Re: The Auto Industry A roundup.

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The F Word: Distributing Responsibility

Transcript

Remeber the Treaty of Detriot?

Despite GM's Staggering Losses, CEO raked In Millions

The New Poll Porn: Automotive Sales Aren’t What You Think They Are

GM the Failed Business Model Pays Its Retiree Pensions; Exxon Doesn’t

Richard Shelby Wants To Place US Government In Bankruptcy And Eliminate Military Pensions And Benefits

The Difference between GM and Toyota: The Health Care

The Unions HAVE been making concessions. The news just doesn't report them


EPI: If Big 3 Fail 18% Unemployment in Michigan

We cannot survive on services alone

Basic Assumptions and Nationalisation

What About The Government “Bailout” Of Foreign Auto Makers?

USW Int'l. President Leo Gerard on the Automobile Industry Crisis

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I saw a few talking heads on CNN or MSNBC a week back talking about this and saying, flat-out, "We don't approve of bailing out the car companies, because they're going to honor those pensions."

My jaw doesn't actually drop that often. I can't even believe what obvious bullshit this is and how foolish Americans are. My dad brought this up on the phone the other night, the whole Fox News party line. OMG, they're dinosaurs, they can't produce fuel-efficient vehicles* (I love how all of a sudden conservatives are all about the environment in this tiny context, only, sort of the way they were all yelling "sexism" a month or so back, but only about Palin.), their cars suck, and mostly they pay Americans real money and have to deal with unions.

My dad's bought American cars my entire life, and his next one will probably be a Ford or Chevy, too. He makes a point of it. But for now, he's all anti-American cars. In this tiny context only.

*I brought up the fact that all of them made electric cars that worked just great in California when they were compelled to, and that the GOP leaned on the state to kill that. He ignored it.

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BTW, that was me. Forgot to log in.

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we don't support bailing out these companies cause they will pay their pensions!!!!!!!!!! *jawdrop*

I. I. What? *speechless*


The. contempt for American workers, I mean WTF do they think they have slaves or feudal workers... I mean WHAT????

[vee-ecks.livejournal.com]

They're just not thinking. It's one of the key American ailments, and you don't even have to be a commie or anything to recognize this: the wealthy and the powerful in this nation have been very successful in compelling poor and working class Americans to ignore their own interests and focus instead on the invented woes of the very rich and the biggest corporations.

It's insane, but as I've said before, if you want to hear a long and passionate justification for getting rid of estate taxes, just ask a poorer American who's never going to be in any danger of receiving an inheritance about it.