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| Mark Henry |
 Dec 19 2011, 11:47 AM
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that's what I do!  Group: Members Posts: 20,065 Joined: 27-December 02 From: Port Hope, Ontario Member No.: 26 Region Association: Canada  |
Swedish carmaker's Chinese investors fail to take over former GM company. Too bad, nice car at one time (Saab 99), but they couldn't compete. http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2011/12...bankruptcy.html |
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| rick 918-S |
Dec 19 2011, 01:38 PM
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Hey nice rack! -Celette Group: Members Posts: 21,011 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Now in Superior WI Member No.: 43 Region Association: Northstar Region 
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This is what should have happened to GM and Chrysler. Now we have Government Moters and electric cars that start on fire when the battery goes dead. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/WTF.gif) Nothing wrong with bashing a dying company on the head and putting it out of it's misery. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smash.gif)
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| Elliot Cannon |
Dec 19 2011, 03:45 PM
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914 Guru Group: Retired Members Posts: 8,487 Joined: 29-December 06 From: Paso Robles Ca. (Central coast) Member No.: 7,407 Region Association: None
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QUOTE(rick 918-S @ Dec 19 2011, 11:38 AM)  This is what should have happened to GM and Chrysler. Now we have Government Moters and electric cars that start on fire when the battery goes dead. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/WTF.gif) Nothing wrong with bashing a dying company on the head and putting it out of it's misery. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smash.gif) Unless of course your job depends on Chrysler and GM. |
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| DBCooper |
Dec 19 2011, 05:06 PM
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14's in the 13's with ATTITUDE Group: Members Posts: 3,079 Joined: 25-August 04 From: Dazed and Confused Member No.: 2,618 Region Association: Northern California |
QUOTE(Elliot Cannon @ Dec 19 2011, 01:45 PM) QUOTE(rick 918-S @ Dec 19 2011, 11:38 AM) This is what should have happened to GM and Chrysler. Now we have Government Moters and electric cars that start on fire when the battery goes dead. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/WTF.gif) Nothing wrong with bashing a dying company on the head and putting it out of it's misery. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smash.gif) Unless of course your job depends on Chrysler and GM. Or any company that supplies Chrysler or GM, or any company that supplies any of their suppliers, or any children in the family of anyone who works for any of those companies. |
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| eric914 |
Dec 22 2011, 09:03 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 381 Joined: 28-January 04 From: Waynesville OH Member No.: 1,613 Region Association: Upper MidWest
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QUOTE(DBCooper @ Dec 19 2011, 03:06 PM) QUOTE(Elliot Cannon @ Dec 19 2011, 01:45 PM) QUOTE(rick 918-S @ Dec 19 2011, 11:38 AM) This is what should have happened to GM and Chrysler. Now we have Government Moters and electric cars that start on fire when the battery goes dead. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/WTF.gif) Nothing wrong with bashing a dying company on the head and putting it out of it's misery. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smash.gif) Unless of course your job depends on Chrysler and GM. Or any company that supplies Chrysler or GM, or any company that supplies any of their suppliers, or any children in the family of anyone who works for any of those companies. With that thinking our government should never let any business fail. Lets just guarantee that no business is allowed to fail. Possibly we could make all business government owned and guarantee jobs for all citizens. That seems fair. No one percent. We all get paid the same, we all have the same standard of living. |
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| DBCooper |
Dec 22 2011, 01:20 PM
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14's in the 13's with ATTITUDE Group: Members Posts: 3,079 Joined: 25-August 04 From: Dazed and Confused Member No.: 2,618 Region Association: Northern California |
QUOTE(eric914 @ Dec 22 2011, 07:03 AM) With that thinking our government should never let any business fail. Lets just guarantee that no business is allowed to fail. Possibly we could make all business government owned and guarantee jobs for all citizens. That seems fair. No one percent. We all get paid the same, we all have the same standard of living. I never said that and don't believe it either. Lots of companies fail and deserve to, always did and always will, but there's no need for them to take a lot of innocent spectators along with them. Punish the wrongdoers, not everyone else. If the river floods the neighbors all get together and build a dam so it doesn't happen again. If there's a drought the neighbors get together and dig a deeper well. Then those neighbors don't let any random idiot mess with the dam or shit in the well. I'll repeat that if you insist on letting the whole city burn down because one idiot played with fire then you're more foolish than he is. Fix the immediate problem, save the city, then punish the idiot. Get together for a volunteer fire department, make sure no one else can do what he did again, don't build houses so close to each other in the future, don't let anyone get too big to fail, and then everybody just move along and get back to work. That's the cheapest, most rational and effective solution. What you're suggesting is the equivalent of letting that first house burn, the rest of the city with it, and we all go live in the forest, every man for himself. No offense, it's a free country and cool if that's what you want to do, but it's a cold dark forest and I just plain don't see the need. This was all decided a long time ago, is all history now, and also a dead horse. Merry Christmas all. |
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| VaccaRabite |
Dec 22 2011, 04:01 PM
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En Garde! Group: Admin Posts: 13,756 Joined: 15-December 03 From: Dallastown, PA Member No.: 1,435 Region Association: MidAtlantic Region
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I'm closing this up.
