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• Saturday, December 13, 2008 09:17 AM

  @timbuktom and everyone else

  This is pretty simple. If the American people have to sacrifice money out of their pockets to help the auto workers (cause I don't give a rat's ass frankly about American automobiles, nor the executives of those companies who have managed them poorly), then I expect the auto workers to LIKEFUCKINGWISE sacrifice out of their pockets. In gratitude. Hell, they shouldn't even have to be asked. This economic problem is horrible for everyone--not just auto workers! And bailing out the companies isn't free, people. We have to pay for it.

  And those of you who keep saying that 2 bucks an hour is so little, I wish you'd take a calculator to your assumptions. Either that or turn this around and apply that logic to the intransigence of the auto workers. If it's so fucking little, they won't miss it a damn bit. And it might go a long way towards making someone such as myself who's normally pretty generous towards her fellow human beings feel a little more "richly connected" to what I do regard as our mutual plight.

  Oh, and I'm just tickled pink to keep people in houses, too, when I don't own one myself. When did people in this country start feeling entitled to a certain standard of living divorced from the choices they make about what kind of life they want for themselves? That woman with five kids?!! She chose to have them didn't she?! Does that make her noble or something.

  Damn, give me a break here.

  —Beth_W Read Beth_W's other letters
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