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Here's my problem. I will still vote no because the Big 3 have done this to themselves. I feel for the people who work for them. If anything the government should bail THEM out NOT their employers. The Big 3 have seen the writing on the wall about auto and gas prices for two decades and have sat back on their haunches and done nothing but laugh and spend millions on office furniture. Just like before Imperial Schrade went under. The company big wigs, KNOWING their company was hurting, spent $700K redecorating offices. Then hung the company out to dry making a WAY overpriced gold inlaid knife as their plan to save the company. WHY! Don't redecorate, don't make a gold inlaid knife or pickup! Make a good reliable product and make it as inexpensive as you can to pass savings onto your customers! Tigheten your belt like I am having to do and like your employees are trying to do. Dump the corporate jet! Dump the hundreds of VPs and Associate VPs and Assistants to the associate CPs onto the line to work like everybody else and pay them the SAME. You work for a company that makes cars! Go get one off the line, and drive your OWN lazy behind where you need to go!
Remember the 80s? Remember when all these new robotics caused mass layoffs but were going to save everybody money? Remember redlead? Remember how EVERY time you upgraded something you LOST money and passed that loss on to your customers? Well now YOU are the one in the hole and you want to bargain its time to suck it up and pay for your mistakes.
Want a plan? How about you build a fuel milage retrofit kit in the US and market it to everybody out there? I am 33 damned years old and I remember the early 80s when the BIG 3 and BIG OIL supressed a louisiana inventor who built a carberator that would make ALL vehicles it was equiped on get close to 100miles to a gallon! That's RIGHT Big Auto I remember when you sided with the gas companies over your customers. Well guess what? Get the gas companies to haul your big butts out of the hole!
You are worried about the mechanics and engineers and everybody else? Then call your reps that YOU voted for and have them offer to bail out the employees. Or have them make the bailout conditional upon things that matter like keeping employees and fixing the junk plastic cars! The employees are NOT going to see a rusty dime of that bailout money if it is given, AND there will STILL be layoffs! Mark my words.
I VOTE NO and I will ALWAYS VOTE NO so long as bigwigs in these companies are taking $100K vacations with talks about bailouts going on! PERIOD!
GoodOlBoy
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