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Old 11-11-08, 07:31   #15 (permalink)
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Re: Should the government bail-out include domestic automakers?

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Originally Posted by lawrencea View Post
You cant let a company that employs so many people go under. People must be kept working.
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If I employed 3 million people...
You know, the car companies don't really employ a huge number of people anymore. Between their market share being way down, and them selling/spinning off so many of their captive divisions and outsourcing that work, they're really not that big. It's been a long time since GM was at the top of the Fortune 500. According to something I just looked up, GM last year had 284,000 employees (and I think that's a global number), less than Ford.

PS According to that same source, Wal-Mart has 2.1 million employees.
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