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Originally Posted by Johansen8
We are bailing out the greedy liberal unions who have contributed greatly to the downfall of our country's auto manufacturers.
Ford, GM, and Chrysler need to fire ALL of their union laborers and re-hire people at $15.00 an hour. ALL of these jobs would be snatched up by willing employees, and they could all become profitable again on their own without needing government "assistance."
Why on earth would a government HAVE to give money to a business so that it could REMAIN viable? Reeks of socialism to me.
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Gimme a number! How large a factor is the union wage in the cost of a car? I say it is about 10% of the cost of the car.
You think skilled labor should only get $30,000 per year? Greedy liberal unions - that is just a load of bull pucky. The unions built the country's auto manufacturing and built the middle class - now you are denigrating them and their accomplishments so you can destroy the middle class.
The Bush admin gave a tax-break for up to $100,000 for 'business' vehicles, then the gov exempted the vehicles from the CAFE standards; along with that the people who bought those humongo gas guzzling behemouths paid $30,000 over cost so the companies made over $25,000 per vehicle. In a free market economy, that is the ideal.
Then along comes the collapse of the housing bubble, dragging the financial institutions down into the gutter. Boom, gas jumps from $1.80 to $4.50 per gallon for a couple of months and everyone gets hysterical and blames it on union workers. Throw $759billion at the banks who won't lend money to anyone to buy cars. The auto companies can't sell cars cus no one has money to buy and it is all the fault of unions.
That is a load of bull pucky! Even the Toyotas and Hondas made with out union labor in the south can't sell cars but that is the union's fault too (somehow). You gotta at least back up your whining with some statistics or a primary source so we know what or where you are getting your information other wise we might think you are just pulling it out of your back pocket (so to speak).