WHAT? Rick Wagoner is out at GM . . . jeepers, so soon? Are we sure we don’t want to stay the course a little longer and give the unrepentant asshole another chance? If we ARE sure that we can handle such a bold change, how ’bout he takes Mullaley of Ford with him, the door hits BOTH of ‘em in the ass on the way out, and we all say “good riddance to bad rubbish” on three. One, two . . . GOOD RIDDANCE TO BAD RUBBISH.
LET ALL THREE LACKLUSTER, FREELOADING QUOTE-UNQUOTE POWERHOUSES GO UNDER.
The industry is riddled with inconsistency and inefficiency, high costs and low quality, a surplus of greed and an absence of vision. Fuck ‘em.
Use Bailout-Bucks-Slash-Monopoly-Money to buy the NAMES. The American people are sentimental over the IDEA of Detroit. Buy the oh-so-American and oh-so-recognizable names Ford, General Motors and Chrysler at a prices that permit of paying off such contracts as stand up under aggressive legal scrutiny.
Sell those iconic names to the highest bidder. Better yet, LEASE the names until we find our new Car Kids. Probation all around!
Those of us who have taken a 50% hit in every asset class GET IT that what we need is smaller, more agile companies and energy-efficient people movers, particularly of the mass transit variety. Leave trendy, impractical autopia to the Effete Elite and the kids. You know, the Monopoly Money Mob.