See, this is the sort of misinformation that causes problems.

The state of Illinois requires 9% employee contributions. Some districts “pick up” a portion of that, where the employer pays a portion of it in lieu of additional compensation. The total compensation is what matters, and that’s what districts negotiate…

Well, the average dealership sold 921 vehicles in 2014. With average ship times around 2-3 weeks, the average dealership should then have 55-62 days of inventory on their lot, or about 140-160 new vehicles (used are a whole nother story).

And to get to that number, you have to consider there are a LOT of dealerships…

Unionized employees don’t mean you inevitably have a cost disadvantage.

Fiat-Chrysler is unionized, and their factories in the US have the lowest labor cost per finished vehicle of any automaker.

Wisconsin’s pensions were never underfunded. Since 2003, their retirement system has never dropped below 99% funded. In 2014, it was 104% funded. The reason is that for decades, they actually made their required contributions every single year, and instead of a flat COLA for retirees, benefits floated up and down…

On the other hand, the public has a nasty tendency to demand services for free.  Without someone standing up for the workers, they almost inevitably end up horribly underpaid and mistreated.

It’s beyond absurd to say that public sector unions can’t be useful, just like it is absurd to make a blanket statement that cities/states are going bankrupt because of union perks. Take Illinois, for example. Their teacher pension plan is only about 40% funded and sucking up a large chunk of state revenues. Is it…

This story is exactly why people are being foolish when they worry about subprime auto loans taking out the economy by causing banks to fail.

The banks won’t fail because of these deals. They’re structured so that the banks are virtually guaranteed to make money - its simply a question of how much money they make. The…

Yet another apologist screed.

The other automakers outsource the delivery from plant to dealer to logistics firms that know what they’re doing. Tesla is screwing this up as royally as they can by trying to reinvent the wheel without any good reason to.

The rest of your comment is just absurd. For one, the other…

ffs, dude - all the other companies have cleaned up this mess and figured it out already. Only Tesla is still unable to figure anything out.

I work in an industry where we rely very,very, very heavily on trucking.  Any company worth a damn has figured it out already.  Is it as easy as it used to be?  No, but its been…

Funny that Tesla is the only one with problems getting vehicles to dealers/stores on time.  The others are making it work despite this - why not Tesla?  You’re just making excuses for them.

No, but they did go bankrupt after introducing a “revolutionary” new product that captured a significant market share, so they very well could have that in common.

Yeah, funny how no other car company is having a problem with extreme shortages of car carriers... and no other car company is having problems getting cars from their factories to their customers.

It’s almost like Tesla is showing that they don’t know what the hell they’re doing.

Air France?  No, you’ve got that all wrong.  If it was Air France, the tanker would be on strike.

Go to your room right now and think about your blasphemy, young man!

The 757 was awesome. Incredible thrust:weight, crazy climb rates, etc.

If you didn’t like the seats the airline used, blame the airline, not the plane.

The Honda certified program takes the 3yr/36k mile warranty and 5yr/60k powertrain warranty and adds 1 year to the bumper-to-bumper (so 4yr from original inservice or 1 year if out of original warranty), and boosts the powertrain to 7yr/100k.

These warranties actually have minimal effective value for an average car.…

BINGO!

4th:  Every subscription plan I’ve seen is a ripoff.  A local dealer started up one - $950 a month to START and about the highest end vehicle you can get at that price runs around $35,000.  You can easily lease one of the same vehicles, get insurance, and then rent one of the other classes of vehicles in the…

1st:

CARS are still $20k. Plenty of options around that price. Accord, Camry, Fusion, Malibu, Altima, etc - all in the $19-23k range.

All that extra power so drivers can destroy their engines that much faster...

This is a gross overstatement.

It’s normal for banks, but at many large companies, there aren’t many VP level positions.  There are roughly 85,000 employees at my company and we’re at around 40 VPs.