Just thought you’d like to know.

General Motors will on Monday disclose details of one of most dramatic corporate downsizings in US history, exceeding a key target of its turnround plan and accelerating the demise of the privileged American car worker.

Rick Wagoner, chief executive, is expected to announce that about 30,000 workers – more than a quarter of GM’s blue-collar US workforce – have taken up its offer of early retirement and severance packages.

Now I’d like to know how many of the geniuses who brougt G.M. to this state are being laid off?

G.M. to cut one quarter of workforce within the year