Ja! Das is right, tell der Amerikan dumkopf neutronsgalore only Deutch master volk kan buildin der 120mm smoothbore gun. Amerika volk ist dumkopf!
Posted on 11/21/2005 5:34:36 AM PST by 12B
Breaking on Bloomberg and Reuters. GM will cut 30,000 jobs in massive restructuring. More....
Sorry, that's a distinction without a difference. In my original post I pointed out that the average worker makes over $100,000/year in wages and benefits.
The obscene benefits package is exactly what unions are using to drive companies into the ground. In addition, many of these insurances are run by the unions themselves to provide kickbacks.
All the companies would be better off giving straight cash to the employees.
On target. Reviewed her posts -- duplicitous.
As the head Honcho of Delphi sez not to long ago, that no Company in this time and age, will survive paying $60.00 an hour(benefits combined) for unskilled labor. Amen brother!
Me thinks we should start them all at minimum wage, and based on the ongoing process elevate them based on merits, not on Union arm twisting.
Benefits?...just like me and others...you are going to pay your share like I do($585 every month premiums, plus the deductibles)...if you can not live with that?...you need to look for another line of work.
To sum it up, it looks that the 1900's gravy train is finally drying up, and the freeloaders start squirming.
Understood. I agree, it's all received.
So many things would be quickly different if straight cash replaced the third-party enrollments. Or if income tax payroll deduction was replaced with direct billing.
Right, that's how it works...overtime after 40 hours. I agree about the "crucifying." Some even work 54 hours in four days, not just for the money, but to cover where help is needed.
...but I do seem to see a lot of behavior (like knocking blue collar workers) that smacks of elitism which is what we hate so much about the Left.
Yep, snobs come in all stripes, even conservative ones.
Wait until the ripple effect starts from those towns where the factories are closing. It will ripple out to everything...from McDonald's to selling cable TV to not having houses remodeled.
I would say you might have slept thru the sermon where a 40% bonus the owner gave the manager and also put him in 'charge of many things.', whereas the unproductive type (union thug?) who made no money, was cast 'into the outer darkness'.
Matthew 25:14-30
One has to be careful whom one identifies with, it appears, to get that chance to be 'put in charge of many things; enter into the joy of your master.'
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I Thessalonians 5:1-11; Matthew 25:14-30
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I agree.
Just saw Pat Buchanan and Jim Kramer on Scarborough. Buchanan blamed the Republicans for free trade; Kramer blamed GM management, and Scarborough just cried his populist tears. In the end, they all blamed Bush!
No one mentioned:
Powerful unions. Over-paid, underperforming, unskilled workers. No one blamed poor marketing, bad design, poor product quality. No onw blamed the "American worker's" inability (refusal) to compete with Japanese workers.
No one talked about the poor schmuck that goes out and spends $25,000 on an American car that falls apart in three years. Or the same schmuck that can't trade his car because it's not worth what he owes on it.
No one talked about the American auto makers giving away their products with rebates and financing incentives that cheapen their brands.
I am for fair trade and I'm for buying American. But when it comes to spending thousands of dollars on an automobile, when the "average Joe" needs dependable transportation, the consumer has to buy the best car for the money.
The real difference is in the interiors and the way they drive. GM always comes in last in those departments.
That was the real beginning of the end for gm-all of their divisions had their own engineers-their own engines-and their own exclusive innovations. That breeded competition within the company-and that was what made them king. They (the company) then decided if they basically just made 'em all Chevys, it would save a ton of money. 1/5 of the designers, engineers, etc;needed. They eliminated all those white-collar types back then. Let's not lay this solely at the feet of unions, because gm's been only interested in profit, and not quality or their customers, for many years-which is why they've gotten their ass kicked by the Japanese and Germans, once those countries got their act together on automobile manufacturing.
GM's declining fortunes can be summed up in three letters: U-A-W (and its leftist-symp criminal co-conspirators in the DNC.)
Perhaps this will inspire the few Congressional Republicans who still have testicles to push Justice towards a RICO action against the union. God knows such a prosecutorial effort is only 75 years overdue!
Back in the early 1980's, I and a friend went to a Chevrolet dealer. He was thinking of trading in his Thunderbird and getting a corvette. The one on the showroom floor had ripples in the fiberglass. He approached the salesman, and complained about it-as this was a brand-new car. Salesman's response: : "F&%k it. If you don't buy it, someone else will" Exact quote. He then shrugged his shoulders & walked away. THAT attitude was what started to kill GM. Namely-we'll continue to build all the junk we want, knowing someone will but it.
Please see my post-#253.
I really like mine: 2005 C6 Corvette.
You are right, Madison. The auto industry is a huge part (and barometer) of the US economy.
They've been doing their very best in France. I guess 1500 a day just is too little, too late.
Isn't that a brand of milk?
That's true, but much of that cost cutting was brought on to GM because of ever increasing wage and benifit costs demanded by the unions. GN had to make up for expensive union settlements somehow. Cutting back on casting plants for things like the old rocket engines was one of them.
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