Hahahaha...that's a good one. That is one of the more patently silly statements I've seen in awhile not coming from the Bush administration. You aren't part of the Bush administration, right?
Did it not occur to you that the people wiping the floor with our auto industry (think Japan and Germany here) have unions too? That they generally have a stronger labor voice and their employees get better healthcare and more time off? And you really think that its the UAW that's taking down GM? That's a freakin laugh riot. Japan and Germany have kicked ass for two big reasons: They don't have to pay extraordinary amounts for private health care and retirement and they have been making cars that people want to buy. The costs for health care and retirement are spread out amongst all the companies in those countries and there isn't the same profit hungry machine driving up health care costs at the rate they are in the US. GM has said that it adds $1500 per car just to cover health care costs. That's a fair bit of overhead to factor into a product that has to compete with ones from socialized countries where the manufacturers don't have the same overhead. But probably as much as anything else, the US has sucked at making cars that people want to buy. Pure and simple. They were surging ahead for awhile with the dawn of the SUV. It was higher margin and they got on the bandwagon first. But the cycle from design of a car to actually rolling into the lots takes years. And for whatever reason, it didn't occur to US auto makers that bigger and bigger wasn't going to be sustainable. That gas costs could spike, that environmental concerns might start taking hold. And lo and behold, the cars they were making were ones that people didn't want to buy anymore. Can't really blame the unions for that. Judah Jerry Johnson wrote: > I agree totally. > > The unions in the auto industry are the single most likely reason that > the American Auto industry will collapse. Taking with it huge swaths > of the country's economy. > > Did you catch Jim Kramer's rant? One of the tidbits is that GM is the > single largest purchaser of Viagra in the world. > > I wonder how many pills per car buyers are currently paying for. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Check out the new features and enhancements in the latest product release - download the "What's New PDF" now http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/coldfusion/cf8_beta_whatsnew_052907.pdf Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:243169 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
