General Moters to cut 9% of its workers and close plants

Published on November 21, 2005 By COL Gene In Politics

Some more great news about the economy as it impacts American Workers. GM is in trouble and today said it will cut 30,000 jobs or about 9% of its total work force. They will close a number of plants. Last week the problems of the Pension Guarantee Corp was all over the paper. It is more then $22 Billion in the red because so many companies have gone bankrupt and are dumping their pension obligations. If the GOOD NEWS continues about this great economy we will all be in soup lines. We can see if the Bush base can help serve the soup!

Comments (Page 2)

Gideon MacLeish

on Nov 22, 2005

This is GREAT NEWS! With fewer cars being built, our emissions will decrease and we won't have to worry about the polar ice caps melting!

I hope Ralph Nader sends GM a Christmas card!

Gideon MacLeish

on Nov 22, 2005

Stute,

Thanks for pointing it out before I did. It's good to see some consistency, at least, in your position...that's frankly rare from many libs.

Gideon MacLeish

on Nov 22, 2005

Bush is the one that forced the troop levels from 500,000 to 300,000 to the 150,000 that were used to invade Iraq. Bush is responsible for the mess today first by invading Iraq and then by not allowing the troop levels the Generals said were required to do the job.

Oh, man, you're right, Col Gene. If we would draft enough soldiers to send half a million to Iraq, then we could reduce unemployment even further...I know of 30,000 folks that we could add to their ranks as of the first of the year (sheer brilliance!)

Only one question, though....how is it NOT an occupation if there are 500,0000 troops in the country, when it IS an occupation with 150,000? Maybe I'm just slow here.

COL Gene

on Nov 22, 2005

The issue is control. The lower number of troops did not allow our forces to stop foreign forces comming across the borders. We were not able to control hundreds of ammo dumps the terrorists used to make the IED's. We did not control the hot beds were the former Saddam forces planned their attacks and we did not protect the infrastrusture . We did not establish control and prevent the inserrection that has killed our troops and thousands of Iraqis. That is why the Generals told Bush they needed a far larger force to control Iraq after Saddam last control. We are occupaying Iraq but we have NEVER controlled the terrorists. We clear out a city and after we leave they return and we are forced to fight them again. We should have remained in the hot beds after clearing them but we did not have the force leves required to do the job properly. We had 500,000 in the first Gulf War and we not trying to control a unfriendly population. Almost ALL the retired military 4 stars have admitted we did not have the force levels to control Iraq. The active Generals are afraid to buck Bush. The saw whar happened when the Army CoS told Bush what was required. The resut is far more American dead and the mess we have today. GREAT work George!

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