Re: OT - The difference between Dems and Reps

On Sat, 04 Apr 2009 13:48:51 -0700, Lone Haranguer
<linuszrv@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Mike Hendrix wrote:
On Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:08:06 -0700, JD <hamguy1956@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Fri, 03 Apr 2009 17:02:56 -0500, Mike Hendrix <mikehendrix@xxxxxxx>
wrote:


GM's sales are predominantly big gas guzzlers. They give the public
what they want.
Yep, and that was a BAD strategy.

mike

Ya,, it is silly to provide products people want. Everyone knows they
should build 1 passenger aluminum foil death traps. Ya, that's the
ticket.
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Yep, that was the ticket all right.

BMW, Huyndai, Honda, Toyota and others seem to be doing just fine as
compared to GM.

This is your idea of "just fine"?

latest news
Toyota U.S. March sales drop 39%
By Wallace Witkowski
Last update: 2:06 p.m. EDT April 1, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Toyota Motor Corp. (TM:
said Wednesday that U.S. March sales fell 39% to 132,802 vehicles from
217,730 a year ago. Lexus sales declined 42.9% to 14,239 units, and
Toyota brand sales dropped 38.5% to 118,563 vehicles. U.S. sport utility
vehicle sales in March declined 36.7% to 22,380 vehicles, while Prius
sales fell 56.8% to 8,924 units. End of Story
And whose stock would you rather own?

MacDonalds.
LZ

mike

Mike needs to do a bit more research.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jPCTdBgtWMdFVczsF6NSsDvtvNPw

NEW YORK (AFP) ? General Motors said Wednesday its US March sales
tumbled 45 percent from a year earlier, but like other major
automakers managed a rise from weak levels one month earlier.

I read that as Toyota down 39%, GM down 45%. Hmmmm

;-)
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