dealership that ran my credit causing a bunch of inquires to lower my beacon score which took me 3 months to fix. This was before my wife went off her rocker and started robbing me blind.
 
-Rocky

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Replying to: tlong (Apr 13, 2009 3:08 pm)

Why wouldn't I believe that. They would be eating each other without us.
 
-Rocky

Replying to: tlong (Apr 13, 2009 3:29 pm)

nextautos.com yeah that's a good source. They are the first place I go to look for vehicle comparo's!!!
 
-Rocky

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