Comments on: Further cost and job cuts in GM’s future http://www.leftlanenews.com/further-cost-and-job-cuts-in-gms-future.html Car news, reviews, and specs for the auto-industry Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:54:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: jackjimturkey http://www.leftlanenews.com/further-cost-and-job-cuts-in-gms-future.html#comment-356474 jackjimturkey Fri, 01 Feb 2008 18:06:34 +0000 http://www.leftlanenews.com/further-cost-and-job-cuts-in-gms-future.html#comment-356474 axehead: you're right axehead: you’re right

]]> By: v8havoc http://www.leftlanenews.com/further-cost-and-job-cuts-in-gms-future.html#comment-353389 v8havoc Sun, 20 Jan 2008 23:47:51 +0000 http://www.leftlanenews.com/further-cost-and-job-cuts-in-gms-future.html#comment-353389 tax companies that outsource their jobs so much that they bring the jobs back home tax companies that outsource their jobs so much that they bring the jobs back home

]]> By: Scarface03 http://www.leftlanenews.com/further-cost-and-job-cuts-in-gms-future.html#comment-353162 Scarface03 Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:17:18 +0000 http://www.leftlanenews.com/further-cost-and-job-cuts-in-gms-future.html#comment-353162 johnnycanuck indeed gets the gold star today. Good stuff. There are shit loads of money paying the ultra elite of the corporate world, that's for sure. It reminds me of the ultra elite professional baseball players. Even assuming there's no disputing a ballplayer's talent, even at his prime, 95% of his professional life is spend standing in a field or sitting on a bench.... and only in good weather, I might add. For those big-wigs at the top of the corporate world, who's to say the really talented ones don't deserve the big bucks. It takes more than I know I'm up for to run a multi-billion dollar company. But like johnny says, the good are certainly mixed in with the bad, and they certainly don't deserve it as much. Maybe it's just easier to rag on the unions, because maybe we can relate better to the common man. All of us can appreciate the long day's work we put in at our jobs, and if we can't do the job any longer, or if we get lazier than the guy next to us, we know our paycheck doesn't keep getting paid. As for GM. Good for it for doing what needs to be done. johnnycanuck indeed gets the gold star today. Good stuff.

There are shit loads of money paying the ultra elite of the corporate world, that’s for sure. It reminds me of the ultra elite professional baseball players. Even assuming there’s no disputing a ballplayer’s talent, even at his prime, 95% of his professional life is spend standing in a field or sitting on a bench…. and only in good weather, I might add.

For those big-wigs at the top of the corporate world, who’s to say the really talented ones don’t deserve the big bucks. It takes more than I know I’m up for to run a multi-billion dollar company. But like johnny says, the good are certainly mixed in with the bad, and they certainly don’t deserve it as much.

Maybe it’s just easier to rag on the unions, because maybe we can relate better to the common man. All of us can appreciate the long day’s work we put in at our jobs, and if we can’t do the job any longer, or if we get lazier than the guy next to us, we know our paycheck doesn’t keep getting paid.

As for GM. Good for it for doing what needs to be done.

]]> By: Impulsive http://www.leftlanenews.com/further-cost-and-job-cuts-in-gms-future.html#comment-353117 Impulsive Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:56:47 +0000 http://www.leftlanenews.com/further-cost-and-job-cuts-in-gms-future.html#comment-353117 'Deanster', hilarious. ‘Deanster’, hilarious.

]]> By: CTS DRIVER http://www.leftlanenews.com/further-cost-and-job-cuts-in-gms-future.html#comment-353111 CTS DRIVER Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:44:28 +0000 http://www.leftlanenews.com/further-cost-and-job-cuts-in-gms-future.html#comment-353111 holy crap guys, hahahahahahahaha holy crap guys, hahahahahahahaha

]]> By: SwerveEarly http://www.leftlanenews.com/further-cost-and-job-cuts-in-gms-future.html#comment-353100 SwerveEarly Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:24:51 +0000 http://www.leftlanenews.com/further-cost-and-job-cuts-in-gms-future.html#comment-353100 I got edited WTF. My comment went on to say that buying Korean or Mexican or any other 2nd or 3rd world country is supporting horrific living standards if not sweat shop labor. I will only ever buy a car built by people with a decent standard of living. Not riding a gravy train like some think that a union worker gets but a middle class std is fair. Not to mention the damage to the environemt is a crime against humanity as the Korean government, is so corrupt and corporate friendly they will let 10 times more shit slide then EU, US, or Canada will. I got edited WTF.
My comment went on to say that buying Korean or Mexican or any other 2nd or 3rd world country is supporting horrific living standards if not sweat shop labor.
I will only ever buy a car built by people with a decent standard of living. Not riding a gravy train like some think that a union worker gets but a middle class std is fair.
Not to mention the damage to the environemt is a crime against humanity as the Korean government, is so corrupt and corporate friendly they will let 10 times more shit slide then EU, US, or Canada will.

