We’re in a race to the bottom. The whole folks have to earn enough to buy your products thing. Ship jobs to some foreign land and all that is left is a service industry where a handful of people make a good living while too many make $8 an hour. How about balancing the tables a little. Eliminating some greed. Make the line from the top level pay to the entry level pay a little flatter. I’m all for making lots of money with minimum gov’t interference but it’s beginning to look a little like the 3rd world countries where we have an elite wealthy class and a working class making small money and very little in between.

Freightliner trucks? Paccar?

Anyone else have any answers? Bueller?

Right. So, that roll of steel that I saw at the AMERICAN factory near Montgomery Alabama (Hyundai) which said “US Steel” on the side; that was my imagination, right, Jim? You know, the plant built by the company that DaimlerChrysler used to own 10% of; Hyundai. That company, which DaimlerChrysler pissed off so badly that Hyundai demanded that they buy back their 10%. At about the same time that DumblerCry-slur yanked the rug from under their “partner” Mitsubishi.

Kizmet (paybacks) are a bi-atch, ain’t they, Jim?

Please. Stop spewing BS, Jim.

As opposed to the D2.8, which I think we all agree won’t survive as is. I think the CEOs all have the ch11 thing backwards – if they would go on and do it and show me a viable plan I might consider buying from them. Since they have spent so much time lately telling the nation how not viable they are why would anyone buy now?

The difference between an airline that went BK and a car company that went BK is that when you get off the airplane and get your (hopefully non-lost) suitcase, you’re done with the transaction. Airplanes rarely crash.

If you buy a car and the company goes BK, where are you going to get parts? Sure, there will be some in the pipeline still, but what happens in a few years when the radiator goes? Cars break down all the time. A minivan or a generic sedan isn’t the same as a classic Mustang/T-Bird/Vette that has specialty shops making parts for them.

John

That’s got to get him in the running, but I can’t see Bob giving up his title that easy.

One thing that puzzles me about BK though. Do people really not care if an airline goes through BK, as has been mentioned a few times? After all you are putting your life on the line there versus having a problem getting (unlikely) a power steering pump for your minivan.