Those pricks working 35 hours a week drinking coffee and making $85K a year are THE problem. The fact they make shitty cars just adds to it. It’s just funny that after 35 hours a week they go home to their $750K house… Well, they DID…
very well written …id like to see this guy on like CNN or someting tslking about all this …think it would be a good interview
wait… doesn’t that describe your job??
jk
LOLZ.
I work my nuts off but I don’t make $85K and I hate coffee. I also live in an apartment. 
yea. but its a 750k dollar apartment !!
I’ve never seen the truth about the bailout put so eloquently. Bravo Mr. Knox.
HA! Well put, Mr Knox, well put.
:lol
How many cars does Chevy alone currently have in their lineup? Like 17 or something like that? Say it was even only 10. Out of those 10, there mightbe 3 that sell decent. Why are you still making the other 7!?
I mean, making the same car under a different make… okay. Whatever. Toyota/Lexus do it, and it works for them. Infiniti/Nissan do it, don’t see a problem there. But if the car isn’t selling, why are you making three versions of it?
I guess what I’m saying is, not every car they make is an ugly and feels cheap, but they do offer a lot of cars that no one buys. Audi/VW for example do not have all that many cars to offer, but they make sure the ones that they do offer are selling, or they don’t sell them anymore. That’s the exact reason we do not have the new Scirocco.
…and I’m out.
The problem isnt the cars available, its how much it costs GM to produce each one. Americans are still stupid enough to buy American cars (hell look at this forum).
Toyota produces 4xx,000 cars per platform, Honda produces 509,000 cars per platform.
GM produces 300,000 cars per platform. They aren’t exactly a model of efficiency.
Now add labor costs. Now add supplier costs.
That’s what I don’t get, why are they spending so much money to make a car no one buys. Are you really that retarded that you have no concept of this going on GM?
That sounds about right now.
What someone thinks about a car is subjective and biased. You can’t argue that people are stupid for buying a car that you think is a POS, just because it’s what you think. Every make of car has it’s ups and downs and each one is obviously different and appeals to different people for different reasons.
Case in point. :thumbup
Good for GM tho. People DO buy their cars. People WANT their cars. Except they cant produce them and sell them in a profitable manner for really really stupid reasons.
True. GM does not need a bail out. They need to fail IMO. That way they are forced to rebuild the company the way it should be run. Instead of being rewarded for their mistakes. Again, it is survival of the fittest. If you run a company like shit, the consequences are inevitable and by no means should they be rewarded in the form of bailouts.
GM doesnt, the PEOPLE do. The working class.
Not to hijack the thread, but no one deserves a bailout. Not even the working class. One of the major reasons we are in this rut right now is because people took out more credit than they could handle, or they took out risky credit(ARM mortgages). We shouldn’t be rewarded for our mistakes either.
You mean like with a stimulus package for the undeserving lazy fucks sucking the life out of us as a nation?
I mean, is it just me or does it not make any sense that to get out of the Great Depression the government created JOBS. They did not give out FREE MONEY. Maybe we should try OMFGZ getting up and going to work every day to EARN your money!? :banghead
Thank you.
Excellent and well written. And keep up the logic… I like it.
the 85k is all inclusive… not just an hourly wage. it includes what the company pays for in healthcare medical and dental plus the companies contribution to the employees retirement fund plus the life insurance that they take out on you when your hired.
the greatest problem the auto industry has is the retirement funds, lay off perks and the growing medical expenses.