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Replying to: gagrice (Aug 11, 2008 5:22 pm) Daimler did not know how to market an American car company that is geared for the average consumer. It is not the same as their high end products they are used to selling. "Dr. Z" Dieter Zetsche failed there. I've heard that Daimler restricted Chrysler engineers in what they could do so their MB line would not be overshadowed by some less expensive American products. They certainly succeeded in doing that. Chrysler wanted more exposure to worldwide markets and figured Daimler could provide that opportunity. Daimler wanted to get their hands on Chrysler's huge cash reserves. They managed to do that fairly well. |
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Replying to: gagrice (Aug 10, 2008 8:02 pm) I got to laugh at the comment that my idea's are scary ???  What's scary to me is that after 8 years of secrets from the Bush/Cheney/Rove administration you want to put a guy who will expand unfree trade ten-fold into office and open the borders like flood gates so Anheuser-Busch, can hire non-union illegal aliens, and illegal alien truck drivers can distribute the finished goods for Mrs. McCain, all around the country. Now that's what scares me !!!  -Rocky
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Replying to: tedebear (Aug 11, 2008 6:39 pm)  We are already beginning to hear the terrorist threat card being played by Karl Rove, in the background of John McCain's campaign commercials. Will we fall for it this time ????  -Rocky P.S. I just checked out the new TL first drive video and came away impressed. I'm not sure if I can get use to that snout but the rest of the car is just plain awesome and filled with "gadgetology" !!!! Perhaps someday their will be UAW-made Acura TL's 
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Replying to: cooterbfd (Aug 11, 2008 1:03 pm) Regards, OW |
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Replying to: rockylee (Aug 12, 2008 1:04 am) I don't know how far $15-$17 goes in Michigan, but it'll only get you just over a subsistence living here in Philly. It'll get you a one-bedroom apartment in a marginal Lower NE neighborhood and a hooptie with minimum insurance. Entertainment will be cheap beer at the corner tavern and the antics of the drunks in said tavern. Forget about shopping at any place more upscale than Target. |
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Replying to: rockylee (Aug 12, 2008 1:04 am) Family is west of Flint and I live in a suburb of Detroit. The majority of UAW-GM making $27/hour is still there in the plants that are open. GM is not Delphi. They have been going bankrupt for years. GM just got the agreement last year and it is going into effect now. The guys are leaving the plants now that took the buy outs but again most did not leave till now. |
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"Daimler wanted to get their hands on Chrysler's huge cash reserves"... Help me out with this...if Daimler paid $40 billion (is that right???) for Chrysler, how could the "huge cash reserves" be of any help unless they bought reserves over the sale price???...did any US automaker ever have THAT much in cash reserves??? Then they sold them to Cerberus for $7 billion...I wonder how MB came out the winner on this...please educate me...I must be missing some facts... |
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Replying to: rockylee (Aug 12, 2008 12:49 am) What is scary is people like you believe Obama, a product of Chicago politics. Probably the most corrupt city in the USA over the last 75 years. McCain I have some idea of what to expect. Obama I have none. He talks like a miniature Carter. You are too young to remember how that man devastated this country financially as well as emotionally. Not everyone is stuck in a poor job with little future like the UAW workers. To suggest that GW Bush has had anything to do with the downfall of the UAW and the Big 3 is laughable. NAFTA was laid out long ago and will continue to evolve. Our best bet is to learn to live with it. Congress would have to change it. There was NO legislation in the 110th addressing ANY issue with NAFTA that I could find. Obama could have offered legislation to rescind NAFTA as a Senator. What makes you think he would do anything as President? You seem to be against the War in Iraq. How many UAW jobs do you think are directly tied to supplying that war effort? I would bet the Big 3 have some pretty lucrative contracts tied to the war effort. My guess is after 4 years of Obama Michigan and the UAW will be in worse shape.
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did you fly out to Seattle or did Boeing reps hold a job fair there in St.Louis? IBEW, eh? Well, you're not new to unions, couldn't be too bad, huh? 
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