Comments on: Obama Pushes Out General Motors Chief

By: Reality Bytes

Reality Bytes — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:26:31 +0000

Cars from RB’s Dream Garage

’64 Caddy Coupe or Convert (on a custom tube frame w/ LS3 motor & 6 speed manual & ’96 Impala ss suspension please)

’65 Sunbeam Tiger (blown thanks)

’60 Buick Invicta convertible

Ferrari GTO (any mid 90′s)

Porsche 928S

68 Jag XKE Coupe w/ 12 holes

Mercedes SEL Hammer

’67 Olds 442 Convertible or ’68 W30 442

’65 Chevy Corvair convertible turbocharged

’67 Caddy Eldorado (bone stock & gotta be black)

’65 Buick Riviera (slammed, shaved & chopped just a little, custom interior & lathered in midnight blue)

Oh & RB cardinal rule no. 1 – NEVER EVER HANG 20 INCH PIMP ROLLERS ON A CLASSIC!).

Alas, with the kid in college, only my Ashton is paid for while thumbing through pages of such wonders of the modern age.

By: Colonel1961

Colonel1961 — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 02:14:50 +0000

U NO HOO: Your job application for congress is approved!

I’ll take odds that some (dang it, no more vulgar language) ding-a-ling proposes that very thing tomorrow…

By: U NO HOO

U NO HOO — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 02:11:42 +0000

Tax the pension 90%!

By: Petronius

Petronius — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 01:59:29 +0000

If you are going to sup with the devil, remember to bring a long spoon.

By: Colonel1961

Colonel1961 — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 01:58:27 +0000

My wife and I have always loved cars – never beholden to any country or company. She had Corvette ads on her walls as a teenager (yeah, pretty cool for chick – lol) and we both love the lines of the early sixties models, then the Sting Rays, and even today, with the current incarnation of ‘Vettes (sorry, don’t know the proper Corvette taxonomy). But the shame is that a great car company has been hosed on all sides. Apathetic management, lackadaisical workers, atrocious designs (at times) and a cost of ownership (purchase, maintenance, repair, insane depreciation, et cetera) that cannot be justified. Sad. It truly hurts.

By: Reality Bytes

Reality Bytes — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 01:33:04 +0000

Plus a tune up won’t cost you 14K like your Ferrari. Then again, just the sound of a 599 makes me woozy. I hear the Italians are the machinists in Heaven. Thank God they’re not the bankers.

By: Colonel1961

Colonel1961 — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 01:18:34 +0000

No problem. It is a beautiful vehicle, indeed.

p.s. the Good Fellas analogy is spot-on. ‘Ya light a match.’ Too bad…

By: caligirl9

caligirl9 — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:47:39 +0000

More doublespeak:
“We” does not necessarily mean “I”.

By: pdsand

pdsand — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:21:21 +0000

The canned outrage is starting, from CNN:

“GM’s ousted CEO eligible for $20M retirement package

(CNN) — General Motors’ outgoing chief executive Rick Wagoner is eligible to receive more than $20 million in his retirement package, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Wagoner announced Monday he was resigning at the request of the Obama administration, which has prodded GM to restructure as the company receives government financing to stay afloat.

Although Wagoner is not eligible for any severance pay upon leaving GM, he is eligible for hefty retirement benefits.

“He has worked for GM for nearly 32 years, and he would be entitled to certain vested awards, deferred compensation, and pension and other post-retirement benefits,” GM said in a statement.

Upon Wagoner’s departure he will be eligible for both a salaried retirement plan and an executive retirement plan, which at the end of last year totaled approximately $20.2 million, GM spokeswoman Julie Gibson said.”

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/03/.....ef=topnews

I’m sure that Obama, who has no interest in running GM, will have plenty to say about this. And probably just as much to say about the setting of the incoming CEO’s compensation.

By: Reality Bytes

Reality Bytes — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 22:03:00 +0000

As a nod & a thank you to Mr. Wagoner, had it not him askin’ the Corvette team “What could you build for a hundred thousand?” I give you what Car & Driver, Automobile & Motortrend all agree is the number one super car (sorry Colonel), The Chevy Corvette ZR1. 0-60 in 3.3 top – speed 205 – mpg highway 20+.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....re=related

Turn your speakers up for this one!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....re=related

So Cool Itz Sick!!!

Imagine what they could do without Washington & the unions stepping on their necks! Reminds me of the Good Fellas scene when they burned down the guys restaurant after they bled it dry.

By: Howard Roark

Howard Roark — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:08:45 +0000

Orwellian doublespeak:
BARRY SAYS: “we have no intention in running GM”
BARRY DOES: fires GM chief

By: bousquem

bousquem — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:00:29 +0000

He is just looking for GM and the others to fail miserably. You toss out anyone who knew the company so you have new people and give them a goal to accomplish in a short period of time, and you fail to actually tell them the goal till its too late. Then all that needs to be done is nationalize the companies becuase they will be “too big to fail” or some other line. The goverment should have absolutely no control over the companies. Can the CEO be removed by the goverment, yes but only if they have done something like kill someone or are a drug dealer, not just because the administration doesn’t like them and wants their own toady in control, ala puppet CEO.