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Damn I never thought we would become the new Mexico where foreign car companies want our non unionized workers.
The Republican Senators are all being dishonest. Compare the costs to the same costs in the countries where the foreign car companies come from and you get a more realistic picture.
The big three pay health care and benefits to retirees. The foreign companies come in and don't have to worry about sharing profits with workers because of no union and they have a younger work force with cheaper health care costs and no retirees to speak of.
And these Republican assholes say Detroit needs to get lean and mean? We need to do what the Japanese and Koreans did which is throw all foreign car manufacturers out of our country. The U.S. auto market should only have U.S. cars and we only let countries import cars that have a trade balance with us.
I could take any business that is over 40 years old and if I were allowed to stop paying pensions and all benefits to retirees then I could make it "leaner and meaner." WTF do they think chapter 11 is going to mean? The Republican senators have no souls and no morals. They would eat their own children if it kept them alive one more day. God help us.
