Nothing was explained and I'm sorry, this was more a statement from a politician than anything else. Dragoneye, I'm sorry man, did you gather any earth-shattering information from what Fitzpatrick spoke of? I'm not trying to be malicious or confrontational. Hell, it doesn't even apply to me with 2700 miles on my car and no shaft problems. I feel for those that it does involve but he really should not have made a statement unless he was prepared to technically address what the problem(s) are. Plus this insults the intelligence and hard work put in by that C5 member that had his own solution PROPOSED to GM about the output shaft problem. What's worse is that he released the statement to C5 directly and didn't think to consider how many people knew more about the issue than he does! Members here know more about their cars than the GM brass and that is NOT a good thing!
I almost got the impression that they are aware of the problem, not looking for a resolution and instead of researching the issue, they find it more cost effective to wait until output shafts break and then just repair them on a case by case basis. If it is cheaper, I guess it makes sense, but at least say so, but as you guys have stated earlier, this line of thinking is going to get people killed before they focus more on the problem before it has a chance to claim lives.