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The GOP has a long cultural hatred for anything that FDR was involved in, from it's unending rape of the social security program to it's continuous struggle to remove any worker protections that rose in the thirties to the sixties, workers compensation, OSHA, overtime laws, the right of workers to collective bargaining, and any other worker protections.
Now, when the economy is sliding at an accelerated pace towards real financial collapse they have decided that this is to be the last stand of the republican party. To wipe the UAW from the face of the earth. They'll teach those uppity bastards to think that the workers are as important as the CEO's and stockowners. If it throws a few million of them out in the streets, well, that's what they deserve for wanting to have health care or pensions or to be treated like human beings.
The UAW has been making concessions to the companies for the last thirty years. Every time they do the executives get more money and the company demands more concessions. I guess it's a good thing that the bankers and brokers never organized, if they had, we'd have already seen the banking industry abandoned instead of rescued from their well deserved failure.
