My article is about how Chrsyler shut down 30 of their U.S. plants for around a month, roughly adding 2 extra weeks to their employees layoff. They say that this is because of slow consumerism and that this should help them with their buys.
Here is a link to the article.
http://money.cnn.com/2008/12/17/autos/chrysler_shutdown/index.htm?postversion=2008121722

This is not good. This shows that even the big wigs, like the Big Three, are having problems with the economy these days.