R.I.P. General Motors (1931-2006)

[Frater Oconulux 11°]

General Motors ----> (Rest in Pieces)

Rust didn't kill'em, Customers didn't kill'em....

SUCK ASS Management and the UAW *both* killed GM.

NOW.....just watch and see all those UAW Retirees
whose pensions and health coverage will shortly
EVAPORATE into Corporate Swiss and Cayman Island
bank accounts.

Bye Bye.....y'all should have bought a Toyota or a Honda.

(Las Vegas says 50/50 that a Chinese firm will offer to
buy GM for pennies on the dollar later this Year and
Bush will be blamed for it....ROTFLMF-NAO)

http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000006&sid=asVxzHxpD8JU&refer=home

 

[The Benev0lent dbu]

General Motors ----> (Rest in Pieces)

Rust didn't kill'em, Customers didn't kill'em....

SUCK ASS Management and the UAW *both* killed GM.

NOW.....just watch and see all those UAW Retirees
whose pensions and health coverage will shortly
EVAPORATE into Corporate Swiss and Cayman Island
bank accounts.

Bye Bye.....y'all should have bought a Toyota or a Honda.

(Las Vegas says 50/50 that a Chinese firm will offer to
buy GM for pennies on the dollar later this Year and
Bush will be blamed for it....ROTFLMF-NAO)

http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000006&sid=asVxzHxpD8JU&refer=home

Wouldn't that be a gas, mom's apple pie GM owned by China.

 

[twfsa]

I hope those that leave GM take there severence pay and buy a Honda or
Toyota!

Tom

 

[Mike Hunter]

Does that mean it will be OK to buy Toyotas that are made in China. Surely
you don't think Toyotas will still continue assemble their cars in the US
of imported parts when the can make them so much cheaper in China with those
same parts do you.

 

[The Benev0lent dbu]

Does that mean it will be OK to buy Toyotas that are made in China. Surely
you don't think Toyotas will still continue assemble their cars in the US
of imported parts when the can make them so much cheaper in China with those
same parts do you.

Making a part or a electronic circut board is far different than moving
your entire operation to China. I'm told by reliable sources that China
is difficult to do business with. If I owned a car company, I would buy
parts but I'd never move my entire facility or in other words be
completely dependent on China, no way no how.

 

[Elmo P. Shagnasty]

Wouldn't that be a gas, mom's apple pie GM owned by China.

WWND?

(What Would NASCAR Do?)

 

[razz]

Mike! Why do you even bother to feed these mindless idiots. They are
probably the ones who will support Wal-Mart to the end also. These fucking
idiots don't realize what they are doing to themselves and their country. I
will not buy Jap shit, because of this mentality, and also was a mechanic at
a toyo dealership, knowing full well that the quality is no different than a
domestic. Wal-Mart is a company, along with a few others, that is surely,
but slowly, killing the N.A. economy. And these fuckers are the ones that
will shop at these places, guaranteed.

Does that mean it will be OK to buy Toyotas that are made in China. Surely
you don't think Toyotas will still continue assemble their cars in the US
of imported parts when the can make them so much cheaper in China with those
same parts do you.

 

[Dan J.S.]

Does that mean it will be OK to buy Toyotas that are made in China.
Surely you don't think Toyotas will still continue assemble their cars in
the US of imported parts when the can make them so much cheaper in China
with those same parts do you.

Eventually all cars will be made in China - just like shoes... but that wont
happen until the Chinese can keep their electricity on for more than a
day... infrastructure upgrades are coming in 7-10 years over there, and you
can count on cars being made there.

 

[Mike Hunter]

The unfortunate part is the average person has no idea that the reason our
manufacturing jobs are leaving the county is because of US consumer greed
and that THEY are ONE of the greedy consumers sending their own jobs off
shore LOL


mike hunt

 

[Mike Hunter]

Better tell Toyota. According to Automotive News they are building a plant
in China, as well as one in Mexico, as we speak.


mike hunt

 

[Mike Hunter]

I guess you are not familiar with the Twin Gouges dam, the largest in the
world, right? Do a search you will learn something for a change


mike hunt

 

[Bonehenge]

Mike! Why do you even bother to feed these mindless idiots.

Mike _is_ a mindless idiot.

