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Thursday, December 11, 2008 12:00 AM

Senate GOP to UAW: Drop dead

Organized labor campaigned mightily against Southern Republican senators. So kiss that auto bailout goodbye, because now it's payback time.
Andrew Leonard

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  • Thursday, December 11, 2008 03:48 PM

    Toekutter

    I'm sure this is just a coincidence.

    It's no coincidence at all. Toyota and BMW both get federal tax breaks and "job-development" grants, courtesy of southern Republican senators.

    So far I've counted 48 separate initiatives like these. US workers are paying the government to turn them into wage slaves - not counting the programs subsidizing actual job exports and imports of foreign workers.

    Americans are woefully ignorant about these issues. People riot would riot over them in Europe, but Americans are mushrooms, kept in the dark and fed bullshit.

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