Re: Perception

[KSiroonian@xxxxxxx]

The domestics have for the most part, no one to blame but them selves, but certainly it is up to consumers to buy or not to buy bloated oversized suburbans and hummers, and they have been for the most part buying them. Ridiculous to seem small sized women- peering over the steering wheel trying to manuever it in a wall mart with 1.7 kids in the back when a smaller vehicel would due. And they do offer smaller fuel efficient models for families that need a decent amount of room. And those Hummers, how obscene, taking up valuabel road space and wasting fuel. Hoepefully increases in the CAFE average will get those units off the road and require huge payment penalites. Maybe an annual gas guzzler tax on such PIGS should also be enacted. The domestics claim they are hurt by their pension benefits, but, lest they and we all forget, those employees pensions were also earned when the companies WERE making huge profits and paying exhorbitant salries to their upper managers/exec's. The!
 se salaries in the multi- millions are neither earned nor justified. Certainly anything over a million dollars for any corportate exectuve is obscene, and many companies continue to pay obscene greedy salaries, while their Japanese counterparts are allowed to earn only a certain level over their lowest paid worker. Perhaps GM, Ford, Dumbler-mopar should cut thier salaries to no more than 500K a year at this point in time and to no more that 1 million once they show their stockholders an acceptable ROI (return on Investment.) Their greed is killing them, and blaming it on the pensions is lame. Live by the sword... .die by the sword.
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On April 30, 2005 Tom Jennings wrote:

> On Fri, 29 Apr 2005 farna@xxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> > I'm surprised Bart! I have to agree with you on this one, at
> > least about the big vehicles that GM/Ford are pushing nowadays.
> 
> Ford and Chevy are burning the furniture to heat the house -- it's
> current mega-corporation bahavior in all industries; suck the cash
> out ASAP the future be damned. Tax loopholes that allowed truck
> chassis to be turned into luxury cars in cooperation with politics
> and good marketing instead of long-term research and building of
> reputation (and perception of practicality). Plus plain-old out of
> touch and bloated management. The huge employee health expenses
> that really are hurting them aren't due to "people using
> healthcare too much" as implied by Newsweek (as if!) but
> insurance-industry-driven artifically high healthcare costs, more
> corporate profiteering. American ingenuity still exists, but not
> at that scale of business.
> 
> We're screwed.
> 
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