US car workers hit by financial crisis - 29 Oct 08

[sandythebear]

We need to cut down on imports real bad. Ford cars in my opinion are on the rise because they are much more ergonomic and economical than they were in say 2006.

[macdogq]

So sad Lobbyist, and corpoorate interest has ruined america.

[Elzon1]

Yeah, things aren't going well here in Janesville, Wisconsin.... Now the local suppliers are going down, then the retail will go.... Then that will be the end of my local town; Janesville, Wisconsin. And the bad new is, there is no possibility of me escaping this, I don't have the means and I can't get it. My town will be one of the first to start off the Depression and will learn the important lessons first.

[tonapah141]

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"Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great."

For all the nations have drunk the wine of her licentious passion. The kings of the

earth had intercourse with her, and the merchants of the earth grew rich from her drive for luxury." Then I heard another voice from heaven say: "Depart from her, my people, so as not to take part in her sins and receive a share in her plagues, for her sins are piled up to the sky, and God remembers her crimes

[Njord444]

The Democraps wouldn't allow Americans to drill for oil on the coast... forcing oil prices higher than need be.

The Democraps enacted draconian environmental laws too fast in the 60s and 70s further hurting America's ability to compete.

The Democraps for 80 years have supported union asshats that want more and more pay for less and less work.

I grew up in Michigan I left for a solid Republican state (Idaho), socialism ruined Michigan and America.

[honestrunescaper]

What do you have to say. If you let these companies go belly up this man could loose his house and GM employs 300,000 people in the US alone. Didn't think of that fat man from Alabama did you?

[aviomaster]

= USA entered WTO , World Trade Organisation, Clinton signed it , to compete with CHINA and ASIA , where people make cars making 20-30 $ per hour ,, sometimes not even that . making cheap products , selling it to USA , USA is getting destroyed as we speak , MAin reason for this crisis is TRADE IMBALANCE ,.,,

[aviomaster]

- ALso Goverment getting bigger and bigger , huge spending budgets , 722 military bases , imagine how much that costs ,.

[dakota7609]

hey dum ass ---marxism does not work because weak knee pussies only depend on goverment handouts ---middle class is pre-dominant via entreprenuer style (balls) thats what made this country powerful 70% small biz

baby........GO BACK TO EUROPE AND TAKE YOUR PAPER ASS EURO'S WIT YA.

O BUY THE WAY I DRIVE A GMC TRUCK

280,000 MILES......NO PROBS AT ALL OTHER THAN NEW TIRES

[SchwarzundWeis]

people are sad and mad after losing their jobs???? dude in europe you couldnt do that! they would go on the streets and protest and the company HAS to pay somewhat so the workers can survive for a while. and these jobs make up the middle class??? i was suprised to hear that american workers work 50 weeks a year!!! shows that too much capitalism and "free market" isnt good. yes in america one can make it to a billionare. but thats one in a million. the others are screwed over by the companies

[ameliorosso]

this is true!!!here in italy there has been a great strike on rome streets but the government(our darling criminal berlusconi!) and the press don't have made a word on it!!!now I think that the nationalizing of the factories and the banks could be a good game to get out of the crisis(that wall street has given to the world!!!).

[Njord444]

Schwarz Europe has been in recession for 40 years. Europe is not a good example of success lol.... Europeans want their government to be their mommy.

[SchwarzundWeis]

recessoin: a period of an economic contraction, sometimes limited in scope or duration

now that you know the definition we can start a serious talk:

Europeans want their government to be their mommys? so you prefer the US model were the state doesnt do shit for the citizens? i didnt expect that from someone who lives in scandinavia, where the government does more for t he ppl then probably anywere else in europe (lived in copenhagen for 5 years) and i am suprised you dont enjoy these benifits

[commodore64738]

People which buy american cars are not right in the head, these cars are scrap. Lutz, director of the GM-board said 2005 that customers will buy SUV's regardless if the fuel consumtion is high. He was so wrong. These people have no clou, they speek and produce trash. The workers have to pay the bill now. Europe shows how things have to be done.

[SchwarzundWeis]

he said that??? wow thats pretty damn stupid

[commodore64738]

es ist erschreckend wie naif die amis doch sind.

[SchwarzundWeis]

naiv mit v, aber ja, zwar nicht alle aber sehr viele. ich hoffe das jetzt change kommen wird

[johnnyr55556]

build some turbo-diesels!

