LLN was very bland on what products and what loses Ford had. Not trying to suck up for Ford here, but let’s get some facts right. Total revenue fell only from 44.2 billion dollars, to 41.5 billion.

Out of that existing drop, $2.1-billion was to write down the value of it’s leases written by it’s finance unit. Another $5.3-billion charge went to write down the value of its North American operations. In total, it’s losses due to vehicles is somewhere in the billion dollar mark, although I don’t have those figures.

Also, Mercury is getting into the market with a compact based on the Ford Focus platform in the near future, 2009 or 10.

And get over it, the European Focus is ALSO 10 years old using that logic. It still rides on the same frame as the original one, and both our American and European versions are improved over the last generations frame. Engine choices have been improved and some very serious engine options are on the way, I can guarantee. If your upset about looks, that’s your opinion. MY opinion is the Euro Focus is shit compared to ours. The only thing that the European Focus gets right is more engine options, and better looking from the outside. The Euro interior is grotesque compared to the one we have, and 40% of people own one as a second car, not some sporty, cool and hip hatchback. The only thing I would have asked for is the exterior styling of the Euro Focus, they can keep their interior and the majority of their engines too.

And saying that “Republicans, like me, believe in free enterprise and open markets” is all crap. Get some sense and knowledge and you’ll see it doesn’t matter Republican or Democrat, 90% of them are crap anyways.
Our current market is probably the least open and free it’s ever been, end of argument. You can still argue all you want, but from an unbiased point of view I still have less rights than I did 20 years ago, and my business and life are more constricted than ever through regulations; shit, most people can’t even wash their own cars in their own driveways. Seeing how you know quite a bit about stocks and what not, how about you look into all of the internet programs that have been shut down as of recently because a few uneducated members referred to their programs as ones that created “interest” or “loans” (not literal interest, like what you would gain or loose at the bank over a period of time, etc..)? After everything goes through court, your lucky to earn a penny on the dollar since Uncle Sam and his lawyers dipped their fees into the process. And you think all of this, added to millions of jobs lost and foreclosures, increasingly sensitive enviromental weenies who will NOT allow us to drill for our own fucking oil of which we have plenty, limiting many resources and powerplant structures, a President who is considering more bombing, and “pre-chosen” Presidential runners who still make us choose between dumb and dumber makes us move forward, right? What exactly are we moving forward in then, obesity and malnutrition?

Y do theu keep reporting losses when they don’t have 2/

Whose accounting standards do U trust?

people start jumping out of buildings soon.