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Re: BAILOUTS for AUTO MAKERS: Bad Move From Any Perspective!
Our friend Michael missed his economics 101 class.
 
Re: BAILOUTS for AUTO MAKERS: Bad Move From Any Perspective!
If you think that is a good you can voluntarily pay an extra dollar to the treasury and have the government pay it back to you annually.
 
Re: Will America be stupid enough to let US auto industry fail??
GM has lost billions of dollars since 2004 Now they want to become a communistic organistaion and get everybodies money to make more garbage. Not so funny for the US taxpayer - hilarious to the rest...
 
Re: domino
Cars sell for more in Europe. The Ford Focus starts at 12.5 pounds in England -- that's $25000! The Fiesta starts at $16000. That might make it a LITTLE easier to make a profit. If entries from...
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Re: Will America be stupid enough to let US auto industry fail??
All I remember was that Toyota got the best overall ratings, and the big 3 looked like crap.
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Re: No credit problems??
However, many Japanese companies pay US and state income tax, particularly if they Japanese-only subisidies, like the companies that make cars for Toyota and Honda in the US pay US and state income...
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Re: No credit problems??
Well, I'm not going to be affected by the Credit Crunch but I do feel sorry for you Tim and the others that are feeling the pinch.
 
Re: Manhours per car
I am intrigued by the fact companies will pay their non-exempt employees MORE, and give them better benefits, than their represented employees. Their exempt employees get paid even more than their...
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Re: Will America be stupid enough to let US auto industry fail??
Like I said, fiction. CR is all self reporting by people who hate American cars just because they are American cars. As people have noted in the past, when there are "imports" that are sold under both...
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Re: Will America be stupid enough to let US auto industry fail??
They tried the "hand's-off" approach after the 1929 stock market crash and they got the Great Depression. Any economist today will tell you that doing nothing is going to guarentee not just a severe...
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Re: Will America be stupid enough to let US auto industry fail??
GM reahed its top around 1960 or so and has been going downhill since then. It stopped being a world leader and has slowly been heading for the abyss. They have had massive opportunity to turn things...
 
Re: Why Citi Group, but not GM
: > Seems the Republicans are more than willing to give Citi Group as much : > money as they want, but won't lend GM a dime....where is the fairness : > in that? : : Under what provision of the U.S....
 
who is really to blame.
If you want to blame someone, maybe the politicians, who could have increased MPGs by raising the price of gasoline and having consumers demand better mileage instead of keeping it low and letting...
 
Re: Will America be stupid enough to let US auto industry fail??
Huh? The borrowed money is held by the US, they borrowed it from china. Now we owe the money to china. When the notes are due the US will pay them and will print money to do so if that's what it...
 
Re: GM to Invest $1B in Brazil
GM corporate stupidity knows no bounds.