The Detroit car companies have a historical tradition of celebrating too early. One good quarter, and they start counting their chickens and high-fiving in the hallways. After all of this time and after everything that's happened to this town and the perilous shape this domestic industry finds itself in, you would think that this sort of behavior would be mothballed indefinitely. But no. It's April of 2006, the domestic auto industry is on the ragged edge of collapse if things don't play out just right, and here's GM grabbing the microphone and taking over the meeting, bragging to everyone who will listen that they really got it goin' on. Wall Street, I can understand - they've been the Kings of the Short Term Thinkers since day one. But GM? Right now? Come on.
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