Re: Consider buying American!

Tony Harding wrote:
> BaJoRi wrote:
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>>> Tony Harding wrote:
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>>>>>> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23124844/
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>>>>>> GM just made it known that they lost 39 billion in 2007, the
largest
>>>>>> ever annual loss for a US automaker.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The big three are losing money, and if we don't give them the
sup****t
>>>>>> they need, they are going to go under.  Consider buying an American
>>>>>> car.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> American cars are crap. Made by unionists more worried about when 
>>>>> their
>>>>> next coffee break is than making quality cars. They've negotiated 
>>>>> themselves
>>>>> right out of jobs as the big auto makers cut back.  It's not 
>>>>> possible to do business that way and compete on a world wide
economy.
>>>>
>>>> It's hardly the workers' fault - Honda & Toyota employ American 
>>>> workers and turn out quality vehicles. This is a management failing.
>>>
>>> It is very true.  The top management in GM should be blamed.  GM 
>>> assemble line workers do not make much more than assemble line worker 
>>> in TOYOTA. They just assemble what have been planed and designed by 
>>> management.  The top management in GM take home a huge salary and 
>>> bouns compare to TOYOTA or HONDA top management.
>>
>> What are the annual healthcare and retirement benefit costs for GM and 
>> Ford, owing to the UAW contracts, as compared with Honda and Toyota? 
>> So to say that those Japanese companies take care of their empoyees as 
>> well as the Big Three is an outright lie.
> 
> Wake up, dude, Japan, along with every other first world country with 
> the exception of the US, has universal health coverage and retirement 
> benefits, so Japanese companies, et al., have no direct health care 
> and/or retirement costs. Makes for quite a competitive advantage, 
> doesn't it?

eh?  so who pays for it all then?  it wouldn't be taxes would it?  is 
there some way japanese companies don't pay tax where american ones do?