Who Is Responsible for General Motors Fall?
KETK Viewers Point to a number of Reasons the Iconic Auto Maker filled for Bankruptcy
June 2, 2009 - 6:32am
Tyler—
Whose responsible for General Motors demise? Unions? Bad Business Model? Shoddy workmanship? Bad Product? East Texans sound-off.
Gee: Once a truth, always a truth? Not so. Yes, in the 80's GM product was not as highly rated for quality as the rice burners; that has not been true for the last ten years or so.
And all those gas guzzlers were just fine for all of us who wanted a decent sized vehicle that had some utility! I have been well pleased with my Suburban; my extended cab Silverado, my Olds Toronado, and in an earlier life, even my Corvette.
Not everyone worships at the altar of 'green' and we haven't all been drinking Al Gore's kool-aid. That's just another way for those who love big gov't to control what you do.
As a former union member with a belief that unions have a place, it is my firm opinion that the UAW is solely responsible for the result. They have been choking the golden goose for far too long.
Did they really believe they could pay people to not work and still have a price-competitive and quality-competitive product? Who knows, but I sincerely believe that the UAW did not care since it was riding the gravy train. They still are since now 'the Messiah' has taken mine and your tax money to make sure the UAW doesn't suffer.
And you wonder why elections matter?
Bobby Bonnett
6 months agoIt is all our faults -- we stopped buying their overpriced gas-guzzling cars, and they were too extended to modify their production stream to a large enough extent to allow recovery.
Their overextended status undoubtedly was due to very high labor costs and their blind eye to the needs for more efficient models, but this is no real surprise -- anyone watching has seen it coming for decades.
polman
6 months agoWell, there is one thing for sure, it was not because they did not have enough mini cars with high gas mileage because Americans don't drive mini cars and the president don't either. I believe the biggest part of it was a combination of Unions, Shoddy Workmanship. If you research automobiles you will find that Honda and Toyota were far more reliable and have higher resale you can't ignore that forever. But also our government plays a role also by forcing comply with very strict EPA, OSHA and many other things that alot of the foreign builders did not have to abide by with the parts of there companies that are not here in the US and now the government is going to make it even more difficult with stricter standards abd forcing them to build more mini cars and less big cars which is what Americans prefer not just because we are pitiful like the President, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid think we are but because in many cases we drive the vehicle that fits our lifestyle.
Rickey
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