Friday Free-For-All
Another slammed week. Stupid holidays! Anyway – you know the drill. It is the Friday Free-For-All. See a topic? Pick it! Discuss it!
Dump the BCS – give me playoffs. Damn colleges can get money in other ways. Like firing their Communist-leaning professors. (But who would be left to teach?)
To the lady in the tan Camry who chose to block the road at Peachtree and 10th yesterday forcing me to sit through FOUR cycles of the light – deserved every second of my horn blaring in your face. (Note to Honda – strengthen the horn! It nearly petered out at about the 30 second mark.)
The bailout of the domestic auto industry seems doomed. Again, I say GOOD! You make a shitty product, you go out of business. I am actually pleased that the witch Pelosi said “show us the plan or we won’t show you the money.” Amen sista.
And on that subject, the CEOs claim they cannot fly commericial because of their security. BAAHAHA. Arrogant perk-loving pricks using money off the backs of blue-collar workers who subsequently lose their jobs due to poor management.
And one last thing: did you know that GM is building a $300M auto plant outside of St. Petersburg, Russia? Do you think any bailout money would go into that project? (Hint: FUCK YEAH!)
Note to ARC: Please, please please. Reconsider the use of PAM for the megaregion designation. Just because a certain GA Tech professor coined the phrase does not make her the queen bee of planning.
Shillary to become Sec of State after T’giving. Great. You watch – it will be 1994 all over again. Whitewater, missing papers, fake invoices. All of this will come out AGAIN! And get ready for soaicalized medicine – where the government tells you which procedures are important for you and which drugs you can take and those you can’t have.
Facebook? Did I mention recently that I love you?
After 14 years, Guns and Roses will be releasing their Chinese Democracy album. Why are they bothering? And who will buy it? Axl Rose has not had a voice since 1994. But hey, at least we all get a free Dr. Pepper. (Wish I drank DP.)
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November 21, 2008 at 2:07 pm
HAHAHA… what you need in that Honda is a good ole American Made truck horn that won’t peter out on you.
The bailout isn’t doomed. Its just being delayed for the sake of grandstanding politics. Meanwhile, 3 million jobs hang in the balance including those who are suppliers to the foreign companies as well. Companies like Timken, Robert Bosch, Panasonic Automotive, PPG, Federal Mogul, and Standard Auto are all on the brink of collapse because of the decline in sales. If just one of the 3 fall, they all fall too and this WILL severely disrupt production for even the import manufacturers.
Some interesting little tidbits….
1. The big 3 buy more semiconductors and computer chips than the entire PC and electronics industry. The ripple effect in worldwide technology would be like a tidal wave that even the strongest would surely lose some footing.
2. The entire US healthcare insurance system is based upon the existence of the Big 3 (they represent almost our ENTIRE manufacturing sector), so if they fall….no one knows how insurance providers will respond with so many of their premiums suddenly gone in a vapor cloud.
3. GM is a military contractor. M1 Abrahams tanks and Hummer!
4. There is a SEVERE risk that China might just come in a sweep them all up. Google it, they’re already arming their own auto companies with the funds to do so. See #3.
5. The big are constantly sited for building products no-one wants, yet GM alone built 9.4 million vehicles last year and there don’t seem to be vast parking lots of unsold cars. Also, the imports are moving into trucks and big SUVs with increased fervor, even after the previous gas crisis. So, obviously people still want the vehicles.
6. The product isn’t what it was in the 80’s and 90’s. Many are handily beating imports on quality awards.
Have mistakes been made…sure, but Toyota apparently has made similar mistakes because they’re reporting similar declines. The only difference is that they aren’t obligated to fund union agreements like the big 3. Bankruptcy won’t change the product lineup’s or the renogiation process with the unions. All it will do is trigger a massive tidal wave of panic in the markets and a firesale amongst the suppliers.