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• Saturday, December 13, 2008 08:35 AM

  Quite the feast of crap to wade through from all sides

  But what really matters? I'm not sure somedays. But:

  1. The powers that rule are winning, they have the middle class fighting against the middle class. Classic class warfare conducted by masters.

  2. Company Management (a term I use loosely) failed miserably to envision and plan for the future by underfunding pensions and health insurance commitments in search of higher dividends and pay. Now the workers are blamed. ALL the top management needs to be completely replaced with no severance or golden parachute. They just plain failed. Golly they might have to seel a house or two to put food on the table for their starving kids.

  3. How much in corporate welfare did the Southern states handout to get the foreign factories to move in? I am willing to bet the number is in the multiple of billions.

  4. The UAW has already renegotiated contracts and lowered wages, especially for new hires. The future wage commitments for the socalled Big Three are going down. The Union has made an effort.

  5. All the Southern states receive more tax money back than they pay in, so they are direct recipients of tax shifts. I realize that much is related to defense but it still is a net gain for them in dollars and jobs paid by other states. Neither good nor bad just a fact. The way to address this is to kill the fatted calf of the Military budget and spend it on the people of America, not fork it over to the Merchants of Death.

  6. A single payer national health program would level the field for all Americans and American employers in many ways.

  7. The car of the year last year was the Chevy Malibu which gets over 30mpg. A spark of hope?

  8. When we bail them out it needs to be from a totally different reference point. CAR COMPANIES ARE OBSOLETE and will pass into history. What we need are TRANSPORTATION COMPANIES that deal with real issue of getting my sorry behind from point A to point B in the best, most efficient fashion. If they insist on remaining simply a car company they will absolutely fail.

  9. Old Head Thinking got us into this. People with no vision, foresight, imagination, who only want to maintain a system that enriches a few at the expense of the many. We need New Head Thinkers in charge. Case in point: Why the heck fly on a private jet for tens of thousands when a face to face real time meeting is possible for an investment of a few thousand in IT equipment not millions in jets.

  10. WE need to bring our jobs back or we will evaporate into history as a failed state. Some call it protectionism but nearly all of our major economic competitors have mercantilist trade laws in place that protect their own manufacturing base. We are the whores of the world used for them to dump their products on so we can buy their crap with money we borrowed from them. How stupid or uninformed is the average American? Why are we uninformed? Follow the money trail for this answer.

  11. But remember in the words of Red Green "WE are all in this together and I am pullin for ya."

  —audran Read audran's other letters
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