Let GM Fail

[spookyturtle 9,466]

Why does everyone assume AJ wrote the article?

Because he hates America.

[Sister Fracas 5]

Why does everyone assume AJ wrote the article?

right?

Unless AJ is James West, the publisher of the Midas Letter, a financial advisory service that identifies opportunities and risks to investors active in the small cap resource sector.

Edited December 12, 2008 by Sister Fracas

[tsunamihart 0]

Autoworkers who are skilled and reliable will have to add resourceful to their repertoire to stay viable in a contracting economy. There are just too many autoworkers and zippo demand for their product.

Well, here's a common misconception about UAW workers....They no longer possess "skills" and are relegated to mostly final assembly, with unremarkable "skills".......but still command high wages for "skills" long replaced by robotic arms...

The "skills" have been relegated to programmmer's, engineer's and other white collar jobs which are non-union.

Long gone are the welders, painter's, tin-knockers, and even the machinists that once were required and needed to build a car.....

Anyone, with minimal knowledge can perform the same repetitive tasks with minimal training.

Out of curiosity... what skills would those be that are passed on to even higher paid programmers and engineers that can use apostrophes appropriately?

Touche...I sometimes use apostrophies inappropriately.....Doesn't make me a bad engineer though.....

Oh, and those skills would be painting, welding, milling and machining and many other CAD controlled operations that were once performed by individual "skilled" workers.......

Entitlements yo, er I mean yay, your signature is a joke, so if you're an Obama supporter you're a socialist??? So you're a conservative Republican does that mean you support the uneducated in menial jobs ala Ms. Palin? Do you know that Africa is not a country? Please engage cortex first. Your logic and your posts are just sorry.

[spookyturtle 9,466]

Unless AJ is James West, the publisher of the Midas Letter, a financial advisory service that identifies opportunities and risks to investors active in the small cap resource sector.

He could be.

[kaydee457 13]

Oh, and those skills would be painting, welding, milling and machining and many other CAD controlled operations that were once performed by individual "skilled" workers.......

Engineers welding? Perhaps you mean designing and troubleshooting the machines that paint, weld, mill, and drill.

(Production) Engineers write the code to operate the welding machines on the assembly line......If welding operations are complex, and likely to be limited to a few items then a "Welding Machine Operator" may be tasked to set up the operation in accordance with a set of plans or drawings.

If it's an operation to be done repetitively over a long production run then likely it will have a dedicated machine and it will use code written and tested by engineers and will require no supervision or control beyond inspection.

Most operations in the making of automobiles are automated through Computer Operated robotics these days. Assemblers on the line are "skilled" only in assembly of major components.

[Chica Yeyé 41]

AJ is a US citizen you idiot.

Are you sure?

Some people.....

Yes, AJ is my personal friend.

[kaydee457 13]

Autoworkers who are skilled and reliable will have to add resourceful to their repertoire to stay viable in a contracting economy. There are just too many autoworkers and zippo demand for their product.

Well, here's a common misconception about UAW workers....They no longer possess "skills" and are relegated to mostly final assembly, with unremarkable "skills".......but still command high wages for "skills" long replaced by robotic arms...

The "skills" have been relegated to programmmer's, engineer's and other white collar jobs which are non-union.

Long gone are the welders, painter's, tin-knockers, and even the machinists that once were required and needed to build a car.....

Anyone, with minimal knowledge can perform the same repetitive tasks with minimal training.

Out of curiosity... what skills would those be that are passed on to even higher paid programmers and engineers that can use apostrophes appropriately?

Touche...I sometimes use apostrophies inappropriately.....Doesn't make me a bad engineer though.....

Oh, and those skills would be painting, welding, milling and machining and many other CAD controlled operations that were once performed by individual "skilled" workers.......

Entitlements yo, er I mean yay, your signature is a joke, so if you're an Obama supporter you're a socialist??? So you're a conservative Republican does that mean you support the uneducated in menial jobs ala Ms. Palin? Do you know that Africa is not a country? Please engage cortex first. Your logic and your posts are just sorry.

Noobs.....

[Chica Yeyé 41]

Why does everyone assume AJ wrote the article?

Because they are stupid and too ignorant....

[spookyturtle 9,466]

AJ is a US citizen you idiot.

Are you sure?

Some people.....

Yes, AJ is my personal friend.

[Sister Fracas 5]

AJ is a US citizen you didiot.

Are you sure?

Some people.....

Yes, AJ is my personal friend.

There... added the "d" back...

I like that... "didiot"

[Chica Yeyé 41]

AJ is a US citizen you didiot.

Are you sure?

Some people.....

Yes, AJ is my personal friend.

There... added the "d" back...

I like that... "didiot"

dhanks dsister....

typing sucks with long nails

[HAL 9000 96]

Oh, and those skills would be painting, welding, milling and machining and many other CAD controlled operations that were once performed by individual "skilled" workers.......

Engineers welding? Perhaps you mean designing and troubleshooting the machines that paint, weld, mill, and drill.

(Production) Engineers write the code to operate the welding machines on the assembly line......If welding operations are complex, and likely to be limited to a few items then a "Welding Machine Operator" may be tasked to set up the operation in accordance with a set of plans or drawings.

If it's an operation to be done repetitively over a long production run then likely it will have a dedicated machine and it will use code written and tested by engineers and will require no supervision or control beyond inspection.

Most operations in the making of automobiles are automated through Computer Operated robotics these days. Assemblers on the line are "skilled" only in assembly of major components.

Very good. For the engineers, that is.

Very bad for those that work the assembly line, being the first line of human QC and QA. I'd be a little bit less financially condescending since code can be automated, verified, and executed by computers as well. Karma has a nasty little way of biting the arrogant in the #######.

[Sister Fracas 5]

AJ is a US citizen you didiot.

Are you sure?

Some people.....

Yes, AJ is my personal friend.

There... added the "d" back...

I like that... "didiot"

dhanks dsister....

typing sucks with long nails

Me needs to run over to your blog... I was at Sephora yesterday...

[HAL 9000 96]

Autoworkers who are skilled and reliable will have to add resourceful to their repertoire to stay viable in a contracting economy. There are just too many autoworkers and zippo demand for their product.

Well, here's a common misconception about UAW workers....They no longer possess "skills" and are relegated to mostly final assembly, with unremarkable "skills".......but still command high wages for "skills" long replaced by robotic arms...

The "skills" have been relegated to programmmer's, engineer's and other white collar jobs which are non-union.

Long gone are the welders, painter's, tin-knockers, and even the machinists that once were required and needed to build a car.....

Anyone, with minimal knowledge can perform the same repetitive tasks with minimal training.

Out of curiosity... what skills would those be that are passed on to even higher paid programmers and engineers that can use apostrophes appropriately?

Touche...I sometimes use apostrophies inappropriately.....Doesn't make me a bad engineer though.....

Oh, and those skills would be painting, welding, milling and machining and many other CAD controlled operations that were once performed by individual "skilled" workers.......

Entitlements yo, er I mean yay, your signature is a joke, so if you're an Obama supporter you're a socialist??? So you're a conservative Republican does that mean you support the uneducated in menial jobs ala Ms. Palin? Do you know that Africa is not a country? Please engage cortex first. Your logic and your posts are just sorry.

Noobs.....

You?

That person's join date is earlier than yours.

[Jasman0717 9]

Since when did the government get into the bailout business? They aren't very good at it anyway, they can't even show where half of the 700b went

Well they shouldn't really. We're only here because of the failure of our current economic system - built on profit projections that rely on the assumption of unlimited credit.

Pretty much its our elected officials who should be held accountable for this - what they should be doing is throwing out the system entirely.

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