Comments on: Wage Demands Sink Auto Bailout In Senate

Despite Coming Within "About 3 Words" Of A Deal, Republicans Block $14B Package Over UAW Refusal To Accept Pay Cuts

[psp190]

please get things straight. You interviewed Congressman Sander Levin from DETROIT, MICHIGAN. He is not the democratic from Mississippi. He has to much class to be from the South. He was standing in front of the GM Ren Cen. What a stupid error.
Don''t insult the people of Michigan this way. We have had enough

[starleo146]

Get your facts straight.

http://www.thenation.com/doc/2
0081110/dreier_atlas


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Posted by ofbyfor3 at 11:25 PM : Dec 12, 2008

Well this is so informative, and I appreciate this comment, we are so easy to blame this one, or that one, and we never go to the very ones who are at fault.I can not tell you what I have read in these comments, It is all Barney Frank, it is all the UAW c''mon folks we wrote a blank check of our taxpayer money to a bunch of greedy no accounts, and the blame starts there and they should be punished by law every last one of them.NO, Secretary Paulsen saw fit to give these greedy nothings every penny alloted to save there behinds, and use it to a point that if any more is needed they have to go back to congress. Do you really believe Bush will do anything, he has been late and a dollar short for 8 years, and how he can show his face at all is beyond me, and how he has gotten away with everything is beyond me.

[starleo146]

Wouldn''''t the simplest solution be to put GM into bankruptcy, revoke all it''''s stock and pay off the stockholders at pennies on the dollar, then give the entire company to the UAW? Let the UAW own GM and figure it out.


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Posted by tmittelstaed at 01:36 AM : Dec 13, 2008

I understand your frustration I to am as mad as a wet hen over this ,but an airline that filed for bankrupcy isn''t the same as a auto industry filing for bankrupcy, when an airline files it doesn''t affect you you get off the plane and that is the last you have with them, people buy cars, and want a service for years to support the car they bought so therefore a auto industry will not sell cars if in bankrupcy for fear ther warranty or parts service will not be there, another bad idea by republicans, these guys do not get it every industry that makes parts for the auto big three will be affected, and every dealer will be affected think about this, we need to scream loud and clear about this, not to say ok you CEO''s did a lousy job, but the workers have to be saved none of this is there fault and that is who is bearing it all, those fat cats in Congress need to stop this today,tired of there rhetoric and Mitch Mc Connell needs to go back to the south where they think they have all the answers, but as usual they don''t get it.

[jsd330]

How many workers drink their lunch then go back to the workplace because they are "protected" yet put other workers at risk?
posted by joule18
How many many white coller people go have there so called 2 martini lunches everyday, that last for more then an hour. OH I forgot they are talking business. The last I heared autoworkers get 30 min from the time they leave until they have to be back.
That doesn''t seem like enough time to go to a bar and get back to work.
And I still want to know where toyota has a plant in the U.S. that has been here for 25 years?

[carealot-2009]

Sorry people the easy answer..
If you want to keep jobs in the US and help the US economy, BUY AMERICAN.......

[homespunlady]

Well, Merry fracken Christmas folks...

I don''t get it...what a couple of TRILLION with NO oversight or even hesitation when it comes to PONZI ARTISTS running Wall Street but NOTHING to help "Joe Six Pack" or "Joe The Plumber" to survive?

I just came home from ANOTHER of my favorite Bargain stores "going out of business" sales.

That makes at least SIX retail businesses around here in LESS than 3 weeks that have passed on that notification to me and their other customers - and I''m out in the middle of NOWHERE USA!

It''s now "official" that this Neo-Depression has been going on for at least a year before they admitted it up on Capital Hill and all this nation is getting is a KEYSTONE COPS ROUTINE from our elected so-called leaders.

When are the American PEOPLE going to see some REAL LEADERSHIP - before or after they finally get fed up enough to take matters in their own hands and incarcerate the lot of them for incompetence?

[tmittelstaed]

Wouldn''t the simplest solution be to put GM into bankruptcy, revoke all it''s stock and pay off the stockholders at pennies on the dollar, then give the entire company to the UAW? Let the UAW own GM and figure it out.

[cheetah-man7]

The UAW deserve to lose their jobs - forget about losing a couple of bucks an hour. Unions are great to a point - but it always leads to greed! I stopped caring about these folks when learning of their complete lack of flexibility to save the companies that PAY THEM THEIR SALARIES.

[irritated3]

Let GM fail and see how the UAW likes that, if you count up their wages and their benefits these people are making $50 to $60 dollars and hour for line work. Come on people there is no reason that these people can''t join the rest of the real working class.
Besides all that I am against any type of bailout if I owned a business you can bet, the Government is not going to bail me out. Proof of this is that when the executives showed up in Washington they each arrived in their own personal jet. They lost the money let them find it for themselves and not the taxpayer. In my opinion the taxpayers should not bailout any one for miss management of funds. That''s the reason that we have bankruptcy Laws































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[ofbyfor3]

without capitalism..where would socialism leech from?

Posted by LordSunTzu at 09:35 PM : Dec 12, 2008

Seems like capitalists such as AIG are the ones benefiting from corporate socialism at this point. How do you explain that?

Or do you just not think that it''s ''socialism'' when corporations benefit?