Im watching Fast Money on CNBC, and they are strongly against this without some serious targets for them to reach.
They also want change at the top. Ford has already changed CEO's, Chrysler is private, but GM has done little to change its board.
While I think Rick has done a great job for what he was left with, he is not the man for the job anymore. There needs to be a paradigm shift inside GM that would reach down to every single person employeed by GM. He or She must be given the ability to make changes without red tape, without any problems.
There needs to be a change in the Goverment's role in domestic auto makers lives. Import automakers want to build cars here in the US? They must pay the workers the same as the UAW workers are paid, as well as supply benifits to thoes workers that are equal to the UAW.
Imported vehicles should be hit with a small tariff to match the price of the benifits of current workers for the UAW. That would keep pricing on a level field, and not give any benifit for the Imports making cars here in the US and the UAW made cars.
That will level the field, level the pricing, and level the profits that the Japanese companies make on just currency manipulation alone.
America should invest in GM and Ford for making green vehicle programs as well, and that will give America a return on investment by decreasing dependence on oil, keeping America strong, and keeping America's manufacturing strong.
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2/20/2013: They Day the ****s Stopped
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