Screw Royal Caribbean

Royal Caribbean sees vacationing in Haiti, a week after the Earthquake is helping. Since that is what people do.

"People enjoying themselves is what we do. People enjoying themselves in Labadee (Haiti) helps with relief. We support our guests who choose to help in this way which is consistent with our nearly 30 year history in Haiti." CEO Adam Goldstein royal Caribbean

Cspan Senate Banking Hearings: Automakers

The Big 3 and UAW are back on capitol hill today, Begging.

- Senate Banking Hearings: Automakers CSPAN.ORG

- UAW made an obvious but strong point about the lack of oversight or guarantees of T.A.R.P.

"If the government could provide a blank check to Wall Street, then the government should be able to provide a bridge loan to the automakers."
Ron Gettelfinger

- Once again Chrysler has nothing to offer. Robert Nardelli their C.E.O made a point to say that all Chrysler vehicles will increase in fuel efficiency from the 2008 to 2009 model year.

As opposed to coming out with the same model every year, just charging the consumers more. That is essentially admitting to fraud by the automakers, if all they were doing is changing badges on the cars and paperwork. Chrysler needs to go, they are a company that has historically lacked vision and creativity. How hard is it to ask the automakers to fire ineffective people.

- Ford really sounds like they try harder than any other automakers in their business plan, and in their proactive reorganization plan that was implemented before this most recent economic downturn.

Wish Farewell to Chrysler

"It's like...an open book test...writing an essay where each automaker's allowed to bring whatever books they wanted with them into the test. Chrysler brought crayons and a coloring book."

The Big 3 auto makers are mighty optomestic about their sales the next couple of years. [Jalopnik]

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