Colleen

10 Stupid Moves That Created This Mess

and the mortgage companies... what good is bailing them out going to do? it's the same problem.... people don't have the money to pay their mortgage, more defaults, more forclosures, less income for the companies....

Economic stimulus was a joke!! Seriously, unless you have 17 children what is $300 going to get you? ($600 if your married)...

10 Stupid Moves That Created This Mess

Frankly, bailing out all these companies doesn't help the problem. The PEOPLE. The ones paying all these companies don't have the money to keep supporting them. Since the Gov't is giving the money to the companies and not the people there's still a HUGE flaw in the bailout plan. Sure GM got enough to sustain for a while, but with 600,000 people unemployed and more everyday. There just isn't enough people buying anymore. They will be back or they will fold because no one has the money to afford to buy right now. Credit is too tight and who has the cash?

Yes we did it to ourselves, they did it to themselves by pricing themselves out of their own markets, the oil "crisis" fueled the flames that have been faning since before my birth. Best way to get out of it? Let the failures fail and rebuild out of the rubble, hopefully wiser and better planned.

$10 an Hour Pay Gap = Billions of Extra Dollars a Year

Why not bring their wages back to reality. $55 is ourageous. Sure they face disabiling conditions, give them disability insurance. Let them choose the level and let them pay half the cost. My husband faces disabiling conditions ranging from deafness from loud machinery, limb removal, or death. He pays for his disability insurance and doesn't even make $15.00/hr. People working the auto industry aren't privledged. You make your pay by how long you've been with a company, but $55 is crazy. $20/$25/ hr is good. What would that company do with an extra $30/hr for each of their 70,000 employees? If they all work an 8 hour day, in one day that's a savings of $16,800,000. Almost 17million dollars!!!!

Bring them back to reality. As for the poster who posted about grandpa and dad... all jobs aren't without their hazards. The auto industry isn't an exception. If they wanted a safe "cushy" job they should have gone into something in the office... otherwise, they like millions of others everyday knew the risks. And whining about corporate??? Is there an employee who doesn't? Their stress is no different to everyone elses. What is different is they are paid more than double what others are paid and still whine. GET OVER IT!! If you don't like the job find a different on. Oh wait.... they can't their too consumed by their own greed to try life in the real world.

Of course when the companies fold... then you may find a job like the rest of us at some plant working for $10/hr... or worse.... federal min wage!!!