GM only builds the body, engine and transmission. Everything else is supplied by vendors. If the vendors build crap parts then GMs fault here is for using bad vendors. A lot of the components are made all over the world and then supplied to the vendors who then create a component to be installed. Some of the countries I see stamped on parts are Mexico, China, Malaysia, Canada, Bulgaria, Taiwan, Guatamala, Brazil and the list goes on. Seems to be a world wide problem with quality.

 

I've had a few faults with my HHR, but I really like it. My prior HHR was issue free and could not have asked for better choice . I was just trying to say that the turnover for the jobs in the Mexican plant is large, as many employees quit and then the process to have to hire and retrain new employees begins again. My understanding from inside sources state that there is frequent job replacements in the plant in Mexico.
As a matter of fact, there is a plant manager in the Oshawa plant that came from Mexico. I suppose he is in the oshawa plant for experience to take to Mexico at some time in the future.

 

Also with Toyota and Honda, although quality reports from these two are only reported through North American sales and not on a world wide scale such as the Big 3 that report quality worldwide. Some things are hidden...some are not!

 

Even ChevyMgr knows the quality numbers that come out of Oshawa. Not many plants can boast about the what is done here.

 

So, I guess you were equally upset when the rich got huge tax breaks and the Middle Class was expected to make up the difference? In other words: Taking from those that don't have to give to those that do...

I'm STILL waiting for it to trickle down from the Reagon era.

 

Does that kool-aid your drinking taste good?

0bamas tax breaks for 95% of the public are really interesting when 44% of those people pay NO taxes. Why would they be entitled to something they haven't even worked for.

Do you really think it is fair that 5% of the people should pay 95% of the taxes? That's not what this great nation is all about. Go to France if you want socialism.

 

You got that right. Those Canadians know their stuff!

 

Let the Big Oil companies give them the Loan, No Cars. No Gas to Sell.

 

I don't want to turn this into a political thread; although, the whole GM bailout is a political issue more than an economic one. But...

I don't think you quite have your facts correct; the "44% [who] pay no taxes" are not necessarily people who haven't worked, but people whose income and deductions cause them to receive a refund to the extent that they do not owe taxes. They have worked. Obama is not proposing to hand us money but to lower the tax rate. Thus, for those who actually do not work and do not pay taxes, they get nothing.

Is it fair for, say, Hedge Fund managers who make a billion and pay less taxes than "Joe the Plumber"? As far as Socialism, the proportional income tax has been around a long, long time. The Earned Income Credit, where someone can receive a refund greater than the tax withheld, was started by Ronal Reagan, the poster child for Conservatives.

 

Flawless logic!