[lordtomtom]

Its unfortunate that the industry that started

it all has to go down like this.

[Donz5885]

This these economic recession days, people always want something which is worth to pay and lower cost. This is how low cost product from China are welcome all over the world.

[dave777blaster]

GM out sold everyone for 40 years but lost money each year doing it.

They do not know how to build cars that all Americans can afford.

Bring in cars from China and India

Close Detroit down

[SchwarzundWeis]

The US car industry has 3 problems (especially overseas)

Quality, Price Production ammount

India and China produce MASSIVE AMMOUNTS of cars, that sometimes have higher quality than US cars (source: an incovienent truth from Al Gore)

Quality: Cars, especially from Germany, Korea, and Japan have amazingly high quality. I am shocked sometimes how low the quality of cars are in cities like Boston or NY!!!

The US just produces to much cars! and in the current crisis NO ONE will buy shitty cars!

[waruhn]

US cruel times with killing millions of innocent children and other people abroad will soon be over.

USA is poor, great for the whole world.

[fatbastardisback]

Couldn't agree more, but, a poor USA, could also be more mad, angry and dangerous. But their time as world "leader" is hopefully coming to an end

[josephayal]

hahahahaha usa is poor

[nsa5015]

no your all wrong.... welcome to the NWO.

if you don't know what that is, research it and you see its all been planned

[toybandit]

Funny how most American still believe Obama is god and he will save us...

[josephayal]

fucking americans black gorillas

[TranCendenZ]

Screw those lazy UAW workers who make crap!!! If U.S. automakers didn't pay their workers an average of $29.25 per hour (plus huge pensions and benefits) to make gas-guzzling junk cars, then they wouldn't need the bailout from us taxpayers. Most Americans don't make anywhere near $29.25 per hour--so why should we hand over our hard-earned money to UAW workers? I was fooled into buying 5 pieces of American crap, but never again. My current Toyota has over 260,xxx miles.

[emforty2]

my toyota has 219K+ miles

it will probably last another 10 years so GM has to wait a decade.

i'll buy GM car next if they can build a better one than my Toyota

[FadyFreshTV]

obama 08

[coffeeseven]

Oh please. Janesville would have retooled years ago if Americans would have stopped buying the SUV hype. Doesn't matter what figurehead is, or will be in the White House.

[shakemahead]

americas love affair with big gas guzzling cars has finally bitten them on the asses the rest of the world woke up nearly 30 years ago and switched to more sensable sets of wheels,lesson No1 big is not better.

[kggoh]

Welcome to the red (socialism), USA.

[opAir01]

dead is expected for these companies ...

greedy ceos filling their own pockets are the problems ...

[mrzack888]

Fuck Globalization

[ThinkPadSav]

there hasn't been an American "middle class" in decades. this isn't news to us.

[p717]

True to most of us of the multi-decade downturn. To these new folks, who ignored this reality until it hit them, they seem to think it's just started. A bunch of whiners, they are.

[DKW2088]

Ask Exxon to help GM. Merge that shit together.

[kggoh]

Ya, then Exxon will favor GM to make more high fuel consumption cars. Then they will be even deeper shit

[DKW2088]

subsidize wind turbine and solar panel plants with 700 billion you fucking morons.

[ratonnewmex]

the wealthiest and most resourceful country in the world and now look at it......are they going to turn the abandoned plants into more fucking FEMA camps?

[gomuti]

capitalism will survive because it will force socialism to bail it out! good luck comrades.

[wcarlpdrysdale]

how can one call it " capitalism" wan thay have -NO- capitol ?

It's all been stolen by the F. E. D.

end the F. E. D.

CHUCK BALDWIN 08!!!

[travelinguy06]

That old factory will make a great FEMA prison

[BasilC1983]

why do you americans think your own goverment is going to put you in prison?? vote Obama next week for an Islamic state in a tax free America

[moonlandingwasfake]

hahha...how right you are...

Just watch all you obama voters...

[rblwoaclu]

And I will bring down all the chariots and the drivers within, and all the horses each brought down by the sword of their brothers.

[Seneka4295]

Let me just quote George Carlin on this one: "Its called the American dream because have to be asleep to believe it."

[Hogo69]

That's a good quote and true for many people. But I never knew why carlin said it when he basically achieved his dream of being a comic / actor.

[patient0Studios]

Thats like saying theres no such thing as famine because I have enough food to eat.