The Big 3 need to stop building junk! manufacture something that doesn't
>need $2k worth of repairs as soon as the warranty expires, they should go
>100K with only maintance,tires, and normal ware out items shocks,
>brakes,belts and hoses. There in the position there in because, thats where
>they aligned them self,saving a nickle here and a dime there on parts, that
>are not worth a shit!
>
>Tom
By your description it seems you are familiar with my Caddy.
> July 23 2005:
>>
>> "More than a month ago, GM informed us that they would be
>> eliminating another 25,000 additional hourly production worker
>> jobs, accompanied by the closure of an unspecified number
>> of production facilities, probably seven. Unless there is aid from
>> Congress, which developed for Chrysler in the 1980s, we will
>> witness the disappearance of one of the most powerful
>> corporations of the 20th century. If GM goes under we will lose
>> a priceless, technologically advanced machine-tool capability.
>> The termination of 25% of operating capacity will terminate
>> the incomes of some 500,000 individuals and suppliers of one
>> form or another, a tribute to free trade and globalization.
>> GM is disassembling its operations in the US and globalizing them.
>> Already 45% of GM?s North American production
>> capacity ? some 15 plants ? is unused or produces models that
>> generate little or no profit. That means more closings are on the way.
>> Then there is the pension plan that is underfunded by $45 billion
>> and effects 1.2 million pensioners and $270 billion in junk
>> bonds, which could eventually destroy the derivatives market.
>> The carnage at GM has only just begun and will be followed by Ford.
>> Not a pretty picture, but reality as we see it today and in the future.
>> As long as corporate America offshores and outsources, the American
>> economy will continue to collapse."
>>
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>> September 03, 2005:
>>
>> "Detroit and Michigan is a zone of the living dead. Detroit represents
>> the deliberately arranged decline of American manufacturing.
>> The dangerous path of offshoring and outsourcing will lead not
>> only to the destruction of the US economic base, but it will take
>> down the rest of the world with it. During the past 55 years
>> Detroit's population has fallen from 1.8 million to 900,000 in
>> round figures. That is extraordinary deindustrialization. Ford's
>> River Rouge plant once employed 100,000. Today, it is 6,000.
>> Since 1970, it has lost 75% of its manufacturing and jobs.
>> Whole areas of the city have been leveled. We see the same
>> happening to a lesser degree in Buffalo, NY; Chicago;
>> Cleveland; Philadelphia and Pittsburgh and generally throughout
>> Indiana, Ohio, Quebec and Ontario in Canada.
>> Today the median household Detroit income is one-third lower
>> than it was 30-years ago. About 50% of homeowners pay 40%
>> or more of their income on the mortgage on their homes.
>> Thirty percent of housing stock is in worse condition than normal
>> and still takes 40% to 50% of income to either finance or pay rent
>> on. The sad story goes on and we do not see it getting any better
>> thanks to free trade and globalization."
>>
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>> "Delphi, the nation?s largest auto supplier, is bankrupt.
>> Production and 35,000 high paying American jobs are
>> being moved to China. 12,000 retirees will receive
>> one-third of their pensions from the PBGC, which is
>> from us, the American taxpayer. You can thank
>> General Motors for a failure that was planned 25 years ago.
>> Delphi wants to cut the wages of 35,000 workers by
>> two-thirds, or to $10.00 an hour to compete with China.
>> Delphi employs 185,000 workers worldwide.
>> *****
>> GM?s future liabilities will increase by $11 billion and in three
>> years or less GM will file bankruptcy and their business
>> will be sold off in segments to vulture investors.
>>
>> (...re-read that again till it sinks in)
>> *****
>> In order to try to avoid bankruptcy Delphi wanted workers
>> to take wages of $10 to $12 an hour instead of $26 to $30
>> that they make today. Delphi will also stop paying 4,000
>> workers who no longer have jobs to do. At the same time
>> the company management increased the severance packages
>> of its top 21 executives. Once again, corporate America
>> cannot help itself. They are consumed with greed. We see a
>> disgusting spectacle of the people at the top taking care
>> of themselves and at the same time demanding extraordinary
>> sacrifices from their hourly workers. Delphi was the 63rd
>> largest US company with annual revenues of $28.62 billion.
>> Our Congress and the American people just don?t get it.
>> There economy is being ripped out from underneath them.
>> Their entire society is being destroyed and no one seems
>> to care. The answer is protective tariffs and quotas and a
>> reversal of our national policy of free trade and globalization."
>>
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>> DUMP BUSH AND THE GOP CORPORATE NEOCONS NOW !!!
>> THEY ARE DESTROYING AMERICA FROM WITHOUT AND WITHIN.
>>
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