WASHINGTON -- There is a paradox at the heart of the proposed bailout of the auto industry. The rescue would have no chance of passing without the muscle of the Big Three's unionized work force. Yet you can't turn around without hearing someone trash autoworkers for the terrible crime of trying to earn a decent living.
GM has been going out of business since the 70's. My father worked for GM for 30 years, I worked around GM and it's dealer body for over 20 years. Their product has consistently been inferior to the imports, and we also get the privilege of paying an $1800 premium because of those union contracts. It isn't just management that built a crapmobile, the engineer who knew the limits of their work, the supervisor who didn't supervise, the assembler just watching the world go by, the apathetic worker at the end of the quality control line signed off on it too. If you bought a Chrysler product from the 80's or 90's you knew you would need a new transmission at 40,000 miles, remember the old joke that Lee I. could never run for president as their were too many people who remebered the K model Chrysler? When Buick first shrank the Riviera, we went from selling 50 a month to 8 that year, and all 8 lived in the service department. When air compressors started going out at 5000 miles, the Buick District Service Rep. had us hold on to them to return in bulk, when we hit 200 bad air compressors out of the 250 cars sold, she informed us that Buick would not cover them!!!!! GM has consistantly screwed their dealers, and consistantly screwed the consumer. Why should they be any different from any poorly run company?
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