The Five Strands of A Sedentary Empress

GM, it must be said...

that if you'd actually built better cars and trucks which didn't break down constantly, which didn't violate the environment, which didn't gulp gas in record speed, which didn't look as though it required a crooked baseball cap to drive one, you'd be okay right now.

Oh, and your employees...well, it's tough for me to feel badly for them. Did you know that your retired workers pensions per month were three times more than what I made monthly while I was working? Just their pensions! Did I mention that my benefits were a fraction of what your employees received (one fifth)? Did you know that the number one claim for medication as per GM benefits for last year in Canada was Viagra? Am I feeling their pain, GM? Not really. I've known too many of your workers to feel much more than indifference. I'm unemployed, I don't have much sympathy to go around for folk who want a lot for nothing. I'd be happy to get one third of their pension for life. I'd be happy to have my needed root canal covered.

But, more than anything else, GM, you stopped producing quality vehicles. You ruined the consumers confidence in you. You got too big for your britches and you stopped thinking about the future. But, you're thinking about it now, aren't you?

I gave you a shot. You let me down. Now I drive Toyota.