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Re: Recognizer post# 364

Thursday, 11/20/2008 6:51:08 AM

Thursday, November 20, 2008 6:51:08 AM

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I am a GM owner and have been for years. I have owned 27 vehicles in my life from personal to business and always came back to GM/GMC/Buick/ Caddy over other manufacturers as it is an American thing and I always ilked at how many Americans for years said foreign vehicles were better and truth was they were not really. Their repair costs were higher for one thing, and as a previous poster stated, several states in USA lured foreign makers with tax free benefits which are set to expire now, and perhaps one reason Toyota is falling and not going to build that megga plant in Alabama??

And this tax free status and using non union workers is the ONLY reason the foreign makers were able to take over the US markets (lower overal operating costs) as they seemed to for a time, but nothing lasts forever as I see it...

I believe GM will be fine long term, but they are going to have to do something to ADAPT TO CURRENT TIMES and those spoiled over-paid union members are going to have to realize they too are going to have to make adjustments (not have things so easy) like the rest of us if this corp and this nation is going to survive long term, and STOP thinking only about their own wealth.

I also worked union for a while and got away, as I believe in free thinking & individual freedoms which you do not have as part of a union. I grew up on the Great Lakes region too and know unions well. I have otherwised worked non-union or as in my current status, self employed entrepreneur doing what our great Constitution allows us to do as a free nation, and do not want anyone to call my movements or make my decisions for me as a union does brainwashing its members.. THAT is like welfare in another word.

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