GM Bailout Plan

[Flaptail]

F()ck GM, Ford and Chrysler. If the management really wanted to stay on top they should have had the foresight to see what was coming on the horizon 10 yrs ago and started making reliable vehicles with better mileage and should have explored much sooner alternate fuel technologies.

The american auto industry was in bed with the oil companies and thier lobby people. Also a great part of the american public is also to blame with thier cavalier attitude towards what they drive and how much it cost. Tahoes, Hummers, Expeditions, Escalades and large pick ups. Look at me! I drive an Suv even though I never go off road and or even on a dirt road. I'M BETTER THAN YOU IN YOUR HONDA!!!

f()CK THEM! The american way of thinking about automobiles and the industry need a huge wake-up, dope slap, this is it.

Screw them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Whatever rises from the ashes will be better. And don't giove me any crap about people out of work, The UAW brothers and sisters are way overpaid, especially thier benefit packages, tell the Union president to go F()ck himself too, he and his union are just as much at fault.

[Tagger]

You want to be able to afford your own house someday ? You want a retirement program ,medical,, dental ? Never get rich, but just raise your family in say Brockton . Always slam the union worker first thing in these threads . What about pleasing the shareholders being #1 . Does that make these companys want to explore new cocepts in building ? Oil companys do rule the world ,, Lets say we do start some alterntive energy sources like Wind power down the cape ? No, rich bazdards driving thier jap cars don't want it . So round and round we go . I drive into boston and down 128 daily in an american car. I manage to get around fine . Do you really want to lower your standard of living in this country overall to compete with foreign companys or just your neighbors ? These American car companys have to please the American driving public #1 ,, Not Wallstreet .. Even though gas is cheap again, we have to get ourselves off foreign oil and in turn stop funding terrorism . We have to get the drugs out of this country and as parents raise productive human beings .. There is plenty of sin to go around . Heaping it all on the small percentage of workers that are union is wrong ..Current trends, there will be no unions in the future and god help you then .. My 2 cents without 1 F bomb ..

[Joe]

Its too late now anyway - moot point. The money they give now will be wasted. Washington at its finest: too little, too late.
If they had moved quickly after they first asked for the money it might have had a chance. But they've been teetering so long, I can't see the public embracing them. People are not going to buy a new car that may or may not have a warranty in three months. Nothing will rise from the ashes because the suppliers will fold with them.

[Swimmer]

What all this is saying, is that if you don't have any money by your late 30's early 40's, in other words now, you might never have any. This recession is going to hurt more people than the last one because there are more people here now than then. It will probably go on until some other sharpie devises another scheme/program to hand out mortgages to people that shouldn't get them to get all the reposessed/forecloses houses off the rolls. It will keep occuring and getting deeper until all the MADOFFS of the world are discovered and handled also. One guy screws with 17 or 18 billions dollars and he has to tell everyone, in otherwords admit his wrongdoing, because no one who should of known did know, including his employees. The FBI goes to his apartment and asked him if what he said was true and he replies yes, and I fully expect to go to jail. Investigation starts at this point. Goodnight Irene!

[Joe]

People's retirements have been seriously compromised - if you are 40's 50's and still in equities, and you rode it to the bottom, assuming we're there yet, you're screwed.