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General Motors re-emerges as world's top vehicle-maker two years after near bankruptcy
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| Fri, 20 Jan 2012
Posted on 01/20/2012 5:16:14 AM PST by equaviator
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Time for GM to pay up. Or do they prefer the current arrangement?
To: equaviator
they don’t pay taxes, borrow huge amount of money for zero interests, huge subsides from government and government buying GM cars as well.
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posted on
01/20/2012 5:20:36 AM PST
by
4rcane
To: equaviator
How much of those were fleet sales....?
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posted on
01/20/2012 5:21:51 AM PST
by
mewzilla
(I'll vote for the first guy who promises to mail in his SOTU addresses.)
To: equaviator
As a low wage earning taxpayer, I don’t like being forced to support unionized companies in the north east that can’t survive due to their corruption and bad decisions. I will never buy any GM products ever, and will actively encourage everyone to do the same.
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posted on
01/20/2012 5:23:26 AM PST
by
ZX12R
(FUBO GTFO 2012 !)
To: mewzilla
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posted on
01/20/2012 5:25:27 AM PST
by
mewzilla
(I'll vote for the first guy who promises to mail in his SOTU addresses.)
To: equaviator
General Motors (GM) has once again become the world's biggest vehicle maker, which marks dramatic turnaround for a firm that was facing bankruptcy two years ago. And it only took the worst earthquake in a century to make it happen.
CC
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posted on
01/20/2012 5:26:08 AM PST
by
Celtic Conservative
(Wisdom comes from experience. Experience comes from a lack of wisdom.)
To: mewzilla
Whoops, my bad. The above is from last year. I’ll see what I can scare up for 2011.
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posted on
01/20/2012 5:27:02 AM PST
by
mewzilla
(I'll vote for the first guy who promises to mail in his SOTU addresses.)
To: ZX12R
Precisely. I remember when GM ran an ad where the GM CEO proclaimed that the company had repaid the gov’t stimulus money with interest. Turned out to be a baldfaced lie. Just last year it was proclaiming the gov’t mandated car that no one needs or wants—the Volt—was sales success. It was a lie until the dang things started burning up. Then it became a criminal and tragic lie.
To: ZX12R
I love my Nissan Titan. It was built in the US in a non-union plant. I bought it new in ‘08 but it is an ‘07, and I would buy another one in a heartbeat if something should happen to mine. GM and Chrysler? Never.
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posted on
01/20/2012 5:28:53 AM PST
by
goodwithagun
(My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
To: equaviator
Ok, time for them to start paying, 1000 per unit to start.
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posted on
01/20/2012 5:32:28 AM PST
by
org.whodat
(Sorry bill, I should never had made all those jokes about you and Lewinsky, have fun.)
To: mewzilla
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posted on
01/20/2012 5:33:38 AM PST
by
mewzilla
(I'll vote for the first guy who promises to mail in his SOTU addresses.)
To: dools0007world
Government Motors = Century Motors (Atlas Shrugged)
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posted on
01/20/2012 5:34:08 AM PST
by
Aevery_Freeman
(Typed using <FONT STYLE=SARCASM> unless otherwise noted)
To: equaviator
The Dems will no doubt propose a car profit commission, where the windfall profit on cars is not excessive. That tax should be up to 100% after they have made enough money.
Dems are getting ready to propose that right now ...
< .crickets chirping ... >
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posted on
01/20/2012 5:34:45 AM PST
by
dartuser
("If you are ... what you were ... then you're not.")
To: org.whodat
Occupy General Motors anyone?
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posted on
01/20/2012 5:36:12 AM PST
by
equaviator
( "There's a (datum) plane on the horizon coming in...see it?")
To: mewzilla
Wow - from your link:
“Through November, Chevy sold over 35% of its production to fleets”
I think the article is a recap of 2010 sales....probably even more fleet sales this year.
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posted on
01/20/2012 5:36:46 AM PST
by
lacrew
(Mr. Soetoro, we regret to inform you that your race card is over the credit limit.)
To: lacrew
Fleet sales tend to be low margin, too.
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posted on
01/20/2012 5:38:10 AM PST
by
mewzilla
(I'll vote for the first guy who promises to mail in his SOTU addresses.)
To: 4rcane
You got it.....another Government-run, taxpayer subsidized business, which couldn't compete without TAXPAYERS being forced to fund the Union's extortion-like wages and benefits, and multi-million dollar laudering of those dollars BACK to the DNC. What a scheme.
Just like handing our TAX DOLLARS to friends of the Progressives, for Green Energy, and then having them send their contributions out of those Tax Dollars BACK TO THE DNC.
Is this a great system or what?
Every GM or Chrysler/Fiat you see is MORE THAN LIKELY a Democrat voter, or they don't care about buying from Obama Motors.
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posted on
01/20/2012 5:39:39 AM PST
by
traditional1
(Free speech for me.....not for thee)
To: lacrew
BTW, my first link is a year old. That second link I found is up to date :-)
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posted on
01/20/2012 5:40:52 AM PST
by
mewzilla
(I'll vote for the first guy who promises to mail in his SOTU addresses.)
To: goodwithagun
Girlfriend bought a new 2011 Kia Optima last weekend - made in the non-union Kia plant 10 miles away.
Never started to imagine possibly remotely considering a GM car.... never will.
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posted on
01/20/2012 5:52:07 AM PST
by
bossmechanic
(If all else fails, hit it with a hammer)
To: equaviator
A Volkswagen is a great car when it’s running
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posted on
01/20/2012 5:56:48 AM PST
by
yldstrk
( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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