The Sunday Paper Staff Blog

Stephanie, I saw your boobs, I mean your interview on MSNBC and you just repeated what we have known and been told over and over, now as the son of a car dealer and now the G.M. of a multi-point franchise, and owner of more stores here in Kansas and Texas and in other cities have to say to you that I know the car business, and we have known all along about our factory troubles, troubles that I do not have with the Japanese makers. But, the big problem is Globalization insofar as the playing field is unequal, and I blame Washington for that they have failed to revise the Laws concerning import tariff's. Look, bankruptcy is not as clean and sterile as you seem think that it is a lot of my friend's who were in the car business told me horror stories about the process of liquidation, the schedule the dealer is on, but it's the people whose story goes untold. The guy with 4 children who ran the tint shop that stayed busy doing the work for one dealer who had multiple General Motors lines that closed his doors, then a week later the tint shop owner closed his place.

This antiseptic view that you have is right out of a textbook and that is not how it works it's just not. There are so many more things that are bad about bankruptcy that is why it makes news not because it is some panacea to solve one's debt burden and labot cost's.

Look once G.M. and Chrylser file, within a month probably an extra 1 million people will be out of work, state budget's will swell as revenue plummets, I don't evn like to think about it.

As for you, maybe you should stop talking for a moment and listen to someone like Pat, he was a hundred percent right, girl. You flap those gums a little too much.

Zach Van Tyle  

I object to your almost happiness at American's being out of work. You smiles during this is hideous to me, I find it very offensive! How dare you. How much do you think is going to be paid out in unemployement benefits if this happens? What is the matter with you? How many more children do you think will start going without basic needs in this country without a middle class? Do you realize that Ford and GM produce the top 2 selling vehicles in this country? I for one will get a horse and buggy before I drive a foreign car.  

Congratulations, Stephanie,
It is quite an accomplishment for someone to make Pat look like a progressive liberal.
Your paper should have found a representative that was truly educated on the subject of unions. You just regurgitated inaccurate blurbs on the subject and really have no idea what you are talking about.
The only thing that could have made you look more Sarah Palinesque would have been to have Katie Couric conduct the interview.  

Yeah, I have to agree with the others. You are almost GLEEFUL in your desire to see the American Middle Class worker get SCREWED again. You are so dim witted that you can't even see that YOUR OWN REMEDY for the US auto industry (bring their salaries in line with foreign car auto workers here in the US) is EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE of what needs to happen! The problem is NOT that the middle class workers are making too much money and need a PAY CUT; it is just the opposite, they need to EARN MORE. In the pqast 30 years the wages of the Middle Class have "TRICKLED UP" to the wealthiest 1% while the Middle Class has taken a beating. Once upon a time ONE WAGE EARNER could support a middle class family very well; now it takes two wage earners with EXCELLENT jobs just to get by! Yet there are dolts like Stephanie who feel that the problem is wages being too high. Stephanie, let me SCHOOL YOU to something.

1) We are in a RECESSION.
2) To get OUT of it people will need to BUY stuff again. Not RICH PEOPLE, but MIDDLE CLASS PEOPLE.
3) In order to be able to buy stuff (all that STUFF being made OVERSEAS), the Middle Class needs DISPOSABLE INCOME.
4) The Middle Class HAS NO DISPOSABLE INCOME, and is not likely to get any if GENIUSES like you keep advocating that our workers learn to work for LESS MONEY, capisce?

This is not ROCKET SCIENCE, by the way; it's SIMPLE ECONOMICS. One would think a sharp News Editor like you would UNDERSTAND these things.  

Wow. I was just subjected to the inane blatherings of this awful woman on a "Hardball" repeat and just had to go to "the google" to see what the hell her problem is.

How refreshing to see that each commenter on here thinks she's a basic moron who has somehow risen beyond her station. Listening to her union-bashing and all-out disdain of the American blue collar worker was... well, frankly, embarrassing for her.

Not only are her opinions ludicrous, she's just awful on TV. She was so rude to Mike Barnacle that by the end he was laughing at her. Don't think we'll be seeing Stephie again on our TVs anytime soon.

Finally, and this is important... you know you're messed up when you've got someone like me cheering on Pat Buchanan (!!) against you. That guy's a crypto-facist, and still, I was on his side. It was rather amusing watching him wipe the floor with her.  

Oh, and just to add on to what another commenter wrote above... Stephanie, next time you go on TV, button up your shirt, fer crying out loud. Try to at least appear like a professional even if you don't sound like one.

That was MSNBC, not the Fox Business Channel, after all.  

Lol..about the comments from the other posters......Stephanie...I was laid off three times in three years in the early 1990's and wasn't fun. You make mention to Pat that with the Internet everything has changed-to paraphrase you...

You're right! Now we will always have the ability to refresh our memories about your comments and rip them apart anytime of day....thanks....


Bob

 

Stephanie, one more comment as I search your Internet Basement Sunday Paper. Why didn't you also disclose to MSNBC that it appears that you are based out of Georgia? How many alternate-Detroit car making plants are lcated and operational in your state?

But, if you're on their payroll, they have problems or you might be ya know---wink wink----seeing someone over there. Now that's GLOBILIZATION that I can believe in--wink wink--nudge nudge....  

I never noticed Stephine's boobs, I couldn't get past her vacuous head, her desrie to talk despite having little to say. To being a trained seal baying for fish.

The Ford plant in Hapeville once paid 10% of the city taxes, guess who pays them now? You do!
The GM bond holders are hoping for 30 cents on the dollar but if GM goes into bankruptcy they won't get half of that small amount. Too bad for them Steph? Just too bad for America?

Are you so stupid as to believe that America can prosper competing against workers who earn $5.00 per day? Workers who sleep 20 to a room in dormitories?

You are nothing more than a Judas goat. a shill, a corporate prostitute, a dog that barks and rolls over on command then gets up wagging her tail saying, "See what a clever dog I am!"  

The February request for money came to pass, as predicted.

And what is all of the workers reward. Plant shut downs for 9 months.

I don't think it will be long before GM and Chrysler go into bankruptcy.

We could have saved us all a little time and a lot of money had we let the inevitable happen.

The US came out of WW2 making all their play toys while the Asian manufacturers concentrated on making quality engines that are fuel efficient and low maintenance.

Why? Because their economies and infrastructures had been devastated. We are in the same boat right now cept we still have our infrastructure intact.

If we do not allow the business to take the course it needs to take then the american auto industry is already a ward of the state.

I think one thing is certain. The US auto industry is not a model that can be sustained. There is going to be a lot of collateral damage in the inevitable restructure ANY way you go about it.

We do not have a viable product. The american auto worker needs to take this window that they have been given and come up with a better plan. What good is saving a mom and pop dealership that has products that nobody is going to buy?

You guys are screwed either way. We are all screwed either way. The sooner we realize that the sooner we can start implementing solutions that match our production capabilities.

If you aren't part of the solutions you are part of the problem. Stop shooting the messengers, there will be more. Take this time now to save yourselves. Find representation. Identify quality leaders in the industry and agree upon them. Get rid of the bums. Expose them.

What have any of us got to loose?