General Motors Corporation , also known as GM, is a United States-based automobile maker with worldwide operations and brands including Buick, Cadillac (automobile), Chevrolet, GM Daewoo, GMC Truck, Holden, Hummer, Opel, Pontiac, Saturn automobile, Saab Automobile, and Vauxhall Motors. Chevrolet and GMC divisions produce trucks, as well as passenger vehicles. Other brands include ACDelco, Allison Transmission, and General Motors Electro-Motive Division that produces diesel-electric locomotives. GM also has stakes in Isuzu, Subaru, and Suzuki in Japan and a joint venture with Lada in Russia. In December 2003, it acquired Delta Motor Corporation in South Africa, in which it had taken a 45 percent stake in 1997, and which is now a fully-owned subsidiary, General Motors South Africa. GM's headquarters are in the Renaissance Center in Detroit, Michigan. General Motors is the world's largest vehicle manufacturing and employs over 340,000 people. In 2001, GM sold 8.5 million vehicles through all its branches. In 2002, GM sold 15 percent of all cars and trucks in the world. They also owned Electronic Data Systems from 1984 to 1996 and, prior to selling it to News Corporation, DirecTV. GM owned Frigidaire from 1918 to 1979. The current chairman (since May 1, 2003) and chief executive officer (since June 1, 2000) is Rick Wagoner, succeeding John F. Smith, Jr. ==History== [[Image:General_Motors_building_089833pv.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Albert Kahn's General Motors Building, 3044 West Grand Boulevard, Detroit, MI]] General Motors was founded in 1908 as a holding company for Buick, then controlled by William C. Durant, and acquired Oldsmobile later that year. The next year, Durant brought in Cadillac, Elmore, and Oakland automobile. During the 1920s and 1930s General Motors bought out the bus company Yellow Coach, helped create Greyhound Lines, replaced intercity train transport with buses, and established subsidiary companies to buy out trolley companies and replace the rail-based services with buses. GM formed United Cities Motor Transit, in 1932. ''See General Motors streetcar conspiracy for additional details.'' General Motors bought the internal combustion engined railcar builder Electro-Motive Corporation and its engine supplier Winton Engine in 1930, renaming both as the General Motors Electro-Motive Division. Over the next twenty years diesel-powered locomotives and trains, the majority built by GM, largely replaced other forms of traction on American railroads. On December 31, 1955, General Motors became the first American corporation to make over one billion dollars in a year. After GM's massive layoffs hit Flint, Michigan, in the 1980s, budding documentary filmmaker and Flint native Michael Moore focused on the company and its chairman and CEO at the time, Roger B. Smith, in his first big hit, ''Roger & Me''. A Strike action began at the General Motors parts factory in Flint, Michigan on June 5, 1998, that quickly spread to five other assembly plants and lasted seven weeks. At one point it was the largest corporation in the United States ever, in terms of its revenues as a percent of GDP. In 1953 Charles Erwin Wilson, then GM president, was named by Dwight D. Eisenhower as Secretary of Defense. When he was asked, during the hearings before the Senate Armed Services Committee if as secretary of defense he could make a decision adverse to the interests of General Motors, Wilson answered affirmatively but added that he could not conceive of such a situation "because for years I thought what was good for the country was good for General Motors and vice versa." Later this statement was often garbled when quoted, suggesting that Wilson had said simply, "What's good for General Motors is good for the country." At the time, GM was the one of the largest employers in the world – only Soviet state industries employed more people. In May 2005, Standard & Poor's downgraded GM's credit rating to junk bond status. On April 4, 2005 General Motors Corp. sold is Electro-Motive Division to Greenbriar Equity Group LLC and Berkshire Partners. ===General Motors Hughes Electronics=== Hughes Electronics was formed in 1985 when Hughes Aircraft was sold by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to General Motors for $5 billion. General Motors merged Hughes Aircraft with its Delco Electronics unit to form GM Hughes Electronics (GMHE). The group then consisted of: *Hughes Aircraft *Delco Electronics *Hughes Space and Communications *Hughes Network Systems In August 1992 in aviation GM Hughes Electronics purchased General Dynamics' Missile Systems business. In 1994 in aviation Hughes Electronics introduced DirecTV, the world's first high-powered DBS service. In 1995 in aviation Hughes Electronic's Hughes Aircraft#Hughes Space and Communications division became the largest supplier of commercial satellites. Also in 1995 the group purchased Magnavox Electronic Systems from the Carlyle Group. In 1996 in aviation Hughes Electronics and PanAmSat agree to merge their fixed satellite services into a new publicly held company, also called PanAmSat with GMHE as majority shareholder. In 1997 in aviation GM transferred Delco Electronics to its Delphi Automotive Systems business. Late in the year the defense operations of Hughes Electronics (Hughes Aircraft and missile business) were merged with Raytheon. Hughes Space and Communications remained