[Leica] un-believable - now off-topic and long-ish

[sethrosner at nycap.rr.com (Seth Rosner)]

Nathan, if it were patriotism I would not have avoided American cars for 
over 40 years. Your generalizations are charming: 'GM and Chrysler are in 
the dumps because they build too many cars that nobody wants to buy' - but 
millions of people are buying GM and Chrysler cars; 'Ford is the only one 
that actually makes cars that people want to buy' - Ford sells fewer cars in 
U.S. than GM and - the largest selling 'foreign car in China? Buick.

You simply don't know the facts. All three companies suffer today from 
having created over a period of 25 or more years reputations for building 
mediocre cars. That takes time to overcome.

Seth

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nathan Wajsman" <photo@frozenlight.eu>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2008 12:22 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] un-believable - now off-topic and long-ish


> Sorry Seth, but I am afraid your patriotism may have got the better of
> you. GM and Chrysler are in the dumps because they build too many cars
> that nobody wants to buy. You may like your Cadillacs but there simply
> are not enough of you either in the US or elsewhere. Of the big 3 (or
> 2 1/2 by now), Ford is the only one that actually makes cars that
> people want to buy.
>
> And the financial crisis did NOT cause their problems, it merely
> exposed them. Even without the crisis, GM and Chrysler in particular
> were companies in terminal decline. The US taxpayer bailout will buy a
> few additional months, but it is the height of obscenity.
>
> Nathan
>
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>
> On Dec 20, 2008, at 5:44 PM, Seth Rosner wrote:
>
>>
>> Just as extraordinary for GM to have turned itself around as they
>> have. I've gotten sick to my stomach at the trashing of GM and Ford
>> that the grotesquely uninformed Senators and media geniuses have
>> carried out during the last month. Both Companies have already
>> transformed themselves (I can't speak about Chrysler as I do not
>> know their products) and have been caught in the economic
>> catastrophe caused by the criminals who have run the banks and
>> investment banks and come close to destroying the world economy. End
>> of rant.
>
>
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