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To: Think4Yourself who wrote (84089)	8/9/2007 7:31:25 AM
From: TH	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

John, I have not been to Chrysler in three weeks. I have been to GM two or three times a day for the past three weeks. You can guess that GM story is not a good one. Good suppliers go golfing in July, bad suppliers visit the OEM and explain why they are such fxxx-ups. I assume you have been inside the building at some point. It really is a shopping mall. It is very easy to imagine where Old Navy and Pottery Barn would have been, had things not worked out. I've never been than high up on the West side of the building. Suppliers generally work in the main mall area. I did not see the car crash. Sounds bad, was it a head-on test or an asymmetrical? I miss the old job where I got to crash cars, break glass, and generally make a big mess. Airbags were a lot more fun than my current position. GT TH

To: Think4Yourself who wrote (84089)	8/9/2007 9:07:01 AM
From: Mike da bear	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 306849

Did you see the chinese car crash test on TV yesterday? What a piece of crap. Get in an accident and everyone in the car is dead. Well now that GM wants to import those chinese cars to sell, you'll see GM use their decades of experience in designing cars to meet federal regulations. GM will tell the chinese what to do so China can get the cars crash-worthy quickly. Of course once China gets that knowledge they start selling on their own and bypass GM. Typical american management style, give away hard earned knowledge to gain short term profits. Go to keep stock price up to cash in those options ASAP, if the company doesn't exist in 10 years tough luck to the shareholders. IMO executive options should be set up so they can't be exercised at all for the first 5 or 10 yrs after issue. Then they'll have the long term interest of the company in mind.