]]> By: DeansterTJ http://www.leftlanenews.com/further-cost-and-job-cuts-in-gms-future.html#comment-353079 DeansterTJ Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:45:41 +0000 http://www.leftlanenews.com/further-cost-and-job-cuts-in-gms-future.html#comment-353079 Anytime 400 SwordSwallower Anytime 400 SwordSwallower

]]> By: 1c3d0g http://www.leftlanenews.com/further-cost-and-job-cuts-in-gms-future.html#comment-353073 1c3d0g Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:58:20 +0000 http://www.leftlanenews.com/further-cost-and-job-cuts-in-gms-future.html#comment-353073 Good. They need a break from the f*cking UAW. If it wasn't for their asinine requirements, GM would be a lot more competitive price-wise against imports. Good. They need a break from the f*cking UAW. If it wasn’t for their asinine requirements, GM would be a lot more competitive price-wise against imports.

]]> By: 400horseSS http://www.leftlanenews.com/further-cost-and-job-cuts-in-gms-future.html#comment-353072 400horseSS Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:46:42 +0000 http://www.leftlanenews.com/further-cost-and-job-cuts-in-gms-future.html#comment-353072 great comeback as usual dean tugjob great comeback as usual dean tugjob

]]> By: chadsuke http://www.leftlanenews.com/further-cost-and-job-cuts-in-gms-future.html#comment-353071 chadsuke Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:45:40 +0000 http://www.leftlanenews.com/further-cost-and-job-cuts-in-gms-future.html#comment-353071 Here's a 2006 breakdown of income distribution. Bottom 10% $0 to $10,500 Bottom 20% $0 to $18,500 Bottom 25% $0 to $22,500 Middle 33% $30,000 to $62,500 Middle 20% $35,000 to $55,000 Top 25% $77,500 and up Top 20% $92,000 and up Top 5% $167,000 and up Top 1.5% $250,000 and up Top 1% $350,000 and up Source: US Census Bureau, 2006; income statistics for the year 2005 Here’s a 2006 breakdown of income distribution.

Bottom 10% $0 to $10,500
Bottom 20% $0 to $18,500
Bottom 25% $0 to $22,500
Middle 33% $30,000 to $62,500
Middle 20% $35,000 to $55,000
Top 25% $77,500 and up
Top 20% $92,000 and up
Top 5% $167,000 and up
Top 1.5% $250,000 and up
Top 1% $350,000 and up

Source: US Census Bureau, 2006; income statistics for the year 2005

]]> By: chadsuke http://www.leftlanenews.com/further-cost-and-job-cuts-in-gms-future.html#comment-353070 chadsuke Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:30:20 +0000 http://www.leftlanenews.com/further-cost-and-job-cuts-in-gms-future.html#comment-353070 When good paying jobs for the working class disappear it is a tragedy. It's coming to the point that someone will have to have a college degree just to have any semblance of a middle class life. I read some where that the top 1 percent of the population had 22 percent of the income last year (which is the same distribution as 1929 btw). In 1970 the top 1 percent had only 9 percent of the income. The top 1 percent are those house holds that have a combined income of about $350,000 per year. The middle class is shrinking. It's coming to the point that the only way to maintain decent wage, low education manufacturing jobs is to institute tariffs, big fat tariffs, on imported goods and to a lesser extent on goods manufactured in the U.S. but by a foreign owned company. When good paying jobs for the working class disappear it is a tragedy. It’s coming to the point that someone will have to have a college degree just to have any semblance of a middle class life.

I read some where that the top 1 percent of the population had 22 percent of the income last year (which is the same distribution as 1929 btw). In 1970 the top 1 percent had only 9 percent of the income. The top 1 percent are those house holds that have a combined income of about $350,000 per year. The middle class is shrinking.

It’s coming to the point that the only way to maintain decent wage, low education manufacturing jobs is to institute tariffs, big fat tariffs, on imported goods and to a lesser extent on goods manufactured in the U.S. but by a foreign owned company.

