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Democrats are reporting "it's a halt of production for re-working".
GOP knows they are lying, they are delaying the public, and are outsourcing.
YOU DON'T ANNOUNCE A PRODUCTION HALT FOR RE-WORKING (NEW MODEL) WITHOUT ANNOUNCING THE NEW MODEL
for example: Ford announced closure of the factories making "white vans" which included Ford's own smelting of metal: but Ford announced the facility had grown too old and a NEW FORD VAN was announced - which btw was on the road not a few years after the closure announcement
GM has not come forward with any NEWS of re-modeling because there isn't any - is my edumacated guess.
why those people up north are so strongly democrat when democrats continually double dip and "don't share" and ruin their kids future is beyond me
they are strong headed, that's for sure
and how about that support for illegal aliens in GM democrat area? illegal aliens buy only toyota.
very strange people.
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GM to lay off 15 percent of salaried workers, halt production at five plants in U.S. and Canada
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Thank you President T!
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Date: November 26, 2018 12:22PM
Continued declines of new car purchases have troubled auto companies, especially as they grapple with technology that may reshape the industry and brace for the impact of the Trump administration’s trade dispute.
Re: GM to lay off 15 percent of salaried workers, halt production at five plants in U.S. and Canada
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Thanks Pres. T!
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Date: November 26, 2018 12:23PM
When President Trump announced tariffs last summer, Detroit’s Big Three automakers — GM, Ford and Fiat Chrysler — all trimmed their profit forecasts for the rest of the year, citing the rising commodity costs that would lead to hikes in prices and manufacturing costs. GM took a hard stance, warning of the fallout within the auto industry and saying that the tariffs risked “undermining GM’s competitiveness against foreign auto producers by erecting broad brush trade barriers that increase our global costs” in comments filed with the Commerce Department in June.
Re: GM to lay off 15 percent of salaried workers, halt production at five plants in U.S. and Canada
Posted by:
klky9
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Date: November 26, 2018 12:25PM
Forget the spin. GM, like other corporations, is tightening its belt in expectation of an economic slowdown. Similar fears are reflected in the stock market. Deloitte has forecast an increased probability of recession by 2020 with GDP growth of just 0.7%, due largely to uncertainty created by Trump's trade wars and disruption of supply chains.
His steel and aluminum tariffs have raised manufacturing costs for all U.S. automakers, with GM reporting $300 million in increased commodity costs for just one quarter. As a result, stocks of GM, Ford and Fiat Chrysler have all fallen by as much as 11%. Are we tired of winning yet?
His steel and aluminum tariffs have raised manufacturing costs for all U.S. automakers, with GM reporting $300 million in increased commodity costs for just one quarter. As a result, stocks of GM, Ford and Fiat Chrysler have all fallen by as much as 11%. Are we tired of winning yet?
Re: GM to lay off 15 percent of salaried workers, halt production at five plants in U.S. and Canada
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trumpfucked, forever
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Date: November 26, 2018 12:26PM
Thank you President T! Wrote:
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> Continued declines of new car purchases have
> troubled auto companies, especially as they
> grapple with technology that may reshape the
> industry and brace for the impact of the Trump
> administration’s trade dispute.
His lack of experience in foreign policy and economics will be ruinous to our country for decades.
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> Continued declines of new car purchases have
> troubled auto companies, especially as they
> grapple with technology that may reshape the
> industry and brace for the impact of the Trump
> administration’s trade dispute.
His lack of experience in foreign policy and economics will be ruinous to our country for decades.
Re: GM to lay off 15 percent of salaried workers, halt production at five plants in U.S. and Canada
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Rocky R
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Date: November 26, 2018 12:27PM
Perhaps the death knell for the Youngstown area. Lordstown is the remaining industrial anchor. This part of Ohio and America is symbolic of the loss of the ability to support a family. The Cruze hatchback is already made on Mexico. No amount of phony Trump rhetoric will save this situation. I am sure there will be a bait and switch magic act much like the supposed jobs he "saved" for Carrier workers in Indianapolis. The union says it had 1,200 members at the Carrier plant. Trump claims to have struck a deal that saved 1,100.
In May of last year, Carrier announced that it would lay off 632 factory workers, and continue layoffs until approximately 800 workers remained. Carrier told Popular Mechanics that 300 workers were laid off from the Indianapolis plant in July 2017, followed by 215 more in January 2018. One union leader says that 675 workers survived the layoffs. Another says 720 did. But 1,200 total jobs minus 720 jobs saved is 480 jobs lost.
