jayminho

GM Plants Either Closing or Shutting Production

oh my gosh, sweet jesus, every damn post about GM I go, it seems your alreay copy/pasted your answer.
give us a break, it wasnt even you who wrote that.
ok ?
let somebody eles real grandpa rest in peace.


On Jun 01 01:46 PM Mad Hedge Fund Trader wrote:

> They will be saving everyone a ton of money. I'll tell you what
> GM's problem is. My dad was a lifetime GM customer, religiously
> 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 tragically deteriorating product
> was to buy better made German and Japanese vehicles. This was right
> after the State of California 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 Japanese 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 that brought them home from harm's way. 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." During the last 35 years, when
> Japan's share of the US car market climbed from 1% to 40%, I begged
> GM to mend their ways and build a quality, price competitive product
> that Americans wanted to buy. They answer was always the same: "Nobody
> can tell GM how to build cars." Maybe someone should tell them.