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14 GM Plants to close and over 20,000 jobs to go bye bye
« on: June 01, 2009, 04:04:53 AM »
GM is about to announce bankruptcy   :'(


GM will announce Chapter 11 bankruptcy and the closure of 14 plants stateside with a loss of 20,000 jobs.

GM will be divide up as follows:

62.5% owned by the US gov
12.5% owned by the Canadian gov
13 % owned by the UAW pension fund
12 % owned by bond holders

Figures are approximate and from memory, ...but it looks like that'll be the breakdown.
in return, they are going to get over $40 Billion in US federal gov loans. This is rumoured to not affect Cdn plants.

Magna's Frank Stronach closed his deal to help out Oppel, ...and it looks like in time, he's going to move some of Oppel's parts manufacturing right here to Ontario. This is pissing me off because it's driving the Cdn dollar up against he US  >:( I had a nice big cheque on Friday... do you know what a difference 1.25% is from 1.06%? Well it's a heckuva lot!!! {spit} Experts are predicting it might soon go back to par. They also say the price of oil is going to reach $100 barrel within the year, ...and stay there. This too is inline with what the Kuwaiti investment bank Marcaz was predicting late last year.


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Re: 14 GM Plants to close and over 20,000 jobs to go bye bye
« Reply #1 on: June 01, 2009, 04:07:27 AM »
I got the scoop.... I just heard the breaking news.

GM formally filed at 7am ...so while I was typing & brilliantly deducing what would happen, ...it happened!  :D
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Re: 14 GM Plants to close and over 20,000 jobs to go bye bye
« Reply #2 on: June 01, 2009, 05:33:52 AM »
OK...Someone get the BILLIONS back that america gave to GM for bailouts not only this year, but for all for the years before. The execs will be walking from GM with their pockets bursting with this money and the employees will only have their last check...SHAME
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Re: 14 GM Plants to close and over 20,000 jobs to go bye bye
« Reply #3 on: June 01, 2009, 05:38:12 AM »
OK...Someone get the BILLIONS back that america gave to GM for bailouts not only this year, but for all for the years before. The execs will be walking from GM with their pockets bursting with this money and the employees will only have their last check...SHAME

Exactly!  They knew back in September 2008 that bankruptcy was going to happen and they conned the taxpayers into shelling out billions and billions of dollars. 


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Re: 14 GM Plants to close and over 20,000 jobs to go bye bye
« Reply #4 on: June 01, 2009, 05:45:48 AM »
Exactly!  They knew back in September 2008 that bankruptcy was going to happen and they conned the taxpayers into shelling out billions and billions of dollars. 



They're not done yet, ...this bankruptcy comes with a $40 BILLION pay day.

Chrysler is just emerging from bankruptcy protection.
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Re: 14 GM Plants to close and over 20,000 jobs to go bye bye
« Reply #5 on: June 01, 2009, 07:14:24 AM »
Our reward?Shitty little crap cars that no one wants and will be like death traps because they have to make them as crappy as they can to fit under the new emissions standards.Isnt liberalism fantastic?

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Re: 14 GM Plants to close and over 20,000 jobs to go bye bye
« Reply #6 on: June 01, 2009, 07:16:24 AM »
Our reward?Shitty little crap cars that no one wants and will be like death traps because they have to make them as crappy as they can to fit under the new emissions standards.Isnt liberalism fantastic?

I got an antique BMW that great on emission. You don't have to buy shitty little cars to meet emission standards.

<--- those will do it for you too.  :D
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