Ford to cut 10 more plants, fire 25-35,000 workers

[ChairmanAgnostic]

over the next five years - this just in on MSNCB TV.
I will update when the link is up.

Gee, thanks for a strong economy, Mr. President.
At least Ford tries to make more efficient vehicles, just not very well. And now that they are dropping ads in Gay andLesbian publications because of AFA pressure, I wonder which will be the first to declare bankruptcy, GM or Ford?

[ComerPerro]

1. Yeah, the economy is just rocking

anyone who says otherwise has "divorced themselves from reality".

[lonestarnot]

2. Here we go folks.... falling falling fallling.... free falling. 35K more

out of work. Hang on to your hats, it's going to be a rough ride. Get rid of those damn credit cards now!

[Media_Lies_Daily]

3. My old manager from twenty years ago told me that as go the big....

...auto manufacturers, so goes the national economy. When the big guys start laying off, that's when you know that things are going very wrong.

And it's not just the jobs lost at GM and Ford, it's also the thousands of smaller companies that do work for GM and Ford, and the companies overseas that supply parts and electronics.

Can you say "ripple-effect"?

[ChairmanAgnostic]

6. 20 yrs ago, they also had a larger share of the economic pie.

That is no longer the case. But still, you are correct that this is a major body blow and the ripple effect will be even larger.

Makes Mike Moore look like a visionary, again. Ever see his Flint film Roger and Me?

[Webster Green]

4. Do the fired GM and Ford employees prefer Merry Christmas...

...or Happy Holidays?

[BR_Parkway]

5. And once again we see a Shrub Crony, catering to the Radical Right Wing

totally destroying an American insitution.

Ford exec who brokered secret deal with gay-haters caught leading the charge for Bush's extreme right Supreme Court nominees out of his Ford office

So, Ford embraces anti-gay bigotry. And the two Ford execs who negotiated the anti-gay secret deal with the gay-hating extremist groups, Ziad Ojakli and David Leitch, are actually former top officials in the Bush White House. And now we find out, below, that one of those same top Bush/Ford officials is also running secret meetings out of Ford's own offices in support of Bush's far-right Supreme Court nominees.

Putting aside the question of who this Ford employee actually works for, Ford or the White House, is anyone seeing a larger pattern here?

http://americablog.blogspot.com/2005/12/ford-exec-who-brokered-secret-deal.html

Ideology is more important than anything else to these people. Ford shareholders should sue.

As a result, the second-largest automaker may be jeopardizing goodwill it had with a group whose spending power will hit $610 billion this year, said advertising executive Todd Evans. That figure is not far behind African-Americans and Hispanic-Americans in buying power.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-051206ford-story,1,3540118.story?coll=chi-business-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true