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Why Chrysler matters
cnnmoney.com ^ | April 2, 2009: | Chris Isidore

Posted on 04/05/2009 4:36:16 PM PDT by kellynla

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- It's easy to think that Chrysler LLC is no longer too big to fail.

The embattled automaker has already cut its U.S. workforce by more than 60% since the start of the decade, leaving it with just under 39,000 employees in America.

To put that into context, that's only five thousand more people than electronics retailer Circuit City had when it went out of business this year -- and few thought the demise of Circuit City would cripple the economy.

Once a pillar of the Big Three, along with General Motors (GM, Fortune 500) and Ford Motor (F, Fortune 500), Chrysler now trails Toyota Motor (TM) in U.S. sales and is struggling to stay ahead of Honda Motor (HMC).

So the news that the company could be forced out of business in the next 30 days if it can't work out a combination with Italian automaker Fiat strikes some as not that big of a deal.

"This is a company we can do without at least for the next couple of years without missing its production," said Kevin Tynan, auto analyst with Argus Research.

(Excerpt) Read more at money.cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News
KEYWORDS: automakers; bigtwo; chrysler; manufacturing; mopar
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To: tvdog12345; Salvation; NYer; narses; A.A. Cunningham
“Bullcrap. Christianity had nothing to do with America’s victory in World War II.”

The MILLIONS of Christians who fought and died for your freedom would disagree!

“The Bible is a centuries-old work of fiction, self-contradictory and barbaric.”

Well, that confirms your ignorance.

121 posted on 04/06/2009 9:54:25 AM PDT by kellynla (Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots! Semper Fi!)
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To: kellynla

And you have already confirmed your malice.

Get lost, you are wasting my time.


122 posted on 04/06/2009 10:32:18 AM PDT by tvdog12345
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To: 1010RD
that word free trade is for the dummies

But they are sold out to foriegn interest and this false religion they call free trade.

They know Japan & China & Germany have

(massive tarrifs)

on our autos and all Our products.

automakers would be to have a fair trade were foriegn makers had to pay a tax to sell there cars in this country like we have to in order to sell in their countries.

123 posted on 04/06/2009 10:34:22 AM PDT by AmericaCitizen
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To: tvdog12345

“Get lost, you are wasting my time?”

Hey, genius, THIS IS MY THREAD!


124 posted on 04/06/2009 10:35:26 AM PDT by kellynla (Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots! Semper Fi!)
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To: AmericaCitizen

Thanks for the link... I will read it when I get home tonight.

LLS


125 posted on 04/06/2009 10:36:35 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (hussein will NEVER be my President... NEVER!!!)
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To: kellynla

And you are the one who keeps this useless argument alive with your persistent insults, Xian.


126 posted on 04/06/2009 10:50:04 AM PDT by tvdog12345
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To: tvdog12345
“insults?”

YOU smear God, the Bible, Christians, Christianity and hard working people in America and you have the NERVE to say that I posted “insults”

Listen, genius, do us all a favor and don't post on any more of MY threads EVER AGAIN!

127 posted on 04/06/2009 10:56:21 AM PDT by kellynla (Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots! Semper Fi!)
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To: EEDUDE

MY first car was my grandmother’s 1966 Studebaker Commander. It was one of the last Studebakers off the assembly line. IN 1979 it still looked like it had rolled off the showroom. Ugly as hell, but it had the same engine/Tranny combo as a Chevelle SS, the little box would absolutely fly! Got t-boned by a drunk in pickup and totalled it. I was one sad puppy.


128 posted on 04/06/2009 11:16:31 AM PDT by commish (Freedom tastes sweetest to those who have fought to preserve it.)
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To: kellynla

I’ll post wherever and whenever I damn well please.

What is your skin in this game? Chrysler employee? Former employee? Did you get fired? Your brother/sister/cousin/parents?

Good. If you lost your Chrysler job, I hope you never get another one. I hope you starve and die in the street. What’s more, I don’t feel the least bit guilty about being so unforgiving. Even worse, no amount of Bible-waving is going to change any of that.

Stick that in your pipe and smoke it, pipsqueak.


129 posted on 04/06/2009 11:17:14 AM PDT by tvdog12345
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To: AmericaCitizen

OK, it is obviously an emotional issue for you. May I ask you which you prefer free trade or managed trade?


130 posted on 04/06/2009 11:30:23 AM PDT by 1010RD (First Do No Harm)
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To: tvdog12345
“I hope you starve and die in the street.”

More intelligentsia from, Little Ms. Insults. LMAO

“pipsqueak?”

Any time you think you have the balls to insult me to my face, missy, you just let me know.

I won't be holding my breath!

131 posted on 04/06/2009 11:39:31 AM PDT by kellynla (Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots! Semper Fi!)
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To: 1010RD

there is no free trade


132 posted on 04/06/2009 3:00:08 PM PDT by AmericaCitizen
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To: AmericaCitizen

So you are selling rabbits. I want to buy a rabbit. We agree on price and you sell and I buy.

Free trade. It exists between free people.


133 posted on 04/06/2009 3:23:55 PM PDT by 1010RD (First Do No Harm)
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To: AmericaCitizen

Earnest Hollings is not good source. First, he’s a politician. That makes him likely a liar. Second, he’s a Democrat. That is simply confirmation.


134 posted on 04/06/2009 3:34:47 PM PDT by 1010RD (First Do No Harm)
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To: 1010RD

but he right in what he said in the video


135 posted on 04/06/2009 4:38:39 PM PDT by AmericaCitizen
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To: AmericaCitizen

He did not call for a reduction or elimination of US corporate taxes, a reduction in the regulatory regime strangling innovation and job growth, nor did he call for a revamp of our broken legal system.

He simply railed about job losses all of which are caused by the above, not free trade.

He is a Democrat. He is a liar by trade. I would not trust what he says and I’ve just pointed you in the right direction. You’re right about job losses, just wrong about the cause.


136 posted on 04/06/2009 4:57:07 PM PDT by 1010RD (First Do No Harm)
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To: 1010RD

so you like what we have now, free trade


137 posted on 04/06/2009 5:10:33 PM PDT by AmericaCitizen
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To: 1010RD

what about what he said about the internationa bankers


138 posted on 04/06/2009 5:12:42 PM PDT by AmericaCitizen
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To: 1010RD

look at what coming next in america becuse of nafta
http://www.dailymotion.com/relevance/search/lou/video/x2a7gh_lou-dobbs-china-manufacture-in-mexi_news


139 posted on 04/06/2009 5:15:20 PM PDT by AmericaCitizen
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To: Hoodat

“It’s right between ‘right to vote’ and ‘right to privacy’.”

No wonder I couldn’t find it. I was looking in the wrong document.


140 posted on 04/06/2009 6:37:08 PM PDT by mjaneangels@aolcom
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