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- Maduro_Scotty - 02-14-2007
Some sad news, I feel for folks who go through this as I've been on the hotseat before. Wonder if this will affect senior management and their compensation.[really]
Chrysler axes 13,000 jobs
Someone get Iacocca!
- Skipper the cigar aFISHinodo - 02-14-2007
Why did they have to use the word "lay" in that phrase?:?
- ColbyPants - 02-14-2007
Maduro_Scotty Wrote:Some sad news, I feel for folks who go through this as I've been on the hotseat before. Wonder if this will affect senior management and their compensation.[really]
Chrysler axes 13,000 jobs
Someone get Iacocca!
watching Dad go through it when Iw as younger was heartbreaking, I feel for the folks involved.
Tomc
- Beerlord - 02-14-2007
yeah, blame Iococca, don't blame people buying foreign cars.
- ColbyPants - 02-14-2007
Beerlord Wrote:yeah, blame Iococca, don't blame people buying foreign cars.
how do you even define a foreign car anymore?
- Beerlord - 02-14-2007
ColbyPants Wrote:Toyota, honduh, kia, hyundai, it's really quite simple. yes tehre is an extremely small amount of foreing cars being made her, employeing about 10,000 americans, and yes there are american cas/parts being made else where, but the us auto industiry still employuees 100's of thousand of American employees, somithing the foreign manufactureers will never do. Teh old saying forthe 70's stillstands true, "hungry, out of a job? eat your foreign car."Beerlord Wrote:yeah, blame Iococca, don't blame people buying foreign cars.
how do you even define a foreign car anymore?
- Rubie - 02-14-2007
Maduro_Scotty Wrote:Wonder if this will affect senior management and their compensation.[really]
You know it won't do a damn thing to the higher-ups' paychecks. And if it does, it won't be anything too significant. In my comp management class we had a great conversation about big wig execs and how they write their own paychecks. LOTS of corruption in our system.
- VEGASVIXEN06 - 02-14-2007
Yep it sucks, but just remember what our honorable leader says, OUR ECONOMY IS GREAT??? Great for these folks huh?
Grew up GM, married GM, EX of GM now and still worry about the plant my EX punches the clock at...sad state of affairs in the auto industry.
And NO it will not effect the over inflated, non earned monies that the big whigs are paid ....never has, never will.....
Here in TExas we have a Toyota plant in San Antonio in direct competition of the GM truck plant in Arlington !!!
Started in the 70's and is still appropriate now;;BUY AMERICAN-SAVE AMERICAN JOBS!![usa]
- Skipper the cigar aFISHinodo - 02-14-2007
Most of Chrysler's parts come form foreign interests. Just like GM, I'm sure over 90% of the steel they use is from Japan.
And as far as buying foreign cars, as I have said so many times in the past, I am about as pro-American as they come, but I'm not stupid nor do I enjoy being made a fool of. My opinion of the US made cars is so far into the abyss that no amount of "right" can correct that wrong.
Sorry, I'm older than a lot of you. I bought too many cars for far too much money that fell apart in 3 years while my friends who paid half for their cars got twice as much and 15 years later they were selling for a decent sum.
US cars are all about cutting corners so they can pay for higher wages and factory prices. Sorry, it isn't my personal responsibility to keep them employed.
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When I was a kid, there were real classes. Meaning, if you were a sanitation worker, a respectable job, you rented and had an old used car or a second job. My neighbor is a sanit worker. He drives a BMW. WTF! Everyone thinks they deserve to drive new cars, new EXPENSIVE cars... as a result we all suffer or there are layoffs.
I feel for these people the same as you all. But don't try that "we need to buy American" crap on me. I'll buy what my god-given brain tells me is the best buy for my hard earned dollar. Period.
- ColbyPants - 02-14-2007
Beerlord Wrote:ColbyPants Wrote:Toyota, honduh, kia, hyundai, it's really quite simple. yes tehre is an extremely small amount of foreing cars being made her, employeing about 10,000 americans, and yes there are american cas/parts being made else where, but the us auto industiry still employuees 100's of thousand of American employees, somithing the foreign manufactureers will never do. Teh old saying forthe 70's stillstands true, "hungry, out of a job? eat your foreign car."Beerlord Wrote:yeah, blame Iococca, don't blame people buying foreign cars.
how do you even define a foreign car anymore?
hard to believe, though, when Honda, and Honda parts suppliers, are one of this states largest employers (grant it the "Big Three" are represented in this state as well, but after a bit of research I found that Honda itself employs 16,000 + Ohioans by themselves, never mind the companies that contract work manufacturing the parts they assemble, or shipping). I also remember listening to a news report that said the only street legal equivalent of the stock cars run on the Nextel Cup series that was assembled in the United states was the Toyota Camry.
So I maintain its hard to say what "foreign" is anymore.
TomC