independent until 2000 in aviation, when it was purchased by Boeing and became Boeing Satellite Systems. In 2000 the remaining parts of Hughes Electronics: DirecTV, DirecTV Latin America, PanAmSat and Hughes Network Systems were purchased by NewsCorp and renamed The DirecTV Group. Newscorp sold PanAmSat to Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR) in August 2004. ==Diversity== General Motors was named one of the 100 Best Companies for Working Mothers in 2004 by Working Mothers magazine. ==Related topics== *List of GM platforms *List of GM engines *List of GM VIN codes *:Category:General_Motors_vehicles *EPA 2004 fuel economy report appendix M2#General Motors *GM Acceptance Corp ==External links== * [http://www.gm.com/ Official Website] * [http://www.gm.com/company/corp_info/history/gmhis1900.html Corporate history] * [http://www.gminsidenews.com GM Inside News] GM Enthusiast Forum with 16,000+ members * [http://www.cheersandgears.com Cheers and Gears] GM Enthusiast forum * [http://www.lovearth.net/gmdeliberatelydestroyed.htm How General Motors Deliberately Destroyed Public Transit] General Motors Fortune 500 companies Car companies of the United States Corporations sponsoring NASCAR drivers Corporations with naming rights of indoor arenas Companies based in Michigan
Doesn't GM also own Holden and Opel? And perhaps we could flesh out the history more... it sounds kinda biased.... ---- Paragraph 3 discusses an urban legend based on Bradford Snell's work about tram lines but then further paragraph report as truth GM WWII involvement also based on work by the same Bradford Snell. What gives? User:Rmhermen 15:22 14 Jun 2003 (UTC) ---- This seems a little non-NPOV about the WWII involvement. Implied is that GM's American management willfully supported the Nazi regime AFTER the start of hostilities, which I believe not to be the case. Accounts I've read squarely put the German government in control of German GM subsidiaries during the war years. Anyone got cites pro/con? --User:Morven 21:14, 21 Aug 2003 (UTC) == Wasn't Hughes spun off as an independent company a few years ago? == Wasn't Hughes spun off as an independent company a few years ago? User:Mkweise 06:42, 27 Aug 2003 (UTC) ---- I do have issues with that paragraph the anon removed, though -- I don't like 'alleged' in an article without a source for the allegation. User:Morven 10:37, 1 Feb 2004 (UTC) == Removal / reinsertion of controversial topics == I support the reversion of the anon's complete removal of these topics, but I do believe that these sections are POV, lack any cites, and should be done better. For the first paragraph (streetcar conspiracy) we should mention only SOME believe it; I'll edit the article to say so. For the second, I note the paragraph contains many words on GM's guilt and then one final line saying that GM disclaims responsibility because the factories were seized during the war. That's not really balanced. User:Morven 20:13, Oct 14, 2004 (UTC) :since when have conspiracy theories been encylopediac in relating to the main entry? Are we going to start having area 51 be and rosewell be in the cia/fbi/us government sections? if you want to talk about conspiracy theroies they need to be on a different page. Or give reasons why this isn't a conspiracy theory(and even if it is on a conspiracy theory page, those edits need to be made to be more npov, they make it seem like america was helping both sides when we were at war, which is entirly untrue. ::To deny that there such conspiracy theories are commonly believed by many is unencyclopedic. If you feel the statements contain factual errors, then correct them. If you feel the phrasing is unfairly biased, then revise the material. But wholessale deletion is not acceptable. Please see Wikipedia:Neutral point of view#Lack of neutrality as an excuse to delete For the record, I quite agree that this section very much needs attention, but I very much disagree with wholesale deletion simply because you don't like it. User:Bkonrad≠User talk:Bkonrad 15:58, Oct 16, 2004 (UTC) ::: yes but they don't belong in the main article about that comany. taking up 1/2th of the history, Unless that company for some reason is known only for that conspiracy theory or that comes to mind when people think of them, which really isn't the case for General motors. I notice that under moon landing, the fact that it never happened(which a large section of people belive) has been moved to a sepeate section because the general consenus there was that conspiracy theories don't belong in the main article ::::I'd have no problem with addressing this conspiracy theory stuff in separate articles and linking to it in the See Also section. User:Bkonrad≠User talk:Bkonrad 16:14, Oct 16, 2004 (UTC) :::: Okay good stuff that's fine... if you do that I'll clean up the dislogic a bit(it was trying to make you belive that general motors was helping during ww2, which just wasn't the case at all). ::::: Bkonrad is right, am happy with that solution but will revert any anonymous user's change if not defended in detail on this page. User:Lukewilson 23:22, 16 Oct 2004 (UTC) ==Financial challenges for GM: Why is this being deleted?