OK, time to crowdsource some comedy from your creative minds.
So far, we know that GM stands for:
Government Motors
Gimme Money
Anything else? Use comments for suggestions . . .
Category: Bailouts, Corporate Management, Markets
Please use the comments to demonstrate your own ignorance, unfamiliarity with empirical data and lack of respect for scientific knowledge. Be sure to create straw men and argue against things I have neither said nor implied. If you could repeat previously discredited memes or steer the conversation into irrelevant, off topic discussions, it would be appreciated. Lastly, kindly forgo all civility in your discourse . . . you are, after all, anonymous.
GimMe
Got Moolah?
Generic Mush
Generic Mediocrity
Got Mechanic
Gargantuan Moneypit
Gas Mask
Gigantic Mess
Geithner’s Mess
Gross Mismanagement
gross missallocations
gross missgivings
gadawful machines
grand marauders
goats and monkeys?
WAHHOOO ! ! !
mjbenun Says: Geithner’s Mess. I like it! ;)
Goddamn Morons
Gigantic Mirage
Geewhizwhatthefuckhappened Motors
Gone Monday
Gigantic Malfeasance!
Gawdawful Mangement
Got Mine!
Green Marx
Greedy Mofo’s
Glaring Mistakes
Geriatric Motors
Glum Mechanics
Grim Meltdown
Got More$?
Great Misexpectations
Giganormous Mismanagement
Giant Merde
Got More?
Gone Motors
G “How’s shit-canning the EV1 working out for you assholes?” M
General Mortgaged
Gran Mierd…
Grand Mugging
Gullible Morons
Gargantuan Mistake
Gelt Misallocated
Genuflect Motors
Grosse Merde
Genital Meme
Geee, My-ass-is-sore
gonads missing
Gooey Marshmallows
Greasy Morgue
Git MoFos
Got Madoff?
Incompetent Rat Bastards
Nothing, absolutely nothing.
On a sadder note it was just made official that Melissa Lee will be the permanent host on Fast Money. No mention still from anyone about Dylan, which I guess infers that the entire panel is now female. According to sources Miss Krakower will keep their balls in her desk from now on. Good work guys!
Government Mooch
Oh, and by the way, for his stellar performance, Mr. Wagoner joins the list of fired CEOs who have more money than all the people on this board combined.
What a wonderful country.
cue the Bob Seger song….
Greetings in Mandarin
Ghouls Motors
My dad’s initials are GM.
When I was 4, we had a GM and I thought all the GM initials on the carpets and everywhere in the car were for my dad.
A few years later, I witnessed the bursting of my first bubble. LOL
Giant Mess
Gross Malaise
Guilty Mooks
Greedy Morons
Gut Me
Government Masturbation
Goldman Missing -that’s why they haven’t gotten a blank check
Goodbye Michigan!
Getting Mauled
Guaranteed Mistake
Goofy Miscreants
Gear Malpractice
Graft & Malfeasance
Got Money?
Gonna Melt.
GM stands for Edsel
Geithner’s Monkey
Gone Mindless
Galactic Mess
Government Mule
Grotesque Machines
Gambled & Missed
Gobs of Manure
Garbage Merchandise
Gentle Matures
Good Moms
Genuine Milfs
Gaggin’ Mistresses
whatever happened to “What is good for GM is good for the country?”
Who cares.
Without the GMAC debacle, GM would be like Ford, struggling but surviving and adapting. I think GM is just another victim of the cult of financial liberalization.
Geriatric Managers
wdmarkle Says:
March 30th, 2009 at 7:10 pm
whatever happened to “What is good for GM is good for the country?”
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apparently, they didn’t mean this country.
“Godzilla, Mothra.” (as in, meets)
Gullible Monkeys
Itiswhatitis,
Is “financial liberalization” newspeak for the conservative core-value, “deregulation”? Are they one and the same?
Greg,
There’s a whole lot more to Ratigan’s ouster than meets the eyes… The guy was bad mouthing GS among other things.
Grossly Mismanaged if no one grabbed that yet…
General Motors was destroyed byt he UAW and AFL CIO and by nothing else.
