# Ford|GM Merger

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**Created:** [November 19, 2008, 10:19am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ford-gm-merger/200740 "2008-11-19T10:19:07Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 25, 2008, 9:45am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ford-gm-merger/200740/79 "2008-11-25T09:45:00Z")

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> [@TW: 2007 Suzuki GSR-600](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tw-2007-suzuki-gsr-600/35694/25):
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> Do you know that for a fact? Do high level executives belong to the UAW? If so the point is it still is double what other manufatures payout. Then you add in the benefits…that is better than 99% of what other people pay/have…can’t lay off workers if a plant closes…if my work’s office closed odds are I would be out of a job…There are a lot of unions that do more harm than good and this is one of them.

What is your point? It’s not like GM didn’t set this deal up with UAW themselves. They agreed to a contract (actually they reneged on a contract, and hence why they had to renegotiate the last several times i.e. pension issues) by they I mean both parties. The GM continued to make SUV’s when they knew it was only an issue for them. They kept paying CEO’s exuberant amount of money. GM should be punished for making a bad business model, not bailed out. They should fire all those executives!!!

I say that Exxon mobile and _the like companies_ should be the ones giving the big 3 a bailout. But Bush wouldn’t do something that would make this much sense. And trust me, they can afford it, even with prices declining now, they are still making crazy loot:

[http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22949325/](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22949325/)

[http://abcnews.go.com/Business/PainAtThePump/wireStory?id=6146013](http://abcnews.go.com/Business/PainAtThePump/wireStory?id=6146013)

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