Good. I got a dog in this fight and it's about darn time this happened.

I work for a supplier for the auto industry and I've been unemployed for over a month now. If they get the auto industry up and running again I get my job back.

I don't want the auto industry to go under, but I do want to see some major reorganization.

This is a good first step.

Gotta put to use the Golden Parachute before changes prevent that, eh?

Originally posted by tothetenthpower


I would not be surprised if Obama did ask him to step down as a PR booster for his plan to fork more money over to these people.

~Keeper

Oh no!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey, I think if that is his plan, he should fund it with his money this time, and not the tax payers!

It'll be after Tuesday they can't give him any money till after the end of the month and will not take anymore till he and a bunch of others bail in the next week.

mikell

This is starting to sound very much like communism. The government demanding the leader of a PUBLIC company to step down. tell me how thats not the start of a communist nation. By the way i hope gm gives him a huge severence pay just to piss of osama oops i mean obama

Is this the same person that was featured in the latest Alex Jones video regarding NWO/Obama?
I thought these folk were bulletproof.

I have a few of thoughts on this. The first is why in the hell are they asking Wagoner to step down while several banks that have received government aid have the same guy in charge. I've never been a Wagoner fan (or Nardelli at Chrysler) but shouldn't the bank CEO's have been forced out as well. The next thought is this an Obama gift to the UAW. Any change in leadership could leave whatever survives of GM in a weaker position to renegotiate with the UAW.

Originally posted by Blanca Rose

What sort of supply industry are you in?

Wheels, aluminum wheels. Just a few years ago we had plants all over the US and in Romania and Mexico. Romania and Mexico are still going strong but we're down to two plants in the U.S.

When I was let go I was told that if things pick up I'll be one of the first called back. Hopefully whatever the president proposes will kick start the industry.

I would rather be working than sitting on my backside drawing unemployment, even though my unemployment is actually keeping me in good shape.

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Id like to know since when did government get the power to tell businesses how to do business and to tell people to quit when times get rough and tight. The last time I though a government had that power, it was a communist government. It should be the board and stock holders who vote him out of the CEO position. Even thought they may have taken tarp money, it didn't give them autonomy over running the business of GM or any other company, because if that did, we might as well start calling each other comrade, because now we are working for the government than in the capitalist society for which this country was founded on.

Two thoughts on this....

First off if the free market really works why wasnt this guy gone a long time ago? I mean he has been a complete and utter failure to the company. When he went into office shares of GM were at $60 in 2000 and went as low as $1.27 Why did the board not get rid of this guy a long time ago?

Second is why are these same restrictions and public beatings given to the banks? I mean sure they get the public smacking at the congressional hearings but thats it. The banks have had to give up NOTHING and barely ANYONE has lost their jobs and are all getting paid quite nice. Talk about a double standard. At least we get a product from the car companies. The banks we give them trillions of dollars so they can lend that money back to us at interest.....sigh.......

Originally posted by proudamerican1
the government should have absolutely no #ing say on how public company's run. This is why the constitution says you have to be born in America to be president.

That public company has been receiving billions of tax payers dollars from the government and is asking for billions more.

The government and the people have every right to ask for some changes, including the head of the company.