🌎: Larry Hutchinson for President of the United States of America 2024
@Cnw8701 Жыл бұрын
I'm never buying a GM product. If they don't make their shit in America, how are their products considered to be American? More importantly, they're automobiles are overpriced polished turds that require a lot of maintenance that I simply can't afford. I get more bang for my buck with a Volkswagen, Toyota, and/or a Honda any day of the week!
@musicman76enator Жыл бұрын
Me too. I dont buy American cars period. Despite what you see in the commercials or hear from other people, American cars just suck today. Back in the 70s, 80s, maybe even into the 90s they made good American vehicles, but today they dont make me like they used to back then. The quality plummeted ever since the end of the 90s. That's why I go with either Honda, Toyota, Nissan, maybe a Kia. The foreign automakers have held up better than American over the last 20 years and they will continue to do so. Dont EVER let anyone sucker you into buying an American car. Ever.
@Cnw8701 Жыл бұрын
@@musicman76enator My younger brother has been trying to sucker me into buying a Dodge since he's a mechanic for Chrysler. That kid is borderline obsessed and will continuously defend how amazing their products are. Well, the reason why you're getting good business and making good money is because the cars they make are always winding up in the shop! 😂🤣
@Cnw8701 Жыл бұрын
@@musicman76enator He claims he can help guide me to fix a specific model whenever something breaks at a certain mileage. Um... yeah... how 'bout no? The last VW Jetta I owned, the only problem I had was with my windshield wiper motor. I drove that thing for about 55,000 miles (bought the car at 33,000, traded it in at around 88,000) before I traded it in, and had no major problems with anything. I've seen "Amercian" cars slowly break down after reaching that kind of mileage!
@scottm85793 жыл бұрын
There are a number of reasons why GM left Flint. Everyone blames Roger Smith. They're right, but not because of greed. He mis-managed the company straight into the ground. Ignoring the compact car boom. Giving in to the unions demands. Designing awful cars. The list is endless.
@OperaLights3 жыл бұрын
How did he "give into the union's demands" if he closed 16 plants and laid off 40,000 workers?
@scottm85793 жыл бұрын
@@OperaLights It's rather complicated. You should read about it. But I can try summarizing. General Motors became a massive success and made hundreds of millions of dollars since they started in the early twentieth century. Their success angered their employee's and they started a union. Millions of people joined the union and it became very successful. The union negociated really sweet deals with General Motors. Deals that included what's called a pension plan. Pension plans are basically a sum of money that given to someone who retires from General Motors. So just imagine, thousands of employee's retiring from GM and getting thousands of dollars in retirement money from the company. It destroyed GM financially. They went bankrupt in the 1980's and were bailed out by the Federal Government.
@Kittylover074 Жыл бұрын
@@scottm8579 You can't blame the mass loss of money based solely on union pension funds.
@operator91210 Жыл бұрын
@@scottm8579 that's not entirely true. They did have some pretty hard times in the 80's but they didn't reach bankruptcy levels to require a bailout. Chrysler did in '79 but not GM. Now in 2009 that was without a doubt a contributing factor but not the sole reason
@stevenburns8817 Жыл бұрын
partially agree with you, but what do you mean by "ignoring the compact car boom?" Smith became chairman on 1/1/81; a year later gas prices were falling, stayed low through the '80s and the company had to suddenly react to consumers' renewed preferences for larger cars. In 1980 GM spent $300 million to renovate the Chevrolet Flint Motor Plant to build 4-cylinder engines. In Oct. 1983 its closure was announced because of plunging demand for small engines. That's how fast things can change.
@antdogg4225 жыл бұрын
That GM tower how it went down scared the living shit outta me!
@BlueCollar8506 жыл бұрын
Fuck you Roger Smith
@bobcummings82286 жыл бұрын
They really screwed us and they want to come back and do it again. No way!
@bobcummings82286 жыл бұрын
thks 4 liking this.
@bobcummings82286 жыл бұрын
They better not! They don't need too! GM needs to be destroyed! @Speaker of the house Nancy Pelosi
@spannaspinna3 жыл бұрын
Bob Cummings that old piss wreck won’t do anything about it
@helenpeters21166 жыл бұрын
White men make such brilliant managers.
@jjrj85687 жыл бұрын
european and japanese cars are better than american cars, everybody knows that still, american businessmen had ZERO empathy for their workers, everybody knows that
@rockvilleraven9 жыл бұрын
The only way to build a high quality vehicle in the US is to have a company like Toyota or Honda build a plant here and use non union labor. The Big 3/UAW way doesn't work anymore. The auto making industry has shot its self in the foot so many times, its none funny. Some examples: An engineer at Chrysler developed brakes that could last 90,000 miles, he was fired. Japanese cars were crap in the early 60s, someone came up with the TQM system running a plant and all of them bought into, their quality began to turn around. It was Ford, Chrysler and GM who rejected it. And the last one, someone at Honda bought one of the early Saturns, took it apart and said, if it was a Honda, it wouldn't' meet their standards for quality.
