Chevy and Chrysler what can be done

[simi]

Originally Posted by Independent

The U.S. auto industry is small potatoes compared to the U.S. housing industry and nobody bailed anybody out there.



Indy

Guess I missed something.. seems a lot of banks ind insurers that passed out these toxic loans got bailed out... Now had these lenders not been allowed to get into hedge funds, and started tasting a lot of money, maybe they wouldn't have gotten so greedy and started taking so many chances and not passed out so many bad home loans and not needed bailouts...

[Sandy G]

Still think GM lost it when they threw out Alfred P. Sloan's business model that had served them so well for 50 years, back in the '80s. They have been waffling around ever since, going from one "flavor-of-the-month" to another ever since. I also don't think the gov't taking over GM & Chrysler is really the answer, either-Name me ONE THING the gov't runs well...But as I've said before, the car companies, their suppliers, the UAW, & the gov't should have set down, & learned how to work WITH each other, rather than kept up the "Screw You, Jack" mentality they still have. The boat's on fire on one end, & there's a big hole in the other end, boys, you'd better try to save it, or we're ALL gonna go down the tubes...

[Charles]

Originally Posted by Sandy G

Still think GM lost it when they threw out Alfred P. Sloan's business model that had served them so well for 50 years, back in the '80s. They have been waffling around ever since, going from one "flavor-of-the-month" to another ever since. I also don't think the gov't taking over GM & Chrysler is really the answer, either-Name me ONE THING the gov't runs well...But as I've said before, the car companies, their suppliers, the UAW, & the gov't should have set down, & learned how to work WITH each other, rather than kept up the "Screw You, Jack" mentality they still have. The boat's on fire on one end, & there's a big hole in the other end, boys, you'd better try to save it, or we're ALL gonna go down the tubes...

Amtrack, classic text book example of the Government running something.

Now maybe it works better near the big population centers in the Northeast, but here in Missouri it's a joke. The tracks run right through the center of town, so I spend a lot of time stuck at a crossing, and see two or three Amtracks each week.

They generally have the engine with three or four cars. Generally, I see maybe two or three heads when I look in the windows.

Now they have a shuttle which runs between KC and St. Louis (which is probably what I see), and about a year ago there was a big contest to give it a name.

Well, since it's a Missouri train, and our state animal is the mule, I thought about suggesting "The Jackass Express". But I didn't, figured it would just make someone mad.

I had some even better names that I won't go into...didn't want a black Crown Vic following me around.

Chas