 

[The Benev0lent dbu]

Better tell Toyota. According to Automotive News they are building a plant
in China, as well as one in Mexico, as we speak.


mike hunt

Perhaps for far East sales? I cannot imagine they abandoning their
plants here and having to ship product back here from the far East. I
thought that is why they built plants here.

 

[Monique Y. Mudama]

["Followup-To:" header set to alt.autos.subaru.] On 2006-03-31, Mike
Hunter penned:

The unfortunate part is the average person has no idea that the
reason our manufacturing jobs are leaving the county is because of
US consumer greed and that THEY are ONE of the greedy consumers
sending their own jobs off shore LOL

Maybe US auto manufacturers could buy a clue and start producing
vehicles that meet my requirements. If greed means "knowing what I
want," I guess I'm greedy.

 

[Mike Hunter]

Well then you are one of those greedy American sending their childrens and
grand childrens jobs off shore. Apparently the US auto manufacturers do
have more of a clue about what American buyers want than in their vehicles
than the import brands. GM, Ford and Chrysler sold 57% of all the vehicles
sold in the US in 2005, according to the US commerce department. It took
ALL of the twenty some import brands COMBINED sell the remain 43% LOL

mike hunt

vehicles that meet my requirements.

["Followup-To:" header set to alt.autos.subaru.] On 2006-03-31, Mike
Hunter penned:

The unfortunate part is the average person has no idea that the
reason our manufacturing jobs are leaving the county is because of
US consumer greed and that THEY are ONE of the greedy consumers
sending their own jobs off shore LOL

Maybe US auto manufacturers could buy a clue and start producing
vehicles that meet my requirements. If greed means "knowing what I
want," I guess I'm greedy.

 

[Mike Hunter]

The started assembling vehicles in the US of foreign parts in plants built
in this county with taxpayers funds to escape import tariffs. Those tariffs
no longer exist.


mike hunt

 

[Monique Y. Mudama]

Well then you are one of those greedy American sending their
childrens and grand childrens jobs off shore. Apparently the US
auto manufacturers do have more of a clue about what American buyers
want than in their vehicles than the import brands. GM, Ford and
Chrysler sold 57% of all the vehicles sold in the US in 2005,
according to the US commerce department. It took ALL of the twenty
some import brands COMBINED sell the remain 43% LOL

Great! Sounds like they don't need help from me, then. They obviously
have this whole market thing down pat.

Er, what was your complaint, again? Please make up your mind. Are
the US auto manufacturers:

A) Poor, abused children in need of charity

or

B) Corporate powerhouses with plenty of market share

?

 

[bearman]

I guess you are not familiar with the Twin Gouges dam, the largest in the
world, right? Do a search you will learn something for a change

Twin Gouges dam? WTF are you talking about. China is building the Three
Gorges dam. Do a search you will learn something for a change. Twin Gorges
(Gouges?) is a dam project in the Northwest Territories.

 

[Carl 1 Lucky Texan]

Well then you are one of those greedy American sending their childrens and
grand childrens jobs off shore. Apparently the US auto manufacturers do
have more of a clue about what American buyers want than in their vehicles
than the import brands. GM, Ford and Chrysler sold 57% of all the vehicles
sold in the US in 2005, according to the US commerce department. It took
ALL of the twenty some import brands COMBINED sell the remain 43% LOL

mike hunt

vehicles that meet my requirements.

["Followup-To:" header set to alt.autos.subaru.] On 2006-03-31, Mike
Hunter penned:

The unfortunate part is the average person has no idea that the
reason our manufacturing jobs are leaving the county is because of
US consumer greed and that THEY are ONE of the greedy consumers
sending their own jobs off shore LOL

Maybe US auto manufacturers could buy a clue and start producing
vehicles that meet my requirements. If greed means "knowing what I
want," I guess I'm greedy.

There seems to be plenty of jobs here, so many that illegal aliens have
to fill in.

What's the unemployment rate?

Carl

 

[The Benev0lent dbu]

Twin Gouges dam? WTF are you talking about. China is building the Three
Gorges dam. Do a search you will learn something for a change. Twin Gorges
(Gouges?) is a dam project in the Northwest Territories.

Had it been proposed here in the U.S. it would never have been
constructed. Maybe this is the defining moment between China and the
U.S. We have deconstructed the U.S. with rules and bans. Having said
that, I'm all in favor of protecting the environment, but there is a
fine line which must be drawn and politics must not be a factor.