Re: Perception

["dan whitehead" <freebird_58@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Who are we to criticize people for the vehicles they wish to drive.  Owners 
of AMC products should understand that better than any, plus do any of us 
know what kind of life these people lead?  Do they pull campers? race cars 
or show cars?  Maybe the husband of this lady with the 1.7 kids drives a 
hybrid.  It's easy to jump to conclusions when seeing someone driving a 
larger vehicle and they are alone in it.  But unless we know the complete 
story it's not up to us to criticize, isn't this part of the reason our 
troops are in the middle east right now.  I agree that upper management 
salaries are exhuberant and uncalled for, just as sports figures make 
unrealistic wages, but all the whining in the world won't change what has 
come about.  When someone gets into this position that is willing to drop 
their own wage will be when there is a possibility something may happen.  
But I doubt that will ever happen.

Dan Whitehead
Southern Wisconsin

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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