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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
I'm not a member of a union nor ever have been. But I've worked overseas and observed the U.S. efforts that encourage totalitarian governments to allow unions to operate in their countries as one basis for democratic reform.
It's therefore somewhat ironic that those "great" supporters of democracy, the conservative neocons of the republican party, should be so blatantly anti union. They seem to favor a unipolar marketplace that is anything but democratic and work actively to undercut employees leverage.
Meanwhile CEO incomes have risen exponentially and nary a negative word or effective action from these guys. Perhaps they don't wish to affect the golden parachute that appears to await these congressmen and repub office holders after they leave government service--remember the millions Cheney got from Halliburton. Which parenthetically wasn't a bad investment for that company.
US auto makers are in deep trouble because they design and make inferior cars. Price has nothing to do with it. The money that should've gone to R&D goes to executive salaries and bonuses. US auto makers cut corners on just about any aspect, including honoring warrantees. They have lost the market to foreign cars that are superior technologically, are generally safer and have better gas mileage. The GOP strategy is traditional union busting.
Republicans do not hate america: They love Money more than America.
More money to UAW means less money for them as "campaign contributions" from the Ultra-rich.
Remember, the pot size is the same.
More for poor means less for the rich.
And the rich fund the elections. The poor only vote.
Whom would you pander to, if you were a republican?
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.
And hey, that is a majority. Oh, no wait, it isn't. I think I saw this article written by a 5th grader. Great work guys, suprised it took two of you to write this.
The American auto companies and the unions cut their own throat. To try to blame the failure of the union bailout is crazy. The bail out was a very bad idea in the form that the socialist democrats tried to pass on the American tax payer.
Yes, there are other car companies in the United States but they have not bowed dowm to the unions and kissed the liberal socialist behinds. America has lost all kinds of jobs to other countries because of greedy taxes and greedy unions. Lets not for get the global warming hoax with their lies the have made it impossible to do business in the US.
The first thing the car companies should do is kick the unions out and them the government should give the companies tax breaks so that they can be competitive. The next thing the government should tell Al Gore to take his message of global warming and petal it some place else. It is distortions and lies so that colleges and teachers can get government grants Al Gore can be included it that group. The government and Unions have made it hard to do business in the US for the last 50 years.
Voter wake up get these liberal socialist out of office and get people in that are loyal to America.
I am very confused by this whole mess. I thought we were supposed to be AGAINST sweet deals for big businesses. I thought these companies were the very ones that were bribing -excuse me, giving large campaign contributions- to politicians to stop them from passing environmental regulations.
Aren't these the companies that produce huge, gas-guzzling vehicles that contribute greatly to global warming? Why do we want to give them money... so they can kill us all faster?
Why can't we take the $14,000,000,000 and instead of giving it all to these three, maybe split it up and give $1,000,000 to 14,000 small businesses? Or $100,000 to 140,000 small businesses? Wouldn't that save as many jobs, as well as strengthen the middle class? Why give it all to a few elites, when we could be strengthening the mom and pop shops?
As for the housing costs, I WISH they would come down to anything remotely proportional to salaries. Then I would buy one. It's like they were priced twice as high as they should be, and now prices have dropped and so they're only 1.9 times what the should be, so the people who viewed them as investments are losing out, but most people still can't afford them!
I've been following the housing markets around here for a year and a half, and prices have NOT dropped. The houses are staying on the market, at the same price.
This is why government is not supposed to try to manage business, but since they did and now that they have screwed things up, we owe it to ourselves to help out.
You need to understand the concept of herding if you want to survive this. The entire nation has been herded for decades, by the media and foreign car interests, into believing that the domestic automakers and the union are bad while they have worked their problems out. Now, while we are being herded around in circles, with the same shouts ringing in our years, we can no longer think for ourselves and the gates of the slaughterhouse are opening. We need to break out of the herd and get the facts if we want to survive.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3KoJj4dz2I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCC6_3QwXOc
http://ewebsmith.com/gov/autobailout.html
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