>>>I like the way he is growing into the job. He made some missteps at first, as any president does, but IMO he is doing all the right things now. He is holding the top management of the bailout beneficiaries accountable and basically told Rick Wagoner to get lost. Good for him.
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>>Firing CEO of GM is easy. I wish he would have told the uninon boss to get lost too. They are part of the problem too.
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>Yep, for all the bonuses the workers have received for all these years, and all the stock they got every now and then instead of actual retirement money. I bet they own at least half of the GM by now (as they were quoted as the most important cost, which has clogged the flow of milk and honey), specially with all the bonus stock they were getting as their share of the bailout.
Those poor auto workers who got paid a lot of money just to screw in nuts and bolts. They had it tough.
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