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National: Auto Industry Down to ‘Months in Cash;’ In Pittsburgh, Homicides At All-Time High
December 4th, 2008Auto industry is down to “months in cash.” As top executive of Chrysler LLC cautioned Wednesday that a carmaker collapse could trigger an economic downturn that would lead to a depression, the United Auto Workers Union says it will make the contract concessions necessary to secure loans to keep the nation’s auto companies afloat, The Associated Press reports. On the eve of their return to Capitol Hill to again state their case for why taxpayers should bail them out, Jim Press, Chrysler’s vice chairman, said the U.S. automakers were “down to months left” in cash. Industry officials ratcheted up a fierce lobbying on Wednesday in an effort to persuade Congress to approve as much as $34 billion in emergency aid. “We’re on the brink with the U.S. auto manufacturing industry,” Press told The Associated Press in an interview. “If we have a catastrophic failure of one of these car companies, in this tender environment for the economy, it’s a huge blow. It could trigger a depression.” Fritz Henderson, General Motors’ president and CEO, took to the TV airwaves to stress that bankruptcy isn’t a viable option on the eve of a new set of congressional hearings on the auto bailout. At the same time, UAW leaders were immersed in intense discussions on possible givebacks for the companies at an emergency meeting in Detroit. Henderson told NBC’s “Today” that choosing the bankruptcy route would further erode consumer confidence in the automaker, and “we want them to be confident in their ability to buy our cars and trucks.” The automakers reported that last month’s sales at Chrysler are down 47 percent from last year – 41 percent for GM and 31 percent for Ford.
In Pittsburgh, homicides are at an all-time high. At the end of 2007, the number of homicides for Pittsburgh for the year was 98; as of Dec. 1, the number of murders has not only surpassed last year’s total, but has earned 2008 the dubious distinction of being the first year that the homicide rate has reached the triple-digit mark-and it’s not even the end of the year, reports The Pittsburgh Courier. As part of an ongoing effort to heighten awareness about the effects of murder in the Black community, the Courier has compiled a list of homicides in the county each month. The list points to how these lost lives affect the mental health, economic well-being and self-images of the region’s Black neighborhoods. Out of the 115 murders, thus far, in 2008-98 were Black and 87 were Black men, the Courier reported.
Unfortunately, this will continue as long as the Hood Mentality is embraced, admired, and promoted. For those who will disagree, then please explain to me just what is “gangste rapp music, and its attitude is talking about? Please don’t tell me it is just representing what’s going on in the hood. The hood is proud of what’s going on in it because “gangster rapp” music gives it credibility, recognition, and glorification. It makes the madness the “In Thing”.
RETEST….YOU SAID THE OTHER DAY YOU WERE A..” BLACKMAN”..I THINK YOUR A..” SIMPLE WHITE MAN “..PRETENDING TO BE BLACK.OR YOUR..” A BLACKMAN LIVING IN YOUR MIND AS A WHITEMAN”..EVEN THE.. “WHITEST BLACKMAN”… KNOWS WHAT..” GANSTER RAP”.. IS WHEN YOU AGREED WITH ..”UMLAW”..”THE SQUID”..I KNEW THEN YOU WERE A.. “PLANT”..SINCE YOU ARE ON ..B.E.T..TAKE THE TIME MY ..”BROTHER”..OR ..”SISTER”..TURN ON THE T.V. AND VIEW B.E.T. LOOK AT THE NEWS AND DIFFERENT PROGRAMS. IF YOU ARE STILL CONFUSED SEND A E-MAIL . OR BETTER YET GO TO THE ..”HOOD”..AND FIND A YOUNG BROTHER OR SISTER AND ASK THEM. AND WHILE YOUR THERE TAKE THE TIME TO FIND A PLACE TO GIVE BACK SOME OF YOUR “TIME AND TALENT”..I DO IT ALL THE TIME AND THEN MABE YOU CAN..” SAVE”..SOME YOUNG PERSON WHO YOU THINK IS GOING DOWN THE WRONG STREET.
rtest, I’m not black, but I believe that you are an uncle tom because an oreo would not be saying what you are saying.
Keely,
Please elaborate if you can? And LYNN, I have first cousins and a couple of nieces in the hood, I reach out to them every chance I get. Some of them seem to be interested in what I am talking about, some seem not interested. However, I think you missed my point in that you think I do not understand what “Gangster Rap” is. I know exactly what it calls itself, which is “telling real stories of what’s happening in the streets of the hood, and some might even say the streets period. My point is, if you tell young kids about what’s going on in the streets in such a way that causes them to want to step into, to dabble with, and to partake of those streets, then you need to rethink the way in which your message is coming across. In other words tell them about what’s going on in the streets in such a way that it causes them to not want to step into, to not want to dabble with, and to not want to partake of those streets. And to make it even clearer for KEELY, don’t make garbage look like glitter, make sure garbage comes across looking and smelling like garbage. No one will accept garbage, unless it doesn’t look and smell like garbage.
LYNN,
Also, I’d be remissed if I did not encourage you to not allow my tough love to mislead you; for then you would be simple. I am a Black man whom is proud to be Black; in fact, I’m an Arican American!
At this point marshal law needs to be applyed . If that ,s the only way to stop the killing.
While you guys are going at it trying to define gangsta rap, another black male has been murdered by another black male. I think this is ridiculous. No matter how many law enforcement there are on the streets, the killings will not stop until they want to stop or change their mentality. How can that be done, I don’t have a clue. I wasn’t raised in that enviroment so I do not know their mind frame but I do know that no one will change unless they want to change. Instead of us trying to figure out whose black or not, let’s figure out a way to stop this black on black homicide.
I agree Lady J.
I’m sorry, rtest. Oreos know what gangsta rap is and Uncle Toms don’t want anything to do do with gangsta rap. If someone asks them what gangsta rap is, they’ll probably say they don’t know, or the never heard of it, or sorry, we don’t listen to that garbage.
rtest, it is good that you are not an Uncle Tom.
We need to send all the Uncle Toms to Africa.
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