Meanwhile, Robert James says 594 union members lost their jobs at Carrier. And we know that there were 738 layoffs at UTEC in Huntington. Our best tally is this: At the Indianapolis Carrier factory, it appears that 594 union workers were laid off and about 700 remain. Which adds up to nearly 1,300. That discrepancy between that and the original figure of 1,200 union members may lie in the number of transitional employees who were brought in and subsequently laid off. So much for "winning."
In May of last year, Carrier announced that it would lay off 632 factory workers, and continue layoffs until approximately 800 workers remained. Carrier told Popular Mechanics that 300 workers were laid off from the Indianapolis plant in July 2017, followed by 215 more in January 2018. One union leader says that 675 workers survived the layoffs. Another says 720 did. But 1,200 total jobs minus 720 jobs saved is 480 jobs lost.
Meanwhile, Robert James says 594 union members lost their jobs at Carrier. And we know that there were 738 layoffs at UTEC in Huntington. Our best tally is this: At the Indianapolis Carrier factory, it appears that 594 union workers were laid off and about 700 remain. Which adds up to nearly 1,300. That discrepancy between that and the original figure of 1,200 union members may lie in the number of transitional employees who were brought in and subsequently laid off. So much for "winning."
Re: GM to lay off 15 percent of salaried workers, halt production at five plants in U.S. and Canada
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handler
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Date: November 26, 2018 12:28PM
I thought the corporate tax cuts were supposed to create jobs, not cut them.
Re: GM to lay off 15 percent of salaried workers, halt production at five plants in U.S. and Canada
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Thank you President 'T'!
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Date: November 26, 2018 12:30PM
As the GOP-Trump-Trickle-Down-Tax-Fraud-Sugar-High wears off, look for longer unemployment lines in a local theater near you. Perhaps it would have made a million times more sense to invest a trillion or two in infrastructure and healthcare for the American people instead of investing a trillion or two in the 0.1%. There are no worse economics than 0.1% bladder-relief economics.
Re: GM to lay off 15 percent of salaried workers, halt production at five plants in U.S. and Canada
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sleep in the bed you make
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Date: November 26, 2018 12:35PM
Rocky R Wrote:
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> Perhaps the death knell for the Youngstown area.
> Lordstown is the remaining industrial anchor. This
> part of Ohio parrier plant.
Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan went for Trump in 2016, they deserve to bear the brunt of this foolishness. I don’t like to hear of other people losing their jobs but at least it’s people who were dumb enough to elect this clown.
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> Perhaps the death knell for the Youngstown area.
> Lordstown is the remaining industrial anchor. This
> part of Ohio parrier plant.
Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan went for Trump in 2016, they deserve to bear the brunt of this foolishness. I don’t like to hear of other people losing their jobs but at least it’s people who were dumb enough to elect this clown.
Re: GM to lay off 15 percent of salaried workers, halt production at five plants in U.S. and Canada
Posted by:
spaceman
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Date: November 26, 2018 12:36PM
handler Wrote:
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> I thought the corporate tax cuts were supposed to
> create jobs, not cut them.
Rocket fuel for the economy, they said.
bwahahahaha
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> I thought the corporate tax cuts were supposed to
> create jobs, not cut them.
Rocket fuel for the economy, they said.
bwahahahaha
Re: GM to lay off 15 percent of salaried workers, halt production at five plants in U.S. and Canada
Posted by:
MAGA cannot be stopped
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Date: November 26, 2018 12:40PM
look at the libs - greatest day of their lives seeing Americans lose jobs to prove trump wrong. Dont worry MAGA cannot be stopped
Re: GM to lay off 15 percent of salaried workers, halt production at five plants in U.S. and Canada
Posted by:
lordstown oh
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Date: November 26, 2018 01:15PM
MAGA cannot be stopped Wrote:
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> look at the libs - greatest day of their lives
> seeing Americans lose jobs to prove trump wrong.
> Dont worry MAGA cannot be stopped
Donald Trump is a loser. We have a loser president running our country into the ground. People who voted for him deserve to be hit the hardest.
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> look at the libs - greatest day of their lives
> seeing Americans lose jobs to prove trump wrong.
> Dont worry MAGA cannot be stopped
Donald Trump is a loser. We have a loser president running our country into the ground. People who voted for him deserve to be hit the hardest.
Re: GM to lay off 15 percent of salaried workers, halt production at five plants in U.S. and Canada
Posted by:
Gerrymanderer2
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Date: November 26, 2018 01:18PM
spaceman Wrote:
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> handler Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > I thought the corporate tax cuts were supposed
> to
> > create jobs, not cut them.
>
>
> Rocket fuel for the economy, they said.
