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corysub -> RE: Bail Out News! Auto execs have a plan! (12/2/2008 4:04:42 AM)
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ORIGINAL: soul2share
Personally, until the UAW is ready to make concessions, then the auto industry is pretty much never going to change. They dug themselves into a hole, and now want the taxpayers to bail them out? They can start with pay cuts from the top right on down the line......
The rest of the country is suffering, benefits are being cut left and right, for both retirees and current employees, and the union refuses to deal? Screw 'em then....let them get laid off....see how long the union wants to pay them then! If that sounds harsh, well, it is time that the UAW and the auto industry get a little dose of reality too.
If the big 3 have a plan, and can be made to stick to it, then fine, give them SOME help....but to totally go in and finance their mistakes and bad judgement? NO!
You are rignt on with your comments. The UAW got away with outrageous demands that began when the U.S. auto industry dominated the marketplace and car sales were soaring. How many "blue collar" workers in your towns earn over $70 an hour to work on an assembly line....with pay for doing nothing perks when there is no work for them? The companies also missed the market with cars that did not compare with the quality of Japanese and German imports, a dealer system that had inferior repair facilities on average, and so many bad cars coming off these assembly lines that we had to pass a "lemon law".
The blame for market share loss starts with the executives, but all are to blame, right down to the workers who made the transmission on the last new American car I purchased twenty years ago and the transmission blew after less than a hundred miles on our first trip.
Congress is also responsible here but our politicians seem immune to be blammed for any of the ills facing the auto industry and the economy in general for that matter. Even the "bailout" that will probably be given to the industry will include demands for 50 mpg cars or some rediculous numbers with Barney Frank and Pelosi designing the cars that have to be made whether the consumer wants them or not...all to satisfy the radical green agenda. Where are the marketing studies, the cost analysis, the pay back time for the consumer, that would justify junking the hundreds of millions of cars out there today? How many people today are prepared to go out and buy a new car because it will get double the mileage? The economy is falling apart, they are talking now about auto sales averaging closer to ten million annually when fifteen to sixteen million seems the average...and our political leaders want to force consumers to buy what they dictate, and build windmills for our energy. This is turning into a nightmare.
Speaking of Pelosi, I wonder why no one questions the plane the good Speaker of the House uses when she flys the country on Air Force jets.....I think she had to settle for something less than AirForce One...but believe it's not a six passenger executive jet either. What does she do that demands such a cost to taxpayers, and why does she deserve to fly at taxpayers cost of thousands of dollars and hour when she can fly first class to SanFrancisco on her own dime?
http://patdollard.com/2008/11/i-slept-on-the-pelosi-bigger-plane-with-video/
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