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To: tobyhill
GM needs to file a Chapter 11 bankruptcy and re-organize. This includes new contract negotiations and possibly a break up into separate parts.

Obama and his magic fairies need to keep their hands off and let established law and market forces work.

2 posted on 08/01/2012 3:34:36 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: Jimmy Valentine
Obama and his magic fairies need to keep their hands off and let established law and market forces work.

If they had done so four years ago, would they not be well along the road to recovery today?

I used to think GM's biggest problem was having a work force adding to under 100,000 trying to suppoert a retired force approaching 1,000,000. The rounding may be off, but the ratios tell a story. Has any of this changed after the bail out?

12 posted on 08/01/2012 4:07:18 AM PDT by stevem
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To: Jimmy Valentine

That is what should have happened a couple years ago instead of a taxpayer bailout of GM’s unions that screwed its secured creditors. Obama kept a company together that didn’t make sense and he also kept their unsustainable cost structure in place. Now, instead of having several smaller parts that are in a position to compete and grow, we have the same monstrosity we had before that eventually will fail again.


29 posted on 08/01/2012 6:15:21 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: Jimmy Valentine

What, GM losing money? How is this possible? It wasn’t too long ago that they paid all their union members “bonuses” because of their high “profits”. Could those high numbers have been because they sold most of their output to the government?


31 posted on 08/01/2012 6:21:32 AM PDT by anoldafvet
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