]]> By: DeansterTJ http://www.leftlanenews.com/further-cost-and-job-cuts-in-gms-future.html#comment-353068 DeansterTJ Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:24:47 +0000 http://www.leftlanenews.com/further-cost-and-job-cuts-in-gms-future.html#comment-353068 No 400, I don't exactly pay attention to what they're doing down at your shitty plant. I wouldn't know if they're replacing the oldtimers with young people or if you're all sucking each other's cocks at breaktime. I have a feeling it's the latter.... So I see you're stuck on the pillpushing thing. You've probably been stung by the soaring costs of preparation H and now you're bitter....Chin up you little cumreceptacle, ask your whore mother for some help paying that! Or, go to the union and file a grievance!!! LOL! Dickriding commie! No 400, I don’t exactly pay attention to what they’re doing down at your shitty plant. I wouldn’t know if they’re replacing the oldtimers with young people or if you’re all sucking each other’s cocks at breaktime. I have a feeling it’s the latter….

So I see you’re stuck on the pillpushing thing. You’ve probably been stung by the soaring costs of preparation H and now you’re bitter….Chin up you little cumreceptacle, ask your whore mother for some help paying that! Or, go to the union and file a grievance!!! LOL! Dickriding commie!

]]> By: V2 http://www.leftlanenews.com/further-cost-and-job-cuts-in-gms-future.html#comment-353060 V2 Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:43:47 +0000 http://www.leftlanenews.com/further-cost-and-job-cuts-in-gms-future.html#comment-353060 SwerveEarly, so you buy Korean cars?????!!!! You would have to the most boring person on the face of the earth, and stupid as well to tell people that you do???? In Australia only losers and single mums drive Korean cars. SwerveEarly, so you buy Korean cars?????!!!! You would have to the most boring person on the face of the earth, and stupid as well to tell people that you do???? In Australia only losers and single mums drive Korean cars.

]]> By: AxeHead http://www.leftlanenews.com/further-cost-and-job-cuts-in-gms-future.html#comment-353046 AxeHead Fri, 18 Jan 2008 06:00:44 +0000 http://www.leftlanenews.com/further-cost-and-job-cuts-in-gms-future.html#comment-353046 Only one thing wins, for GM, for Ford, for Honda, for Hundai...I don't understand why the obvious is so hard to understand. It's quality. Build me a quality car that runs reliably for 15 years with only regular maintenance and I'll buy it. Design and performance do work into the equation but the market is showing clearly that quality wins. Now, if I had a choice between 2 cars and all things are equal, I'd buy American/Canadian over Asian/European to support my own. But in the end - quality wins. Only one thing wins, for GM, for Ford, for Honda, for Hundai…I don’t understand why the obvious is so hard to understand. It’s quality.

Build me a quality car that runs reliably for 15 years with only regular maintenance and I’ll buy it.

Design and performance do work into the equation but the market is showing clearly that quality wins.

Now, if I had a choice between 2 cars and all things are equal, I’d buy American/Canadian over Asian/European to support my own.

But in the end – quality wins.

]]> By: 400horseSS http://www.leftlanenews.com/further-cost-and-job-cuts-in-gms-future.html#comment-353045 400horseSS Fri, 18 Jan 2008 05:35:00 +0000 http://www.leftlanenews.com/further-cost-and-job-cuts-in-gms-future.html#comment-353045 and im not the typical fat ass union worker, your stupid ass can't see they're phasing those old farts out.....to keep your office full and hand out those free samples of new drugs that pill pimps like you love to hand out like halloween candy and im not the typical fat ass union worker, your stupid ass can’t see they’re phasing those old farts out…..to keep your office full and hand out those free samples of new drugs that pill pimps like you love to hand out like halloween candy

]]> By: 400horseSS http://www.leftlanenews.com/further-cost-and-job-cuts-in-gms-future.html#comment-353044 400horseSS Fri, 18 Jan 2008 05:29:37 +0000 http://www.leftlanenews.com/further-cost-and-job-cuts-in-gms-future.html#comment-353044 bitch bitch

]]> By: 400horseSS http://www.leftlanenews.com/further-cost-and-job-cuts-in-gms-future.html#comment-353043 400horseSS Fri, 18 Jan 2008 05:26:53 +0000 http://www.leftlanenews.com/further-cost-and-job-cuts-in-gms-future.html#comment-353043 and thats why you still (and other like you) just write scripts all day long, try watching intervention pussy and thats why you still (and other like you) just write scripts all day long, try watching intervention pussy

]]> By: 400horseSS http://www.leftlanenews.com/further-cost-and-job-cuts-in-gms-future.html#comment-353041 400horseSS Fri, 18 Jan 2008 05:24:08 +0000 http://www.leftlanenews.com/further-cost-and-job-cuts-in-gms-future.html#comment-353041 clap clap clap you pill pushin pimp clap clap clap you pill pushin pimp

]]> By: DeansterTJ http://www.leftlanenews.com/further-cost-and-job-cuts-in-gms-future.html#comment-353039 DeansterTJ Fri, 18 Jan 2008 05:22:09 +0000 http://www.leftlanenews.com/further-cost-and-job-cuts-in-gms-future.html#comment-353039 ^ above comment directed at 400SS ^ above comment directed at 400SS

]]> By: Impulsive http://www.leftlanenews.com/further-cost-and-job-cuts-in-gms-future.html#comment-353037 Impulsive Fri, 18 Jan 2008 05:15:40 +0000 http://www.leftlanenews.com/further-cost-and-job-cuts-in-gms-future.html#comment-353037 'johnnycanuck', you get a gold star. ‘johnnycanuck’, you get a gold star.

