| Date: | 12/10/2008 | Ref. number: | Leadership Messages / Leadership Messages / Corporate-Global / Corporate-Global / G_0000017224 |
| Subject: | Call-To-Action: Please Contact Your Senators in the Next Few Hours | ||
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Dear GM Dealership Employees: We are at a critical juncture in our efforts to get Congress and the current administration to provide federal loans to domestic auto manufacturers to help bridge our nation’s economic crisis. Your support in the form of phone calls is urgently needed in the next few hours as a number of Republican Senators are threatening to block the vote on the Auto Rescue Bill recently announced. If you are located in the states listed below, please contact your legislators by calling 866 874-9356 and remind them that dealership employees in their districts are counting on them for their support and leadership. Additionally, please share the hotline number with family, friends, business partners or other contacts in these states and ask them to call their Members of Congress immediately. Talking points and other materials to assist these calls can be found at www.gmfactsandfiction.com. Your efforts to call legislators have been crucial in getting us to this point. Please urge everyone you know in these key states to place their phone calls in the next few hours and remind legislators that their vote is about the survival of America’s auto industry and they will be held accountable for job losses in their states. |
Well, since no one is walking in to dealerships buying cars, I guess this gives them something to do. Maybe they can also remind them of the Employee Discount for Everyone!
I made a call to my congress critters telling them to vote no on the Wall Street Bailout. Now I’ve done the same for the Big 3 Bailout. Sorry GM, I didn’t get your memo.
Is it me or can I sense a slight hint of desperation in the letter’s words…..?
The addressee should read that instead:
“What if Steve Jobs ran one of the Big Three auto companies?
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2008/pulpit_20081207_005508.html
think it over and then tell the big 3 to step aside and get lost.
That very editorial is not real, (similarity to the plan the big 3 presented intended)
but opposite to the 2.5 attempted tax payers purse grab, funny and free to read
What we need is a new approach, new deal, new products with new faces.
“YES WE CAN!”
The plan the big 3 have presented, besides bullying everybody breathing, holding workers, politicians and taxpayer hostage and crude politic lobbying is not worth a look.
Bottom line: Nobody wants them, neither their shoddy products, services, their CEO’s
(Chryslers CEO’s identities and finance structure is clandestine hidden behind a thick Cerberus smokescreen)
nor their unfriendly dealers.
Let nature take its course and them peaceful go the way of the Studebaker.
The big 3’s current as bizarre as costly “grandpa transvestite table-dance” makes even for a outspoken critic of Tesla and its questionable CEO his EV model look future looking, innovative (a long existing product, e.g. Lotus GB – slapped on of the shelf chinese Batteries loosely screwed together) technically ripe, commercial feasible and the people to run their show deeply honest.
I dont know anybody having claimed that virtues for Elon Musk (Teslas CEO) until today.
I do now.
So, in comparison to the big 3 th baseless attempt to steal taxpayers money,
Al Capone seems a sound businessman with a acceptable, slightly off-the-beaten-track lifestyle.
Or even the incredible rude Elon Musk a eloquent, fine gentlemen with good manners.
See, everything is relative to what you compare it with.
At least Tesla is a free ride – if not for their customers
(nobody is forced to buy their $ 110.000 car) but at least for the taxpayer
Please Mr. Congressman! You must save Ricky’s & Bobby’s Baconfactory! Please.
I dialed that number twice this morning and left messages for both of my state senators of KY, Mitch McConnell and Jim Bunning. I said I DO NOT support the bailout; instead, these companies would emerge from a bankruptcy procedure much smaller and stronger.
Thank you, GM, for forwarding my call to my state Senators.
Let me get this straight-700 BILLION, and not a peep from 535 representatives of the people-15 and we’ve got a discussion group. What the hell is going on? What is good for GM is indeed good for the country. I will always support anything that floats all boats. That is like screaming in the wilderness on this site, but no one ever accused me of ignoring windmills.
DITTO
olddavid :
Let me get this straight-700 BILLION, and not a peep from 535 representatives of the people-15 and we’ve got a discussion group. What the hell is going on? What is good for GM is indeed good for the country. I will always support anything that floats all boats. That is like screaming in the wilderness on this site, but no one ever accused me of ignoring windmills.
I couldn’t agree more. If the Detroit Three hate-fest I’ve seen on TTAC is all that the Best and Brightest can come up with, they’re no longer worthy of that title. The latest study I’ve seen estimates that a C11 filing by one or more of the Detroit Three will end up costing the nation four times as much as the bailout. So the question becomes: Do we pay now, while the bill is comparatively modest, or do we pay much more later?
@ OldDavid:
I will always support anything that floats all boats.
That scenario doesn’t exist.
And again, to reiterate, I’m with RF. There is no hate here for the D3. Just contempt for what they’ve become. I do believe that 2 outta the 3 (sorry Chrysler) can emerge from bankruptcy as leaner and more focused companies.
@y2kdcar and oldDavid:
Please read Buickman’s articles for insight as to why so many TTAC readers loathe the profound incompetence at the D3. Giving (and that’s what this is) them money is simply perpetuating the foolishness, not fixing any of the problems.
olddavid :
December 10th, 2008 at 10:11 am
Let me get this straight-700 BILLION, and not a peep from 535 representatives of the people-15 and we’ve got a discussion group.
Um, the financial bailout failed the first time around, remember? Then the market dropped another thousand points in three days, the Congressional leadership piled every single special project the naysayers wanted into the bill, and it passed the second time.
Plus, then, the roadblock was in the House. This time, it’s in the Senate. It’s a lot easier to ram something through the House than in the Senate-by design.
Another thing is that there are banks in every single state in the country. There are domestic auto plants in only a handful-and almost as many states have plants from foreign companies. Maybe more, in fact, since the foreign companies are building new plants and the domestic ones are closing plants-especially those far from Detroit. Do you think GM’s closure of the only auto plant in the state of Okalahoma two years ago made OK’s two Senators happy to bail them out?
Toyota et al have been buying Senators two at a time for years, with each plant opening in a new state. The management of the Detroit automakers are too stupid to realize that closing plants far from Detroit, while good from a supply-chain standpoint, is a horrible political move.
For all you bleeding hearts out there that think we should bail these loser’s out,why don’t you just send a check to GM or who ever and get a jump on this.I am sure you would not be turned down.I always wonder why people who support these kind of things have to be forced into it,just step up and do the right thing and I am sure your life will be better for it.