[kittymyrib]

Sad for those family dealerships, but they’d just as well fold before they are stuck with the Obama equivalent of Yugos that Government Motors will mandate and that no one will buy. We will be like the Cubans, who are still nursing their 1950s models.

[Frantzie]

Bush 2

Dow 13,500
Unemployment 3.9%

[ProtectOurFreedom]

The government essentially instructed GM to SHUT DOWN the GMC Division last week because it doesn’t meet CAFE standards and has no hope of doing so because it makes trucks and SUVs. I’ll bet the GMC dealers are ecstatic about that order from Obama.

[Paleo Conservative]

This should be a good time for me to buy a new car.

[Batrachian]

When I think of my experience with Chevrolet and Jeep dealers, I wouldn't mind seeing them all go. It is truly shocking and infuriating to deal with the degree of callousness and incompetence that I put up with from those thieves. Never again. Going to the Honda dealer has been a revelation. They bend over backwards for me, and the cars are, of course, much better built in the first place.

To me it is no mystery why the former "Big 3" are in the situation that they're in.

I've also dealt with them on a professional level and have been in the factories. You can almost smell the decay, and the rotten attitudes of the workers (clock watchers is a more apt title) are practically written on their foreheads. I would say that they're only fit for Walmart, but that would be an insult to Walmart.

BTW, can someone tell me what level of intelligence is shown by people who go out on strike for longer coffee breaks while foreign competition is cutting their throats on price and quality?

[Publius6961]

And the alternative without government intervention can be any better? Until the bailout fairy restores the trillions of retirement fund $s lost by past workers, survival of the fittest is in excellent company.
Government, wall street and the banks can sink or swim, like the rest of us.

[wendy1946]

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Getting rid of Hummer and Saab I can understand; getting rid of Saturn I don't. What's with that one?

[elkfersupper]

That's what they get for not fighting the CAFE standards and everything else Washington has handed them over the years.

If some automaker had shouted "F-You!", laid off its union hands and produced the rocket sleds people want to buy, they would still be in business.

[Quix]

For many in this era . . . DEPRESSION—CLINICAL EMOTIONAL PSYCHOLOGICAL DEPRESSION—IS A SERIOUS ISSUE.

The following is an EXCELLENT THREAD AND RESOURCES, LINKS ON

CLINICAL DEPRESSION

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