Posted on 03/30/2009 6:08:53 PM PDT by libh8er
I don't want this company to succeed under the Obama banner. And besides, how many GM workers voted Obama anyway ?
My next car will likely be a very nice shiny Toyota. Made in America by Americans, but untouched by union hands.
No problem... I’m boycotting Government Motors, Ford, and Chrysler..
Buy Ford - at least they didn’t take the bailout (and according to Consumer’s Reports has a quality equal to Toyota)
What did Ford do to you??
Slight problem there, Toyota employs Americans yes, but their profits don’t go to America.
I’m no expert on this, but it seems to me that the UAW/CAW is the problem here, prior to Obongo communizing GM anyway.
The unions are strongarm thugs and need to be removed from the equation. Yes, they were necessary when they were formed, but their usefulness is over.
How long before the Obama administration backed unions force Toyota to pay those outrageous salaries also?
Ford seems to be the only one who is trying. Ford has good quality and a great overseas market position. And they decided not to take bailout money, at least for now.
I know that Rush & Sean have had GM sponsorhip in the past, but it would be a good test of their character to see whether they could stop suckling at the teat of the sow.
http://www.redstate.com/brianfaughnan/2009/03/30/the-uaw-shared-sacrifice/
The UAW & ‘Shared Sacrifice’
Why is the UAW Hiding Details About its Deal With General Motors?
So 6 months ago we moseyed on over to The Google and typed in “UAW.” On their site was a link to summaries of their most recent contracts - a link that’s mysteriously gone now. Luckily, we saved it. So here it is, a link to what they said when they inked the most recent agreement with GM back in 2007. Mind you, this was as the company was by everyone’s reckoning speeding headlong into a trough. The UAW release says in part:
The tentative agreement, reached at 3:05 a.m. Sept. 26, delivers solid economic gains for active and retired members, despite repeated attempts by GM to impose harsh takeaways
The agreement will deliver more than $13,000 in economic gains for a typical UAW member, including a $3,000 signing bonus, two 3 percent lump sums and a 4 percent lump sum.
Active workers will see their comprehensive health care coverage continue, with dental, hearing and other benefits improved. Retired workers will have their health benefits secured by a Voluntary Employee Beneficiary Association (VEBA), prefunded by GM with $29.9 billion in cash and other assets. The fund can only be used to pay retiree health benefits, and will remain solvent for decades regardless of the financial condition of GM.
The proposed contract will also deliver benefits to current and future retirees, with four lump-sum payments for current retirees, and a raise in basic benefit rates, the 30-and-out supplement, temporary and interim benefits for future retirees.
Does this look like sacrifice to you?
The first step to ’saving’ GM will be to take back the giveaways in the 2007 collective bargaining agreement. Car buyers can choose whom to support with their dollars; thanks to Barack Obama, taxpayers do not have that choice. Members of Congress and candidates for Congress had better ensure that the UAW ‘has some skin in the game’ - to borrow a phrase the president likes to trot out.
I'd rather any profits go to Japan than to Obama.
IF GM gets its act together, finally, what difference does it make what President it happens under. GM will outlast Obama, (believe it or not, he will be gone someday) and if they produce the best car for you, then buy it.
I have always been a GM man and will remain a GM man.
I bought a Hyundai minivan to support the Korean rise in auto production. Great vehicle BTW.
I was just now thinking about this.
THIS capitalist American will not be buying from a zombie “company”, no way.
This unnatural “company” is an abomination and, like Barry, must fail.
It is an afront to any self-respecting American.
GM, and their commie union can’t fall fast enough.
Crapping out.. Plus they are based in Michigan..
It looks like the public is boycotting all of them right now
If GM manages to control its losses somewhat (which will be portrayed as a HUGE success by the administration and the media), you know what kind of precedent that's going to set ?
"Govt succeeded where private ownership failed"
For all practical purposes GM is now a state run company, like Lada.
Boycott GM? That won’t be hard. I’ve never bought a piece of union-built GM crap in my life. No good reason to start now!
I love my Ford. My Chevy is great too but I will not buy from a pseudo government/UAW entity.
GM died yesterday.
Amen! No reason to organize a boycott. Once the government gets GM to start making the cars the government wants us to buy, their sales will collapse even further. The old Soviet Union had LOTS of consumer goods. They just all came in gray and were so ugly and misshapen (whatever, clothes, shoes, cars), no one would buy them. Government Motors will be just the same.
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