Posted on 04/27/2009 5:26:09 AM PDT by Kieri
DETROIT (WXYZ) - General Motors is reportedly cutting 21,000 hourly jobs and the entire Pontiac brand in what is being called a major restructuring effort.
The plan is expected to be formally announced in a 9:00 AM news conference
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Why let this situation go to waste? There is excellent potential for some great legislating here: law to mandate municipal purchase of Government Motors cars; [more] Subsidies to buy Gov. Motors cars; Federal funds going to States with Gov Motor purchasing strings; etc.
Check your facts about the Ranger’s stadium - 85% of that land was already owned by the Rangers and the City of Arlington as undeveloped parking area. The other 15% was really cheap, down-trodden, drug and crime infected areas of Arlington! There were more drug and police arrests in that part of Arlington than ALL the rest of Arlington combined!
If you did not live in that area you would think the government was stealing and tearing down quarter million dollar homes (not one of those homes was worth more than $40K - and THAT is pushing the value)! The Arlington stadium, and the new Cowboys stadium for that matter, was a PLUS for that part of Arlington!
I know, I lived just across the train tracks just south of the new stadium for twelve years.
The unions have shut down quite a few companies over the years. The open vote legislation will kill even more businesses. The greedy union supporters have visions of gold and silver, but will eventually end up more impoverished than they could have ever imagined.
Right now, the unions are drooling over the Walmart union dues. Millions will end up unemployed because of it, but the union leaders and democrat politicians will still get their money from the few employees who are left.
more job losses watch the market go up
this is the weirdest I have ever seen
every time we get bad news the market goes up
is Soros and his ilk buying up tones of shares or something?
” Unions have not only wrecked the finances of the auto companies, but are also responsible for electing politicians who have written laws making it virtually impossible to build a product that anyone wants to buy.
Usually when someone shoots themselves in the foot they don’t shoot the other foot to have a matching pair. “
Most people don’t realize that the bulk of unionized employees are not in the Auto Industry, but their impact affects so many.
It is funny, because you see this with MANY unions and their victims! I worked for Miller Brewing for four years and the union thinks that no matter what - sales will go UP!
They do not understand market-share or international competition or anything along those lines! The union wants it’s money!!!
They are slowly, but surely sucking that teat DRY!
Bush ignored the AGW maniacs, saving us a ton already in Carbon Taxes. The current inhabitant of the White House, on the other hand, is all for taking drastic steps to (giant laughter) stop global warming (or cooling. Who's being picky?).
I like crime ridden, drug infested parts of towns. That makes the rest of the town safer.
There has been, nation wide, and increase in suburban, rural crime. Why? Because the newest notion of the socialists is that all the knuckleheads living near each other ....causes crime. Sooooo...they have Section 8 the ‘famblies’ out to the ‘burbs. Now every town has it’s low income, single mom, racial minority thug neighborhood infecting the local dolt youth with baggy pants, hats on sideways, ‘don’t be act’n white’ even if you ‘IS’ white.
Anyways, if those houses were so low rent, slum guillain, how come they couldn’t just buy them? Oh? Hold outs? I see, so it’s all right for a player to hold out for millions, but not a trash home owner who’s luck day just came in.
Odd, how eminent domain never happens in wealthy neighborhoods isn’t it? Just like Kennedy fighting against the windmills, which he is in favor of, just not near him.
No conservative would support a person, no matter how humble having their home taken. Especially for a friggin kids game.
Sad day. Oldsmobile, Pontiac...Can Mom, apple pie and Chevrolet be far behind?
See the USA in your Chevrolet.
LOL
1985 F-250 Diesel - 447,000 miles
1986 Accord - 397,000 miles
1992 Accord - 286,000 miles
1997 Accord - 141,000 miles
2003 Accord - 38,000 miles
All still look and run great (well the pickup looks like crap, it is a work truck), all have never missed a single oil change/tune up.
My son has a G-8 which is a very nice car.
now these layofffs could be coming and it means some of them will move out of MI to look for work
these union workers had better not come down here with their pro union mind and votes.
why don’t most union workers realise that the union doesn’t care about them like they used to. They use these people to get their money to promote their socialist agenda.
Can't see the USA in Chevrolet...
The UAW is in the way!
Forget eliminating divisions. They should have kept the CARS from each division that were selling, and eliminate the dogmobiles. Olds, Pontiac and Buick should have been merged years ago into new division that were selling just the surviving cars.
I once drove a Pontiac Phoenix. Which was the same as the Chevy Caviler. Which was the same as a Cadillac Cimmaron. Which was the same as the Oldsmobile Omega. Which was the same as the Buick Skylark. (More or less.)
Anyone see a problem?
Not anymore.
Sorry, but I didn’t say I supported it - simply that it was a plus for that part of town.
My neighborhood had not fallen as hard as other parts of Arlington, but we worked with the police and the city to go after people who trashed our part of town! Of course, when the staduim(s) happened, my property value went UP - so you can see why I was not totally sullen over the fact that these people lost their homes. The bottom line is if these families had fought WITH the city to get these homes cleaned up twenty years ago, then they wouldn’t have had to fight AGAINST the city when their homes were taken!
Personally, if I owned a baseball team, I wouldn’t pay a single player that held out! Trust me, there are a million “kids” in the minors that are just chomping at the bit to get to the big league!
Oh, and for the Ranger’s stadium, they did buy all the homes - there were only about twenty. The rest of the land was already city owned and identified “for public use”!
I agree with you, and that’s one reason my Camaro has problems now and then...cuz I drive it like a Camaro!
My other car is a weak V6 (Pontiac) so I don’t romp on it, but it’s not as nice so I’m not as anal about maintenance.
That being said, I’ve not had a problem with it in the 2 years I’ve owned it, and it’s 12 years old.
My girlfriend has an ‘09 Caddy CTS and that thing is gonna last forever, as much as we pamper it.
That doesn't make sense, if they shouldn't have taken the funds, seems to me it's their fault.
Also, I don't recall Bush's TARP covering auto makers, just the financial institutions, am I wrong on that?
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