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Should We Really Bail Out the Big Three Automakers with $73.20 Per Hour Labor?

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On Nov 16 11:22 PM consumeronstike wrote:

> Tell ya what. I'm a restaurant cook making about $9 an hour. No
> complaint there, that happens to be pretty good money where I live
> for what I happen to do. I think I'll wake up tomorrow and decide
> I want more. I ought to get $20 an hour, full medical and dental,
> and a big pension plan and all the Viagra I want if that's what I
> want. Just like you autoworkers. My boss, who has always been
> real good to me, will surely understand. She'll just have to raise
> the cost of a hamburger to around $20 to pay us restaurant workers
> the same proportionate amount above what the market will bear that
> you union idiots are getting. Touble is, you actually can't understand
> why we, the rest of the country, have a problem with it. Now, after
> she raises the cost of a hamburger to around $20 ans still has problems
> making ends meet after covering our health care and pension demands,
> maybe she can stave off bankruptcy for awhile by issuing bonds till
> she eventually owes 25 times what the restaurant is worth. Then,
> when she's finally mentally and finacially exhausted to the point
> that she has to give in and contemplate bankruptcy because she's
> at the end of her rope, our idiot union rep can issue press releases
> blaming the economy and stating that there will be " no more concessions
> ". If any of this rings a bell it sure as hell ought to.
> What if we all were union workers? Welcome to the fantasyland.
>
> Your biggest problem today isn't defending yourselves. Most of
> us out here in the real world won't buy it. Your biggest problem
> today is that these aren't just isolated coversations among scattered
> groups of people grumbling around a water-cooler any more. Your
> biggest problem is that millions of people are probably reading this
> that feel the same way.
> We know there's no stopping the bailout, if there is to be one.
> I'm sure most of us even know we can't even blame the politicians
> for not letting the auto industry go even though they may be starting
> to figure out that's what the majority of us want. Tired of your
> parasitic little empire we may be, but it is still far too much of
> a political risk to take on the unions. I understand that, and
> I hope everyone else does, too. Where does that leave us? Millions
> of people might be reading this, all thinking the same thing. "
> OK. Bail them out if you have to. We can't help what they do with
> the taxes they take from us. But not one penny of the money I get
> to keep is ever going to be part of one of those ridiculously big
> paychecks again ". We are the people. And the people don't have
> to fear losing your votes - you only have to fear losing our dollars.
> You might just think about getting real. And oh- by the way- did
> you notice? Correct grammar and no misspelled words? I doubt
> it. Your education level shows. And you think you have skills
> commensurate with pay and benefits worth $50,000 a year? Sorry.
> Hard work doesn't make you worth that. I haven't always been a
> cook. Many people work hard. Some of the hardest work there is
> doesn't pay well. It may not be fair, but that's a truth most people
> who don't live in Michigan's parasitic litlle UAW empire have come
> to learn. Most of us do NOT manage to get a job like that right
> out of high school, retire at fifty to a big fat pension with medical
> for life, after already having made more money than most other people
> of equal skills and equal ability to work hard in the rest of the
> country will make working til we're - well, too old to work. So
> as the end approaches go on strike all you want. You'll get no
> concessions from the people who are fed up with you to the point
> that we won't buy your stuff. Look on the bright side. Pretty
> soon you might have some free time on your hands. Maybe you can
> read a book once in a while.