Gumment Motors should be tip-top in no time at all!!!!

Yeah, right.

 YA MEAN NOW THAT OBAMA HAS TOOK OVER? 

How many former retirees that were getting a good pension before are now going to be fighting for that Wal Mart greeter job because so many people wanted GM to go bankrupt.

Pontiac is goin' bye-bye.

Saab, Saturn, and Hummer are up as well.

Now the greatest idea forced by the government....
The Feds forced them to cut advertising budgets by 60% and close 1100 dealers.....at 20 people per dealership on average that would be how many people?   And how will that sell more cars?  Ultimately it decreases awareness and availability at the same time.   Oh and it has the added benefit of cutting more production for the sacred cow of union labor because they have to build fewer cars to stock the dealers....   Cutting the number of cars you have to pay to build might be a good move to curb overhead costs, but reducing outlets and  will reduce sales even further.  A better move would have been to ramp up advertising proved to be effective, and reduce the number of cars stocked at dealerships.  Do they really need ten of each model?  Could they get by with one of each model and have people order cars the way we used to buy cars back in the 70's?


In the end these changes have not changed the basic business model that has caused the down fall at GM and the is way over paying hours and executive workers across the board.  If the employees at GM really wanted to save their company they would toss the UAW out and renegotiate a contract that would save the company as well as their jobs.  Go ahead unionize, but get representation for collective bargaining that works with management not against them.   The UAW and it's extortionist ways has cost unionized workers jobs not saved them.   As compared to nonunion companies unions have lost 50% more jobs over the same time period and they only represent 17% of the hourly work force in the US.  We all know the definition of insanity and its time to admit that the union movement is fatally flawed.

Boy did you hit the head on the nail here Bimmer.

Remember Reagan and the air traffic controllers, he got rid of them....enough said eh?

In over their heads, heck, back in the late 70's they were making over 20 an hour.....good golly miss molly!