[Putnawa's Blog] I Call BULLSH*T: Detroit Edition
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Putnawa
Nov 18, 2008, 9:25:15 PM11/18/08
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I'm calling bullshit on all of the reporting I've heard about the Big 3 automakers' panhandling on Capitol Hill today. The criticism that the Big 3 have failed to remain competitive are always balanced prominently by the same fact in both the newspaper and radio stories I've read/heard today: the Big 3 have forced healthcare concessions on the UAW. BULLSHIT!
Remaining competitive would've involved looking forward far enough to realize it was time to move away from the internal combustion engine as we know it to a true 21st-century technology. Before we run out of oil.
If the only way U.S. automakers can think of to remain competitive is screwing their employees on healthcare -- which should be a right for all people everywhere, IMHO -- then I am ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN they don't deserve $25 billion. Let's use that money to cushion the blow to the workers when these long-past-saving companies are finally cut away from the far-too-close-to-gangrenous body economic.
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Posted By Putnawa to Putnawa's Blog at 11/18/2008 06:18:00 PM
Remaining competitive would've involved looking forward far enough to realize it was time to move away from the internal combustion engine as we know it to a true 21st-century technology. Before we run out of oil.
If the only way U.S. automakers can think of to remain competitive is screwing their employees on healthcare -- which should be a right for all people everywhere, IMHO -- then I am ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN they don't deserve $25 billion. Let's use that money to cushion the blow to the workers when these long-past-saving companies are finally cut away from the far-too-close-to-gangrenous body economic.
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Posted By Putnawa to Putnawa's Blog at 11/18/2008 06:18:00 PM
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