>
> bwahahahaha
Balanced budget they said from record growth. Same shit they said about Kansas. Same shit they say every time. Before they leave it in ruins.
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> handler Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > I thought the corporate tax cuts were supposed
> to
> > create jobs, not cut them.
>
>
> Rocket fuel for the economy, they said.
>
> bwahahahaha
Balanced budget they said from record growth. Same shit they said about Kansas. Same shit they say every time. Before they leave it in ruins.
Re: GM to lay off 15 percent of salaried workers, halt production at five plants in U.S. and Canada
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BEH
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Date: November 26, 2018 01:45PM
No one buys American cars anymore. That's on the manufacturer yo.
Re: GM to lay off 15 percent of salaried workers, halt production at five plants in U.S. and Canada
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so now trump has ruined GM
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Date: November 26, 2018 03:26PM
What's next on his agenda?
Re: GM to lay off 15 percent of salaried workers, halt production at five plants in U.S. and Canada
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not quite35
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Date: November 26, 2018 03:28PM
BEH Wrote:
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> No one buys American cars anymore. That's on the
> manufacturer yo.
Rednecks and niggers have one thing in common, they both love domestic cars.
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> No one buys American cars anymore. That's on the
> manufacturer yo.
Rednecks and niggers have one thing in common, they both love domestic cars.
Re: GM to lay off 15 percent of salaried workers, halt production at five plants in U.S. and Canada
Posted by:
Sparks
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Date: November 26, 2018 03:51PM
Trump should use tariffs on imported GM vehicles to subsidize foreign auto makers relocating production to Ohio. Americans would then get a better vehicle made in the USA by American workers.
Re: GM to lay off 15 percent of salaried workers, halt production at five plants in U.S. and Canada
Posted by:
whxwu
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Date: November 26, 2018 03:57PM
Thank you President T! Wrote:
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> Continued declines of new car purchases have
> troubled auto companies, especially as they
> grapple with technology that may reshape the
> industry and brace for the impact of the Trump
> administration’s trade dispute.
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> Continued declines of new car purchases have
> troubled auto companies, especially as they
> grapple with technology that may reshape the
> industry and brace for the impact of the Trump
> administration’s trade dispute.
In other words Detroit is tits up in debt despite OBAMA steering $1,000,000,000 Military dollars to criminals.
The workers are on strike an CEO, who during Clinton raided the retirement funds, are unwilling to deal with them anymore.
INSTEAD: THEY ARE SELLING OUT A PEICE OF USA AND RAISING GOVERNMENT WAGES
GM, other than cars, manufactures many if not most of USA's Emergency Vehicles: ambulances, firetrucks, etc.
CHINA, Germany, et al WOULD SINK SHIPS TO GET THOSE CONTRACTS.
Re: GM to lay off 15 percent of salaried workers, halt production at five plants in U.S. and Canada
Posted by:
yhteb
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Date: November 26, 2018 03:59PM
hopefully they are canceling GM's "small cars" and making way for new "made in USA" cars. All of GM's "eco cars" no longer contain any "made in USA" parts, and the motors are from small asian countries.
Re: GM to lay off 15 percent of salaried workers, halt production at five plants in U.S. and Canada
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Trumps HUGE Bowel Movement on US
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Date: November 26, 2018 04:14PM
Im sorry - where are all the Trump supporters explaining how this is some victory for Trump and how he is 'stumping' dems and liberals with the closure of GM plants. Come on trumpers where are you - this is just the start of the chickens coming home to roost.
Re: GM to lay off 15 percent of salaried workers, halt production at five plants in U.S. and Canada
Posted by:
Vanity Fair
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Date: November 26, 2018 08:22PM
Re: GM to lay off 15 percent of salaried workers, halt production at five plants in U.S. and Canada
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yep! trump fucked this one up
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Date: November 26, 2018 08:24PM
a trail of fail
Re: GM to lay off 15 percent of salaried workers, halt production at five plants in U.S. and Canada
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xjetc
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Date: November 26, 2018 08:25PM
^^ In August 2017, she was elected to the board of Disney. She is the 12th person elected to this board.
(disney has been called a democrat affiliated group - asian affiliated as well - and a MAJOR PORN MAKER)
(disney has been called a democrat affiliated group - asian affiliated as well - and a MAJOR PORN MAKER)
Re: GM to lay off 15 percent of salaried workers, halt production at five plants in U.S. and Canada
Posted by:
xlefn
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Date: November 26, 2018 08:28PM
%15 smifstein percent
15,000 USA jobs is a HUGE LOSS
if those employees filed for "Town" status they would get it (the min. req. count of persons required to start a town-ship)
Re: GM to lay off 15 percent of salaried workers, halt production at five plants in U.S. and Canada
Posted by:
ntddj
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Date: November 26, 2018 08:33PM
Re: GM to lay off 15 percent of salaried workers, halt production at five plants in U.S. and Canada
Posted by:
Sparks
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Date: November 26, 2018 08:52PM
A ten percent tariff on every GM car imported given as a ten percent subsidy on every foreign car produced in the US would end this nonsense overnight.
