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Replying to: rockylee (Dec 17, 2008 8:06 am) That is just not true. We have more tariffs on Imported vehicles than Japan. You are in denial on the global economy. I can tell you the new Congress and President are not in any way going to do anything to slow the World economy. NAFTA was signed by Bill Clinton and you can see this new administration is filled with Clinton people. The only reason the Big 3 and the UAW did well in the 1990s was the Dot.com bubble and the massive market for SUVs and PU trucks. This new President has denounced that kind of vehicle. He is pushing for smaller fuel efficient cars. The only really small car that GM has is the Aveo coming from Korea. How does that help the UAW cause?
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Replying to: 62vetteefp (Dec 17, 2008 4:20 am) Good question. What about the family living in the woods? One of those tribal families? |
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Replying to: rockylee (Dec 17, 2008 7:00 am) Reality: GM knows darn well how to make small cars. It's been doing so for decades in Europe, South America and Asia. The problem is, absent high fuel prices, GM has no earthly idea how to get Americans to buy small cars -- at a profit to GM. What is this supposed to mean? If they know how to sell small cars at a profit in other parts of the world, how come it cannot do so in their own backyard? |
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Replying to: lemko (Dec 17, 2008 7:55 am)
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Replying to: rockylee (Dec 17, 2008 8:06 am) Everybody is blaming the GM management and UAW for the mess. At least the GM management is owning up to it and willing to work for peanuts as repentance. What does UAW do? It had only 3 words......"Go !  #% Off" ?
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Replying to: imidazol97 (Dec 17, 2008 7:29 am) I don't understand this at all. What "problems" have the transplants caused? They've built factories here in the U.S. & hired American workers. Would you prefer that foreign manufacturers build all of the cars that they sell here in Germany & Japan?
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Replying to: gagrice (Dec 17, 2008 8:40 am) |
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Replying to: lemko (Dec 17, 2008 7:55 am) Agreed. That was a real engineering feat. So why couldn't GM reprise that 25 years later? That tells me that GM is not nearly as well run today as it was back in the 70s. You've given me one more reason (as if I needed it) to believe that only Chapter 11 reorganization will save GM & restore it to its former vibrancy. |
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Replying to: gagrice (Dec 17, 2008 7:56 am) But as I posted elsewhere they are both down about 70% from last year for November while GM pick ups are down only 15% or so. Gas went down, little cars plummeted. |
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Replying to: gagrice (Dec 16, 2008 12:40 pm) Madoff did not only buy into hedge funds. He merely used other peole's money to pay off others debts as in a Ponzi Scheme. And not only greedy people. millions of life long savings of elderly trying to survive. We will wait to see how the scum Madoff held accountable. He is the greedy on, Sir.
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