12.02.2008 9:54 am
Automakers’ CEOs duel to get bailout money
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The CEOs of the Big Three automakers are making their case for a government bailout today.
Even before that, the bigwigs are trying to one-up each other. Tough times call for tough measures like (gulp!) driving in a company car instead of flying in the corporate jet. Or working for $1. The agony of it all! What stunt will the Chrysler chief pull: Swim up the St. Lawrence River and down the coast to D.C.?
Tell us what you would do to get a bailout if you were the CEO. Or tell us what else the Big Three CEOs should do to save their companies.
The best way to get these greedy CEO’s under control is to limit the amount of bonus money they get. If stockholders would limit the amount of bonus money that the CEO and their buddies can make to ten times the average salary of their workers you would see the wages of the people that really make the company profitable go up.
There is only one solution to this economic crisis.
All 3 CEO’s should each get a turn to wrestle a grizzly bear.
Whoever should be the victor shall receive $10,000 in bailout money and 2 free tickets to a Ram’s game.
U.S.A.!!!
they should drop there prices, i know nothing is going to get better but they should just try to make it through the rcession.
Nobody Should Bail These Guys Out, all they are going to do is make more models that we can’t buy and then they will be asking for another bailout pretty soon.
If i was a CEO Id take the money & invest in off shore oil accounts & move to Belize. Screw the workers and laugh all the way down there in my own corporate jet I could afford to buy from a doomed industry i rode into the dirt. Screw Detroit!
If I was a CEO, I wouldn’t do much of anything. If my company got the bailout money, great. If not, who cares, you know how many stock options those guys have? Even with the companies in the toilet, they could still make millions of dollars tomorrow if they cashed them all in. Long live the american dream of being one of the most overpaid workers in the country!
An American car in my mind, is a car built on American soil by American citizens….regardless of the company. If our government uses tax money from Americans to bail out the big 3, then they should INSIST on concessions to employ more Americans with the money. A Ford Focus built in Mexico is not an American vehicle by any stretch. I’ve always owned a product from the big 3, but my next vehicle may be a Nissan, Toyota, Honda or even a Mercedes, that meets the people’s definition of an American made car. And just for the record, the UAW better wake up and smell the coffee too.