XPost: wpg.general, can.general, ont.jobs   
   From: ray@!rollingviolation.example.com.invalid   
      
   myhome@mts.net wrote:   
   > x-no-archive On Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:39:53 GMT, Ray   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >> myhome@mts.net wrote:   
   >>> When are we as Canadians going to wiseup and boycott General Motors?   
   >>> They're closing assembly plants down east, and opening up new plants   
   >>> in India, they have one there now.   
   >>> They put our fellow Canadians out of work, put them on EI most likely,   
   >>> then stick promotions on TV to entice us to buy more of their   
   >>> vehicles.   
   >> Do you have a clue?   
   >>   
   >> No, not likely.   
   >>   
   >> So, STFU or get a clue.   
   >   
   >   
   > I have a clue, I don't like what GM is doing even if it's to save   
   > money on the backs of unemployed Canadians.   
   >   
   > So if you, your brother or father worked for GM and had the plant   
   > you/they had worked at for 20 years closed because GM was building two   
   > plants in India, your comments would be completely different.   
      
   I want to work for GM.  My blood runs Chevy orange and Pontiac blue, but   
   GM doesn't have an office in Winnipeg.   
      
   That said, the engine plant they're building in India is to service   
   Indian and Middle East markets.  The truck plants that are being idled   
   in North America are because no one is buying trucks right now in North   
   America.   
      
   GM is not innocent of offshoring and outsourcing and downsizing etc...   
   but they're no different than any other company.  If you buy a brand new   
   Toyota assembled in Japan, where do you think the money goes?   
      
   And it's crap to buy an inferior product just because it was built in   
   Canada.   
      
   I'd like to add that I own FIVE General Motors products, including the   
   ONLY new car I've ever bought.  (a 2001 Trans Am.)  I also can't believe   
   that they made crap like the Aztek.   
      
   Ray   
      
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