]]> By: 400horseSS http://www.leftlanenews.com/further-cost-and-job-cuts-in-gms-future.html#comment-353036 400horseSS Fri, 18 Jan 2008 05:07:31 +0000 http://www.leftlanenews.com/further-cost-and-job-cuts-in-gms-future.html#comment-353036 since you claim to be a doctor Deantj, those fat ass cheez whiz eaters are the ones who support your overpaid (nino brown) ass, doctors are legal drug dealers anyway...............anyone disagree ? since you claim to be a doctor Deantj, those fat ass cheez whiz eaters are the ones who support your overpaid (nino brown) ass, doctors are legal drug dealers anyway……………anyone disagree ?

]]> By: F451 http://www.leftlanenews.com/further-cost-and-job-cuts-in-gms-future.html#comment-353028 F451 Fri, 18 Jan 2008 03:17:51 +0000 http://www.leftlanenews.com/further-cost-and-job-cuts-in-gms-future.html#comment-353028 I'm not part of any union, but I also know that there are both good and bad people in the unions as there is any profession. Some the of the worst offenders of pay scales versus output are executives, so where is the balance here? Americans should be concerned about other Americans. To demonize the unions is as much propaganda as saying white collar crime is a lesser offense. I’m not part of any union, but I also know that there are both good and bad people in the unions as there is any profession. Some the of the worst offenders of pay scales versus output are executives, so where is the balance here? Americans should be concerned about other Americans. To demonize the unions is as much propaganda as saying white collar crime is a lesser offense.

]]> By: 400horseSS http://www.leftlanenews.com/further-cost-and-job-cuts-in-gms-future.html#comment-353016 400horseSS Fri, 18 Jan 2008 01:25:26 +0000 http://www.leftlanenews.com/further-cost-and-job-cuts-in-gms-future.html#comment-353016 typical dumbass comment by swerve early typical dumbass comment by swerve early

]]> By: corvette http://www.leftlanenews.com/further-cost-and-job-cuts-in-gms-future.html#comment-353009 corvette Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:37:15 +0000 http://www.leftlanenews.com/further-cost-and-job-cuts-in-gms-future.html#comment-353009 as long as they know what there doing. :) as long as they know what there doing. :)

]]> By: GIUGIK1 http://www.leftlanenews.com/further-cost-and-job-cuts-in-gms-future.html#comment-353001 GIUGIK1 Thu, 17 Jan 2008 23:49:35 +0000 http://www.leftlanenews.com/further-cost-and-job-cuts-in-gms-future.html#comment-353001 The idea of increased profitability always sounds good to me. The idea of increased profitability always sounds good to me.

]]> By: SwerveEarly http://www.leftlanenews.com/further-cost-and-job-cuts-in-gms-future.html#comment-352999 SwerveEarly Thu, 17 Jan 2008 23:40:36 +0000 http://www.leftlanenews.com/further-cost-and-job-cuts-in-gms-future.html#comment-352999 46,000 retirees next month x $4,000/month=$1.84B/month Thats some serious legacy costs. Thats why I buy Korean they'll never pay for some lazy union guy to retire after a lifetime w/them. 46,000 retirees next month x $4,000/month=$1.84B/month
Thats some serious legacy costs. Thats why I buy Korean they’ll never pay for some lazy union guy to retire after a lifetime w/them.

]]> By: autonut http://www.leftlanenews.com/further-cost-and-job-cuts-in-gms-future.html#comment-352982 autonut Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:49:43 +0000 http://www.leftlanenews.com/further-cost-and-job-cuts-in-gms-future.html#comment-352982 This translates in increased capacity in Mexico, since Canada is as expensive as US. It probably also mean more Korean content in showrooms. Hopefully, those who will become underemployed will be able to move south and work for Hyundai or Honda and Toyota new production facilities. This translates in increased capacity in Mexico, since Canada is as expensive as US. It probably also mean more Korean content in showrooms. Hopefully, those who will become underemployed will be able to move south and work for Hyundai or Honda and Toyota new production facilities.

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