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Big Three Deploy Grassroots Tactics, Web Sites, Newspaper Ads For Bailout Help

[txgrouch2007]

THE DAY OF RECKONING IS HERE AND THEY DONT HAVE A CLUE AS WHAT TO DO.
Posted by tootall1014 at 09:51 AM : Nov 20, 2008

Words of true wisdom. The day of reckoning has arrived for A LOT of our institutions, all at the same time.

Perot warned about the "giant sucking sound" of jobs leaving the country.

Now this is the "giant flapping sound" of CHICKENS COMING HOME TO ROOST.

[txgrouch2007]

Sad commentary from someone whith such horrible grammer and spelling mistakes!
Posted by cheetah-man7 at 10:20 AM : Nov 20, 2008

I noticed that, too. Spelling alone is atrocious.

My hat is off to someone who is living on 20K a year. I know how to do that, but some wives don''t warm up to that kind of living. You know what I mean?

[cheetah-man7]

Your a looser if you have been living on 20 grad for years as you say. That is what a full-time McDonald''''s wager makes. There are plenty of jobs paying over 20 grad that are not UAW. Why don''''t you try bettering your self with one. BTY someone making 20 grad pays no federal taxes so you need not worry where your money goes. I am sure you get every penny back at years end if not more.


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Sad commentary from someone whith such horrible grammer and spelling mistakes!

[nathan8804-2009]

Buckscc wrote:

I have been living on a salary in the mid $20,000 for years with no problems.
Why should I spend my money bailing out self centered over paid people who wouldn''''t even give me the time of day.

Buckscc:

Your a looser if you have been living on 20 grad for years as you say. That is what a full-time McDonald''s wager makes. There are plenty of jobs paying over 20 grad that are not UAW. Why don''t you try bettering your self with one. BTY someone making 20 grad pays no federal taxes so you need not worry where your money goes. I am sure you get every penny back at years end if not more.

[consciousnes]

You and I have to balance our budgits, why don''t big corporations have to balance their''s. And I don''t mean just on paper.

[ramos937]

Romney has an excellent idea. Let the Big 3 go into Chapter 11 which allows them to tear up the terrible UAW labor contracts thereby lowering their costs immediately and big time. The feds could guarantee any bank loans but this has to be conditional.

I would not worry too much about the dealerships. In my city, we have about six major dealers. All six sell different brands such as Ford, Chevrolet, Nissan, Toyota, Volkswagen. If one brand is not selling another one is. This serves to keep them profitable.

[mytoosense]

The Big Three may survive bankruptcy, however the thousands of hard working, non-union, highly competitively paid supplier companies to the Big Three will get stuck with the Big Three''s I.O.Us and will follow them into Chapter 11. With millions more out of work, if you sell anything in America, get ready for hard times.

[txgrouch2007]

As I said, the LOGICAL and INTELLIGENT solution is to relax the C.A.F.E. standards to something the existing cars can meet.

But the REALITY is, the solution will be purely political.

The Democrats will want to just loan the money with no restrictions, in exchange for nationalizing the industry. Thus perpetuating the cycle of borrow, borrow, borrow in the name of "rescuing" the workers with no accountability anywhere for anybody. When they finish nationializing all the major industries one by one, we''ll wake up one morning and discover that we''re living in a communist state, and we''ll be waiting in line for two days to get a pair of shoes.

The Republicans will want to loan the money, provided that it goes only to pay bonuses to the top executives who make the big political contributions, and NONE of the money will filter down to the workers. They will defend their actions by saying "The workers should be glad they have a job at all. The executives deserve a bonus for keeping the company in business."

Logic and intelligence are the LAST thing that happens in Congress.

[txgrouch2007]

The LOGICAL, INTELLIGENT solution is to relax the C.A.F.E. standards that are on the existing $25 billion loan that''s been allocated to the car makers.

In light of current economic conditions, the standards should be rolled back to something the current cars can meet - the standards should not be WAIVED ENTIRELY and give car makers carte blanche to make polluting gas guzzlers.

[buckscc]

I have been living on a salary in the mid $20,000 for years with no problems.
Why should I spend my money bailing out self centered over paid people who wouldn''t even give me the time of day.
I want my employer to pay me $74,000 a year like these poor UAW employes are.
The UAW ex-employees should get a real job like the rest of us and maybe they may appreciate things in life more.
The poor retiree''s healthcare - They are retirees, they should be getting Medicare. If they are too young for Medicare, then they are young enough to GET A REAL JOB.
The reason these guys were in the UAW is because they didn''t want to work in the first place, they just wanted to complain and make big money. It is time that they get a REAL JOB in the REAL WORLD!

I heard McDonalds was hiring.