If you have beef, you know where to find me. Otherwise (IMG:style_emoticons/default/santa_smiley.gif) Zach |
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Posts in this topic
Mark Henry OT: Saab filed for bankruptcy Dec 19 2011, 11:47 AM
flipb Been hoping against hope that they'd somehow s... Dec 19 2011, 12:00 PM SirAndy Saab filed for bankruptcy
What a surprise, didn... Dec 19 2011, 12:02 PM
Mark Henry
Saab filed for bankruptcy
What a surprise, didn... Dec 19 2011, 12:16 PM zymurgist Saab will be missed. Saab and Porsche both looked... Dec 19 2011, 12:02 PM r_towle I am kind of curious.
What happens to the new cars... Dec 19 2011, 12:48 PM minnesota loon I have 2008 2.0 turbo sport combi. I love it fast ... Dec 19 2011, 01:29 PM rick 918-S
[quote name='Elliot Cannon' post='1591490' date='... Dec 19 2011, 08:11 PM DBCooper I started with Saab in a Type 96 and loved that ca... Dec 20 2011, 05:49 PM 76-914 Yep, fine car. My wife and I had a 95 9000CSE Aero... Dec 19 2011, 02:19 PM eric9144 I'm surprised, that you guys are surprised...
... Dec 19 2011, 02:46 PM somd914
Saab has always been an "odd" make tha... Dec 19 2011, 05:55 PM zymurgist ILBT :popcorn: Dec 19 2011, 03:04 PM rick 918-S I'm spectulating here but I can only imagine t... Dec 19 2011, 03:30 PM RobW Cool cars back in the day. A maintenance nightmare... Dec 19 2011, 06:09 PM championgt1 :agree: Well said Rick. Dec 19 2011, 09:46 PM veltror Perhaps you guys need to read what happened to BLM... Dec 20 2011, 01:06 PM rick 918-S Just another Saab story. Same old thing. Save me, ... Dec 20 2011, 08:56 PM DBCooper How about the innocent stock holders. The investor... Dec 21 2011, 11:46 AM maf914 I had read that GM blocked the sale of SAAB to the... Dec 21 2011, 08:59 AM Elliot Cannon :agree: If you let a large company like GM go un... Dec 21 2011, 12:50 PM rick 918-S That's ok, you as an employee can loose as muc... Dec 21 2011, 02:36 PM Elliot Cannon
That's ok, you as an employee can loose as mu... Dec 21 2011, 05:12 PM 02loftsmoor Goverment Morors is the ones that ran SAAB into th... Dec 21 2011, 02:42 PM Scott Schroeder Rick -
You are not heartless - you are a realist t... Dec 21 2011, 06:16 PM Smitty911 Well we have come half circle from "Ask not w... Dec 21 2011, 06:25 PM Steve I have worked in manufacturing, but I have never w... Dec 21 2011, 06:51 PM rick 918-S I'm not sayin all union workers are slackers b... Dec 21 2011, 07:12 PM Elliot Cannon
I'm not sayin all union workers are slackers ... Dec 22 2011, 12:10 AM eric914
[quote name='rick 918-S' post='1592890' date... Dec 22 2011, 09:21 AM J P Stein
Cant argue with a certain % of any group being ba... Dec 22 2011, 09:55 AM DBCooper
On you dime. Like that? You and me bailed out the... Dec 22 2011, 07:30 AM flipb GM is simply better at finding investors than your... Dec 21 2011, 08:45 PM somd914 But will anything really change in the long run? ... Dec 21 2011, 09:01 PM rick 918-S Come on.. Ford? They were in trouble. They chose t... Dec 22 2011, 08:24 AM brp986s
And you certainly don't borrow money from som... Dec 22 2011, 11:41 AM |
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