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OK, PUNK! I'll give you under 10 MM SAAR in Q1 AT BEST!
Here is a little forecast regarding energy for you to chew on while we wait for the NEXT GM forecast.
$25/bbl Oil
Make My DAY! Go AHEAD!
Regards,
OW
Forget about the banks and what is wrong with that. The loans to the Big 3 or any other industry is a separate issue.
Before I think giving a loan is okay, explain to me why the auto industry can not adjust its size and costs to the proper level. Why can't the B3 adjust their costs to meet their revenues and profits? Aren't all the reasons they're spending more than they bring in within the parties (pensioners, workers, dealers, and execs) power to change? Why should we the taxpayer give them money instead of these parties rewriting their contracts?
Let me say again "Why should we the taxpayer give them money instead of these parties rewriting their contracts?" If the B3 are losing money then they can't afford the number of workers they have, the number of plants, their advertising budgets, and to continue to pay their pensioners benefits. They need to REWRITE their contracts. It is THEIR REFUSAL to rewrite their contracts, and CUT their size that is causing their loss of money.
It is illogical and immoral to ask the taxpayer who is making $35K - $40K / year with no pension and maybe no health care to subsidize people who make more and have better benefits! :mad:
Agree
Let me say again "Why should we the taxpayer give them money instead of these parties rewriting their contracts?"
Agree
It is illogical and immoral to ask the taxpayer who is making $35K - $40K / year with no pension and maybe no health care to subsidize people who make more and have better benefits
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Well, said and I agree 100%
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$25/bbl Oil"
Then why did the gas in my area go up $0.20 in the past 3 weeks?????/ :mad:
Gas should be down to $1.20 a gallon now....
Believe that bailout is considered a loan from US govt.
It's only a loan if the receiver has the ability to pay it back...... What are the monthly payments on a $13B payment?
http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/16/news/companies/circuit_city/index.htm?postversio- n=2009011611
Whether GM or Chrysler go out of business, Ford and the remaining company would be strengthened.
Yes but what the bailout did was change the urgency and schedule for change. GM, the UAW, the dealers, and suppliers want to delay change for as long as possible, because some or all of them will be hurt. What the bailout did was allow the B3 to change as little as they must to keep in business or keep the wrath of Congress from them. If the bailout hadn't gone thru, calling the B3 execs. and UAW bluff, then we might have had change in a few days! How?
Well if the choice is to a) shutdown in a few weeks and lose everything, or to b) lock the parties in a room until new agreements were written and the business could survive, then most rational people would do b). The loans should have been denied, and b) would have been done (by now).
Instead what we have now is TALK about cuts ... maybe this, what if we do that, AND they're bleeding the loan $. The longer this change takes the more likely all the loan $ will be spent with no chance for the companies to make a profit, and they'll be back asking for more.
What the U.S. Congress did is basically "gave the kid next week's allowance, for a promise that the kid will take out the waste sometime soon".
It would have been easy enough for Congress to say to the B3 and Gettelfinger that 1st day of hearings - "Gentlemen call your suppliers, and your dealer reps. and get them and their lawyers here, and we have a conference room reserved for you. Start rewriting your contracts, so you're at least breaking even. Then come back up here 3 days from now, and we'll discuss a loan."
Regards,
OW
Gross Annual Income X 3 = MAXIMUM Mortgage.
Total Mortgage / 100 = MAXIMUM Monthly Payment.
For instance - if your gross income is $70K, the most your mortgage should be is $210K.
$210K / 100 = $2,100.
Even then, $2,100 is a heck of a burden for somebody only making $70K gross. I'd try to work down from that figure.
Had i believed everything I read before the real estate bubble burst they'd have lent me twice what I paid for the house on an equity loan. Not a chance.
"Let me look into my crystal ball. A friend comes over to see me in my new house financed by your company. My friend says to me, 'What a beautiful house you have, Lemko!' I say, 'Thank you! Let me show you around! There's my milk crate entertainment center complete with a Philco black and white portable, my Sears all-in-one AM/FM 8-track stereo and all my K-tel cartridges. In here is my cable spool kitchen table with expended beer kegs for seats, if you look in front of my huge 3-car garage you'll see my orange 1973 hatchback with the brown door. Would you like some dinner? I've got ramen noodles and a six-pack of OId Milwaukee! Oops, sorry! I'm late for my third job at Wal~Mart!"
Philly didn't experience the housing bubble like places like Los Angeles, Phoenix, Miami, or Las Vegas. Some places in the nicer suburbs got ridiculous and I shunned them like an ebola-infested gorilla! Today, I pass all those formerly pricy places and they have one thing in common - For Sale signs.
My current mortgage+homeowner's insurance+taxes payment is < $1,000! I just hope my current 'hood doesn't suffer the same fate as my old one. The good thing is, they are actually building new homes in my neighborhood that start at $300K! Good luck finding buyers in this economic climate!
If the appraisal wasn't high enough for all your furniture, then you would get some high limit credit cards; because after all you're the type of person who could afford an expensive house.
Either they were a bunch of crooks, or idiots; OR both.
Now has anyone here figured out how long it will take for GM and Chrysler to payback the loans. Do a best-case study - taking the highest profit either had in the last 10 years, and figuring they'll make 50% of that each year on average going forward (so if GM made 2 billion in their best year, let's say GM makes $1B every year from now on).
Also consider this. Stockholders buy a stock to share in the profits. If all GM's profits go to repay the loan, why is anyone going to want GM stock for years?