Re: GM to lay off 15 percent of salaried workers, halt production at five plants in U.S. and Canada
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talk about failure
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Date: November 26, 2018 09:29PM
hmmm, still not one Trumptard talking point explanation. Wall fail, N Korea Fail, Stockmarket failing, now auto layoffs and shuttering plants.
Re: GM to lay off 15 percent of salaried workers, halt production at five plants in U.S. and Canada
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Trumptardz! must answer for this
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Date: November 26, 2018 10:19PM
Of course, none of them have jobs, or the money to buy a car, so I guess they just don't give a shit.
Re: GM to lay off 15 percent of salaried workers, halt production at five plants in U.S. and Canada
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Trumptardz! must answer for this
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Date: November 26, 2018 10:19PM
Of course, none of them have jobs, or the money to buy a car, so I guess they just don't give a shit.
Re: GM to lay off 15 percent of salaried workers, halt production at five plants in U.S. and Canada
Posted by:
Gerry Fucks Goats
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Date: November 26, 2018 11:00PM
Trumptardz! must answer for this Wrote:
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> Of course, none of them have jobs, or the money to
> buy a car, so I guess they just don't give a shit.
^ Gerry projecting himself onto others again. So sad.
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> Of course, none of them have jobs, or the money to
> buy a car, so I guess they just don't give a shit.
^ Gerry projecting himself onto others again. So sad.
Re: GM to lay off 15 percent of salaried workers, halt production at five plants in U.S. and Canada
Posted by:
Cheating, Lying Trump
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Date: November 27, 2018 09:31AM
This should be expected. As I have said all along. Republicans ruin the US economy on purpose. Trump took a perfectly good product economy and ran it into the ground.
You'll see jobs go away, industries crumble and the markets crash. Same shit as Bush.
You'll see jobs go away, industries crumble and the markets crash. Same shit as Bush.
Re: GM to lay off 15 percent of salaried workers, halt production at five plants in U.S. and Canada
Posted by:
mukuv
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Date: November 27, 2018 11:34AM
Bill Clinton democrats called it "OUTSOURCING" and healthy for USA.
GOP called it "double dipping" and a rape of our children's future.
Re: GM to lay off 15 percent of salaried workers, halt production at five plants in U.S. and Canada
Posted by:
ep9te
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Date: November 27, 2018 11:37AM
Democrats are reporting "it's a halt of production for re-working".
GOP knows they are lying, they are delaying the public, and are outsourcing.
YOU DON'T ANNOUNCE A PRODUCTION HALT FOR RE-WORKING (NEW MODEL) WITHOUT ANNOUNCING THE NEW MODEL
for example: Ford announced closure of the factories making "white vans" which included Ford's own smelting of metal: but Ford announced the facility had grown too old and a NEW FORD VAN was announced - which btw was on the road not a few years after the closure announcement
GM has not come forward with any NEWS of re-modeling because there isn't any - is my edumacated guess.
Re: GM to lay off 15 percent of salaried workers, halt production at five plants in U.S. and Canada
Posted by:
tjt6f
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Date: November 27, 2018 11:41AM
illegal aliens would rather drive a toyota with no muffler and no/fake inspection sticker than a USA make car that works fine
you see it all the time in fairfax
you see it all the time in fairfax
Re: GM to lay off 15 percent of salaried workers, halt production at five plants in U.S. and Canada
Posted by:
bmfvn
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Date: November 27, 2018 11:51AM
GM small cars (%100 asian assy in usa by minorities suing GM, btw) were a pain to work on - DiY forums didn't like 'em.
USA cars (esp chevy) used to be the "working man's car" and built to be hand wrenched. Parts were (WERE) 1/2 the price of parts for imports (and made in usa of course - Clinton / Obama saying usa can't make cheap shit is %100 lies).
One famous ANTI-DIY move by GM, thoughless and calous, was a batter replacment that required removal of a tire. they cheaped out so badly it was just ... un-operable by those that "had to maintain it". Another: shorted wires - wire harnesses thick with un-necessary bullshit and cutting them so short the wires were pulling themselves out already right off the factory floor: to save a few cents per car on wire making DiY more hellish again and ownership more costly.
