Comments on: Public Debate Needed: What To Do With General Motors Now?

By: jesse520

jesse520 — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:02:14 +0000

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By: Alexis

Alexis — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:58:14 +0000

the public debate is indeed a strong step forward photo competition

By: Inchirieri Masini

Inchirieri Masini — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:20:56 +0000

There never should have been bailouts in the first place, except for maybe in the very beginning just to keep the banking system propped up enough to create a new parallel one.rent a car added byt rent a car

By: mdea

mdea — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:26:22 +0000

By not building some smaller vehicles with great mileage credentials, sooner and with enthusiasm, as a hedge if nothing else, GM essentially put all its pigs in one basket. And now it suffers.
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By: Silhouette

Silhouette — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 17:45:36 +0000

Yes but only if you tax gasoline and not diesel. Diesel is needed for torquey engines that haul our food and goods around. You put a $3-$4 tax on diesel and you can enjoy paying $10 for a loaf of bread friend..

By: Don Quijote

Don Quijote — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 13:44:17 +0000

In many Metro Areas, you can't build Mass-Transit because due to truly superior Urban Planning, there is no downtown, no business area and no center, hell there is no city, just endless never ending suburbs in which you might as well shoot yourself if you don't have a car.

Now if you want GM to build small efficient cars, just tax gasoline correctly ($3 to $4 a gallon), as a side effect it will do wonders for Urban Planning and Mass Transit.

By: Silhouette

Silhouette — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 05:51:46 +0000

Very simple. Ferret out the evidence for coercion from BigOil to keep the company non-contemporary [ie noncompetitive ultimately and headed for doom] and stockholder should sue to find who is negligent and who should compensate. Why isn't anyone talking about W-H-Y GM went under. It isn't complex. The scrapped the Volt in 2000 and any plans to fine-tune it and instead went back to dinosaurs…poorly engineered ones at that. Gas-guzzlers. It doesn't take a genius to figure out who profited from that move. [Hint: it wasnt' the stockholders...]

By: mikkel

mikkel — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 05:42:00 +0000

Well I'll refrain from commenting on the specifics, but this is exactly what I wish people would focus on more. There never should have been bailouts in the first place, except for maybe in the very beginning just to keep the banking system propped up enough to create a new parallel one. The rest of the hundreds upon hundreds of billions (actually trillions if you can't monetary expansion) should have been used to support and retrain those laid off to do some of these projects.

I wish that people would realize that transforming our economy for the future needs to happen sooner rather than later, and may require as much mobilization as WWII. The proper balance between government and private direction towards that reformation is of course crucial, but it's completely mind blowing that so few recognize the extent and immediacy of our problems.