== It's no secret that GM has financial challenges ahead, there was a reasonable section with reliable sources that anonymous users have deleted a few times. It is not obvious why. Perhaps there could be some explanation from the anonymous users... User:MunchieRonnie 16:25, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC) * I don't know and don't really much care, but I have protected this page due to excessive reversion activity. -User:Fennec User_Talk:Fennec 19:26, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC) : The financial information on GM should stay unless there's a good reason. User:NihonGo 21:32, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC) :: why are you posting agreeing with yourself? that's kinda strange anonymous :::Does anyone believe the financial info on GM should be deleted? I think Keep. User:Reithy 07:58, Nov 2, 2004 (UTC) ::: Ha, funny there is a discussion about absence of the company's financial problems. It seem the person editing it out is not alone. Here is an article about the company withdrawing advertisement from a paper, apparently because the paper featured a critical article. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4426107.stm] The thing is, editing it out is pointless. The company is heading into a very troubled time if oil continue selling at the current price and the problem will become so had to cover up. I feel for those affected, but then again, these are the same companies that were previously lobbing against law that discouraged gas guzzlers. Go lobby the oil market now GM == Mis-quote of Wilson == Off the topic that others have been speaking about, I wonder why people keep making errors about Pres. Wilson's comments before the congressional committee. He actually said "What is good for the country is good for General Motors and what is good for General Motors is good for the country". This seems both a harmless and not very important statement; it is obviously a simple statement of fact. It does not make GM, and Wilson, look like Military Industrial Complex monsters, which the use of only the second half of his statement might seem to imply. This twisting of meaning of the quote, derived by omotting its first half, is a simple propaganda trick, and the Left has been beating Capitalism with it since it was firsst made. And it shows up even here, in this site. "Give us this day and our daily illusion"--it doesn't take much to keep people happy. ==US government subsidizing import? == Does anyone know whether this is true? "Government has also contributed to the industry's structural problems. By one estimate, state governments subsidize foreign transplants such as BMW and Honda plants to the tune of $1,000 per car. And state franchise laws make it prohibitively expensive to rationalize dealer networks and nameplates. Worst of all are clean-air rules that essentially require companies to produce and sell low-pollution passenger cars at a loss, just to offset the environmental damage done by all their trucks and SUVs." [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64666-2005Mar24.html] I really don't understand how US government can be able to subsidize foreign import when US car manufactures have such a powerful lobby. ==Oldsmobile== I know Oldsmobile is now dead and gone, but shouldn't it get a mention at least? -User:James Anatidae 06:32, Apr 10, 2005 (UTC) == Some insightful writing about why GM got in the health quigmire == Ha, it looks like GM had been paying lightly as employees seemed to have preffered a health security more than a fat monthly cheque. The sad thing is they may end up loosing on health care, even though they took a lean monthly cheque. [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64599-2005Apr18.html] == Bill Gates vs General Motors == For all of us who feel only the deepest love and affection for the way computers have enhanced our lives, read on. At a recent computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated, "If General Motors had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25.00 cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon." In response to Bill's comments, General Motors issued a press release stating: If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics (and I just love this part): #For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash twice a day. #Every time they repainted the lines in the road, you would have to buy a new car. #Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason. You would have to pull to the side of the road, close all of the windows, shut off the car, restart it, and reopen the windows before you could continue. For some reason you would simply accept this. #Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to reinstall the engine. #Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times as fast and twice as easy to drive -- but would run on only five percent of the roads. #The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would all be replaced by a single "This Car Has Performed An Illegal Operation" warning light. #The airbag system would ask "Are you sure?" before deploying. #Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned the key and grabbed hold of the radio antenna. #Every time a new car was introduced car buyers would have to learn how to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car. #You'd have to press the "Start" button to turn the engine off. Please share this with your friends who love -- but sometimes hate -- their computers. *I got this in an email. _JarlaxleArtemis">User:JarlaxleArtemis 01:35, Jun 1, 2005 (UTC)
