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GM announced the closure of the Pontiac badge line last week.

"It means I'm likely to be laid off", sighed one of the three workers employed to make the Pontiac badges. "I've worked for the last twenty years making $10 badges to increase the price of Novas, Camaros, Cavaliers and Cobalts by $1000. Now, I don't know what I'm going to do."

In other news, the four employees on the Buick badge line and two employees on the GMC badge line are anxiously eyeing their next paychecks, and the one 110-year-old ex-employee of the Oldsmobile badge line has found new employment in the Obama Administration OMB...

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