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To: Don Hurst who wrote (446766)	1/11/2009 10:39:43 PM
From: i-node	Respond to of 1575201

Oh btw, do you have any idea how difficult and costly it is to disenfranchise a dealer? Another major legacy issue that the non-union foreign shops do not have. It cost GM over a billion in dealer costs to eliminate Olds. ROTFLMAO. A billion dollars? F*cking chickenfeed. Literally. Contrast it with the cost of pension benefits, or even of pension benefits for nonproductive employees. A billion is nothing.

To: Don Hurst who wrote (446766)	1/12/2009 11:40:36 AM
From: d[-_-]b	Respond to of 1575201

A rather bombastic post - the point is the US auto makers have costs related to unions the other makers don't here on US soil - when trying to be competitive you need to cut costs or become more efficient. GM's plants in Germany and elsewhere follow the laws of the those lands and make the playing field level. do you have any idea how difficult and costly it is to disenfranchise a dealer? Yes - my grandfather had one, not hard at all - just go bankrupt as his Edsel dealership did.