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General Motors Corporation , also known as GM, is a United States-based automobile maker with worldwide operations and brands including Buick, Cadillac (automobile), Chevrolet, GM Daewoo, GMC Truck, Holden, Hummer, Opel, Pontiac, Saturn automobile, Saab Automobile, and Vauxhall Motors. Chevrolet and GMC divisions produce trucks, as well as passenger vehicles. Other brands include ACDelco, Allison Transmission, and General Motors Electro-Motive Division that produces diesel-electric locomotives. GM also has stakes in Isuzu, Subaru, and Suzuki in Japan and a joint venture with Lada in Russia. In December 2003, it acquired Delta Motor Corporation in South Africa, in which it had taken a 45 percent stake in 1997, and which is now a fully-owned subsidiary, General Motors South Africa. GM's headquarters are in the Renaissance Center in Detroit, Michigan. General Motors is the world's largest vehicle manufacturing and employs over 340,000 people. In 2001, GM sold 8.5 million vehicles through all its branches. In 2002, GM sold 15 percent of all cars and trucks in the world. They also owned Electronic Data Systems from 1984 to 1996 and, prior to selling it to News Corporation, DirecTV. GM owned Frigidaire from 1918 to 1979. The current chairman (since May 1, 2003) and chief executive officer (since June 1, 2000) is Rick Wagoner, succeeding John F. Smith, Jr. ==History== [[Image:General_Motors_building_089833pv.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Albert Kahn's General Motors Building, 3044 West Grand Boulevard, Detroit, MI]] General Motors was founded in 1908 as a holding company for Buick, then controlled by William C. Durant, and acquired Oldsmobile later that year. The next year, Durant brought in Cadillac, Elmore, and Oakland automobile. During the 1920s and 1930s General Motors bought out the bus company Yellow Coach, helped create Greyhound Lines, replaced intercity train transport with buses, and established subsidiary companies to buy out trolley companies and replace the rail-based services with buses. GM formed United Cities Motor Transit, in 1932. ''See General Motors streetcar conspiracy for additional details.'' General Motors bought the internal combustion engined railcar builder Electro-Motive Corporation and its engine supplier Winton Engine in 1930, renaming both as the General Motors Electro-Motive Division. Over the next twenty years diesel-powered locomotives and trains, the majority built by GM, largely replaced other forms of traction on American railroads. On December 31, 1955, General Motors became the first American corporation to make over one billion dollars in a year. After GM's massive layoffs hit Flint, Michigan, in the 1980s, budding documentary filmmaker and Flint native Michael Moore focused on the company and its chairman and CEO at the time, Roger B. Smith, in his first big hit, ''Roger & Me''. A Strike action began at the General Motors parts factory in Flint, Michigan on June 5, 1998, that quickly spread to five other assembly plants and lasted seven weeks. At one point it was the largest corporation in the United States ever, in terms of its revenues as a percent of GDP. In 1953 Charles Erwin Wilson, then GM president, was named by Dwight D. Eisenhower as Secretary of Defense. When he was asked, during the hearings before the Senate Armed Services Committee if as secretary of defense he could make a decision adverse to the interests of General Motors, Wilson answered affirmatively but added that he could not conceive of such a situation "because for years I thought what was good for the country was good for General Motors and vice versa." Later this statement was often garbled when quoted, suggesting that Wilson had said simply, "What's good for General Motors is good for the country." At the time, GM was the one of the largest employers in the world – only Soviet state industries employed more people. In May 2005, Standard & Poor's downgraded GM's credit rating to junk bond status. On April 4, 2005 General Motors Corp. sold is Electro-Motive Division to Greenbriar Equity Group LLC and Berkshire Partners. ===General Motors Hughes Electronics=== Hughes Electronics was formed in 1985 when Hughes Aircraft was sold by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to General Motors for $5 billion. General Motors merged Hughes Aircraft with its Delco Electronics unit to form GM Hughes Electronics (GMHE). The group then consisted of: *Hughes Aircraft *Delco Electronics *Hughes Space and Communications *Hughes Network Systems In August 1992 in aviation GM Hughes Electronics purchased General Dynamics' Missile Systems business. In 1994 in aviation Hughes Electronics introduced DirecTV, the world's first high-powered DBS service. In 1995 in aviation Hughes Electronic's Hughes Aircraft#Hughes Space and Communications division became the largest supplier of commercial satellites. Also in 1995 the group purchased Magnavox Electronic Systems from the Carlyle Group. In 1996 in aviation Hughes Electronics and PanAmSat agree to merge their fixed satellite services into a new publicly held company, also called PanAmSat with GMHE as majority shareholder. In 1997 in aviation GM transferred Delco Electronics to its Delphi Automotive Systems business. Late in the year the defense operations of Hughes Electronics (Hughes Aircraft and missile business) were merged with Raytheon. Hughes Space and Communications remained