@matt8787fat8 жыл бұрын
+rockvilleraven You are an idiot and thank you for helping destroy my state. We still have our auto industry here in MI but thanks to idiots like you its a shell of what it once was just like america! And i am a proud union worker as was my dad, 4 uncles, 2 aunts, 1 grandfather and my mother in law who still is. Long live the UAW and GM. Instead of being jealous of our pay and benefits fight for your own! Maybe you are just a gutless little bitch!
@evelsteev11 жыл бұрын
Liberals are funny. GM wasn't always in Flynt. What did he inhabitants do before then? They were fine. You don't tell a private company what to do with their capital and investments. This isn't North Korea. LOL!
@antdogg42212 жыл бұрын
Deputy Fred Ross reminds me of my GRANDAD!
@antdogg42212 жыл бұрын
Timothy Dalton became the new James Bond in 1987
@StraightFashionMan12 жыл бұрын
An image of what has plagued America for nearly 30 years. Corporations spitting on their country so they can maximize their profits for their lazy, greedy stockholders. I'll bet if corporations could make a profit investing in al-quada, they would do it. Americans are getting fed up with this shit, which is why Obama will be re-elected this November.
@ukipwarrior12 жыл бұрын
too right too many unions
@ROCKINHARD77200912 жыл бұрын
Your dead wrong...Remember that about you...
@bananian12 жыл бұрын
@railmogul2 and NAFTA and Toyota building plants in California.
@IUEC3813 жыл бұрын
@rpy75 And who is Roger Moore?
@IUEC3813 жыл бұрын
@gopconservative78 Ad hominem: the dead give away that you've no meaningful defense.
@IUEC3813 жыл бұрын
@gopconservative78 Yeah, human suffering and the destruction of our manufacturing sector is hilarious if it happens to hurt your political opponents. Never mind the insurmountable deficits and economic pain this has caused the entire country.
@supreme200514 жыл бұрын
Roger Smith really fucked up GM.
@cosmotcat14 жыл бұрын
@rpy75 What the fuck is a "lasy demoncrate!"?
@jackiechan51115 жыл бұрын
Why did GM get out of the bus making business. GM buses especially in the 80s were meant to last. Just look in Toronto Canada where GM buses are still running to this day.
@boland4415 жыл бұрын
Unions had no power in The Soviet Union.
@unbridledenthusiasm15 жыл бұрын
Don't blame GM's downfall on unions, blame it on the inferior cars they've continued to produce.
@rapidwienfinastearenan Жыл бұрын
or, hello, the elephant in the room, the executives ?!?!
@salvatoremaglione63984 ай бұрын
@@rapidwienfinastearenanThe real fault is because Reagan Administration cut tariffs and wanted free trade even if it meant jobs being shipped overseas and Americans becoming unemployed and destitute.
@BradleyTn2015 жыл бұрын
Haha.. The description says "From the Roger Moore film".. I didn't know James Bond made a documentary.
@RichardMillerMMVVIDEO15 жыл бұрын
not bad I grew up in Winfield near the hospital on jefferson.. the one didn't need the oh dear god becasue it wasn't that big
@shortysboarder1115 жыл бұрын
i was born in winfield too this is sick haha
@TheDonutDoctor16 жыл бұрын
HAHAHAHHA
@jackiechan51116 жыл бұрын
GM has a terrible record as a business. Whether its destroying North American streetcar networks, destroying the electric car, closing plants unecessarily, poor environmental record and now they want bailouts from Canada and US governments. How sad!
@brixtonsaint16 жыл бұрын
the power of unions is the failure of management. if the management had done their job correctly by listening to visionaries like John DeLorean in the sixties when he suggested firstly it was time to stop ripping off the customer by having them buy a moderately updated gas guzzler when the rest of the world was looking at producing economical cars. There's a zillion reasons why the US and UK car industry is on its knees in the former and dead in the latter. Complacency by management is the main1
@86cookiemonster16 жыл бұрын
Explain the job security and low wages. Honda is none union, and there are multiple people, in the Ohio marysville plant, that get paid 90 grand a year. I have a cousin who has been working there for the last 10 years. And there are tons of people who have been there longer. Unions have their uses. But most cause more harm than good. Look at the facts, as much as it pains me to say it, Honda Toyota none union, going strong, GM Ford union doing bad. Simple logic.
@airdriver17 жыл бұрын
I remember this happening. What's sad is that everybody blamed the "lazy, overpaid pampered union workers" for the auto industry's hard times and not the greedy, short sighted, incompetent, blindly ambitious executives or managers.
@Cnw8701 Жыл бұрын
The unions didn't fight back hard enough to keep all the jobs in America, and to keep the quality high for the products they were selling and producing.