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Cash for Clunkers May Cost Up to $45,354 Per Vehicle

You are STILL drinking that kool-aid?

We were ATTACKED, not attached, on 9-11 by Al-Queda and the Taliban in Afganistan, NOT IRAQ!


On Aug 01 01:00 PM miketobias01 wrote:

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> Are you for real ....."His arguments are like the ones Bush made
> going into Irag." We were attached on 9-11 or did you forget about
> 2900 plus people that died that day! Please don't go there.
> As far as "this program!" Take a look at Germans Program that is
> really close to this one .....It was suppost to be a one time thing
> and I think there in there third year of there program! It don't
> work.
> The Government needs to get out of the peoples way..... Let the weak
> companys fail . lower capital gain tax, and taxes in general.
> Period.
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I Was Wrong About GM Bankruptcy

Madmoron, you continue your habit of posting the same old post over and over, it just shows you are a dope. Wow, you figured out how to cut and paste. Congratulations.

In case you missed it, GM is in bankruptcy right now. Since obviously for you and sever other low intelligence "investors" don't understand what the "q.pk" means and continue to trade a stock that WILL, not might, WILL go to zero sooner or later, GM rightly covered their tails by sending you an email. They sent it to you because you are dense enough to actually still own stock, which shows how stupid you really are. Morons like you will continue to trade it waiting for the music to stop and then you will be upset to find there are no chairs at all.

Perhaps this is a lame attempt to get people more stupid than you people to run the stock up for your gain. Again, you show what a stupid loser you are.

Go back to Japan and stay there, they can have you.

I Was Wrong About GM Bankruptcy

Somewhere between Davewmart and Detfan is reality. Every recession you hear the "the economy will never be the same again" and they are right, the economy comes back different, and usually better. I remember the late 80's doom and gloom, followed by the 90's unemployment so low a blind felon could get a job as a night watchman.

On the other hand, GM is facing world wide competition from Volkswagon, Fiat, Toyota, a resurgent Ford, Honda, and now a slew of Chinese and Indian companies. If they all take only 2% market share, just in sheer numbers of companies it will be a hard row to hoe.

Buy back the stock? Yeah, that was a winning strategy in the 90's - $25 Billion in stock buy backs and now that stock is worth zero. The smart money spends money on product, not stock buy backs.

GM has some excellent product now, I have a Silverado with ZERO issues and I have driven the new Camaro and it is world class. They need to keep that quality up.

Most of what I read about the UAW is based on stuff they read before the new contract, and even more changes have taken place with the crisis. I never met the guy "making $80 an hour sweeping floors" in the first place. Most of that crap was just BS anyway. There are some horror stories, but I can tell you some horror stories about non-union shops also. Somehow a truck a minute spits out the back door, so someone must doing some work.

I know there are some retards talking boycotting, yeah that makes sense. Put Americans out of work solely because you don't like the President and drive down the value of the company so that you the taxpayer loses money in some kind of childish hissy fit. Fortunately I think those numbers are small and their job at the car wash does not buy a new car anyway.

In other words, if you are looking at the future for GM, I think you can be pretty optimistic, but realistic.

I think more important to the question is not what will GM do, but will this country EVER develop a sensible manufacturing policy that will get us back to work.

Should You Buy an American Car?

Mad moron, stop cutting and pasting the same old BS every time someone mentions GM. Youa re just a tired old jerk who works for the japanese.

The rest of you, wondering why your house is worth nothing, your local government is going broke and your 401k can't buy a cup of coffee? Look at the Honda in your driveway, dopes.

Using Innovation to Save the Auto Industry

Yeah, figures someone would bring up the Aztek, get over it already. Besides, can you honestly say that it is uglier than the Element or the Scion? Talk about cars designed to look like toasters.

Your comments about design staffs indicates you know not a single thing about the auto business.

Cars built in the 50's were good for about 50,000 real miles, when my Dad turned over 100,000 he was in the paper. I just finally junked a Cavalier, a truly cheaply built car with 280,000 miles on it.

yeah, cars cost 10 times what a home did in 1951, but homes cost 100 times what they did then, so the cost of a car is 1/10th what it was and they last 5 times longer. What's your point doofus?

Does America Want to Buy Fuel Efficient Cars?

What a dope. Mileage is not the ONLY factor people look at. Look at your own data. If mileage was what people wanted, then why does the Camry outsell the Corolla?

This is really funny: "My guess is the marketing machines at GM, Ford, Toyota, etc can sell the American public on buying anything the automakers want to sell", yeah that's why GM's market share is way up, because they can make people buy stuff they don't want! Do they keep the sharp things away from you?

Auto Manufacturing: What Does 'Buy American' Even Mean?

Ross Perot, that's a joke. he would be there about a month and then resign because the CIA was planning to abduct him to the moon base.


On Feb 26 08:31 AM Joey wrote:

> eddie6442, good point. I think Ross Perot would make an excellent
> Chairman and CEO of GM. He is not a "yes man". Something that GM
> has not seen since Ross was there. GM will be an example of a great
> case study of poor management - what not to do when running a company
> (in regards to blind obiedence and thinktank).

Auto Manufacturing: What Does 'Buy American' Even Mean?

Yeah, you'll get ALL the top engineers working for you then!

How about you go to India for a brain transplant.