independent until 2000 in aviation, when it was purchased by Boeing and became Boeing Satellite Systems. In 2000 the remaining parts of Hughes Electronics: DirecTV, DirecTV Latin America, PanAmSat and Hughes Network Systems were purchased by NewsCorp and renamed The DirecTV Group. Newscorp sold PanAmSat to Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR) in August 2004. ==Diversity== General Motors was named one of the 100 Best Companies for Working Mothers in 2004 by Working Mothers magazine. ==Related topics== *List of GM platforms *List of GM engines *List of GM VIN codes *:Category:General_Motors_vehicles *EPA 2004 fuel economy report appendix M2#General Motors *GM Acceptance Corp ==External links== * [http://www.gm.com/ Official Website] * [http://www.gm.com/company/corp_info/history/gmhis1900.html Corporate history] * [http://www.gminsidenews.com GM Inside News] GM Enthusiast Forum with 16,000+ members * [http://www.cheersandgears.com Cheers and Gears] GM Enthusiast forum * [http://www.lovearth.net/gmdeliberatelydestroyed.htm How General Motors Deliberately Destroyed Public Transit] General Motors Fortune 500 companies Car companies of the United States Corporations sponsoring NASCAR drivers Corporations with naming rights of indoor arenas Companies based in Michigan
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Doesn't GM also own Holden and Opel? And perhaps we could flesh out the history more... it sounds kinda biased.... ---- Paragraph 3 discusses an urban legend based on Bradford Snell's work about tram lines but then further paragraph report as truth GM WWII involvement also based on work by the same Bradford Snell. What gives? User:Rmhermen 15:22 14 Jun 2003 (UTC) ---- This seems a little non-NPOV about the WWII involvement. Implied is that GM's American management willfully supported the Nazi regime AFTER the start of hostilities, which I believe not to be the case. Accounts I've read squarely put the German government in control of German GM subsidiaries during the war years. Anyone got cites pro/con? --User:Morven 21:14, 21 Aug 2003 (UTC) == Wasn't Hughes spun off as an independent company a few years ago? == Wasn't Hughes spun off as an independent company a few years ago? User:Mkweise 06:42, 27 Aug 2003 (UTC) ---- I do have issues with that paragraph the anon removed, though -- I don't like 'alleged' in an article without a source for the allegation. User:Morven 10:37, 1 Feb 2004 (UTC) == Removal / reinsertion of controversial topics == I support the reversion of the anon's complete removal of these topics, but I do believe that these sections are POV, lack any cites, and should be done better. For the first paragraph (streetcar conspiracy) we should mention only SOME believe it; I'll edit the article to say so. For the second, I note the paragraph contains many words on GM's guilt and then one final line saying that GM disclaims responsibility because the factories were seized during the war. That's not really balanced. User:Morven 20:13, Oct 14, 2004 (UTC) :since when have conspiracy theories been encylopediac in relating to the main entry? Are we going to start having area 51 be and rosewell be in the cia/fbi/us government sections? if you want to talk about conspiracy theroies they need to be on a different page. Or give reasons why this isn't a conspiracy theory(and even if it is on a conspiracy theory page, those edits need to be made to be more npov, they make it seem like america was helping both sides when we were at war, which is entirly untrue. ::To deny that there such conspiracy theories are commonly believed by many is unencyclopedic. If you feel the statements contain factual errors, then correct them. If you feel the phrasing is unfairly biased, then revise the material. But wholessale deletion is not acceptable. Please see Wikipedia:Neutral point of view#Lack of neutrality as an excuse to delete For the record, I quite agree that this section very much needs attention, but I very much disagree with wholesale deletion simply because you don't like it. User:Bkonrad≠User talk:Bkonrad 15:58, Oct 16, 2004 (UTC) ::: yes but they don't belong in the main article about that comany. taking up 1/2th of the history, Unless that company for some reason is known only for that conspiracy theory or that comes to mind when people think of them, which really isn't the case for General motors. I notice that under moon landing, the fact that it never happened(which a large section of people belive) has been moved to a sepeate section because the general consenus there was that conspiracy theories don't belong in the main article ::::I'd have no problem with addressing this conspiracy theory stuff in separate articles and linking to it in the See Also section. User:Bkonrad≠User talk:Bkonrad 16:14, Oct 16, 2004 (UTC) :::: Okay good stuff that's fine... if you do that I'll clean up the dislogic a bit(it was trying to make you belive that general motors was helping during ww2, which just wasn't the case at all). ::::: Bkonrad is right, am happy with that solution but will revert any anonymous user's change if not defended in detail on this page. User:Lukewilson 23:22, 16 Oct 2004 (UTC) ==Financial challenges for GM: Why is this being deleted?