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Quote from: BH on October 21, 2009, 02:52:32 PM
Stories about how Obama raped the car industry.

"Everyone knew Detroit's reputation for insular, slow-moving cultures. Even by that low standard, I was shocked by the stunningly poor management that we found, particularly at GM, where we encountered, among other things, perhaps the weakest finance operation any of us had ever seen in a major company."

"The cultural deficiencies were equally stunning. At GM's Renaissance Center headquarters, the top brass were sequestered on the uppermost floor, behind locked and guarded glass doors. Executives housed on that floor had elevator cards that allowed them to descend to their private garage without stopping at any of the intervening floors (no mixing with the drones)."

Quote from: Cillit Bang on October 21, 2009, 02:57:52 PM

Quote from: BH on October 21, 2009, 02:52:32 PM
Stories about how Obama raped the car industry.

"Everyone knew Detroit's reputation for insular, slow-moving cultures. Even by that low standard, I was shocked by the stunningly poor management that we found, particularly at GM, where we encountered, among other things, perhaps the weakest finance operation any of us had ever seen in a major company."

"The cultural deficiencies were equally stunning. At GM's Renaissance Center headquarters, the top brass were sequestered on the uppermost floor, behind locked and guarded glass doors. Executives housed on that floor had elevator cards that allowed them to descend to their private garage without stopping at any of the intervening floors (no mixing with the drones)."

So then why did Obama make them have such shitty management. What a terrible leader.

RE: the bold - does this make anyone else think of Hudsucker Proxy?

Quote from: Brownie on October 21, 2009, 03:05:42 PM

Quote from: Cillit Bang on October 21, 2009, 02:57:52 PM

Quote from: BH on October 21, 2009, 02:52:32 PM
Stories about how Obama raped the car industry.

"Everyone knew Detroit's reputation for insular, slow-moving cultures. Even by that low standard, I was shocked by the stunningly poor management that we found, particularly at GM, where we encountered, among other things, perhaps the weakest finance operation any of us had ever seen in a major company."

"The cultural deficiencies were equally stunning. At GM's Renaissance Center headquarters, the top brass were sequestered on the uppermost floor, behind locked and guarded glass doors. Executives housed on that floor had elevator cards that allowed them to descend to their private garage without stopping at any of the intervening floors (no mixing with the drones)."

So then why did Obama make them have such shitty management. What a terrible leader.

RE: the bold - does this make anyone else think of Hudsucker Proxy?

The dysfunctional environment at GM shouldn't surprise anyone. But it's never the government's business to intervene.

Quote from: Brownie on October 21, 2009, 03:05:42 PM

Quote from: Cillit Bang on October 21, 2009, 02:57:52 PM

Quote from: BH on October 21, 2009, 02:52:32 PM
Stories about how Obama raped the car industry.

"Everyone knew Detroit's reputation for insular, slow-moving cultures. Even by that low standard, I was shocked by the stunningly poor management that we found, particularly at GM, where we encountered, among other things, perhaps the weakest finance operation any of us had ever seen in a major company."

"The cultural deficiencies were equally stunning. At GM's Renaissance Center headquarters, the top brass were sequestered on the uppermost floor, behind locked and guarded glass doors. Executives housed on that floor had elevator cards that allowed them to descend to their private garage without stopping at any of the intervening floors (no mixing with the drones)."

So then why did Obama make them have such shitty management. What a terrible leader.

RE: the bold - does this make anyone else think of Hudsucker Proxy?

The dysfunctional environment at GM shouldn't surprise anyone. But it's never the government's business to intervene.

Quote from: Brownie on October 21, 2009, 03:22:03 PM
It confirms the theory that if you want to learn how NOT to run a business, just examine how GM's family of manufacturers and GM ran after approximately 1965.

Quote from: Fork on October 21, 2009, 05:09:44 PM

Quote from: Brownie on October 21, 2009, 03:22:03 PM
It confirms the theory that if you want to learn how NOT to run a business, just examine how GM's family of manufacturers and GM ran after approximately 1965.

It was the model of efficiency compared to pre- and post-Iaccoca Chrysler.

QuoteFederal taxes in fiscal year 2009 claimed the smallest share of GDP since 1950—14.9 percent according to the Congressional Budget Office (see top figure). The revenue drop has many causes: tax reductions in this year's economic stimulus, the collapse of the economy, and the Bush tax cuts from earlier in the decade.

QuoteReaching fiscal balance will take some combination of spending cuts and tax increases. What we don't need is more tax cuts.

Quote from: R-V on October 22, 2009, 10:52:03 AM

QuoteReaching fiscal balance will take some combination of spending cuts and tax increases. What we don't need is more tax cuts.

Quote from: R-V on October 22, 2009, 10:52:03 AM
Adolf Obama is taxing us to death!

QuoteFederal taxes in fiscal year 2009 claimed the smallest share of GDP since 1950—14.9 percent according to the Congressional Budget Office (see top figure). The revenue drop has many causes: tax reductions in this year's economic stimulus, the collapse of the economy, and the Bush tax cuts from earlier in the decade.

On a serious note, THIS:

QuoteReaching fiscal balance will take some combination of spending cuts and tax increases. What we don't need is more tax cuts.

QuoteIf the parking meter deal put a bad taste in your mouth, try swallowing this: Chicago is considering leasing its water system to help fix the budget.

Quote from: R-V on October 26, 2009, 09:29:50 AM
Hooray!

QuoteIf the parking meter deal put a bad taste in your mouth, try swallowing this: Chicago is considering leasing its water system to help fix the budget.

Quote from: R-V on October 26, 2009, 09:29:50 AM
Hooray!

QuoteIf the parking meter deal put a bad taste in your mouth, try swallowing this: Chicago is considering leasing its water system to help fix the budget.

Quote from: Waco Kid on October 26, 2009, 09:41:36 AM

Quote from: R-V on October 26, 2009, 09:29:50 AM
Hooray!

QuoteIf the parking meter deal put a bad taste in your mouth, try swallowing this: Chicago is considering leasing its water system to help fix the budget.

After the trouble free parking meter deal I don't see what could possibly go wrong with this.