Another: huge investment in Information Technology people didn't want and forcing these into base models so people were forced to pay for it (I PREDICT THIS WILL CAUSE JAPAN SALES TO FALL IF FORD MAKES "IT" OPTIONAL at sale). people have iphone they don't need to pay an extra few thousand for obama regulations and IT their iPhone can crush. they don't need a car that understands their phone either: they need the car to get them places with a passenger and their iphone in their purse where they want it.
ALLOT of GM mistakes. OR WERE THEY MISTAKES? you have to imagine Detroit is corrupt and GM is in detroit. it's all DNC Democrats. they are just as likely back door deals with asia a few profited from - not "mistakes" at all.
USA cars (esp chevy) used to be the "working man's car" and built to be hand wrenched. Parts were (WERE) 1/2 the price of parts for imports (and made in usa of course - Clinton / Obama saying usa can't make cheap shit is %100 lies).
One famous ANTI-DIY move by GM, thoughless and calous, was a batter replacment that required removal of a tire. they cheaped out so badly it was just ... un-operable by those that "had to maintain it". Another: shorted wires - wire harnesses thick with un-necessary bullshit and cutting them so short the wires were pulling themselves out already right off the factory floor: to save a few cents per car on wire making DiY more hellish again and ownership more costly.
Another: huge investment in Information Technology people didn't want and forcing these into base models so people were forced to pay for it (I PREDICT THIS WILL CAUSE JAPAN SALES TO FALL IF FORD MAKES "IT" OPTIONAL at sale). people have iphone they don't need to pay an extra few thousand for obama regulations and IT their iPhone can crush. they don't need a car that understands their phone either: they need the car to get them places with a passenger and their iphone in their purse where they want it.
ALLOT of GM mistakes. OR WERE THEY MISTAKES? you have to imagine Detroit is corrupt and GM is in detroit. it's all DNC Democrats. they are just as likely back door deals with asia a few profited from - not "mistakes" at all.
Re: GM to lay off 15 percent of salaried workers, halt production at five plants in U.S. and Canada
Posted by:
FNEWF
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Date: November 27, 2018 11:54AM
I'M STILL WAITING FOR THE GOLDEN PARACHUTES ANNOUNCEMENTS
RAISES AND SEVERANCE FOR CEO'S THAT OUTSOURCED GM PLANTS
why those people up north are so strongly democrat when democrats continually double dip and "don't share" and ruin their kids future is beyond me
they are strong headed, that's for sure
and how about that support for illegal aliens in GM democrat area? illegal aliens buy only toyota.
very strange people.
Re: Boo Hoo Hoo we're little babies
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Even More Liberal Hypocrisy
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Date: November 27, 2018 12:02PM
Liberals scour the webz for anything that hurts America, while desperately trying to ignore the roaring economy and the lowest unemployment in decades.
LoL
losers.
LoL
losers.
Re: GM to lay off 15 percent of salaried workers, halt production at five plants in U.S. and Canada
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Taxpayer Giveaways
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Date: November 27, 2018 01:22PM
Taxpayers will end up bailing out GM AGAIN. It's the Republican thing to do. Reward the rich, fuck over the middle class and poor.
Re: GM to lay off 15 percent of salaried workers, halt production at five plants in U.S. and Canada
Posted by:
Orange Baboon President
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Date: November 27, 2018 04:36PM
Trump is now trying to put a tariff on GM!! Omg this shit is funny. Orange baboon is kicking rocks.
Re: GM to lay off 15 percent of salaried workers, halt production at five plants in U.S. and Canada
Posted by:
no wayyy
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Date: November 27, 2018 04:39PM
Orange Baboon President Wrote:
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> Trump is now trying to put a tariff on GM!! Omg
> this shit is funny. Orange baboon is kicking
> rocks.
you have to be kidding
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> Trump is now trying to put a tariff on GM!! Omg
> this shit is funny. Orange baboon is kicking
> rocks.
you have to be kidding
Re: GM to lay off 15 percent of salaried workers, halt production at five plants in U.S. and Canada
Posted by:
West
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Date: November 27, 2018 09:26PM
no wayyy Wrote:
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> Orange Baboon President Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Trump is now trying to put a tariff on GM!!
> Omg
> > this shit is funny. Orange baboon is kicking
> > rocks.
>
> you have to be kidding
Rich kid is all upset, can't have his way.
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> Orange Baboon President Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Trump is now trying to put a tariff on GM!!
> Omg
> > this shit is funny. Orange baboon is kicking
> > rocks.
>
> you have to be kidding
Rich kid is all upset, can't have his way.