On Feb 26 07:55 AM Joey wrote:

> GM is bleeding over $2 billion dollars a month. No matter how poorly
> run GM is, they still keep the BOD still keep the CEO and his henchmen.
> If I were CEO, I would get rid of many of the white collar workforce.
> I would clear out almost the entire body of unclassified workers
> (workers who make around $300,000 a year - and believe me, there
> are thousands of them). I would then cut the level 8 employees by
> 50% - moving the other 50% to the unclassified workers spots (these
> workers make around $150,000 a year). I would get rid of around 25%
> of the level 7 employees promoting them to the level 8 employees
> jobs. I would get rid of 50% of the people who work out of the Renissance
> building and would close 3 of the 5 regional offices. The remaining
> 2 regional offices can do the work of the 5. It is the same jobs
> out of the regional office - only instead of sending 1,000 emails
> to dealers they are sending 3,000 emails to dealers. Bleeding 2 billion
> dollars a month takes dramatic action. Also, in regards to insurance
> - I would take all of the planned surgeries (which is around 75%
> of the surgeries) and fly the people needing surgery to India for
> a week to get their hip replacements and cancer surgeries such as
> bone marrow transplants there.

Auto Manufacturing: What Does 'Buy American' Even Mean?

So why don't you drive a Ford?


On Feb 26 08:06 AM eddie6442 wrote:

> My Dad also fought the Japenese on Saipan & Kwajalein. He also
> drove Oldsmobiles for years. His disgust was the THREE YEAR PLANNED
> OBSELESCENCE GM BUILT INTO THEIR CARS. As soon as his three year
> payment book ended, his car was falling apart----ON DESIGN!!!!!!!!
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> He is still alive at 90 and has a FORD COUNTRY WAGON, which has over
> 200,000 miles on it.............
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> I have had Mercedes and Jaguars over the past 30 years. Now I drive
> a Cadillac---------but never again!!!!!!!!!! I have put nearly $8,000
> in repairs in the past year, with the major one being a new transmission
> -- as I was told ---- RIGHT ON SCHEDULE!!!!!!!!!!
>
> There are many reasons why a company with $35BB of quarterly revenues
> can't remain solvent, and profitable......... Ross Perot tried to
> explain it to them when he was on their BOD, following EDS aquisition...
>
> GM ran hm out of town & OFF THEIR BOD!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> INCOMPETENCE, ARROGANCE, IGNORANCE, EXTRAVAGENCE, UAW, POOR VISION,
> INTRANSAGENCE, etc.................
> ********PICK ONE --- OR ALL OF THEM*********
>
> IMHO

Auto Manufacturing: What Does 'Buy American' Even Mean?

Of your 278 posts, how many of them are this same post over, and over , and over? We get it, move on.


On Feb 26 07:21 AM The Mad Hedge Fund Trader wrote:

> I’ll tell you what GM’s problem is. My dad was a religious lifetime
> GM customer, buying a new Oldsmobile every five years. Once he even
> flew to Detroit for a factory tour and drove his new prize home.
> Thirty years ago I told him he was doing GM no favors by buying their
> cars, and the only way to force them to improve a deteriorating product
> was to buy better made German and Japanese vehicles. This was right
> after the State of California had forced auto makers to install seatbelts
> on new cars. Airbags and ABS brake systems were still years away.
> His response, “I didn’t fight the Japs for four years so I could
> buy their cars.” (He was a Marine). GM’s problem is that my Dad passed
> away seven years ago. Of the original 17 million WWII veterans, 1,500
> a day are dying, and there are only 1.5 million left. All of them
> loved Detroit because it built great Jeeps, Sherman tanks, and half
> tracks. Their kids prefer German, Japanese, Italian, Korean, and
> soon, Chinese, and Indian vehicles. It is no coincidence that GM’s
> problems really accelerated with the passing of the “greatest generation.”
>

Auto Manufacturing: What Does 'Buy American' Even Mean?

GM Produced 3,275,986 vehicles in the US in 2007. They actually sold 9,369,524 that year, so 34% of their production was US.

3,870,000 GM vehicles were sold in the US, so GM production makes up about 85% of US sales. A higher percentage of the vehicles sold in the US were imported, because many of the US vehicles were exported. This also does not include many thousands of vehicles that were assembles outside the US from "kits" of parts shipped from the US.

From reading blogs you would think that no GM vehicles were made here. 85% is pretty good, considering the financial, tax, and regulatory disincentives there are to not build anything here. Ask Zenith how easy it is to be an American manufacturer.

Yes, GM is a global company, but they are an American Company. "Toyota USA" is not, no matter how much you might wish it was.

I wonder what it is about many Americans that they hate American companies so much they make up lies about them.

Chevrolet's Malibu Sets New Record for Mid-Size Car

To capitalize letters you hold the shift key down on either side of the keyboard. This will help while you tell stories about the imaginary car you bought.

Study after study has shown that for years there has been no appreciable difference in quality between the US manufacturers and the Japanese. "Toyota Quality" is a well cultivated myth reinforced by people who will not admit that when they bought Japanese they got no better.

Our economy is sliding into the ditch and tens of thousands of Japanese car owners are losing their homes and don't know why.

It's simple. You build wealth by making things. We have decided to have other people make things for us, so we are losing our wealth.

Now I will be flamed by the self hating Americans who will declare that all things Japanese are better. Of course they are, who wants to buy a product made by someone like you?

Meanwhile I have a 1990 Chevy out here with 250,000 miles on it and the original drive train. More American junk.

Read the latest news? Stores now want Euros instead of dollars. Keep buying Japanese, maybe someday we will qualify for foriegn aid from them.