GM Living Up to the Satire

The folks over at the Jalopnik Blog (www.jalopnik.com) note that the Onion of all places scooped the GM layoff story.

Feb 8 Onion Headline: GM Introduces 2008 Line of Layoffs
Feb 10 CNN Headline: GM Offers Buyout to 74,000

Among the Onion's gems:

Urging consumers to forget everything they thought they knew about job
security, Wagoner described the cutbacks as "a major breakthrough in
downsizing," and claimed GM had set a new benchmark in letting people go.