Both bailouts went to pay Union Concessions whether the UAW’s and AFL CIO’s; back pay, future pay, sanctions, penalties, health care, old UAW, AFL- CIO worker’s pensions (which was an old contract), and other communist controlled workforce related matters…. Plus legal fees.
Mealer American Motors Corporation (aka Mealer Companies LLC) expects to be the next major USA Automaker. We are going through funding now and for the pst year…
We will build our vehicles in Right to Work states only and to be honest…
I am not afraid to bust heads when it comes to extortionists from the labor unions.
The BS stops here.
John Lewis Mealer
Gotta Move-on
Gamey Machinations
Gettlefinger Motors
Going Madoff
Giving Migraines
Generally Myopic
Great Mistake
Grinding Money
Grow Mohawk
Geriatric Motors
Gone Mad
General Mis-Management
Good-bye Money!!!
Gimmee More ($$)
Guillotined Management
GO MARX (Motors)
… so now the US will have its own LADA motor company.
Ask the Russians how it went with the government guarantees on these cars…
Grave Mess
Greedy Munkys
Genetic Misfits
Genitalia Munchers
Golden-parachuting Make-workers
Gerbil Manipulators
Gonorrhea-laden Misanthropes
Goddamn Muthafuckahs
Hey, Mealer:
If you don’t want to take care of your employees by paying a fair wage and providing US-style benefits (healthcare, paid vacation, sick and family leave, and a pension to supplement Social Security), why operate in the US? You should go to China. Funny thing is, you complain about communism, but the only place you’ll be able to find a workforce you can abuse is in a communist country! Sheesh! Whoodathunkit?
If I ever see a car wit your name on it, I’ll make sure I’ll buy foreign.
Gasguzzlin’ Monsters
grim mortification
Grand Mess
Got Much?
Government Money
GOP Madness
Google Motors?
Gag Me!
Gimme More!
Gastroenteritis Motors..(I know, it’s a shitty name)….
there is a fundamental flaw in the business model of GM and Chrysler,’
where they build cheap cars that break down and cost more money long term.
The public is not stupid, they will buy a car like a toyota at a higher sticker price
but save money longer term on the quality of the product.
No one is pointing out this flaw in the american business model of planned obsolescence.
As long as they don’t change their tune, I will never buy an american car,
regardless of how many bailouts they get.
Got Millions!
Government Manipulation
Good-bye Markets!
or it could be Gastronenteritis Motors…our product is as shitty as our name…
Geithner’s Moneyhole
Gullible Minions
Sorry, I seem to have stumbled on the “I hate America” thread.
Please go back to your America-bashing.
We don’t hate America. We love American Innovation and Ingenuity!
Go Tesla Motors! Yaaaaaay!
Gnot MorganStanleyGoldmansSachsCitigroupEtcEtcEtc (and therefore not to be sucked off constantly by the Obama economic team).
Got Mylanta?
Could someone on this board please explain to me how financing a purchase of an automobile at zero percent could possibly lead to a viable business model. GM, Ford and Chrysler have all been doing this since the mid nineties. Rebates of $5,ooo to $10,000 on certain models in addition to zero financing were a recipe for disaster. I never went to Harvard or Wharton, but please tell me this is not part of their business curriculum.
General Malfeasance
It’s a viable business model because they make it up it in volume! Economics 101.
1. Make substandard cars.
2. Dangle 0% carrot in front unsuspecting customers.
3. ?????
4. PROFIT!
@greg: I think the course’s name is “Kicking the Can Down the Road 101″. Most of our leaders have taken it and passed with flying colors.
kbrehm…they seemed to have missed point 4.
The plan was to make it up on volume. Worked pretty well for a while…..sort of.
Grand Marnier – time for equity holders to start drinking
Stop wasting my time
You know what I want
You know what I need
Or maybe you don’t
Do I have to come right flat out and tell you everything?
Gimme some money, gimme some money
Gimme some money, gimme some money
Gimme some money, gimme some money
– Spinal Tap “Gimme Some Money”