General motors current predicament is when your sales lag your costs – plain and simple. GM was the world dominant car maker in the middle-lat 1900′s and structured itself as such. But competition from here and overseas has nibbled away its market share – for the good of us all. We have diversity of selection and lower costs.

The fact that GM went so long with a bloated workforce tells you they tried all they could to keep people on despite not having the money to pay them. And the reductions are going to be in the form of buy-outs and retirements so only those who can move out can – as much as possible. Workers may have to move to a plant that is still operating.

But such is life. It could have been worse. I have never stayed in a company more than five years my entire life because that is the way my business (aerospace) is set up. When the contract is over then you need to move on. That does appear to be the new way of things – being an independent agent.

That Bob Woodward is a Republican Naval Intel. plant…never left the navy and I’m not sure how taking Nixon out fit into this but it is very amazing.

Can you believe that this guy is so heavily quoted and invited onto Cable by the Main Stream? And they never tell the reader or listeners what a subversive nut-case he is? This alone is scandalous.

You can build a product half way around the world for pennies on the dollar but when you lay off a good paying employee you are effectively reducing your sales, the off-shore, or outsourced, employee who is working for pennies on the dollar will never be able to afford your product at its sales price. Therefore I propose the following question, “When no one is working, who is buying?”

The question seems simple enough yet many CEO’s, who think outsourcing is the magic pill, are finding out that by dwindling their workforce they are effectively eliminating their sales base. Now what can be done, the trend is beginning to reverse and many employers are starting to see they need American workers to keep the American market stable to a point where they can regularly sell their product. Many say buy American yet they backdoor out the job to a foreign company. The new consumers are now looking at the labels and making informed decisions. If Toyota and Honda are building here in America, and Ford and GM are building it in 7 remote countries, which is the real American made product? I think you now know the answer to the question.

Raymond Benedict
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