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(the fact the GOPers gave this one to Vitter means they know it's a loser...just like him. )
finally, a senator i can agree with.
people are willing to pay for the prostitue
Hell, who wouldn't???!!! Those auto-workers have SUCH rough hands! I'd rather have a nice soft hooker ANY day! 'Course, I wouldn't want to drive a car made by ho's. Like that Gremlin. That's the last sex-worker-made automobile I'LL ever buy! (It had a condom-tray instead of an ashtray, and other embarassing stuff.)
Although the Hyundai's have nice rear ends. I hear they're made by B-girls. Woo-Woo! Or Dae-Woo!
Now, down in Mexico, they've got virgins right on the cover of Playboy. And they're not maquilladoristas, either. Betchya LOTS of Repukelickin's have gone down south of the border, if ya know what I mean. Que no? Those burrrrros!
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Brilliant.
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/art1.asp
but that doesn't change the fact that the bailout was a bad move that wouldn't make any difference in the long run. chrysler is done. gm needs to go into bankruptcy and restructure. ford needs to hunker down and get to work on "the next big thing", which is what the foreign car makers have been doing for the past 10 years... that's why they're not going under, because those companies are well managed, and the big three are not.
I have read most of the comments on here regarding the auto bailout. I agree that this is awful, that the repubs are using it to destroy organized labor and weaken a large block of dem voters, without regard to actual people losing more jobs. On that front the fight should wage on.
I honestly believe though that if this were May, June, July of this year, and gas were at $4+ a gallon, and the big 3 were rolling out there brilliant marketing schemes, like Chrysler's failed guaranteed gas price promo, and the entire world economy hadn't gone in the tank, most of us wouldn't mind if one of them failed. Not because we are cruel people who wish 100K plus lose their jobs, but rather these companies have spent $100's of millions over the years to defeat every progressive movement on the environment, while spending billions to hoodwink the consumer into believing a substandard engineered truck, with more body panels, more plastic, and a touch of chrome and leather is not only worth a $15-30K premuim over the truck frame it is built on, but also safer for your children to ride in. They have taken years away from each and every one of us who would like to pass a planet on to our kids and grandkids that isn't teetering on the brink of extinction. Some will argue that it is management not the workers, but no one in a suit is building the cars.
The American auto industry could have led the world in alternative fuel vehicles, instead of teasing us with the electric car, then taking it away for destruction. They could have rallied Congress to get us away from our oil, foreign & domestic, dependence, and possibly keep our troops from dying in wars for oil (Irag, I am looking at you). They could be like Toyota, Honda and Volkswagen now, dealing with a horrible buyers market, cutting dividends, and reaching out maybe for a line of credit to strengthen their position, but not sitting on the brink of utter collapse and coming to the people, hat in hand. The UAW and its members share fault, not for looking out for its workers wages, but for not using its strength in the last decade and a half when its workers were doing double shifts to keep up with SUV demand, to create a serious national conversation and push for a more sensible health care system for us all. Instead they entered contract negotiations with the intent on keeping the system the same and bolstering the benefits of members only, of making it appear that they want national health care, but not using the strength of their industry to push that forward, and not demanding that the cars they build, and drive their families in are more efficient.
This is the reason many do not sympathize with striking unions. It is not that non Union workers are solely white collar, or blue collars jealous of the wages and benefits their counterpart receives, rather it is when a group with the ability to push for change and progress doesn't do it. We can all stand up and scream and write to congress and threaten not to buy this, or beg for better environmental that, but when the people building the cars aren't screaming in the conference rooms, and pleading for the r&d departments to turn out efficient cars for them to build, and saying that my brother or neighbor who isn't a UAW man, who works in a factory here, or some other job there and struggles with his health care costs, well he is our voice too and we should make sure that our neighbors have health care options just like we do.
It is the difference between us going from 3rd world nation to 3rd world nation bombing, killing and torturing people to end terrorism, and us going from 3rd world nation to 3rd world nation building wells for clean water and schools to end terrorism. It is hard for most Americans to look at someone with a pension, and health care, and a job as an average American nowadays. Most of us do not have a lobbying group in Washington, this is why kids get lead filled toys, no lobby group, but when you are "average" and you have the voice of leadership, don't use it to strengthen your own self interests solely, and then come begging everyone else for a bailout when your faulty thinking has led you to the edge of the abyss.
but the dinosaurs, the one's who don't have the vision or the abillity to change is finished.
it's like the big speech in primary colors, when stanton tells the crowd "your jobs aren't coming back. not ever.' that's tough to hear, but that's where we're at,
The ONLY way the new congress will work is if Democrats make the Repubs filibuster, not just THREATEN to filibuster.
Amazingly stupid comments.
One especially caught my eye. A guy in a manufacturing capacity whined about union workers making so much more than he does. Apparently, the thought that HE should try to unionize to improve his own lot in life never occurred to him.