== It's no secret that GM has financial challenges ahead, there was a reasonable section with reliable sources that anonymous users have deleted a few times. It is not obvious why. Perhaps there could be some explanation from the anonymous users... User:MunchieRonnie 16:25, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC) * I don't know and don't really much care, but I have protected this page due to excessive reversion activity. -User:Fennec User_Talk:Fennec 19:26, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC) : The financial information on GM should stay unless there's a good reason. User:NihonGo 21:32, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC) :: why are you posting agreeing with yourself? that's kinda strange anonymous :::Does anyone believe the financial info on GM should be deleted? I think Keep. User:Reithy 07:58, Nov 2, 2004 (UTC) ::: Ha, funny there is a discussion about absence of the company's financial problems. It seem the person editing it out is not alone. Here is an article about the company withdrawing advertisement from a paper, apparently because the paper featured a critical article. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4426107.stm] The thing is, editing it out is pointless. The company is heading into a very troubled time if oil continue selling at the current price and the problem will become so had to cover up. I feel for those affected, but then again, these are the same companies that were previously lobbing against law that discouraged gas guzzlers. Go lobby the oil market now GM == Mis-quote of Wilson == Off the topic that others have been speaking about, I wonder why people keep making errors about Pres. Wilson's comments before the congressional committee. He actually said "What is good for the country is good for General Motors and what is good for General Motors is good for the country". This seems both a harmless and not very important statement; it is obviously a simple statement of fact. It does not make GM, and Wilson, look like Military Industrial Complex monsters, which the use of only the second half of his statement might seem to imply. This twisting of meaning of the quote, derived by omotting its first half, is a simple propaganda trick, and the Left has been beating Capitalism with it since it was firsst made. And it shows up even here, in this site. "Give us this day and our daily illusion"--it doesn't take much to keep people happy. ==US government subsidizing import? == Does anyone know whether this is true? "Government has also contributed to the industry's structural problems. By one estimate, state governments subsidize foreign transplants such as BMW and Honda plants to the tune of $1,000 per car. And state franchise laws make it prohibitively expensive to rationalize dealer networks and nameplates. Worst of all are clean-air rules that essentially require companies to produce and sell low-pollution passenger cars at a loss, just to offset the environmental damage done by all their trucks and SUVs." [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64666-2005Mar24.html] I really don't understand how US government can be able to subsidize foreign import when US car manufactures have such a powerful lobby. ==Oldsmobile== I know Oldsmobile is now dead and gone, but shouldn't it get a mention at least? -User:James Anatidae 06:32, Apr 10, 2005 (UTC) == Some insightful writing about why GM got in the health quigmire == Ha, it looks like GM had been paying lightly as employees seemed to have preffered a health security more than a fat monthly cheque. The sad thing is they may end up loosing on health care, even though they took a lean monthly cheque. [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64599-2005Apr18.html] == Bill Gates vs General Motors == For all of us who feel only the deepest love and affection for the way computers have enhanced our lives, read on. At a recent computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated, "If General Motors had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25.00 cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon." In response to Bill's comments, General Motors issued a press release stating: If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics (and I just love this part): #For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash twice a day. #Every time they repainted the lines in the road, you would have to buy a new car. #Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason. You would have to pull to the side of the road, close all of the windows, shut off the car, restart it, and reopen the windows before you could continue. For some reason you would simply accept this. #Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to reinstall the engine. #Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times as fast and twice as easy to drive -- but would run on only five percent of the roads. #The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would all be replaced by a single "This Car Has Performed An Illegal Operation" warning light. #The airbag system would ask "Are you sure?" before deploying. #Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned the key and grabbed hold of the radio antenna. #Every time a new car was introduced car buyers would have to learn how to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car. #You'd have to press the "Start" button to turn the engine off. Please share this with your friends who love -- but sometimes hate -- their computers. *I got this in an email. _
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