Tearing Down the Olds Plant in Lansing, Michigan

It's the end of the manufacturing era in the United States and nothing says it more than the teardown of the General Motors Olds plant in Lansing, Michigan.

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• Olds
• Oldsmobile
• General Motors
• Lansing
• Michigan
• plant
• closing
• teardown

[7477238]

My Dad found this saddening. He drives a 2001 Olds Aurora and loves it. Blame this on poor decisions by GM management and greed of the UAW and too much free trade by these damn politicians. Bring back the work to North America where it belongs. A little bit of outsourcing? Ok fine but not at the rate its happening at today. Jeez.

[moker1275]

and another thing- all these fucking little Chinese shits flocking to Shanghai etc to work in sweat shops just to produce fucking junk to sell to Wal-Mart means decent hard working Americans are now out of jobs WAKE UP YOU STUPID FUCKING POLITICIANS or you'll be standing in line for handouts as well.

[FrankeeFraud]

Congratulations UAW! You finally got your wish, you drove another company under with your outrageous demands, you overpaid, under worked crybabies.

[Century25]

Read the 'protocols of the learned elders of zion' - it is free online. Or buy it..! They have destroyed us. Our super space program too. Do you think we - or any other nation on earth, would learn how to fly to the Moon.. regularly, and even bring along cars to drive around on the Moon...!!! And junk it..?

It is all true. IF it weren't true, they (zionists) would sue the retailers blind. You can buy it at amazon & other bookstores.. like abebooks. We - the whole world.. is in DEEP do-do..!

[discflickerDotcom]

i worked there for 6 years as a computer programmer for the production systems. see that long yellow building? thats stacker crane number 4. there used to be 5 stacker cranes on the site i programmed every one of them.

the place they were ripping apart was the assembly line. i programmed systems that ran on those lines.

there also used to be 2 engine plants on site, im not sure if they were destroyed as well. i programmed a component verification system for those lines.

loved that plant

[Lrules364]

my car was built here.. never again will she be able to see the cars that would have rolled out of here. never again will she be able to revisit her birth place. this plant was home to some great prodution vehicles. my family and friends have all owned a Pontiac or an Oldsmobile, and most still do. this is a shame. i nearly broke down crying. fuck you government motors and everything you currently produce. i hope your walking zombie of a company dies.

[xtpuller]

@moker1275 Guess what. The politicians aren't the ones who need to wake up. Just look at their wages (and most of them can vote themselves a raise when they want one) they should never be in line waiting for a handout because they tax you and I enough to live comfortably.

[mariuszmirek1]

I worked at that plant for a few months before moving to the LGR plant now im at the Delta plant.

[doedeedum]

proabably the steele was bought at a real bargain by the chinese and sent it all there to melt it down and resell it to us so the steele workers in america can be put out of work.

[brendo1077]

@Grtwritr where do u get ur facts Saturns are still supported by gm, saturn had a youthfull image that was very successful take a drive anywhere an you see at least 1 saturn mostly vues and auras i have no affiliation with gm and incase u didnt notice gm is no longer under government control, saturn turned a profit year after year, what exactly do u drive?

[Grtwritr]

@brendo1077 refusing to support service on their product is a good image? You must work for GOVERNMENT motors... how much are they paying you to say lines of garbage like that?? Saturn never once made a profit in decade they existed. That's not a good image in my book.

[brendo1077]

@Grtwritr and thats why all american breands are having to restructure their image, saturn had a good one