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| View Poll Results: Do you support saving the US auto companies with tax payer money? | |||
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11-18-2008, 12:20 AM
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To shreds, you say?
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The US auto industry shouldn't be bailed out. The idea that Michigan would go down in flames is predicated on the belief that the people there are capable of only one thing- working in an auto plant.
Just as a for instance. Why not re-tool all the plants to build rail cars and get the country into feasible rail travel? You know, if I'm not mistaken I'm pretty sure somewhere over in Europe people travel in trains.
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11-18-2008, 12:32 AM
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It takes GM something between three months and one year to retool a factory. Just another example of why GM needs bankruptcy. GM bean counters decided that flex manufacturing would only increase costs. Remember the first Saturn factory in Spring Hill TN? GM cannot even decide what to make there. Every time a decision is made to make a new car there, the plans get quashed. Management plans to convert the factory to a new car. Long later, GM learns the factory is inflexible - cannot make that car. GM has gone through this 'maybe we will do this' cycle twice. Spring Hill may get closed because GM bean counters stifled another innovation over a decade ago - flexible manufacturing. |
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11-18-2008, 12:38 AM
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