Pontiac may be dead by monday..

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Exactly what current success's are you referring to?. When the leader of the free world can turf the CEO of the largest auto mfg in the world that my freind is a harbinger of things to come.


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Current successes?

- Corvette in all its iterations
- Competitive Chevy Malibu and Saturn Aura models
- Gorgeous styling of the Solstice and Sky
- Everything Caddy touches
- Buick's success in quality polls
- Their trucks are always dependable

Want more?

Could you offer some evidence of your slippery slope? When Chrysler had their loan, it wasn't a harbinger. Methinks you're using a political bias to make a populist point that doesn't have any foundation of truth.

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The truth is these great design wins( not being facetious,read my above post) you have mentioned haven't hepled them turn a profit. The problem is not in the product,but the Union.
What was once a benefit has now become an entitlement, and how dare anyone question an entitlement??. While the UAW fairly negotiated retirement and health care plans, no one, on either side, factored the ultimate cost of those benefits. Once in contract law, those plans become entitlements and are therefore sacrosanct.They become "the cost of doing business". G.M., Ford, and Chrysler are the U.S. in microcosm - the "promises" cannot be kept without bankrupting the parent corporation. A slippery slope indeed..

The diff between Chrysler in 1980 and now was they actually had a real LEADER and VISIONARY who volunteered to work for a buck a year-not pushed to do it. Like Gene Stallings said in Forrest Gump "We sure could used him now"