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How many of you are employed by, indirectly employed by, connected to the big 3?

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How many here work for a company that provides a product for any of the big 3? How many here work for any of the big 3? How many here work for a company that provides a service to the big 3?

It's amazing how many people here are calling for the demise of the Big 3 do not realize that the demise of the big 3 will be the complete demise of our economy... yet you keep wanting it...
 
How would it be the complete demise of our economy? They would file bankruptcy and continue. They would go through some hard times, but would shed the extra baggage (UAW, etc...).

Even if they disappeared completely it wouldn't be the demise of our economy.
 
Originally posted by: MIKEMIKE
It's amazing how many people here are calling for the demise of the Big 3 do not realize that the demise of the big 3 will be the complete demise of our economy... yet you keep wanting it...
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I don't believe this, but if it turns out to be true - so be it.
 
Originally posted by: MIKEMIKE
It's amazing how many people here are calling for the demise of the Big 3 do not realize that the demise of the big 3 will be the complete demise of our economy... yet you keep wanting it...
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The big 3 plus all of their associated part suppliers, dealers, and other companies still are only about 3% of the US economy. The housing market and its associated industries are 20% of the US economy and it is crashing. Just to put things into perspective. The auto industry is big, but it is miniscule compared to the bigger problems we are facing. Losing 3% of the GDP would be a noticible blip, but still just a blip.

Not that dealers, part manufactuers, and auto stores will all close just because some companies are reorganizing themselves in court.
 
if there is a demand for the product, someone will fill the gap and all those support services can do business with the replacement
if nothing fills their shoes, then that is just further proof they should not have continued to exist anyways
 
Not even remotely related.

Im ok with bailing out banks because of their integral part of our economy (transfer of $ and risk). Im not ok with bailing out some fucking union ridden, over managed, dinosaur of an industry. I say let em burn. Their business model no longer works in the US. They can take it to china where the people still buy their cars.
 
Originally posted by: HardcoreRobot
if there is a demand for the product, someone will fill the gap and all those support services can do business with the replacement
if nothing fills their shoes, then that is just further proof they should not have continued to exist anyways
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Agreed. Furthermore, everyone keeps talking about how it's not just the Big 3 that would go under, but all the various levels of service and retail support that would suffer too. But if the company that makes the cars goes out of business, wouldn't that just makemore
business for 3rd parties? i.e. if Chevy can no longer supply parts for a car, wouldn't Autozone/Pep Boys/etc see an upsurge in traffic?

People seem to think that if any or all of the Big 3 shut their doors, that all vehicles ever made by them will suddenly become obsolete or self-destruct.
 
I worked for a company that manufactured some sensor module for GM and some other parts for Delphi (a GM supplier).
 
do we really need 3 failing companies?
the perfect scenario is for them to merge into 1 or 2 companies then gov't bail them out.
they failed for a reason, they need to drop some dead weights.
there is no guarantee they could compete with japanese/german auto companies in the future after bailout.
it's more like throwing money at UAW, and make sure they have a job.
i'm sure you can create a lot more jobs with those $15b than saved.
 
I used to work at a GM assembly plant (where they make the lambda crossovers), I have some good stories from that place...
 
Originally posted by: tasmanian
Whats up with the jw. in your summary.
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How can you not know WTF he means. Seriously, I'm just wondering how you don't know that. Get off my intrawebs.
 
None of those three options fit my situation exactly, but I am connected to GM & Chrysler in such a way that it would REALLY hurt if they went out of business.
 
I think that it's a biased question or at least you're asking it in a biased forum. From what I see in the poll, hardly anybody is associated with the Big 3 but that obviously doesn't fit the statistics. My entire family and almost all of their family friends are directly/indirectly associated (I'm from the Detroit suburbs) with the Big 3.

Oddly enough, I work for a company that only deals with the automotive industry but not a single one of the Big 3 is a client of ours. Which explains why we're doing so well right now, given the state of things.
 
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