The type who can "afford" an expensive house are usually the type who can "afford" to buy a big blingy SUV with the wheels that keep on spinnin' and spinnin' and spinnin'!
I noticed the shows on flipping started carrying a disclaimer on one cable network and there aren't many of them anymore. For a while last summer and early fall they were everywhere. People were buying on loans to spend a few weeks or months rebuilding a house and then sell it for a profit.!!!
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
Best Buy is on the list too, but they are the last man standing really, with no competition in southern California it looks like.
I think the Mom & Pop electronic stores can now make a comeback, as we come full circle, or will it be the internet shops that take over?
But where will people go and look at the merchandise, test it out, since there are no more physical stores? All the frugal people out there did the smart thing and went to the store to figure out what was best, but then got online and saved 25% for the same product they tested in the store.
Obama needs to give the people the money, forget about the horrible corporations and businesses like the Big 3.
this can happen with in store merchanise too.
we bought a phone that would not recognize the remote units.
it fiddling with it, i found out the caller id memory full.
it looked like this phone had been by at least 3 other people.
oh, this is about the B3 automakers.
If not now, when? If not here, where? If not me, who? If not this, what? If not this way, how? If not for this reason, why?
:P :P :P
I recall reading that it would take something like 20 years of record profits for GM to ever repay ALL of its debt (not just the government "loans" - remember, GM was already up to its eyeballs in debt before it received its financial aid package).
There was an interesting article on another website - it said that just as the U.S. needs an "exit strategy for Iraq, the Obama Administration needs to develop an exit strategy for Detroit. The article basically advocated cutting off all aid until the dealers, bondholders, union and shareholders reach an agreement that will truly make the company viable. That means a drastic revamping of the UAW contract, a cramdown of current debt, and elimination of all divisions except Chevrolet and Cadillac (personally, I'd also keep Buick and GMC, but then can the rest).
It would basically be a bankruptcy in everything but name only, but done under government supervision.
Which is really what GM needs, because based on the pathetic "plan" released by GM in the wake of those Congressional hearings, we are about to witness the creation of American Leyland, right here in the good old U.S. of A. - courtesy of our tax dollars.
Knowledgeable investors are putting their money elsewhere. We taxpayers should do no less.
Regards,
OW
Regards,
OW
And these same people will craft any bailouts, just as finely as they've allowed the shortsighted irresponsible banks to rob what's left of the treasury. Economic terrorists, really.
I'll also petition my congressmen to get Chrysler/Cerberus to immediaitely return the loan $ ! :mad:
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GM said it would cut second shifts of workers at plants in Lordstown, Ohio, and Delta Township near Lansing, Michigan. Those moves will slow production of the Chevrolet Cobalt and a trio of crossover vehicles including the Buick Enclave.
The production cuts come at a time when U.S. auto sales are near their lowest level since the early 1980s and will add to rising unemployment claims as well as pressure on the struggling auto parts supply sector.
GM's planned shift reduction will mean 800 layoffs at the Lordstown plant and 1,200 at the Delta Township plant, GM spokeswoman Susan Waun said.
“We're just continuing to bring our production in line with market demand,” Ms. Waun said.
GM factory workers in the United States are represented by the United Auto Workers.
The union is expected to surrender a controversial provision of its current contract that guarantees nearly full wages to auto workers whose jobs are eliminated as a condition of winning support for GM's $13.4-billion (U.S.) federal bailout.
The 2,000 workers on the eliminated shifts in GM's Michigan and Ohio plants will be eligible to collect just over 70 per cent of their normal wages through benefits provided by GM and state unemployment benefits for 48 weeks, Ms. Waun said.
Just as an extra note: My son-in-law always buys American finally bought a Lexus R Hybrid. His last 2 cars were Suburbans. The Lexus is so superior in every way, and it is so advanced in technology and ergonomics and styling...makes the Suburban pretty crude. I think it is another customer lost for the D3.
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Regards,
OW
My dad who has always bought domestic cars, primarily Fords for the past 40 years just bought his first foreign car Friday, an 09 Accord EX-L v6. The thing is, his past two Fords made to 200k miles relatively trouble free and he was happy with them. He has been looking for a replacement for his '00 Taurus and just didn't see anything he liked at Ford or GM for under $30k (he really liked the CTS, but he didn't want to spend that much and preferred FWD). He told me he wasn't old enough for Buick regardless of what they have out, and he didn't like the Malibu. He liked how the Fusion/Milan drove, but didn't like the styling inside and out, so he jumped ship. The bleeding for Detroit is far from over.
The distancing from Buick must be a Boomer thing. My MIL said the same thing when she & my FIL (retired union steel worker) bought there first foreign car ('05 Camry). I told her to look at a LaCrosse, and she refused, stating she wanted no part of owning a Buick.
Man, that's to funny. Well not really... I guess. I also mentioned a used Lucerne to my dad. With the huge amount these cars depreciate, they are a great deal to buy used. My dad's still a couple years from 60 and has it his head that Buick's are for the nearly dead. I wouldn't buy one either, but the 2010 lacrosse looks pretty sweet and a great car from Buick could certainly change my views towards the brand.
Regards,
OW
The best car GM has out in the mid price range is the Malibu. At least it is more up to date than other models. I have been in a Malibu and in an Accord and for me it is no contest.....the Accord wins in every category I can think of.
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Regards,
OW