House of Paine

king kong vs godzilla

toyota vs general motors 

 working stiffs of amerika

if  the uaw takes its  junk yard
           compaction  
                      sitting down 

u'll  have no rooster in that fight 

 "these are the last days 
            of uncle walter's amerika "
                      dug out doug fraser 

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 la times

headline :



"General Motors Corp.'s 
        loss 
is Toyota's gain"

 they print a look back ...

act I

 crowning of  king kong 

"GM has been the world's largest 
automaker since 1931"


act II 
 enter godzilla 

"Toyota didn't introduce 
its first car in the U.S.
 — a pokey four-door sedan 
called the Toyopet Crown —
 until 1958."

act now 


 the divergent roads :

 
"As GM tries to win customers with deep discounts
 Toyota is  winning market share
 by making quality vehicles that people want to buy"

  the results :



"Toyota's Camry is the best-selling passenger car
 in the U.S.,
 its Prius is the most popular
 gas-electric-powered hybrid
 and for the last five years 
the company's Lexus 
has been the top-selling luxury brand "




the alibi:

legacy costs 



"Toyota has fewer than 1,000 North American retirees
 versus more than 400,000 at GM."

"GM health and pension costs add $1,500
 to the price of each GM vehicle
 That compares with about $300 
per vehicle at Toyota"


 gettin stronger 
     even in adversity


"In October, when total U.S. auto sales
 fell by 14.4%
 — the worst decline in nearly a decade —
 Toyota's sales rose 1.3%. 
It was the only large automaker
 to score a gain in the U.S"


 side bar :


 actually the race was over
 10 years ago at least  :

"Wall Street long ago sensed 
 this tectonic shift:
 Toyota now has a stock market value 
of $179.4 billion
 almost 14 times that of GM "

the class questions : 

so who will employe 
more amerikans in ten years time  ????




and what will
  the uaw difference  be worth 

on the line  .....

    nohing   or even 
                less then that  

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finale and 
        rap up 

 
 
"Toyota — which overtook Ford in 2003 
to become the world's second-biggest automaker — 
should seize the crown from GM  next year "

 so fucking what 


 teamsters  fuck the  yellow fudgers
over at the UAW 

           get off your asses

 go south and start orgin'
            toyota's 
               fuckin plants now 

  and do it rough
       the way jimmy showed ya 

the old sub atomic spanking 


its the  amerikan way