I copied this from strangevehicle.com. I'd link it but I'm too lazy. He sent it to his mother first, and she circulated it.
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Abridged letter from Troy Clarke, President of General Motors
- followed by a response from our son, Gregory Knox:
Dear Employee,
Next week, Congress and the current Administration will determine
whether to provide immediate support to the domestic auto industry to
help it through one of the most difficult economic times in our
nation's history. Your elected officials must hear from all of us now
on why this support is critical to our continuing the progress we began
prior to the global financial crisis.....................As an
employee, you have a lot at stake and continue to be one of our most
effective and passionate voices. I know GM can count on you to have
your voice heard.
Thank you for your urgent action and ongoing support.
Troy Clarke
President
General Motors North America
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From Gregory Knox,
In response to your request to call legislators and ask for a
bailout for the United States automakers please consider the following,
and please also pass this onto Troy Clark, the president of General
Motors North America for me.
You are both infected with the same entitlement mentality that has
bred like cancerous germs in UAW halls for the last countless decades,
and whose plague is now sweeping the nation, awaiting our new "messiah"
to wave his magical wand and make all our problems go away, while at
the same time allowing our once great nation to keep "living the
dream".
The dream is over!
The dream that we can ignore the consumer for years while
management myopically focuses on its personal rewards packages at the
same time that our factories have been filled with the worlds most
overpaid, arrogant, ignorant and laziest entitlement minded "laborers"
without paying the price for these atrocities and that still the masses
will line up to buy our products
Don't tell me I'm wrong. Don't accuse me of not knowing of what I
speak. I have called on Ford, GM, Chrysler, TRW, Delphi, Kelsey Hayes,
American Axle and countless other automotive OEM's and Tier ones for 3
decades now throughout the Midwest and what I've seen over the years in
these union shops can only be described as disgusting.
Mr Clark, the president of General Motors, states:
There is widespread sentiment in this country, our government and
especially in the media that the current crisis is completely the
result of bad management. It is not.
You're right, it's not JUST management, how about the electricians
who walk around the plants like lords in feudal times, making people
wait on them for countless hours while they drag ass so they can come
in on the weekend and make double and triple time for a job they easily
could have done within their normal 40 hour week
How about the line workers who threaten newbies with all kinds of
scare tactics for putting out too many parts on a shift and for being
too productive (mustn't expose the lazy bums who have been getting
overpaid for decades for their horrific underproduction, must we?!?) Do
you really not know about this stuff?!?
How about this great sentiment abridged from Mr. Clarke's sad plea:
over the last few years we have closed the quality and efficiency gaps with our competitors.
What the hell has Detroit been doing for the last 40 years?!?
Did we really JUST wake up to the gaps in quality and efficiency between us and them?
The K car vs. the Accord?
The Pinto vs. the Civic?!?
Do I need to go on?
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Twylarants posted on Mar 10, 2009
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PAPERBACKWRITER said on Mar 10, 2009....
<3
will read later, Twirlilie!!!
*muaaaah*
Dutchgirl :D
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pickersplock said on Mar 10, 2009....
Rock on Knox, Baby!And thanks for posting this Twyla! -
Twylarants said on Mar 10, 2009....
I heard this while I was driving to work. I almost pulled over to listen to it because this man articulated my thoughts exactly.
Gotta go to work...see ya.
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Hegemone said on Mar 10, 2009....
Wow, that was utterly awesome. True too, very true. Many will be hurting, but many who have already been suffering won't be hurting as badly as those greedy shits who have been making it worse and doing a lot of the whining. I'm at work, else I'd go on, but, thanks for sharing this, really makes an awesome point. -
fragglesrock said on Mar 10, 2009....
wow, i'm cheering for what he said! -
D6fer said on Mar 10, 2009....
it all seems so obvious doesn't it? -
travelr712 said on Mar 10, 2009....
1. i wonder if his letter was given to Clarke?2. if it was, i wonder if he still has any contracts with the company?ya know, i never ever thought obama was a messiah who was going to wave a magic wand and sweep all our problems away. but there were two things i appreciated about him. a sense of hope swept through this nation to a level that i haven't seen in decades to alleviate the doom that has been espoused to us especially in the last 7 years. anybody know what the terrorist threat level is right now? or even care?i also held out the hope that some of the corruption in the financial sector and in the government, and the ties between, would finally come to light, and that those in power who got rich from screwing the rest of the world would at least be known, if not taken out of power.but as with every president, i'll wait and see. i thought bush was a good idea in 2000.
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