GM Reinvention Commercial

[IrishBuckeye]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-oEudd6AYM&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ecnbc%2Ecom%2Fid%2F31047566&feature=player_embedded

Being green is one of the bullet points in the ad. Hope they lead the way.

[Auggie]

1. Reminds me of the Lee Iacocca spots of the early 80's

His straight-forward delivery helped save Chrysler.

[graywarrior]

2. Hope they do it.

[Deja Q]

3. Well, it's aired on television so it MUST be true...

(or maybe not)

I'll wait and see. I've heard more rumors about them moving facilities to China (they already are said to bring in cheap parts for everyone to screw in and for buyers to get screwed over...) than I have anything positive.

I do like the Chevy Volt, however...

[bbinacan]

4. Decent commercial. n/t

[tridim]

5. Looks like they're serious about changing things

That's really good news.

[Hannah Bell]

6. yep, they're very serious about changing middle-class workers into insecure casual labor.

& pensioners into cat-food eaters.

[tridim]

7. A successful GM will help the middle class all over the country

The other option is millions of lost jobs.

All of us have a stake in GM succeeding.

[Hannah Bell]

8. What are you talking about?

Michigan is forecast to lose half a million jobs in the next two years in the fallout from the GM/chrysler debacle; that makes over 10 straight years of job losses in the state.

Not to mention the plants, dealerships & suppliers that will be shut down in other states.

When GM comes out of bankruptcy, 1/3 of their workforce will be gone, & the remaining 40,000 workers won't be able to vote on contract changes for years - which equals more layoffs coming.

25% of the workforce can now consist of workers at $14/hr, no bennies - & that is going to rise.

Work rules are changed to shut down skilled trades & bring in contract & temp workers.

The pension fund is underfunded. The workers forgave billions owed to their healthcare funds in exchange for stock currently worth nothing. Try paying for your surgery with it.

The new GM will do SHIT for the soon to be non-existent middle class. You're living in fantasy land.

[tridim]

13. So you'd rather they ALL lose their jobs?

That's a really fucked up attitude.

[Hannah Bell]

15. so is your false forced choice.

[Hannah Bell]

9. delete

[Hannah Bell]

10. delete

[Invictuuss]

11. GM cannot succeed, cannot survive

It would have been nice if GM had been properly managed, but it's now dead. We've got it on life support at something like $10B a month, but it's in worse shape than Terry Sciavo when they pulled the plug. The money we're dumping into GM is just delaying its death, nothing more.

I will never buy GM, for as long as I live, because the bailout is wrong. There are so many better things we could do with the TARP/Bailout funds, and instead that money is being wasted on an inevitable failure. It's not that the other option is millions of lost jobs. Our options are losing all those jobs and having the federal tax dollars to do something about it, or losing all those jobs a couple years later and being broke. Bush made the wrong choice on GM last year, and now Obama is following in Bush's footsteps this year (on this, on Afghanistan, on Gitmo, and it looks like on everything else).

Change? The only change is the little bit we'll have left after Obama's miracle: being even more wasteful than Bush.

[JVS]

12. Yeah. We're supposed to root for them? Fuck them.

[david13]

14. Being green. What a laugh. Sure they will

lead the way, just like they always have. Into a second bankruptcy. Honda and Toyota have always led with better gas mileage. GM never will.
The only thing they have changed is ... the ads.
The ads rarely if ever have anything to do with the company or the product.
It's known as window dressing.
Sure, they will be green, just give them another 50 years.
dc

[Lance_Boyle]

16. How's this? I, as co-owner, never approved such an ad.

Way to spend our tax dollars there, Genuinely Mismanaged!