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Originally Posted by DeathChill
This is not what I was saying at all. I'm saying that there were poor decisions made (not focusing on advancing other fuel technologies, not focusing on mileage) and someone has to be accountable for this stuff.
There was outside factors that caused problems, but look at other car companies: they're surviving. No one is conspiring against GM and they have no one to blame but themselves for the situation they're in.
Is it anyone's fault that GM's quality slipped for quite some time? Why should I have to buy a car from a company that has a bad track record in regards to quality?
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But you fail to note that those things occured BEFORE Wagoner was CEO. Since he took over Quality has vastly improved, But it takes time for the word to get around.. Other companies were in a better position to "Weather the storm"
That is a Storm that nobody predictied would occur so quickly, and hit so hard. Look how many companies have gone bellyup since this all started. Most of them are AMERICAN companies.. Yet this recession is world wide. not just a U.S. thing. Lots of things influenced this problem, GM was on the way to recovery when the S__t hit the fan..The bleeding of money had slowed BUT they were still far from out of trouble. A large corporation like GM cannot stop and turn around overnight or even in a few years. The company I work for had problems back several years ago, and in 98 for the first time in it's 80 year history they had a layoff... it took 5 years for us to recover from that layoff (and we employed 14,000 people at that time)and now we are facing another layoff... Is it the CEO's fault? No, He was here during the first recovery and is here now, it was the world wide economic slowdown that caused this problem...
I would bet my last dollar that if the oil prices which triggered this along with the Banking crisis had never occured nobody would be saying this about Rick Wagoner...